/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2436070
>VS is far more popular than VS2.
Looking back without context it's easy to think Savior 2 and Hunter 2 were just another one of Capcom's slightly-tweaked fighting rehashes. But the primary player base in Japan had a very, very bad reaction to it at the time. The split roster deal was bad enough, let alone all the "rebalancing" that just made everything worse. Not even bringing back the 3 previously-dropped characters was enough to hold people's interest. Then there's the fact that you had a good number of people who preferred Hunter to Savior. When they heard that a "Vampire Hunter 2" was coming out, obviously they got excited. Then were summarily disappointed when they found that it was just a shittier version of Savior with a slightly different roster. To this day, long-term Japanese players of the series still view Savior 2 and Hunter 2 with disdain. Many of them even credit those titles with killing the series (and they might have a point, given that every release since then has been some sort of port of the previous games).