Line #65 Trivia/Darkstalkers


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** Creator/NobuyukiHiyama voices both Demitri and Pyron. In ''Night Warriors/Vampire Hunter'' he gets a third character in the form of Donovan.
3	** Creator/YujiUeda voices Jon Talbain, Lord Raptor and Rikuo.
4	** Kan Tokumaru voices Anakaris, Bishamon, Sasquatch, and Victor.
5	** In the western cartoon, Creator/ScottMcNeil voices both Rikuo and Lord Raptor. He later [[TheOtherDarrin adds Anakaris]] to his list of roles.
6	** Miyuki Matsushita voices both Q-Bee and B.B.Hood in ''Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior''.
7	* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/ScottMcNeil, Lord Raptor's voice actor in the cartoon adaptation and the English dub of ''Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge'', is an Australian voicing an Australian character.
8	* CreatorBacklash: Frank Brunner, who did animation for the American cartoon, openly called it "mindless garbage".
9	* DivorcedInstallment: The original game was supposed to be a licensed Franchise/UniversalHorror fighting game, much like how ''VideoGame/StarGladiator'' was going to be a licensed ''Franchise/StarWars'' fighting game.
10	* DummiedOut:
11	** Huitzil and Pyron's endings from ''Night Warriors'' are actually in the first game but mostly go unused since they aren't playable. Hacking the game to play as them and beat the game as them will play their endings but with garbage text reading "AAAAAAAAAAA." They also have alternate player colors if selected with a different button.
12	** ''Vampire Hunter 2'' was made using ''Vampire Savior'''s engine, but with the ''Night Warriors'' cast. However, the new characters from ''VS'' remain as residual data, only their portraits remain except Lilith's, whose sprites and animations are all still present and functional. She can be selected by hacking and the game can be completed just fine if you use her, the only drawback being her lack of voice, victory BGM and that there's a chance the game might pit you against another DummiedOut vs. character in arcade mode.
13	* ExecutiveMeddling:
14	** The creative teams at Creator/{{Capcom}} want to do a fourth one (Yoshinori Ono in particular is interested in making the project happen), but the suits won't let them, even despite A) the massive fan demand for one, and B) Capcom constantly including the series' characters in crossover games.
15	*** This came to a head when Capcom released ''Darkstalkers Resurrection'', effectively the arcade builds of ''Night Warriors'' and ''Vampire Savior'' with a minor use of HD graphics and no real unlockables. [[note]]The other games developed by Iron Galaxy Studios were either games that had never released before in home versions or included several beneficial unlocks. Darkstalkers Resurrection only had a gallery mode.[[/note]]. To say the fandom was pissed when Capcom declared its failure meant a full fourth game release was cancelled is understating it.
16	* FakeRussian: The cartoon version of Hsien-Ko, despite still being from China.
17	* FranchiseKiller:
18	** The hastily-released [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] arcade [[UpdatedRerelease updates]] ''Vampire Savior 2'' and ''Vampire Hunter 2'' are widely regarded as having heavily damaged public interest in the series. On top of being [[CapcomSequelStagnation slightly modified versions]] of ''Vampire Savior'' (and said modifications being largely disliked), [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo the roster was split between two separate games due to hardware limitations]], and the ''Vampire Hunter 2'' [[NeverTrustATitle title was misleading]] due to the original ''Vampire Hunter'' being a fairly different game gameplay-wise. Even the fact that three previously dropped characters were brought back into the mix wasn't enough to counter all the negatives, and series' remaining fans quickly abandoned these versions in favor of previous entries. Every ''Darkstalkers'' release since has been some kind of port of the existing entries in the series.
19	** ''Darkstalkers Resurrection'', a decently-featured but still overpriced port of Vampire Hunter and Vampire Savior. [[BoxOfficeBomb It failed to meet its projected sales.]] Unfortunately, Capcom took that as a sign that interest in the franchise was overestimated, and as a result decided against making a new ''Darkstalkers'' game.
20	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
21	** The OVA was initially released by Creator/VizMedia on VHS and DVD, but those releases are now out of print. Fortunately averted now that Creator/DiscotekMedia has picked up the license.
22	** The American ''Darkstalkers'' cartoon, along with the ''Street Fighter'' and ''Mega Man'' cartoons, was distributed on DVD by Creator/ADVFilms, before going out of print due to the company going under. Sadly, while the ''Street Fighter'' and ''Mega Man'' cartoons have been license-rescued by Discotek Media, the ''Darkstalkers'' cartoon has yet to be rescued, though Discotek license-rescuing the OVA as noted above has given rise to some hope.
23	* NoExportForYou:
24	** ''Vampire Hunter 2'' (Which features everyone in ''Vampire Savior'' sans the characters introduced in that game) and ''Vampire Savior 2'' (Which features everyone in ''Vampire Savior'' except Jon Talbain, Rikuo and Sasquatch; plus Pyron, Huitzil and Donovan) never left Japan. We ''did'' get ''Darkstalkers 3'' though, which is sort of a mash-up of the two.
25	*** ''Vampire Hunter 2'' and ''Vampire Savior 2'' ''are'' set to be included in the ''Capcom Fighting Collection'', but it still falls victim of [[NoDubForYou No Localization For You]]
26	** There's also ''Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service'' for the Dreamcast (though the Platform/PlayStationPortable port known as ''Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower'' was [[AvertedTrope brought over to the States]]) and ''Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection'' for the [=PlayStation 2=].
27	* PlayingAgainstType: Demitri's voiced by Creator/NobuyukiHiyama. This doesn't stop him from having some {{hot blooded}} battle cries.
28	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Udon proposed to do an HD remake of the original series, similar to ''Street Fighter II'' and even drew up some concept sprites of Morrigan. Capcom turned them down however, citing that, unlike the [=SFII=], Darkstalkers had more animation spites and just saw it as too much work to put into.
29	** Reportedly, work was underway on a fourth installment that either would have ran on CPS-3 or NAOMI hardware before it was silently cancelled. Rumors have since spread that the potential game was to have been the debut of Amingo, who ultimately appears in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2''. Though Capcom has yet to confirm the validity of those rumors.
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31	!! Other notes
32	* Demitri was sprited by Akemi Kurihara who had already worked on many of Capcom's arcade games before the fighting game boom, including ''VideoGame/ForgottenWorlds'', ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'', ''Dynasty Wars'' and ''VideoGame/MagicSword''.
33	* Victor was sprited by Mizuho Kageyama, who designed and sprited ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'''s Vega.
34	* Sasquatch was sprited by Mizue Morimoto, who also sprited Balrog in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'' and is still working at Capcom, having worked as an animator on ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' in 2016.

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