The Game

Darkstalkers episode 4
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Demitri and Morrigan compete against each other to become Pyron's new general.
Original USA broadcast date: October 28th, 1995

Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Notes
3) Errors


Synopsis

Demitri and Morrigan have gone to Victor's castle, having found out he was having party with the other dissident Darkstalkers. They capture him but squabble over who actually caught him, at which point Pyron appears and proposes a game: whoever catches the most dissidents will become his new general. Outside, Felicia's group, consisting of herself, Jonathan, Bigfoot, Rikuo and Harry, arrive at the castle. They enter, but cannot find Victory, and split up to search for him.

This leads to them getting captured one by one. Anakaris has been sent to keep a count of how many Darkstalkers Demitri and Morrigan have each caught. Klaus finds Harry and explains what's going on, but the two are caught by Anakaris. However, they then start confusing Anakaris by trying to convince him that he is winning the game.

Klaus asks to be released, so he can get his calculator and sort this all out. Anakaris releases him, so Klaus says he has a solar calculator -he asks Anakaris to pull a light switch, so he can get more light. Anakaris does so, unaware that the switch powers up Victor. Victor fights Anakaris and defeats him. Morrigan and Demitri return and start fighting the Darkstalkers, but are outnumbered.

When Pyron checks in on them, he finds that his forces have been frozen by Bigfoot. He tells Harry's group to not think they'll defeat him so easily again. Later on, Victor says it's lucky that Klaus is part of their team. Harry's group head off via taxi, and as Victor and Klaus wave, the taxi heads away from the castle.

Notes

-At one point, Morrigan tells Felicia "what's new, pussycat?", a reference to the Tom Jones song of the same name.

Errors

-During the title card shot, there's no music at all. This seems to be an error, as when the shot changes, the music abruptly kicks in.
-When we first see the freezer, the word is split into two: "FREE" and "ZER". Later shots have this error corrected.
-When Victor asks Klaus if something's wrong, part of his neck keeps changing color from red to gray.
-When Victor opens the doors, the animation cells for the doors partially overlap part of the background, which looks wrong.
-Then when Victor runs back towards the castle, the doors are missing completely.
-The curtain Klaus hides behind is initially colored brown, but when the shot changes, it's colored purple.
-During this shot, Morrigan throws Felicia straight through Anakaris!
-Anakaris' face is colored yellow during this shot.
-Usually, Anakaris' eyes are pure red, but during this shot, he has pupils. This happens a few more times throughout the rest of the episode.
-For this shot, his eyes are colored white and red.
-Jonathan's back fur is colored gray instead of white for this shot.
-When Rikuo gets into the taxi, his head completely disappears! His body also looks too high up as he gets further in.
-When Bigfoot closes the taxi's door, parts of his body change color to yellow as he does it. The text from the door is also not present for most of this shot.
-As Bigfoot waves goodbye, the text on the taxi's door is missing.