YMMV / Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge

• Awesome Music: Aside from the tradition of using Trouble Man, Kou Otani does the score for the OVA and does a fantastic job.
• Complete Monster: Pyron is a malevolent alien being who travels from world to world for fighting and excitement, inevitably destroying them when they fail to meet his expectations. Arriving on Earth, Pyron announces himself by annihilating populated towns with the warning to entertain him or risk death. Pyron proceeds to kill multiple defenders of Earth in the ensuing fight, gleefully tormenting the hero Donovan, and when Donovan manages to stand up to him Pyron attempts to wipe out the world and everyone in it out of spite.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Morrigan being faithfully adapted as the friendly and moral succubus she is since then every other media portrayed her as an evil monster, which lead to some people believing she actually is when she is not.
• He Really Can Act: The reason Scott McNeil reprised the role of Lord Raptor in the English dub — his performance as the character was considered one of the American cartoon's legitimately good points, to the point that they decided to bring him back.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: David Kaye voices Big Bad Pyron here, two decades later he ends up voicing fellow Darkstalkers Big Bad Jedah Dohma in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Seems like the guy is destined to play Darkstalkers villains. Another one is Kaye having Pyron exclaiming "yesss" in an elongated way, much like he would do for Megatron's Verbal Tic in Beast Wars that same year.
• Improved Second Attempt: This is the second and so far last attempt at bringing Darkstalkers into the world of animation. While far from perfection, it captures the tone, animation and world more accurately than the 1995 animated series, which attempted to tone the series down for a younger audience.
• Narm: Anita's expression of sadness in episode 3 as Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling head off to avenge their mother. She's more than likely trying to cry, but the constant screaming doesn't exactly do a good job of conveying that she's sad.
• Retroactive Recognition: A good chunk of the English dub cast would go on to provide voice work for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, most notably Kathleen Barr, Andrea Libman, Nicole Oliver, and Michael Dobson.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Rikuo's status as this trope in the games is arguably acknowledged here, as out of the four characters beaten by Pyron, his defeat is the most graphic.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Of the cast from the games, only Demitri, Morrigan, Felicia, Donovan, Anita, Hsien-ko and Mei-Ling are of any relevance to the plot. Outside of the intro, the rest are at best relevant for one episode, with Lord Raptor and Jon Talbain only appearing for 1 and 3 respectively, or at worst only appearing to be defeated by Pyron.
  • Lord Raptor only appears in the first episode, but never appears again. The only Darkstalker he interacts with is Felicia.
  • Jon Talbain only appears in the third episode, but has less screentime and relevance than Raptor. He serves as a Foil to Felicia, but he doesn't get much involvement with her or see her being treated by the doctor to help convince him humans aren't all bad. Notably, his name is never even said out loud.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The animation is incredibly fluid, even for an OVA, with some of the characters' moves from the original games being faithfully and beautifully recreated.
  • Advertising at the time even mentions that they had "done the impossible," as the amazing animation of the Darkstalkers games themselves made many believe an animated adaptation could never happen.