Revive Darkstalkers

The Issue

We need Capcom to bring back the Darkstalkers series. There hasn’t been a Darkstalkers game since Darkstalkers Resurrection, which was a compilation of Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge and Darkstalkers 3, and it was only released for PS3 and Xbox 360 as a downloadable title, if that counts. Anyway, we need them to make Darkstalkers 4. Here are a few ideas on how Darkstalkers 4 could work and one idea for the Darkstalkers franchise:

- Demitri Maximoff and Morrigan Aensland should BOTH be the protagonists and mascots of the Darkstalkers franchise and still be rivals.

- Make it either a soft reboot or a sequel that takes place 24 years after Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Savior).

- Use RE Engine or the upcoming REX Engine.

- Maintain most of the mechanics from Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3), maybe only changing some things for the sake of balance or for making things more simple, like merging EX and ES Special Moves.

- New gothic-horror monster/mythological creature type characters, such as a Phantom (inspiration from the Phantom of the Opera), Gorgon, Gumiho, Mad Scientist (inspiration from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Slime Monster, a Shapeshifting Super Villain, Kushtaka, a new Dark Hunter, etc., and new Vampire, Succubus, Werewolf, Golem/Frankenstein, Zombie/Ghoul, etc. type characters. For example, we could get a new Vampire character that has powers similar to Demitri's powers, and a new Succubus character that's related to Morrigan and Lilith and has powers similar to theirs. We could also get a new Werewolf character that has powers similar to Jon Talbain's/Gallon's powers, a new Golem/Frankenstein-like character that has powers similar to Victor's powers and also uses his or her butt to attack, and a new Zombie/Ghoul character that likes glam/hair metal and has powers similar to Lord Raptor's/Zabel Zarock's powers. I’d honestly love to see a Jamaican (or at least Caribbean) mythological creature as a character with a reggae theme.

In addition, characters from other Capcom franchises, such as Street Fighter, Red Earth, Power Stone, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, and Onimusha should have ties with the Darkstalkers franchise.

- Make Dark Talbain/Dark Gallon, Oboro Bishamon, Dee, Anita, Khaibit, Shadow, and Marionette fully playable characters.

- Add Ruby Heart, Amingo, SonSon, Abyss, Akuma/Gouki, Rose (Street Fighter), Mech-Zangief, Cyber-Akuma/Mech-Gouki, Leo (Red Earth), Kenji (Red Earth), Tessa (Red Earth), Mai-Ling (Red Earth), Edward Falcon (Power Stone), Arthur (Ghosts 'n Goblins), Firebrand (Gargoyle's Quest), Chris Redfield (Resident Evil), Jill Valentine (Resident Evil), Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil), Albert Wesker (Resident Evil), Nemesis (Resident Evil), Dante (Devil May Cry), Samanosuke Akechi (Onimusha), Gene (God Hand), and Asura (Asura's Wrath) as playable characters.

- Other Guest Characters. Add Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse), Miriam (Bloodstained), Basara (Samurai Shodown), Jack Cayman (MadWorld/Anarchy Reigns), D (Vampire Hunter D), and Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) as playable characters.

- Add Stages and Music from Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Savior), Street Fighter Alpha/Zero, Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 2, Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3, and Marvel VS Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.

- New, different types of stages, like a Mesoamerican temple (but then again, there’s Huitzil/Phobos and his stages) and a Greek/Roman Gladiator arena.

- Boss Battles. Make Huitzil/Phobos, Pyron, Jedah Dohma, and Abyss bosses, and make Dark Talbain/Dark Gallon, Oboro Bishamon, Dee, Anita, Khaibit, Shadow, Marionette, Akuma/Gouki, Mech-Zangief, Cyber-Akuma/Mech-Gouki, Wesker, and Nemesis secret bosses.

- The soundtrack for this new Darkstalkers game should be composed and arranged by Yoko Shimomura, who had composed the majority of the soundtrack for Street Fighter II during her years with Capcom, and Hideyuki Fukasawa, known for his work in the Street Fighter IV series.

- Character Themes. For characters that debuted in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Darkstalkers 1) and characters that debuted in Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (Darkstalkers 2), they should use/remix their themes from Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge with undertones of their themes from Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors and Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3), and for characters that debuted in Vampire Savior, they should use/remix their themes from Vampire Savior. Ruby Heart's theme should be a remix of the Airship Stage theme from Marvel VS Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Amingo's theme should be a remix of the Desert Stage theme from MVC2, SonSon's theme should be a remix of the Main Theme from SonSon with elements of the Swamp Stage theme from MVC2, and Abyss' theme should be a remix of… well, Abyss' theme from MVC2. Jotaro's theme should be a remix of his theme from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.

- Stage Music. I think each stage should have dynamic music, like in Street Fighter V and Street Fighter 6. In Round 1, it plays the original melody of the stage theme. In Round 2, the melody is improvised, but the melody of the hook stays the same, but with more instruments as accompaniment, like pianos, organs, keyboards/synths, guitars, bass, drums/percussion, vocals/choir, horns, strings, wind instruments and woodwind instruments, and other orchestration, wind synths, etc. And in the Final Round, it should play a differently improvised melody, but, again, the melody of the hook stays the same, but with even more instruments as accompaniment.

- Not only should this new Darkstalkers game have Japanese voice acting, but it should also have English voice acting. The English casting and voice directors should be Jonathan Klein and Keith Arem (New Generation Pictures).

Oh! And I also think that they should remake AND make sequels to Captain Commando, The King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara (Chronicles of Mystara) (with Wizards of the Coast), Red Earth, Armored Warriors, Cyberbots, Battle Circuit, and Pocket Fighter (with more characters), and they should also make Street Fighter VS Darkstalkers as a crossover fighting game.

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The Issue

We need Capcom to bring back the Darkstalkers series. There hasn’t been a Darkstalkers game since Darkstalkers Resurrection, which was a compilation of Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge and Darkstalkers 3, and it was only released for PS3 and Xbox 360 as a downloadable title, if that counts. Anyway, we need them to make Darkstalkers 4. Here are a few ideas on how Darkstalkers 4 could work and one idea for the Darkstalkers franchise:

- Demitri Maximoff and Morrigan Aensland should BOTH be the protagonists and mascots of the Darkstalkers franchise and still be rivals.

- Make it either a soft reboot or a sequel that takes place 24 years after Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Savior).

- Use RE Engine or the upcoming REX Engine.

- Maintain most of the mechanics from Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3), maybe only changing some things for the sake of balance or for making things more simple, like merging EX and ES Special Moves.

- New gothic-horror monster/mythological creature type characters, such as a Phantom (inspiration from the Phantom of the Opera), Gorgon, Gumiho, Mad Scientist (inspiration from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Slime Monster, a Shapeshifting Super Villain, Kushtaka, a new Dark Hunter, etc., and new Vampire, Succubus, Werewolf, Golem/Frankenstein, Zombie/Ghoul, etc. type characters. For example, we could get a new Vampire character that has powers similar to Demitri's powers, and a new Succubus character that's related to Morrigan and Lilith and has powers similar to theirs. We could also get a new Werewolf character that has powers similar to Jon Talbain's/Gallon's powers, a new Golem/Frankenstein-like character that has powers similar to Victor's powers and also uses his or her butt to attack, and a new Zombie/Ghoul character that likes glam/hair metal and has powers similar to Lord Raptor's/Zabel Zarock's powers. I’d honestly love to see a Jamaican (or at least Caribbean) mythological creature as a character with a reggae theme.

In addition, characters from other Capcom franchises, such as Street Fighter, Red Earth, Power Stone, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, and Onimusha should have ties with the Darkstalkers franchise.

- Make Dark Talbain/Dark Gallon, Oboro Bishamon, Dee, Anita, Khaibit, Shadow, and Marionette fully playable characters.

- Add Ruby Heart, Amingo, SonSon, Abyss, Akuma/Gouki, Rose (Street Fighter), Mech-Zangief, Cyber-Akuma/Mech-Gouki, Leo (Red Earth), Kenji (Red Earth), Tessa (Red Earth), Mai-Ling (Red Earth), Edward Falcon (Power Stone), Arthur (Ghosts 'n Goblins), Firebrand (Gargoyle's Quest), Chris Redfield (Resident Evil), Jill Valentine (Resident Evil), Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil), Albert Wesker (Resident Evil), Nemesis (Resident Evil), Dante (Devil May Cry), Samanosuke Akechi (Onimusha), Gene (God Hand), and Asura (Asura's Wrath) as playable characters.

- Other Guest Characters. Add Rick Taylor (Splatterhouse), Miriam (Bloodstained), Basara (Samurai Shodown), Jack Cayman (MadWorld/Anarchy Reigns), D (Vampire Hunter D), and Jotaro Kujo (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) as playable characters.

- Add Stages and Music from Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Savior), Street Fighter Alpha/Zero, Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 2, Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3, and Marvel VS Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes.

- New, different types of stages, like a Mesoamerican temple (but then again, there’s Huitzil/Phobos and his stages) and a Greek/Roman Gladiator arena.

- Boss Battles. Make Huitzil/Phobos, Pyron, Jedah Dohma, and Abyss bosses, and make Dark Talbain/Dark Gallon, Oboro Bishamon, Dee, Anita, Khaibit, Shadow, Marionette, Akuma/Gouki, Mech-Zangief, Cyber-Akuma/Mech-Gouki, Wesker, and Nemesis secret bosses.

- The soundtrack for this new Darkstalkers game should be composed and arranged by Yoko Shimomura, who had composed the majority of the soundtrack for Street Fighter II during her years with Capcom, and Hideyuki Fukasawa, known for his work in the Street Fighter IV series.

- Character Themes. For characters that debuted in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (Darkstalkers 1) and characters that debuted in Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge (Darkstalkers 2), they should use/remix their themes from Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge with undertones of their themes from Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors and Vampire Savior (Darkstalkers 3), and for characters that debuted in Vampire Savior, they should use/remix their themes from Vampire Savior. Ruby Heart's theme should be a remix of the Airship Stage theme from Marvel VS Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Amingo's theme should be a remix of the Desert Stage theme from MVC2, SonSon's theme should be a remix of the Main Theme from SonSon with elements of the Swamp Stage theme from MVC2, and Abyss' theme should be a remix of… well, Abyss' theme from MVC2. Jotaro's theme should be a remix of his theme from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.

- Stage Music. I think each stage should have dynamic music, like in Street Fighter V and Street Fighter 6. In Round 1, it plays the original melody of the stage theme. In Round 2, the melody is improvised, but the melody of the hook stays the same, but with more instruments as accompaniment, like pianos, organs, keyboards/synths, guitars, bass, drums/percussion, vocals/choir, horns, strings, wind instruments and woodwind instruments, and other orchestration, wind synths, etc. And in the Final Round, it should play a differently improvised melody, but, again, the melody of the hook stays the same, but with even more instruments as accompaniment.

- Not only should this new Darkstalkers game have Japanese voice acting, but it should also have English voice acting. The English casting and voice directors should be Jonathan Klein and Keith Arem (New Generation Pictures).

Oh! And I also think that they should remake AND make sequels to Captain Commando, The King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara (Chronicles of Mystara) (with Wizards of the Coast), Red Earth, Armored Warriors, Cyberbots, Battle Circuit, and Pocket Fighter (with more characters), and they should also make Street Fighter VS Darkstalkers as a crossover fighting game.

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Petition created on August 16, 2021