I couldn't agree more with the opening statement. Vampire Savior really is one of the greatest fighters Capcom has ever made.

Honestly, I would kill for a six-hour Darkstalkers lore video.

It's wild that the only version of any darkstallers game to have all the characters, is a psp game they gets no love.

I was shocked when I first jumped online in these games on the Capcom Fighting Collections and realized that they had completely gutted the aerial pressure that made Savior such a nutty and technical game. I guess they felt that the barrier-to-entry were too high, but going back to the basic Hunter-style combo system felt like such a huge step backwards.

Probably Chronicles: The Chaos Tower is the closest thing we have to a "Definitive Version" of Vampire Savior due to maintaining the additions of the console ports and the new modes, stage and higher quality voice clips, but sadly it doesn't have Dee

We have to band together as a community and push for a Darkstalkers 4

I just realized the title of each Japanese release refers to the focus characters of each game

Vampire is Dimitri, the OG
Vampire Hunter is Donovan & BB, the, well, Vampire Hunter/Darkstalkers
Vampire Savior is the ultimate Vampire himself, Jedah

I feel like Capcom should have made a CPS3 Game called "Darkstalker: Savior vs Hunter", like SNK Samurai Shodown V Perfect.

Kinda wish they released a new version like guilty gear ac+r , featuring all the characters.

Experiments like these were necessary for Capcom to make better games. It was alright if MSHvSF or VSav2 sucked, we could always go back to XvSF and VSav. Nowadays with online updates making previous versions disappear entirely, the stakes are much higher and I think it's made them play things much more conservatively.

We need Vampire and the rest of Capcom's wacky fighters to exist so that the Street Fighters of tomorrow have plenty of ideas and mechanics that can be plundered.

And you thought Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha was wacky!
Jokes aside, I remember emulating both games as a kid and always feeling baffled about this. Like aside from some different colors for the stages, a different intro and the ending just being an image with text (iirc) I was unable to notice many major changes.

It is such a baffling game, the changes in the gameplay are too small to be noticed by a casual yet so critical that they are a deal breaker for a fan of VS

I always wanted a Vampire Savior HD Remix with all the characters playable in one place, using a rebalanced version of Vsav gameplay and mechanics. Maybe make the push block slightly easier. We have definitely made leaps in tech since the CPS2 hardware, why not just finally have them all playable

I love DarkStalkers and it’s one of my most favourite Capcom fighting games next to Street Fighter. The characters,the backgrounds and it’s universal monsters inspiration is what made me love this game so much.

Actually regarding 11:52 on the video
The PSX version of Vampire Savior does have the newer sprite of Donavan but weirdly enough is only used if you select him on the character selection with the D.F. POWER mode, that gives Donovan his sprite from vsav2, D.F. CHANGE just gives him his DS2 sprites, no idea why Capcom did that but hey, the two sprites are in the game so that's something
Anyways, nice video explaining these two games that I'm somewhat fascinated to see that they sure exist

0:56 THERE I AM GARY

Great video as always, appreciate the quality over quantity of your content. Beside just explaining what they even are I also appreciate the look at the mechanics of each game, especially pushblock, and explaining why altering them hurt the game, despite how difficult they can be to utilize. Glad to have vsav represented with quality content like this.

I have always been confused by this and it's great to learn about the different versions.

Excellent video as always. VSAV2/VHUNT2 are a huge laughing stock in the community but the added characters are really cool. The best version is probably Chronicle (which is on FC2), where it at least allows you to choose your "version" of the character like Hyper SF2 (even though the framedata is always from VSAV2, ew). It allows you to do some crazy shit like air dasher lilith and motion Rikuo with fullscreen bubbles, but the framedata kills it (5LK is a universal low, wtf). Also, from what I remember dash links are still a thing, just infinitely more difficult and even impossible with some characters for some reason. Still, in the Brazilian community we make a VSAV2 tournament every april fools and its a lot of fun doing the throw loop wars LOL

The Pokemon Red and Blue of darkstalker

7:49 capcom making the same mistakes that they did 25+ years ago lol

It's even stranger when you can unlock the ability to play as all characters in both of these games in the Vampire PS2 Collection.