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This is a demonstration of the 'removed' and 'alternative' characters in the Arcade version of Vampire Savior 2. Read on below for more information...

As you probably know by now, Vampire Hunter 2 is an update of the original Vampire Savior in which the main difference is that the five characters Bulleta, Q-Bee, Lilith, Jedah and Dark Gallon (the Vampire Savior debutantes) have been removed, and replaced with Phobos, Pyron and Donovan. This is essentially an upgrade of Night Warriors/Vampire Hunter (Darkstalkers 2) where the roster is identical, plus some Vampire Savior extras like a few music tracks and Oboro Bishamon. However the graphics and art of Vampire Savior is used, with the soundtrack being from Night Warriors. The game was released only in Japan in 1997.

Despite the removal of Bulleta, Q-Bee, Lilith, Jedah and Dark Gallon, their character data still remains in the data of the game. Lilith's and Dark Gallon's in-fight sprites are retained, but however for the others their in-fight sprites are gone. Sound/voice-wise, only Dark Gallon retains his (which makes sense seeing as the normal Gallon is legitimately in the game). Lilith retains her in-fight sprites probably because she is similar to Morrigan, being a head-swap.

There also seems to be some 'extra' or 'alternate' versions of the missing/removed characters as well as Lei-Lei, which is signified by the fact that their portraits are a different colour and that they are set in separate character slots. They seem to play identical to the original versions though.

===== Additional Information =====

--- There is no winning screen music theme for the removed characters.

--- For the 'alternative' versions of the available characters, their winning screen music is incorrect.

--- If you have an inaccessible character highlighted on the character select screen, moving the cursor will lock and reset the game.

--- Dark Gallon has 'flawed' colour palettes on his portraits if you select him with any button other than LP or MP on the character select screen.

--- If you play as a 'removed' or 'alternate' character in 1P arcade mode they do have a fight path as normal, but in this path you can get to fight against a 'removed' character (for example Bulleta or Jedah).

--- If you complete the game as a 'removed' or 'alternate' character in 1P arcade mode, you'll just get the scrolling text with the Anita and Lei-Lei image before the scrolling credits.

--- Even though this is a Japanese region set game, the 'merman' character Rikou uses his international name, Aulbath (his surname).