While Marvel vs Capcom 2 stages aren't based on the games or comics, I think the original stages look really cool. Especially The Airship, Clock Tower, and Carnival stages.

Even if I prefer mvc1s style and presentation, I can understand why people prefer a simpler approach they took for mvc2 since they don't want to be too distracted while fighting. ...which makes it all the more baffling that most players still choose the training room stage.

Factory & Airship: Ruby Heart Carnival: Sonson Desert: Amingo Cave and Lair: Abyss These original stages always felt unique

It's truly awe inspiring how they pride themselves on readability in the stage designs and then add 1 frame crouching light kicks ♥️

My fondest memory of this game was going to the arcades that me and my cousins frequently visited. We had a blast playing and was blown away by the characters shown in the game including cable,thanos, akuma and rubyheart. I really like the headcanon and details you talked about here in this video. It feels like a real nostalgia trip when looking at the stages. I do feel that rubyheart is the indirect protagonist for this game since a majority of the stages involved her airship and the end credits with the characters interacting with each other. Amingo i feel is definitely one of her canon tag partners and the desert stage being his home too. My favorite stages are personally the clocktower with the snow all over, the airship at night and the carnival stage with the very familiar clown head in the middle xD. Great video as always. I love the details you talked about here! ^_^

Ruby Heart deserves to have her story properly told, and that's what you've done here, so thank you. Amingo deserves to have his story told too. And SonSon deserves to have a story in the first place. And her own franchise. And everything she wants in life. And recongnition as a toptier waifu.

Ruby Heart potentially being a Darkstalkers character makes a ton of sense. Her style & theming is super fitting. I absolutely love MvC2. I had it on Dreamcast. Its a huge part of my childhood & one of the main reasons why Capcom is my favorite developer ever.

Used to love playing MVC2 when my local movie theater used to have a awesome arcade (it sucks now). I eventually got MVC2 on PS2 for Christmas (along with Super Bust a move 2) that same year. My siblings, my friend's and I used to play MVC2 all the time, my main team was Cable, Tron Bonne & War Machine.

I think the carnival stage might have been an evolution of Hulks MSH stage, similar to Wolverines raft stage.

Didn't knew the MVC2 stages had such a deep lore. Amazing video! Hope you make one analyzing the details of stages from MVC3

Great video, one thing I may add is that in a similar way to your comparison between the alternate river stage and Wolverine's MSH stage, I like to think that the carnival stage in this game could possibly be somewhat of a spiritual successor to Hulk's stage in MSH and Amingo's desert stage is a continuation of the many Death Valley/canyon stages within previous MvC games. But that is just my perspective on that.

Sonson has my favorite stage

Another great vid! One of my fav fighting game soundtracks because it's not what you expect and the composers made it work! I had no idea the Swamp Stage had a such a detailed story behind it!

This is like, perhaps my favourite videogame of all time. I have played it for years, and there are so many details I never noticed… I don’t even think I ever realized the factory was a shipyard lol. Great video!

"Marvel Vs. Capcom 2" was an arcade game which used to be in Arcades located in shopping malls, carnivals, party restaurants & sports arenas. Everything in "Marvel Vs. Capcom 2" from the lights, music & 3D stages are designed to make it enjoyable & fun to attract players especially kids into playing the game & keep the coins rolling.

Very impressed with this video, I went in just expecting a look at the background details, instead you went over the development history, and better yet, the extremely limited lore. And I had a big smile on my face when you set up the journey told through the stages, there's nothing I love more than unnecessary story in games that could get away with none. This vid did help me grow an appreciation for the stages and music... they still make me wretch, though. I barely remember them, besides the carnival, and even then, I don't even think of it as a carnival, just "the clown head stage". I also literally forgot the swamp and cave were in the game until they showed up. As for the music, I'd love to see the venn diagram between comic/fighting game fans and smooth jazz/lounge listeners, maybe like a 1% overlap?

When i always hear the Marvel vs Capcom 2 theme song i remember the old arcade days good times and the theme giving me some casino vibes.

I fucking love the Carnival Stage, and the music.

First time seeing a video game-related video with a woman narrator, and, man... I needed this. Aside from the nice, calm tone, I love how she doesn't throw the occasional lame-ass joke/pun throughout, as so many other narrators feel compelled to. While some of her takes seem like reaches, she clarifies that those takes may just be her overthinking, which I appreciated, as many others might have just acted as though they had an "inside scoop" regarding the source of their theories. Anyway, I really appreciated this. No misleading title or thumbnail, no ads, no obnoxious "SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON" bullshit. Just a modest, informative, intricate-but-not-boring, well-made video. * Liked and Subscribed *

Great video, hearing this breakdown of the stages make me enjoy them and this game even more! I always enjoyed the experimental 2d sprites to 3d backgrounds style with this game, Guardian Heroes and Panzer Bandit.

The 1st time playing this in the arcade i couldn't notice the music due to the noise in the arcade. Once I got it on the Dreamcast the music grew on me. Its just MvC2, feel like this music is needed.

Bless you for making this one, I just love how you tackled the stages of one of my favorite video game franchises.

The attention to detail is remarkable! It's great to hear a breakdown of these stages, and especially some of the details that may go unnoticed if a player's focused on watching their life bars/the opponent's movements. I definitely have a new appreciation for these environments after watching this! 😃

Great video. This was my favorite game as a kid and I would just spend hours noticing the details of the stages. This game still holds up, and I always have it running during family get togethers and bday partys

Phenomenal video. MvC2 just may be my favorite game, and while I love the competitive side of it, not nearly enough people talk about its vibe and aesthetics, which is a huge part of its character. I think your video was incredibly detailed, well made and super interesting. I hope you make more videos like this, as there is definitely an under served audience for this type of content. Great job!

14:36 The haunted house may be a reference to The Haunted Mansion at Tokyo Disneyland, and the christmas theming could be a refernece to the "Nightmare Before Christmas" overlay, starring the pumpkin king Jack Skellington.

Great video! I recon that the MvC2 amusement park stage may be a callback to Marvel Super Heroes' Hulk's home stage; which takes place on a carousel, also in an amusement park. The carousel in that stage at first is inactive, but as the battle goes on it starts to light up, moves and appears to be simulated as you get a scrolling-type effect/view of the rest of the park. I think the stage artists definitely wanted to go all out with the aesthetics of the attractions of the MvC2 AP stage, and you're right: to do this they wanted to take advantage of the hardware they were using at the time 🎠

I'm so glad you talk about the MVC 2 stages.

You certainly did your research in describing the backgrounds & music of Marvel vs Capcom 2. I thank you for the video. 😁

Well once youtubes suggested is working i noticed, great channel and interesting to know some details about these stages. Big fan of fighing games, subbed and a 👍🏼

What a stellar video! I love your analysis on the Marvel vs. series. One thing of note tho is that for the MVC2 plot synopsis is that I think you should’ve pointed out that Ruby Heart also works together with Marvel’s Cable who is the protagonist for the Marvel vs. side.

Nice vid. This is my favorite fighting game. The stage OST is different, but I like it.

Great analysis of MVC2 stages! You pointed out thing I never noticed and I have been playing this game for 15+ years

Great video! Your attention to detail for each stage is phenomenal. I love how you went into detail damn near covering every nook and cranny of each stage. The soundtrack of this game doesn't really fit, but over time it grew on to fans to the point where most of us love it. My favorite stages in this game are the blue cave, swamp/Son Son stage, training stage, and Abyss stage.

11:54 12:06 the skull-and-crossbone flags in the carnival stage each have the word "GHOST" on them. 👻

Had no idea that their was story depth behind these stages tho I'm not big into MVC I do like and appreciate the effort that went into their stages across each game, same for the music, atmosphere and aesthetics and u explained it into full detail.😊💖💯 And as you said if only these devs and publishers can replicate wonderous creativity of their old FGs into their new ones. I can say same the same from a gameplay perspective too. I would love to see you cover some KOF stages and CVS2 stages too I'm more into KOF and Fatal Fury but I still like and appreciate SF and the Capcom VS games but out of the 2 I do play SF. SNK is also the best in the business with their FGs when it comes to the amount of detail in their stages tho they've been using the same hardware but they pushed the Neo Geo to their limits and made so many amazing stuff in the 90's that fans still revere and hold dare to this day. Me personally I grew up with their stuff in the 2000's since I'm a bit younger I played KOF 2000, 2001, Metal Slug 5 and 6 on the PSP. Didn't get play the other stuff such as SS5S KOF 2002,2003 & 11 NGBC the KOF MI games etc. U earned yourself a sub 💯💯✨✨💖💖

You knocked it out of the park on this one!

As always love your super in depth informative videos, always a pleasure to watch and who doesn't love the Monkey King :)

I have been waiting for a high quality content creator to finally put some respect on SonSon's stage as someone who was briefly obsessed with journey to the west and inspired media during my teen years (because i love SonSon as a character so much lol). Even better to have it come from an actual Chinese person (correct me and apologies if I'm wrong) who grew up on even more Journey to the West media herself and can lay down some firsthand cultural knowledge about the stage. My favorite in the game by far. Clock tower has the best music still though lol. Edit: don't forget about Buddha's hand in the background, big reference to his famous bet with Wukong

11:56 That flag looks like it belongs to The Bonne Family. They are the air pirate bad guys from the Megaman Legends series. Their best mechanic, Tron, is in the game as well as the Servbot minions she builds.

Wow, what a unique channel concept and it's executed so cleanly. Feels like an art museum tour and kept my attention the entire time. I have fond memories of this game as a 12 year old in 2003. I remember noticing a lot of details but this video pulled out a lot of hidden memories. My favorite stages were Sonson stage and clock tower. If I can bring a suggestion, you may enjoy dissecting the stages from the Persona 4 Arena series. There's a lot of minute details and presentation features. There's also a lot of story elements to them (some of which could be considered spoilers since some stages are from the original RPG series). Regular players often refer to most stages by name: "school at night," "music room," and "altar stage" Since it was a collab with Arc System Works, it shares similar features from the BlazBlue series (another case study) and even shared some in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle.

I never thought about MVC2 having an relevance to the story. Just random location with different track. Enjoyed your analysis of it

Excellent video

Excellent video!

This was so well made and informative

You did a fantastic job with this video

@Baberuthless I've never seen you Chanel before but you knowledge of not only the game but the monkey king and many others mentioned here on your video is amazing. Great job on this video.

This is insanely interesting and well made. Subscription earned for sure ✊

Great breakdown. MvC2 is by far my favorite fighting game!

Love that you came around, I feel the same way

This makes me wish this game had a proper story mode. Good breakdown looking forward to more.

Nice review!

This is a very good video and gotta watch the training room video too Now that I finished, I loved this video and I kinda understood the stages at first but this brought up so much that I never noticed, especially on sonson's stages. I hope to see other games like Battle Fantasia and Tatsunoko vs Capcom.

WOW i have to pause and sub right away just because i know you're awesome by the story at the beginning :D --- i remember my first time playing it too, so vividly!! i was at an arcade/sports bar in the early 2000s with my mom and they had a cabinet there; the cabinet had a BUNCH of the characters on it and some of their commands, i remember being obsessed with morrigan's and thinking 'Vector drain' was the coolest name ever 😝 so excited to watch this video !!

Thank you for this. 💙

Just here for the CVS2 love frfr, every time y’all brought it up I was like YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

This video came up in NEW TO YOU and i gave it a watch. Good insight on the stages as well as doing some history on them I had no idea the clock tower stage had a destructive background when doing a Super finish. Learnt something new Also, Amingo stage is in Street Fighter vs Marvel as well as Marvel Vs Capcom 1. It is the stage where Blanka or Beast can be seen sitting in front of a fire Kind of fitting that Blanka was on this stage as he seems to have learned how to use small figures like Amingo has for an ability Thanks for the info and showing aspects many might not know about the game 🥂

This is excellent stuff! Love it!

Recent player of MvC2, I'll admit, I just recently realized just how little Marvel and Capcom is represented in the stages and music of the game. Didn't even realize they were supposed to tell an overlapping narrative like this. Guess it's one of those weirdnesses that help the game stand out even to this day.

Great Video!

This game it's really something, it's part of my childhood and always loved the unusual style of it. Actually, was my first fighting game ever, or at lest the one I loved the most and spent the most hours. It was such a nice video, almost felt like I needed it, brought amazing memories, how amazed was to the stages, the art style, just this game can with me.

I just found out your channel! I love it! Hope you do more breakdowns on Fighting Games stages, since I think it is an underated aspect in fighting games!

I always wondered about the statges in this game. This is fascinating

The amount of love i have for Power Stone and MvC2 is astronomical.

Muchas gracias por hablar tan claro. El traductor automático lo traduce casi a la perfección. Buen video.

Wow as huge fan of mvc2 this was a awesome watch thank you

The swamp stage and music will forever be my favorite nostalgia pieces

A few months late, but I enjoyed the video. The stages always felt a bit randomn to me, but you put some clarity to it. With so many characters and virtually no emphasis on story, it was easy forget that Ruby Heart was the main character even though the credits had people sailing on her ship. At the very least, the choose your character song of "I'm going to take you for a ride" won't feel so out of place. It actually makes sense given the context.

According to my dad who was around when this game released the game was generally not received well on launch apparently, the music was as criticized for not being “epic” like other fighting games and the gameplay being generally unbalanced as hell but now a days most look back on it with fondness and the feeling they were too hard on it. It was also released at a time when most fighting games were following the 3D craze and at this time in the industry anything 2D was seen as “old” and “outdated” and I’m glad over the years we were able to move past that.

Huge ! I never thought that the stages were based on Ruby's journey !

First video I've watched of yours and I total agree...when I first played this game...I was not a fan of the music nor the stages...Now...still can't stand them but at least they were part of an iconic game which garners respect. Thanks for the memories and the info.

I really want a MVC in the future that actually have years of support and, just like SFV, we can see modern versions of some of these classic stages. Thanks for the video!

You added lore that I didnt know existed in this game xD sick video.

The Swamp Stage was my fave in the visuals and especially the music. When I was still little I used to go to the training mode, choose the Swamp Stage and just chill. Now I put it on full blast while going on a long car ride or when commuting at night.

I remember going to Aladdin's Castle as a teenager, seeing this game for the first time (after having experienced a lot of the other Capcom fighters, of course), and being instantly in love with it. There were just 24 characters at the start, and fan favorites like Chun-Li and Magneto seemed to be missing, but Dr. Doom coming back after a long absence still made me hopeful. And those 24 characters were surrounded by hidden character boxes, so there was obviously some way to unlock them. I played through Arcade Mode multiple times with multiple teams trying to get more and more of them unlocked. It didn't seem to move the needle much, but I did notice before long that more characters would show up seemingly each weekend I went to the arcade.

Rip Amingo T-T This game's roster was mad varied. #BringBackDreamcastEra

I can't hear the Ship nor the Carnival stage theme without thinking of Maximilian 😂

Great video and commentary. I loved this soundtrack then and still do today. This game was so zany, colorful and over the top that the jazz really fit it for me. Some of the stages were definitely too out of place for me, like the carnival, but I still love the factory and river ride levels as much as any. Broken and unbalanced as it is, it will probably stay as my favorite fighting game of all time.

Dam Sega dreamcast was just unreal man. Mvc2 is the best dreamcast game by far.

I remember seeing MvC2 in the arcade around when it first came out, and my heart sank. There were a lot of oeople hovering around it though, I think it was because arcades were starting to go out of style at the time. Either way, I was happy I owned a Dream ast so I could eventually get it on there. Great game, and nice video! Also, I thought it was Amingo that was supposed to be the new Darkstalkers character? I could be mistaken.

Amingo was the character who was about to be a Darkstalkers character!

This was actually the 1st mvc series game i played, which might be why i never had the "hate it" phase. This game used to own my soul, every saturday we'd go watch my dad play hockey and every time my older brother and i would beg my mom for quarters so we could play this game at the little arcade section. We were always the only kids there and we had the whole place to ourselves but this was the only game we cared to play. At the time i also had these amazing marvel shoes, they had little windows and you'd slide a card into the slot. Each card had two sides and they had characters like spiderman, venom, wolverine and cyclops. They were the best and marvel 2 always reminds me of those days

Capcom should make an JRPG about Ruby, Amingo and SonSons Journey, how they beat Abyss.

It's awesome to see someone who appreciates this game to the same extent I do

my childhood, great video!

So strange to remember people saying they thought the stages and music was bad. I remember this game standing out so much from every other fighting game because of the stages and music. I think having that quality definitely pushed people to put more coins into the cabinets. I'm not sure how I ended up, but you got yourself a new sub

new sub!!! love your videos!

16:50 Ah, THERE's a cartoon I didn't expect to see clips of today! I wish someone would fansub that one as it honestly looks really good.

I got the MvC2 X-men ‘97 arcade last week!! I love it so much. I don’t think they include some of the cut scenes though. Either way great video! :)

Great breakdown! They actually are pretty nicely made once you really look. Just really not a great match to ally for the source materials. I feel like retellings of characters old stages or marvel locations in 3D wouldve been better. Thanks for the great breakdown!

The vibe of this game is sick, I've been in love with it since middle school lol

Wow, this is a great video breakdown! I'd love a MVC2 remix with the rest of the Alpha and Darkstalkers cast added along with an ending if beaten with specific teams. Harder cpu difficulty and a way to challenge Cyber Akuma would be great additions too.

swamp is my favorite level and music

Dope video

I feel like the airship stage theme sounds very much in line with the breath of fire 3 soundtrack for some reason

Awesome video! Could you please take a look at the stages from SNK vs Capcom Chaos? the post apocalypse and heavenly stages are really interesting!

Neat headcanon on these stages! I first played MVC2 in 2014. I never knew that the reception for the game's presentation was considered mixed at the time. When I first played the game, I found the presentation and soundtrack decent, but outside of Aybss's Temple and Ruby Heart's Ship, much of the game's music doesn't fit the stages. My favorite stages are the Circus stage, Clock Tower Stage, Ruby Heart's Ship (Night), and Abyss' third form stage.

i do hope one day you might tackle the stages from SVC: chaos. they are very creepy to me.

Thia was one of my favorite eras in all of gaming. From the new arcade to home.

As much as I love stages based on iconic locations in crossovers, the original stages of Marvel 2 are still very distinctive in their own right. I kinda wish we could get that, for lack of a better term, "video game-ass video game" feel back instead of IP holders being all too desperate to hold on to their "brands", or original UIs ending up being unobtrusive and minimalist to a fault.