That’s Dark…but totally in-line with how everyone feels about this series.

Grotesque... but oddly fitting imagery.

I played dark stalkers at an arcade at my friends house and got into the series, before i learnt it was made by capcom and lost all hope.

I grew up playing it and had all of the games in the series. It’s a shame that after all of these years we STILL haven’t gotten a new game in the series yet SF has had release after release during that time frame.

Relatable

Just ask Tumblr

Wryyyyyyy

​@@spudsbuchlawAs a Tumblr person, I can confirm

You did God’s work showing off and spreading awareness of the series.

Fans were disappointed the resurrection wasn't a new game just the older game, but the originals are just so much fun it is worth replaying

If memory serves, Capcom renewed the copyright stuff for game rights last year so SOMETHING is in the works. speculative of course but still

@@BulletShaba pretty sure they're just maintaining it, they're aware - but not to the point they believe in the franchise. capcom is notorious for being greedy..

@@Tezca-Coatl could be the case but is a bit ahead of the pattern for that. You are probably right but this could be different.

What news?

@@jeremiegaming3034 Capcom Fighting Collection, has Darkstalker re-releases again.

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Apes together strong

How isn't this game back from that premise alone?! The concept of even ONE character is that good to someone who only learned this franchise today when I found this video and got curious. Everything about this game rocks and needs either a sequel or a modern collaboration or guest appearance such as Smash or Street Fighter 6 DLC

You mean he's not only double cheeked up, he's TRIPLE cheeked up???

i love this comment

Victors grapple is the basis behind the hit hip hop song "Make it clap"

"Triple ass slap". Priceless

Average decision in japan

Now you get 2

@@Izayoink_Saccuy My problem with Darkstakers is that the sprite work is so over the top, that it might be too much work for Capcom to translate it into 3d. Since Street Fighter translates into 3d well already, Darkstakers has become less important to Capcom.

@TBoneTony Now that I think about it, ever since DarkStalkers there's been quite a few Succubi in Japanese media like Kurumu Kurono and her mom in Rosario+Vampire, or the Succubi cafe in Konosuba, the teacher Raim in "Welcome To Demon School Iruma, Mayospell in Interspecies Reviewers. And that's just the anime I've seen and care to mention... My point is after Morrigan graced Japan with her existence, I don't think the numerous succubus to follow is a mere coincidence.

@@simplenlocal Japan's least horny idea

Surprised she hasn’t pulled out a thermonuclear bomb tbh

To me, she’s a monster in her own right... which is extremely fitting in a game about monsters.

The concept of having Little Red riding hood and become a fucking psycho killer Hunter it's just genius 😅

B.B hood was my go too on MvC2 loved her dark nature and her combat. My favorite special was her drown in tears, I always thought that the grandma was an even more badass and vicious in her own right. I love Jon Talbain as well he was beast using martial arts to try to quell the beast within only to make him even more deadly. Darkstalkers needs to return!!!

BB Hood is the one that stuck out to me ever since I was a kid, was it because I saw red riding hood clocking an uzi get landmines then have backup just shoot the crap out of whatever threat's out there? hell yeah she was awesome but as I grew up I guess I just appreciated her design choice more, also holy shit the sprites of these games are beautiful

Yea. That was around the time when anime was more hard to get outside of Japan. So a lot of executive idiots kept looping in that self fulfilling prophecy mentality. I.E. They thought that the west wouldn’t like it so they just didn’t release it outside of Japan.

@@blacklite911 yes i had jo Jo's bizarre adventure for the Dreamcast and people say it was weeks anime like and fast forward to now anime is popular and Jo Jo is meme worthy and everyone knows it

@@Stylez-13 I think lost some braincells while reading this, I want reparations, mister.

@@headhazed7479 blame autocorrect 😂 will edit it eventually I'm lazy

Welcome to Game CEOs, who make up shit that makes no sense to make less money

You speaking facts this video makes me want to play darkstalkers and use him

Right! He was my favorite character... Fei Long/Bruce Lee as a freaking WEREWOLF!???? HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THAT IDEA!!!!????

When we getting the Jon Talabain Hack and Slash Spin-off game?

They hate him...??? They hate my boy?!? THEY HATE MY FLUFFY BOY?!?! WHAT??? EXPLAIN!!!

@@authorbat5562 because he's not a big-tiddied anime waifu or.... Whatever japan sees in Hisen-Ko and... Anita. When the small emotionless child is more popular than her cool half-vampire Jojo character that really shows their ... Priorities. >_>

And the sad part? Probably sold like hotcakes, and still not even a glimmer of a new game

Looks a bit too much like Join Taliban.

Far more interesting ideas than Mokujin.

@@pious83 I love Mokujin.... but you're right 😭

@@pious83 heck I even consider combot more interesting especially his Tag 2 version

Yeah, exactly!

I mean, it’s Street Fighter. When it’s great, you know a new fighting game boom is coming.

@@MultiBoxingKid Yea, followed up by MK1 and Tekken 8, this further proves that its possiblr,

Having seen Morrigan and Jeddah in M Vs. C- Infinite, I think it’s safe to assume a modernized Darkstalkers game would fatten Capcom’s wallets.

Because they wouldn’t make money without that IP. If you ask me, we should do this like how Bloodstained did it’s own version of castlevania

Why would they sell a IP that they still profit from?

Morrigan makes to much money for Capcom to let her go.

@@joshuafranklin5636 exactly. Morrigan is too deeply embedded in the various XYZ vs Capcom games for them to let go.

I think they should let some other studio borrow the IP, they did that when they wanted to "westernize" so why not leave it in hands of people who have the reasurces?

I can fix him.

It's got the likes of Red Earth and Cyberbots to justify it this time, so I'm already on board.

@@AceTrainerX3 I’d buy it just for darkstalkers collection tbh even though I can play on fightcade I need that switch version. And yea red earth and super puzzle fighter are gonna be lit

@@Justin-be6be that is definitely a buy for me as well

@@animezilla4486 We have to make sure it’s a best seller if we want a new Darkstalkers game. The fate of the franchise is in our hands. We’ve got to make it count

Same here and also for Gem Fighters & Red Earth

Absolutely 😄

No contest on the biggest Sexy/Sweet cinnamon roll of the Darkstalkers series :)

She gives me big sister vibes and idk why

@@mirzapramudya1580 Well she did become a nun.

@@RoyalHustler09 excuse me, *she wut*

Amen to that....looking down from the afterlife "dammit finally!*sob*"

My only exposure to Darkstalkers is via crossover games. I'd love to see a collection someday. As in, a proper one. Maybe like Tekken 5 did with the previous entries. Although that would require a new game... :(

Honestly I think most people who play both games prefer Darkstalkers

I saw the cabinet at a local pizzeria as a kid and it blew my mind

@@pious83 My problem with Darkstakers is that the sprite work is so over the top, that it might be too much work for Capcom to translate it into 3d. Since Street Fighter translates into 3d well already, Darkstakers has become less important to Capcom.

Hell listen to this man capcom , the treatment that talbain got after darkstalkers was outright criminal

"Billions" may be an exaggeration

@@AllDayDavis but not by much tho

@@AllDayDavis Most likely since there's only around 8-9 billion people on the planet, lol

@@dheagle11 CRIMINAL!!!

Thankfully the re-release also included games like Red Earth, which never even left the arcade, but it's still kind of painful.

Ik,,,, JUST GIVE US A NEW GAME 😭

I play Resurrection through PS5s classics catalog and just bought the Capcom Collection on Steam. I'm just trying to do my part in seeing a new Darkstalkers lol

@@-cactus.raven- My problem with Darkstakers is that the sprite work is so over the top, that it might be too much work for Capcom to translate it into 3d. Since Street Fighter translates into 3d well already, Darkstakers has become less important to Capcom.

@@orangeslash1667 logically yes, but also I want my hot fish man

guess Pyron was your favorite character then since for me ever since i used both Talbain and Morrigan for Talbain he was my original PSN avatar and Morrigan i had used her alongside with Spider-Man to represent my side of Marvel vs capcom and i even am getting a Bishojo figure of Morrigan soon

I mean, succubuses don't exist in Japanese culture, and unlike vampires, werewolves, zombies, or mummies, there aren't a lot of media focusing on them, especially back in the mid '90s.

Perhaps they didn't know the non japanese word.

The origin of anime catgirls like Felicia is Japanese mythology about demonic bipedal cats that would take the form of prostitutes and seduce men. So Felicia was the obvious "succubus" archetype to the Japanese developers. When she switched personalities with Morrigan, it became more comedic that the big titty catgirl was a naive convent orphan.

i can't unsee it now, r/TIHI

@@Hecatom Surely they have some roughly equivalent monster.

Gonna buy it just for Red Earth alone.

I just recently got into the story and games and this will be my first time buying it in hopes of a new Dark Stalkers

Will that have online?

@@nikboyd8636 Yes with rollback

I'm buying since it will be my first time with darkstalkers and all the other games

I'm hyped as well so I got a head start playing the game on fightcade lol

Poggers

Besides this series and Dino Crisis I wish Capcom would bring back Onimusha I mean the PS4 rerelease of the first game actually did well proving that there we are still fans of Onimusha and would happily buy a new installment or at the least updated rereleases of 2: Samurai's Destiny, 3: Demon Siege, and Dawn of Dreams. Heck the story of the making of the first game is an interesting one as Onimusha: Warlords started out as the original concept of Resident Evil 0 no am I not making that up when Capcom Japan had Shinji Mikami and his team get ready to start production of RE3: Nemesis, Shinji and his team came up with ideas for several spinoff titles that would've been released on the PS1 including a game starring Hunk, a game set on a cruise ship that would years later become RE: Dead Aim for the PS2, and canonical prequel game set in Feudal Japan whose plot was a male Samurai, and his Kunoichi partner were tasked by a feudal lord to investigate a mysterious manor infested with zombies and other various monsters however the proposed RE prequel game would be delayed into missing being one of the final releases on the being phased-out PS1, and instead released as a launch title for the upcoming PS2 and further developments for the PS2 would see the game have it's original plot concept along with most elements connecting it to the RE franchise be removed and reworked into the survival-horror/action classic released at launch for the PS2 as Onimusha: Warlords.

Honestly I always thought Talbain was more if the protagonist of Darkstalkers cause like Donovan he is trying to fight the monster inside. Also I always often thought him and Felicia make a cute couple(even though ones a cat and the other a dog).

@@akilcharles3473 Jon and Felicia never interacted with each other in canon. Then again most people asking for DS or watching this video never played DS to begin with...

@@TrollAppears2nd I mean not in game but I've seen them interact in comics and that one anime (but just as friends).

It’s because Japan hates him. While I don’t know overall why I know a big reason is he’s kind of a complete bitch to fight. He’s top 3 in all games in the series. Any other reasons I’ve never heard an explanation on.

@@Neogears1312 he’s the most unga bunga character in an unga bunga game. I usually don’t even like those characters but everything about his design felt so right.

well darkstalkers ressurection was set up fail from the start. it was hardly advertized (only saw 1 small article in game informer/plus youtube promos/that was it), overpriced, for an arcade based port thats pretty much what i own my PSP (released back in 2007).

Even yet another re-release would be welcome at this point. As much as they did oversaturate the re-releases throughout the 00's we haven't had one in a decade by now. Don't know if you can play Resurrection on PS5 but I'm pretty sure the X360 release of it is not playable on Series X/S anymore.

Well, we got the Capcom Fighting Classics Collection coming out in late June of this year. Which includes all 5 Darkstalkers releases. Along with Red Earth, Pocket Fighter, Puzzle Fighter 2, and so on. Clearly they're noting on giving the franchise one last chance. And will be sold on all current platforms. Including PC. So for the summer drought of game releases, this might fill the void for anyone who had interest on playing the franchise, and perhaps seal the fate of IPs in the collection.

Did you say "another re-release"?

Very unique indeed

Darkstalker 3 still has a pretty decent tournament scene. For poverty pizes. At least pre covid. And I see people on fightcade playing it.

As someone who owned both consoles (PS1 first btw) I can concur that the Saturn conversions Capcom made were better than their PS1 versions. Then it was perfected with the 4MB RAM expansion cart. Saturn Vampire Savior was even superior to the arcade version by combining the rosters of Savior 1&2 (ditto with Alpha 3)! Funny thing is, I had friends at the time that still tried to make excuses for the PS1 version of XvSF after playing the Saturn version. 🤣

A Japanese Saturn, the 4MB card and Darkstalkers: VS...Ultimate bliss

Really? In what game did they have a Viktor cameo? I never played the RE series

@@brookswilliams5239 In the multiplayer game REsistance there's an abandoned horror amusement park stage with a room vaguely alluding to frankenstein. Only the statue of Frankenstein is Viktor. Here's a video showing it off. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atiTjLmqksq2hHU.html

@@ZappBranniglenn cool thanks for the info!

@Audrion Irks How did he mess with Morrigan?

Same here.🙂

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​@@spudsbuchlawthe world may never know

NO! they would leave a cliff hanger then cancel the series!

@@nyetloki Thats Gainax. Trigger will only make one season and end the series in space.

But he turns hseninko into two girls who are even younger. So...yea nah boy don't got standards.

​@@lissaquon607hsien-ko is a fusion that he undoes during MB

He just turns people into whatever kink he's feeling that day. Demitri is just freaky like that.

That's weird.

@@captainmalice probably because everyone just instantly hop into ranked / online

Tekken has well has low achievement percents. Stuff like do your Rage Art (super) 10 times. Or stage interactions like wall break or floor break, will only have 40% or less completion

It's weird, I play on steam and I have quite a few games in which the only achievements I lack are the online ones, but it's because simply isn't people there to play to begin with.

30% is already pretty high, ngl