Reception
VideoGames & Computer Entertainment (VGCE) gave it a score of 9/10. Upon the home version's release, PlayStation Magazine gave Darkstalkers a score of 7/10, calling it "a sound enough beat'em up but no Street Fighter Alpha."
VGCE named the arcade version of Darkstalkers as the second game in the categories Game of the Year and Best Fighting Game of 1994. In 2007, CraveOnline users ranked Darkstalkers as the ninth top 2D fighter of all time, the staff calling it "a Capcom title that was essential in the further development of Capcom’s 2-D fighter dominance" and "a surprise hit that paved the way for many great games after it."
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“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
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