History VideoGame / VampireSurvivors

** Yatta Cavallo is [[PandaingToTheAudience an anthropomorphic panda]] who throws cherry bombs. These start as extremely luck-based; not only do you need the bombs to roll to a stop near enemies, they initially have a small chance of blowing up. Proper positioning only does so much to mitigate these two factors. On top of that, Cavallo's only passive is gaining an additional projectile every 20 levels, which means it's completely useless early-game. [[MagikarpPower If he survives long enough to get a build going, however]], those cherry bombs go from "situational at best" to "everything is explosions." They also have so much knockback that Cavallo is one of the few characters who BENEFITS from being completely surrounded; with enough upgrades to projectile number and cooldown, it will be almost impossible for the enemies to actually reach you before being blown into dog food. Standing in the middle of the horde in your own circle of explosions thus becomes a totally viable strategy.

* PandaingToTheAudience: One of the unlockable characters, Yatta Cavallo, is (for some reason) a panda. It shares stats with the other "monster" characters, and starts with the Cherry Bomb, which lets it throw rebounding projectiles that have a chance to explode when they stop moving.

* EliteMook: Whenever your move near to one of the rings or metaglio passive items, a large phantom will spawn that constantly moves towards you at a steady pace and is ''extremely'' durable. However, if you do kill them, they drop a golden egg which will permanently raise a stat on whichever character picks the egg up.

** the 0.8.0 patch added [Always] bag of coins and [Always] floor chicken as options to pick from whenever you level up after you have already maxed out all available weapons and items. It just always grants you that one item for the rest of your playthrough. On runs with LimitBreak turned on, these instead are replaced with a [Random once] and [Random Always] effect so you can just let the dice roll your upgrades without having to be interrupted.

** Giovanna Giona. She's a HotWitch with sexy legs, an ImpossibleHourglassFigure, NavelDeepNeckline, PeekABangs, and is straddling her witch boom. Her sprite doesn't leave much to the imagination.

* HotWitch: Giovanna Grana plays up the sexy witch angle as much as her character sprite will allow. According to the Bestiary, she started the rend of the broom-riding, pointy hat-wearing Sassy Witches, and there's a major feud between them and the conservative regular witches.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Undead Sassy Witch's bestiary entry talks about how Giovanna turned away from being "assigned Mage at birth" and the other Witches (the enemy varient) who oppose her on the grounds of “protecting witches’ spaces” in a way that clearly is [[TakeThat mocking]] TERFS and the antitrans movement.

** [[spoiler:Leda's body is a writhing mass of flesh and meat. While not detailed as such to truly make out what his body is made of, he resembles the typical depictions of the [[BodyOfBodies Legion]] boss in various CV titles]].

** The hidden unlockable character Leda is giant, deals twice as much damage as other characters before bonuses, has five additional armor points, and gets a bonus to attack area and cooldown. However, they are also the third slowest character in the game, outweighed by Dommario and the [[NotHyperbole literal rooted-to-the-ground]] tree Peppino.

** Leda is unlocked by traveling downward in Gallo Tower until the screen fully darkens, then defeating it as an OptionalBoss. It boasts a whopping +100% Might and +5 Armor, as well as the already-evolved Holy Wand.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Red Death, Leda and Gyorunton join the playable cast when you defeat them, although the latter won't join unless you beat them with only one weapon.

** [[spoiler:Genevieve Gruyère becomes playable after unlocking the fight with Ge-Ne-Viv, whom you can also unlock after getting 100k kills with Genevieve. Granted, the "friendship" part is messed with, as the bestiary suggests Ge-Ne-Viv joins the party so she can ''eat a vampire'']].

* CelestialBody: [[spoiler: The Directer appears like a cloak-shaped yellow flame encompassing the stars.]]

** [[spoiler:Genevieve Gruyère becomes playable after unlocking the fight with Ge-Ne-Viv, whom you can also unlock after getting 100k kills with Genevieve. Granted, the "friendship" part is messed with, as the bestiary suggests Ge-Ne-Viv joins the party so she can **eat a vampire**]].

* FighterMageThief: The three main characters of the ''Tides of the Foscari'' DLC fulfill the triangle. Maruto Cuts, with his tanky stats and his {{BFS}}, is the Fighter. Eleanor Uziron, who gains three powerful spells that unite into the devastating SpellStrom, is the Mage. Keitha Muort, the archer whose evolved weapon gets stronger when she picks up gold coins, is the Thief.

** missingN&#9647. Sometimes his starts with really good stats. Sometimes his stats are so horrendous, you can't even play the game with him. Sometimes you get **both**.

** Giovanna fires cats. Yes, cats. They damage anything in their path, have a chance to fight each other if two cats' hotboxes touch (which causes a BigBallOfViolence with even better damage and a big AOE), and turn items into coins. Its evolution turns them into flying cat eyes.

** When the Fomorians show up in Abyss Foscari, the edges of the screen will be covered in black particle effects, screwing with visibility is the alredy dark level.

* JokeCharacter: Random isn't a random character, it's ''literally an animate question mark''. Its stats can wildly vary from run to run, and if you're unlucky, it might actively ''subtract'' from your skills. On top of this, you might spawn with a non-damaging weapon, and unlike characters who start with non-damaging weapons like Gallo, you won't have any way to kill anything. Good luck!

* DevelopersForesight: The devs knew the players would attempt to kill Red Death at the end of the game. He does have an HP value and can be killed by cheesing him with geometry. Killing him will unlock him as a playable character.

* ExperienceBooster: The Crown increases experience gained by a {{percent|BasedValues}}age, up to 40% when maxed.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Undead Sassy Witch's bestiary entry talks about how Giovanna turned away from being "assigned Mage at birth" and the other Sassy Witches oppose her on the grounds of “[protecting] witches’ spaces” in a way that clearly mirrors political debates over transgenderism.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Undead Sassy Witch's bestiary entry talks about how Giovanna turned away from being "assigned Mage at birth" and the other Sassy Witches oppose her on the grounds of “protect witches’ spaces” in a way that clearly mirrors political debates over transgenderism.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: [[TheArchmage Leda's]] gender was hard to determine in the base game, but the description of the Followa enemy seemingly confirms she's female.

The game is available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. It released out of Early Access on October 20, 2022. A demo can be played on [[https://poncle.itch.io/vampire-survivors poncle's itch.io page]]. On December 15, 2022, the game received its first wave of DownloadableContent, titled ''Legacy of the Moonspell''. The second DLC, ''Tides of the Foscari'', was released on April 13, 2023.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: [[TheArchmage Leda's]] gender was hard to determine in the base game, but the description of the Followa enemy seemingly confirms she's a "sorceress".

** With enough [=MoveSpeed=] and game lag, it's possible to clip through solid geometry. Doing so on the boundry walls of Inlaid Library, Galleo Tower and Tiny Bridge reveals that those stages still WrapAround in those directions, but have no enemy spawns in the outside duplicate layouts.