A monster bundle full of little gems.

Is it a little unreasonable to say that Capcom loves to dangle a carrot in front of Darkstalkers fans? A trailer promising ‘Darkstalkers Are Not Dead’ showed up in 2012 featuring a full 3D Lord Raptor, though the subsequent PS3 Darkstalkers Resurrection compilation didn’t live up to that promise at all. Outside of the odd comic or Street Fighter V costume pack, it’s been pretty slim pickings. Wait for it – until now.

Capcom Fighting Collection, under a rather inauspicious name, collects for the first time the entire Darkstalkers series in one package. But it’s not called Darkstalkers Collection, so you know there’s more. Indeed, besides the adventures of Morrigan and co, Fighting Collection packs some real gems – pun intended, as Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix joins the party alongside the brilliant Hyper Street Fighter II, the mecha mash-up Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, which isn’t a fighting game at all, but easily has the intensity of one in versus mode. Finally, and possibly most excitingly, Fighting Collection includes the first ever home console release of Red Earth, a game with a rather legendary reputation almost certainly borne of the fact that you couldn’t get it.

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