DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT INFO

DLC comes a Zvarranik-looking skin for Salamander as well as the Beast Pack, which includes animal-themed versions of primary or secondary cosutmes for Franco Domenico (Lion), Malombra (Dragon), Elora (Butterfly), Javier Salvador (Gryphon), Calixte le Charognard (Kraken), Destin Abelino (Eagle), Ketsurui (Scorpion), Bae Hee Young (Horse), Olov Borgulf (Wolf), Aumentea (Snake), Nabila al-Bukhar (Cheetah), Machina ex Leo (Gorilla), Kloch (Saber-toothed tiger), Sasuke (Monkey), Rinzen (Yak), Vlad Dracul (Bat), Eser Abdulhamit (Camel), Erik Venyamin (Bear), Rhamzeez (Jackal) and Be'al-Zebos (Goat). Also comes with a patch that lets you fight Lyotheah in Story Modes and Online Modes for free if she hasn't been downloaded yet.

BIO

Peter Stump was just a simple farmer with a wife and two kids. He tend to stray from his dark past when he was a warlock. Unfortunately, Be'al-Zebos has toyed with his state of mind and tempted him into putting on the occult belt that he once wore in the past and he started changing into a lycanthrope, going on savage murder sprees across Rhineland.

GAMEPLAY DETAILS

SPECIAL MOVES

• Leaping Assault - Stump jumps into the air and, upon landing, beats his opponent downward with his bone club.
• All Bite And No Bark - He zips to his opponent with a big chomp
  
• Rolling Claw - He spins like a ball and hurdles to his opponent, slashing at him/her.
  
• Earth Grinder - He thrusts his bone club to the ground, making an earthquake that's rubble charges towards his opponent.
  
• Predatory Tackle - He tackles his opponent onto the ground. There's an aiditional follow-up move where he slashes at him/her repeatedly until he ends it with a bite.
  
• Bone Throw - He throws his bone club at his opponent like a javelin.
  

FINISHING MOVES

VANQUISHMENT

Intestinal Pasta - Stump jumps at his opponent and tackles him/her to the ground. He jams his bone club into the screaming opponent's abdomen, turns the club around like a fork twirling around spaghetti and then yanks the club out of the abdomen with the opponent's intestines wrapped around it. Stump proceeds to munch on the intestines.

QUICK DEATHS

• Leaping Assault - The opponent not only gets his/her head bashed to pieces, but also his/her headless body split in half.
  
• All Bite And No Bark - Stump bites onto his opponent's neck and rips his/her head off, with the spinal cord dangling from the neck area.
  
• Rolling Claw - The screaming opponent gets flayed from the face right down to the pelvic area, exposing his/her bloody muscular system.
  
• Bone Throw - The screaming opponent gets impaled in the chest by the bone club, which also leads to his/her heart getting impled onto the tip as well.
  

AUTO-SLAY

Bullet With A Name - Stump hears gunshot from out of nowhere, turns around to look and the camera shifts to a close up of a hurdling silver bullet that contains Stump's name on it. Afterwards, the camera quickly cuts back to Stump and the bullet shoots him in the jaw, knocking him down and causing him to automatically turn back to his (naked) human form (only a mid-shot of the dead Stump is seen, which means nothing naughty is ever shown) before dying. His tongue hangs out as a result from his jaw being blown off.

MISC.

• Voice Actor: None (werewolf form), TJ Storm (human form)
• Intro Sequence: Stump, in his peasant clothes, puts on a magic belt and transforms into his werewolf self. He gets out his bone club from out of nowhere and snaps at his opponent.
  
• Victory Sequence: Stump swings his bone club around and then slams it to the ground. He howls at the sky and turns his head towards the camera, with his fangs showing and drool coming from his mouth.
  
• Stage: Stump's Farm (BGM: Lickanthrope by Moonspell)
  
• Rival: Lyotheah
  

STORY MODE

INTRO CUTSCENE

(We're treated with a shot of Stump's farm at evening. As he tends the crops, his wife comes outside.)
Wife: "Darling, how are you doing with the crops?"
Stump: "I'm doing great!"
Wife: "Good, but there's something that I want to mention to you about! It revolves around a belt!"
(Stump stops tending the crops.)
Stump: "A belt you say?"
Wife: "The kids have unearthed the belt so we'd probably like an explanation about it."
(Cut to inside Stump's house. Stump two children, one a son and the other a daughter, show him a black belt that contains Satanic symbolism on it. The family becomes concerned.)
Daughter: "Papa, we found this strange belt and we wanted to know if you have any clue on it?"
Stump: "That's a very old belt."
Son: "Was it yours, papa? Tell us."
Wife: "We want to know what conections you had with the belt because there's unholy inscriptions on it."
(Stump sighs and sits down on a chair to explain it all to his wife and children.)
Stump: "This all started when I was a young lad. I was never given any real moral fiber growing up so I pretty much dabbled into witchcraft."
Wife: "Witchcraft?"
Stump: "But that didn't last long because, as I got older, I turned to the lord God and renounced the devil."
???: "Hahahaha!"
(Two Steps From Hell's "Ashes" starts playing as Stump begins to hold his head like as if he's having a headache. The family becomes worried.)
Son: "Papa, what's wrong?"
???: "You may want to think again."
Stump: "Who the bloody hell are you and why...."
???: "I am Be'al-Zebos, the brother of the devil you once swore a pact to."
Stump: "I've changed, devil! I reject you and your brother!"
Daughter: "Mama, I'm scared for papa!"
Wife: "Are you alright, darling husband?"
(Stump gets up.)
Stump: "I don't know what that was about. Some devil is trying to mess with my mind."
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Remember when you swore a pact to Belial years ago in exchange for the black arts? Your belt has been found by your children, so you might as well relive the destiny that was meant for yo-"
Stump: "SHUT UP, BE'AL-ZEBOS!!!"
Wife: "Darling husband! What do we do?"
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Put on the belt, Peter Stump. We creatures from Hell need you, we want you and you must do as I say or else."
(Stump takes the belt from his wife and puts it on.)
Wife: "Stump!"
Stump: "I-I'm sorry, love! I..."
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Forget about your stupid petty little family! Go back to a simpler time before you started worshipping God!"
Stump: "You can't make me, foul creature from Hell!"
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "DO IT!!!"
Stump: "ALRIGHT, I'LL DO IT!!!"
Daughter: "PAPA, NO!"
Wife: "Don't do it, darling husband! The devil's trying to manipulate you!"
(Stump tumbles over again, this time due to a terrifying metamorphosis he's about to endure.)
Wife: "OH MY GOD!"
(The struggling Stump's stands up and starts going through specific deformations, such as his mouth becoming enlongated along with his nose, ears turning pointed, teeth turning sharp and pointed, fingers growing long and so are his nails, his tail bone growing, and he later starts growing hair. His wife and children become horrified and scream as he transforms.)
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Yes, this is your destiny, Peter Stump. This is what was intended of you long ago during your youth. It's time to embrace that longing moment you never got to experience. It is time to become something other than man. It is time... to shed innocent blood..."
(Stump transforms into a werewolf like in the profile above.)
Son: "PAPA!!!"
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "This is the new you, Stump! Let the killing begin!"
(Stump picks up his son and then eating him off-screen, terrifying his wife and daughter even more.)
Wife: "NOOOOOO!!! What has happened to you, Peter?!?"
(Stump throws his son's eaten corpse to the wall, splatting it into nothing but blood and bones. As his daughter runs from him, Stump jumps at his screaming wife and bites onto her neck. He rips his wife's head off with her spine dangling from the neck area, throws it away and tears up her headless body with his teeth. He then stops to notice his scared, crying daughter trying to leave the house in fear. Stump pushes his eaten wife aside and rushes towards his daughter. Cut to outside of Stump's house and we hear sounds of the daughter shrieking in terror along with gruesome munching sounds. Five seconds later, the scene switches to nighttime and Stump bursts out of the door with his newly-made bone club (FUN FACT: his bone club is made from the bones of his own family after murdering them). He snarls and looks everywhere and howls at the moon.)
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "To hell with the holy practices that made you meek! You were destined for this new endeavor!"
???: "OH MY GOD, IT'S A FUCKING WEREWOLF!!!"
(A peasant comes out from his house with a pitchfork upon seeing Stump.)
Peasant: "I need to alert the people of this monster!"
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Don't let this mortal waste of exrement warn his fellow villagers. After him!"
(Stump runs towards the peasant before he can reach the bell and smashes his head to pieces. As the headless peasant falls dead, Stump repeatedly bashes the body with his bone club and then switches to eating the rest of it.)

PROLOGUE

Peter Stump is an alleged mass murdering cannibal reported to have been going on savage killing sprees, killing and eating locals. However, he was never always a serial killer. In life, Stump has notably been a farmer who was married with two children, though there is a dark part of his own childhood that has likely related to his crimes. When he was in his pre-teens, he use to worship the devil and has played around with black magic and spells. He even received an occult belt from the devil that would give him an even more sinister approach. He's grown out of the Satanic arts as time went by, but this time around, the devil Be'al-Zebos tempted Stump's mind and he unwillingly went back to his unholy days of witchcraft by putting on the belt for the first time and transforming into a ferocious werewolf and went on to attack innocent people throughout Rhineland. His first victims were his own entire family.

RIVAL CUTSCENE

(Scene takes place in a mountainous area with sharp-pointed tops and skulls in certain areas, including a horned skull that spews a waterfall of blood that forms around the area like a lake. Stump approaches the circular platform that is on top of the blood lake. He looks around and spots a lifeless sperm whale laying on the platform. Stump jumps high up onto the whale and starts ripping it apart and eating it.)
???: *gasp* "Dear Neptune!"
(Stump stops eating and looks down to see Lyotheah mourning for the whale.)
Lyotheah: "Oh poor mighty creature which is now rendered powerless, do..."
(Stump hops off the whale and tackles Lyotheah to the ground, threatening her with his bone club.)
Lyotheah: "Get off of me, beast!"
(Stump growls at Lyotheah.)
Lyotheah: "BACK AWAY!!!"
(Lyotheah pushes Stump off of her. Stump lashes onto the mutilated sperm whale and they both end up falling into the blood lake.)
Lythotheah: "I can't believe that this would happen to such a majestic being. I don't know what that monster was, but I'm guessing it was an agent of Dagon or something."
(Stump's arm pops out from the blood and reaches the platform. Another arm that's hand is holding thebone club pops up and Stump crawls back to the platform.)
Lyotheah: "You're back! You will face Neptune's wrath for what you have done, foul monster!"
(Stump snarls at Lyotheah.)

FINAL BOSS CUTSCENE

(Stump pounces onto the down Lyotheah and starts eating her. He then stops to see the Sphere of Wonders right before his eyes. He walks towards it, only to be teleported to a circular platform in Hell where there's a glowing pentagram on the ground and the platform is surrounded by pillars that are shaped like curved spikes sticking diagonally around it.)
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "Welcome to my lair, Peter Stump."
(A burst of hellfire rises from the center of the platform and out from the fire emerges Be'al-Zebos.)
Be'al-Zebos: "Surprised to see me, the brother of the devil you once swore a pact to when you were a young boy? Oh, do you not remember? You swore a pack to Belial 35 years ago. Back when you were once a poor boy in the streets of Rhineland, you were one of his best targets."
(Be'al-Zebos shows Stump a vision of his twelve-year-old self playing with tarot cards while sitting next to a Satanic pentagram in a basement.)
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "You were involved into the devil's arts during your youth. You've made a pact to my brother and, in exchange, he gave you a special present that both he and I hoped was to help you be in use for the forces of Hell."
Young!Stump: "Bring forth and rise from the circle they head cries."
(Red smoke starts rising from the pentagram. The smoke forms into humanoid shape and said humanoid shape morphs into none other than Belial.)
Belial: "Hello there, Peter Stump. It appears you have summoned me."
Young!Stump: "Y-yes, Mr. Devil sir."
Belial: "Call me Belial, or better yet the Prince of Darkness. You wish to acquire the magic that I allow to be conducted? Perhaps you wish to escape poverty through the black arts. Is that the case with you?"
Young!Stump: "Yes, Mr. Belial, Prince of Darkness."
Belial: "Excellent! I knew you would agree to selling your soul! You will begin your rebaptism at dawn. Here is something you may need."
(Belial summons a magic belt and tosses it over to the young Peter Stump.)
Young!Stump: "What is this?"
Belial: "This is a magic belt for you to wear. I figured you'd be of good use for me and my brethren. Hahahahaha."
(The vision dissolves.)
Be'al-Zebos: "Fast forward now and now you are back to your heathenistic roots, with the black magic that fueled you before you were dummied down to being a Christian swine! Do you want the power that you wanted when you got into witchcraft?"
(A pillar of hellfire rises, summoning the Hellraiser trident that stands on top of the platform. Be'al-Zebos grabs onto Hellraiser.)
Be'al-Zebos: "Perhaps, I shall take it as yes. If you must, then prove your worth!"

ENDING CUTSCENE

(Stump and Be'al-Zebos fight bone club to trident for nine seconds until Be'al-Zebos knocks him over to the ground, making him drop his bone club. Stump lashes his claws onto the ground, scratching as he is pushed over. He leaps onto Be'al-Zebos and tackles him to the ground, making the devil drop Hellraiser. Stump is constantly snapping at Be'al-Zebos.)
Be'al-Zebos: "ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!!! YOU'VE PROVEN YOUR POINT!!!"
(Be'al-Zebos kicks Stump onto the floor. The werewolf transforms into his naked (no genitalia is ever shown on-screen, BTW) human self. Be'al-Zebos gets back up and looks down at Stump.)
Stump: "I-is it over?"
Be'al-Zebos: "Of course! After all, you have proven yourself to me. You are ready for ultimate power. As a matter of fact..."
(Be'al-Zebos takes Stump's belt and throws it into the lava.)
Be'al-Zebos: "You will not be needing the belt anymore. You are a new creature washed in my re-baptism. You can be in good use for Hell's forces."
Stump: "Be'al-Zebos, I..."
Be'al-Zebos: "I will return you back to the human world where you belong."
Stump: "Wait, can I just..."
(Be'al-Zebos teleports Stump out of Hell and we cut to the streets of the town of Bedburg. He is spotted by two royal guardsmen.)
Guardsman #1: "Well what do we have here?"
Guardsman #2: "The Werewolf of Bedbug of Danvil."
Stump: "...Oh bullocks."
(Scene takes place at a courtroom where Stump, who is now clothed, is being prosecuted for his savage murders.)
Judge: "We the jury would like to know, Peter Stump, exactly what caused you to commit these hideous murders!"
Stump: "Well it all started when I was a young lad. I summoned the devil and he gave me a magical belt that gave me the likeness of a greedy, devouring wolf, strong and mighty with great and wide eyes, in the night sparkled like fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body, and mighty paws."
Judge: "Alright, alright! We don't need specific details that would clearly take too long!"
Stump: "Now I don't have the belt with me, which is why I am now in my normal state."
Judge: "So you confess to committing murders that tie in with the occult, which you also commit to having practiced?"
Stump: "Yes, your honor."
Judge: "I rest my case."
(Two Steps From Hell's "Requiem of Destruction" starts playing as we cut to outside where we see Stump, who is only wearing a loincloth this time, bound to a wheel to be executed.)
Stump: "Hey, let me go!"
Monk: "You have doomed your own soul and, as a result, might as well spend eternity in Hell."
Stump: "You can't do this to me, fools! I WILL KILL EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!!!"
Guardsman #3: "You keep telling yourself that, felon."
(Officials begin tearing at the screaming Stump's flesh with red hot pincers. An executioner comes in and cripples Stumps's limbs with a blunt side of his axe.)
Executioner: "PIPE DOWN! This time, you won't feel a thing!"
(The executioner swings his axe at Stump's neck, decapitating him and finally killing him.)
Judge: "May he never find eternity in Heaven for he refused to repent of his murders."
Nobleman: "What is left for us to do, your honor."
Judge: "Well I..."
Monk: "Your honor, look!"
(What appears to be a skinless wolf head rises from where Stump's head use to be, starting with its mouth sprouting all the way to the rest of the head and neck. This shocks the officials.)
Guardsman #3: "This does not look good."
Judge: "What the fu-"
(Stump, now with a skinless wolf head, manages to tear himself from his strapped limbs and, with each limb torn off, a new one starts growing, which is a skinless limb that ends with claws. The officials become horrified as Stump's corpse has turned into a skinless werewolf, in addition to Stump then effortlessly tearing off what flesh he had left.)
Nobleman: "Alert the king! We have a monster on the loose!"
Guardsman #3: "I thought he was going to stay dead!"
(Stump claws on of the officials's head off and a bloody rampage ensures, leading to the death of everyone around him, even the executioner who decapitated him.)
Monk: "No, this can't be! Why must he..."
(Stump grabs a panicing monk, who continuously cites scripture.)
Monk: "Th-the lord is my light and my salvation... Who shall I fear? The lord is the..."
(Two Dteps from Hell's "Requiem of Destruction" stops playing as the screen cuts to black and we hear the monk's scream of terror and flesh ripping sounds.)
Be'al-Zebos (v/o): "HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! If only my brother were around to see this come true."
(Sevendust's "Ugly" starts playing as the Epic Blades II logo pops up. Seven seconds later, the logo fades away and credits start to roll as we see various characters from the roster performing techniques with their weapons in a black background that has technicolor fire of different variants rising in different directions per character appearance.)