Once again, the monster warriors from the Darkstalkers series return to battle for control of the night. From vampires to mummies, Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower includes all 18 characters from previous installments in the franchise. Choose your favorite character, and master his or her unique moves to gain victory in various gameplay modes, such as arcade, training, tower, and Ad-Hoc.
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I'm not a fighting game guy. This seems like it's probably a good fighting game, but I can't judge that well. Definitely has a nice bit of variety in both characters and gameplay modes to keep busy, and good single-player content, despite being based on arcade-style fighters. If it had a proper campaign / story mode, I'd probably have given it some real time.
A combined version with all Darkstalkers fighters, selectable fighting styles from each of the three main titles, and a robust single-player mode. Curiously lacking command lists, but probably the best single player-oriented release. Really deserves an HD port.
This is basically a Dreamcast port of Vampire Chronicles (that was lock to the Japan region), but for the psp. Only difference is that, instead getting to choose the fighting style from all five Darkstalkers/Vampire arcade game. You only get only get 3 options, Darkstalkers, Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, and Darkstalkers 3. Which is all you need really. Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Savior 2 were lock to Japan only.
With that said...
Its baffling how every time Capcom makes a new "fighter collection". They always have separate titles from the series but they should trim the fat and just port Chaos Tower or at least make a definitive edition already. Literally the best of all worlds and rather having to pick a specific title to play a character you like. You can play EVERY character under one game with Chaos Tower and you get to pick which play style (out of the 3 Darkstalkers/Vampire games) you prefer. Also, the soundtracks from all 3 games changes based on what play style you choose. Only thing that stays the same is the selection screen, arcade levels and character endings are all from Vampire Savior 2(JP).
With that said...
Its baffling how every time Capcom makes a new "fighter collection". They always have separate titles from the series but they should trim the fat and just port Chaos Tower or at least make a definitive edition already. Literally the best of all worlds and rather having to pick a specific title to play a character you like. You can play EVERY character under one game with Chaos Tower and you get to pick which play style (out of the 3 Darkstalkers/Vampire games) you prefer. Also, the soundtracks from all 3 games changes based on what play style you choose. Only thing that stays the same is the selection screen, arcade levels and character endings are all from Vampire Savior 2(JP).
Pretty suprised how smooth the controls are for this game an the sprites an backgrounds also look beautiful
Like the PS1, I've never really tried any PSP games. As for tradition, I'll start with a launch title and while this probably isn't the most interesting choice, I'm glad I tried it. I should point out that I've never played Darkstalkers in my life until this game.
Now this isn't really a PSP game in some ways as it's apparently a port of a Dreamcast title. But it's got a lot of content here as you can explore the three Darkstalkers games available with the whole cast from what was current at the time which is quite cool. So you know what that means guys actually wait you don't but I get to play Bulleta the whole time cause she's hype.
I'm not really a fighting game expert like not even close but this was pretty fun to play, I like the attacks and the speed of it all. There's a lot of creative looking characters and attacks done here. It all flows really well together. I'm not sure how balanced this game is but I played by myself so it doesn't really matter. There is an online mode but I was playing on an emulator so obviously that's impossible to use. I wonder how good the netcode was.
This game also has a a tower mode where you clim the tower fighting more and more with three characters until you are all out. Despite making what I thought was a good amount, I somehow only did 8%. Yeah I'm kind of bad. This is how you collect concept art which is pretty cool. I do like how there's some challenges like disabling a few moves for a fight.
There's also a chronicle that has all the art you have obtained from the tower, you also can listen to music and you can even look at any ending from the three games but you do have to unlock them.
What's here is a fun package for fighting game fans and while the PSP isn't the best for controls, it can still be pretty fun. I guess after playing this I can say this series gets a thumbs up for me. Also now Bulleta is one of my favorite fighting game characters, easy top 10. A nice way to start off playing PSP games for sure.
Now this isn't really a PSP game in some ways as it's apparently a port of a Dreamcast title. But it's got a lot of content here as you can explore the three Darkstalkers games available with the whole cast from what was current at the time which is quite cool. So you know what that means guys actually wait you don't but I get to play Bulleta the whole time cause she's hype.
I'm not really a fighting game expert like not even close but this was pretty fun to play, I like the attacks and the speed of it all. There's a lot of creative looking characters and attacks done here. It all flows really well together. I'm not sure how balanced this game is but I played by myself so it doesn't really matter. There is an online mode but I was playing on an emulator so obviously that's impossible to use. I wonder how good the netcode was.
This game also has a a tower mode where you clim the tower fighting more and more with three characters until you are all out. Despite making what I thought was a good amount, I somehow only did 8%. Yeah I'm kind of bad. This is how you collect concept art which is pretty cool. I do like how there's some challenges like disabling a few moves for a fight.
There's also a chronicle that has all the art you have obtained from the tower, you also can listen to music and you can even look at any ending from the three games but you do have to unlock them.
What's here is a fun package for fighting game fans and while the PSP isn't the best for controls, it can still be pretty fun. I guess after playing this I can say this series gets a thumbs up for me. Also now Bulleta is one of my favorite fighting game characters, easy top 10. A nice way to start off playing PSP games for sure.
Darkstalkers 3 com extras, vale a pena.