How Similar is Rare's Killer Instinct to Sega's Eternal Champions?

Hi everyone I'm Jack Red, guess what Killer Instinct wasn't just similar to Capcom's Darkstalkers. It turns out Eternal Champions on Sega Genesis came a year before both those games. Now I am not directly calling Killer Instinct a rip off or to insult it in anyway. I just wanted to make it clear it wasn't the original fighting game with it's concept.


Both of these games has a dark tone even going as far as killing your opponent. Sure in Eternal Champions series it is mostly stage finishers called Overkills. In just the original Killer Instinct alone you had stage finishers, killing your opponents, ultra combos, ultimate & humiliation. A few stages in a way are sorta similar.

Obviously the stories in both series is vastly different. Killer Instinct 1 & 2 got ported to two of Nintendo's consoles while Eternal Champions games are exclusively for their Sega consoles. Well oh okay the original Eternal Champions has more methods to get officially. Both do involve a ruined world with hope from a few fighters willing to take on something bigger than themselves.

Both these franchises has a great soundtrack overall. Now I can't say much on the sequel or the spin off games. I do know by reputation those spin off games are bad so even if I did play them I'm choosing to ignore them. Even how the story is presented ends up being a major difference. Killer Instinct does what most fighting games at the time did while Eternal Champions has a option.

Yes you can look up a long but a very written story for each character. Their endings are also beautifully written as well. This also means there's no real cut scenes either. So it depends on you, either you could go with bios that come up during the demo stuff or look up their stories directly. Honestly this is surprisingly similar games in a couple of ways.

Fulgore & R.A.X. are both cyborgs
Mire & Midnight are both vampires
Jago & Shadow are both assassins
Kan-Ra & Xavier are both magic users
Aria & The Dark Champion are the one responsible killing their worlds

Majority of these games are set up for one to potentially saving their world. Eternal Champions has most characters that could make a difference to saving mankind but died prior to that. The Eternal Champion was never able to fully find all of them. He has enough power to revive most of them to facing each other for a chance to redeem themselves.

In truth, the Eternal Champion wants the winner to face his dark counterpart in combat. Regardless, Gargos has a similar reputation to the Dark Champion. Killer Instinct comes off more like many fighting games. I just can't shake the similarities between these games. The fact I already compared Killer Instinct to Darkstalkers should be altering.