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For those unfamiliar, Morrigan here is face-punching succubus from an old series of 2D fighting games called Darkstalkers, a series I would describe as fun, stylish, and hard without lube. Seriously I don't think I've beaten the single player mode once in the entire trilogy. 

The concept of Darkstalkers was pretty much Street Fighter but with classic monsters instead of martial artists. It sounds simple but it was a fun twist on the genre at the time. Morrigan was my favorite conceptually, but she wasn't the one I could get good enough to beat my friends with. (That would be Dimitri, the vampire lord and giant a-hole.) 

The series has been dormant for quite some time. There was a re-release of the originals bundled together digitally a few years ago, but since it didn't sell a zillion downloads that sent a message to Capcom that there was no need to make any more sequels. That was an unfortunate trend at the time: developers would throw together some lazy port of a classic game, and if we consumers didn't pounce like piranhas it was like we failed a test we didn't know we were taking until it was too late.

But despite not having any new entries, characters like Morrigan and Felicia remain fan-favorites to this day, and tend to pop up as guest stars in other games. Here's hoping the full monster party gets a proper reunion someday.