This year we’re putting together a list of 31 Retro Horror games. Games that have come from dead console generations, back to haunt us. Sadly, not all of these games will be available for you to play due to the complicated nature of video game preservation. However, we’re going to note if it’s possible to play them on modern hardware. We’re going to be covering games from the Seventh Generation (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii) and earlier. So basically anything before 2006.
Day 23
Darkstalkers: the Night Warriors
Okay, okay, this isn’t really a “horror” game so much as it’s a horror themed fighting game. It’s not meant to scare you. But come on! It’s monsters fighting monsters. That’s pretty horrifying. Darkstalkers: the Night Warriors is also a pretty underrated game that flew under the radar for a lot of people.
The plot is pretty cool: there is an alien race going to invade earth, and only the world’s monsters are able to defend earth. Why they have to fight each other to do it, I’m not entirely sure.
While Darkstalkers isn’t really talked about much these days, its characters are constantly showing up in Capcom fighting games. The wildly popular Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 features Darkstalker characters like the ever-popular Felicia.
Darkstalkers: the Night Warriors uses the same fighting system as Street Fighter II with a few tweaks. Originally developed as a Universal Monsters fighting game, getting the rights proved to be too difficult so they tweaked the project a bit to bypass the issue. That’s why you have vampire succubus Morrigan and cat lady Felicia instead of Dracula and the Wolfman.
If you want to play Darkstalkers: the Night Warriors these days, you’re in luck: Capcom has been releasing its retro fighting games in collections, and Darkstalkers made it into the Capcom Fighting Collection. They even included a couple of Darkstalkers games that were never released in NA.
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