"Beating" Fighting Games

Okay, so I have recently been very active in the backloggery. It's a fun thing, keeping track of my games and having different themes for my currently favorite games at the time.

However, there is a question that has arisen... How do you know when you've "beaten" a fighting game? Is it just when you see the credits like with every other game? But technically that would just mean beating Arcade or Story Mode with just one character, then voila! You have beaten the game. Is it really that simple? Either that... Or is beating the game a lot more difficult and requires beating the game with every character? But doesn't that count towards 100% Completion? In Smash Bros. I could have considered myself beating the game after I've unlocked all the characters and stages. But what if the fighting game doesn't have unlockable characters or stages? It's a mystery... If you guys who still actually visit my blog read this post. Please give me your opinion of when we technically have beaten a fighting game. You can use examples from past experience if you want!

Such is my predicament. With Battle Fantasia and Street Fighter IV, have I already technically beaten them by beating Arcade/Story mode once and seeing the ending credits? Or... Is there something MORE I have to do? In Street Fighter IV, I suppose I could say that I haven't beaten the game yet until I've unlocked Seth, but that would be a very tedious process... The same can be said for Battle Fantasia as well, as I still have The End of Deathbringer to unlock, although he technically won't ever appear on the character select screen as you have to choose him in a certain way after meeting the requirements, which is pretty much beat Story Mode 100% with each character. Which is also a VERY long and tedious process.

Any opinions are welcome. XD

*Ahem*

Spring Break

Obviously, I haven't posted for a while, and obviously, it's because of finals and Smash Bros. So, I'm on Spring Break now, and yesterday night, Jasmine Ngo (Bless her soul :P) told me that I needed to blog, so here I am. SSBB is obviously VERY fun, and I'm surprised I ended up with so many new friends because of it. Obviously, the characters I was planning to use didn't exactly come out the way I planned. I ended up being the best with Lucas, despite me wanting to be good with a lot of other characters. Of course, I am and after many one on ones with my friends, it is determined that Lucas is my best one. >_>

I made this sig a while back. I got the idea for the background from one of my hallmates, Ryan who kept calling PK Starstorm, PK Hellstorm so I used it. xD This is mostly reflecting my Lucas maining, but I added Ness because he can use PK Starstorm too. Okay, enough about Smash Bros. even though it has been my life since it came out, I'm now going to discuss how this week is...

When Shana and Clannad end! *sob* They just weren't long enough, 23/24 episodes? PSHH~! Not enough! Anywho, I made the new banner based on Shana since it was ending. Used this picture for Hecate, and it's only Hecate because she is freakin awesome! ASTER! :D I hope a third season comes out, but it won't be for a while. I love Shakugan no Shana, but my fandom of it is going to fade soon after it ends. *sobs*

*sob* Clannad's ending was sooo adorable. Everybody should watch Clannad. It ended happy! Just like Kanon. Although I heard the movie ends differently, I should watch it... Clannad was REALLY good. I can't wait for the next Key anime to come out. :D Tomoyo forever! Well that's enough blogging, I dunno what else to write. :P

Anticipation

Brawl is less than 36 hours away now, and I am soo uber excited! So my banner is going to be Brawl themed again. This is a fun video with a catchy tune that is spreading like wildfire in the Brawl community, so I hope you enjoy it! :D

Yay banners, this is the old one that I am ever so fond of, but now is the time for a Smash themed one.

And a Meta Knight one I made for my clan. xD

The Aura Wielders

Made another sig for the new Lucario clan at Brawl Central! It's not the prettiest in the world, but my new awesome friends in the clan seem to like it. :D

New Banners/Sigs

Wow, I'm getting pretty quick at this! I made this Banner for Connie-sama's blog last night, it's up already, but I don't think she knows how to put it on correctly. xD It's Valkyrie Profile and of Silmeria, I believe the main character of Valkyrie Profile 2? Correct me if I'm wrong. :P

Everyone that knows me probably knows that I am absolutely obsessed with Super Smash Bros. Brawl right now. I recently joined a clan for the game on Brawl Central! It's called [R.E.D.] and stands for Renegade Elite Defectors, which pretty much means that we don't want to use just one character and are rebelling against the single-character clans on the Brawl Central forum. Anywho, I already showed it off to some of my clan members and they seem to like it! Give feedback pl0x. :P

Oh and you can visit the forums here!

EDIT: I just finished up one for the Zelda clan at Brawl Forums! They seem to like it... It's of Wind Waker Zelda. :P

Brawl Banner

Wells, I finally updated my banner! Took me a bit to finish, but here it is. Thanks to AbyssWolf from Deviant Art for the sprites again! They're just plain awesome so I had to use them. Anywho, the banner consists of who I plan on using in SSBB! The people to the right are my characters and to the left my cousin's with the exception of Captain Olimar and possibly Toon Link. All of these characters besides Link, are essentially ones that I will use to a certain extent! Just my cousin is more likely to use the ones on the left besides Olimar and Toon Link. I posted up my old banner as well. I know it's kind of plain, but oh well. :D

First Wallpaper

I made this wallpaper for my cousin, who is going I'm now allowing to blog on this same site! It's my first wallpaper ever made and features Zelda and Sheik from SSBB. Thanks to AbyssWolf from Deviant Art for the sprites as well as the Smash Bros. Dojo! Official Site. :D

I hope you guys like it.

SSBB Roster

So, this is the official roster for Brawl! Which makes me a bit sad because there's no Micaiah or Isaac, and Wolf is in instead of Krystal, but oh well... I think I'll be listing characters I will be and characters that I had wanted in eventually... Although a little piece inside me is still hoping that this isn't the FINAL final roster. xD

Kokoro no Tsubasa

Yay Minami-ke Okawari! I'm so happy it's finally getting subbed, even though it's being subbed my amateur subbers. Either way, I greatly appreciate them being subbed! Thanks a lot random subber people! Anywho, I've grown addicted to the opening song for Okawari... It's kind of sad, I've been listening to it over and over. Oops, I really should be finishing up my English homework rather than blogging. Shame on me. I do like the art in Okawari though, seems a lot more crisp and nice.

Anywho, this is old news, but Lucario, Jigglypuff, and Ness are confirmed to be in Brawl, so yeah. Check Brawl Central, the news is all there.

Sheik's Back!

Sheik's back as Zelda's down B special. I never really doubted that she wouldn't return because she was her own character with her own individual moveset. I have to praise Nintendo for her design though, when I saw it I was like "HOLY CRAP! SHE LOOKS AWESOME!" So, I'm pretty good with Zelda I think, maybe I should start using Sheik more so I can adapt to the situation better. Haha, though I probably would prefer to use Zelda in the end. :P

Captain Olimar and Pikmin

Like oh my goodness! It's Captain Olimar! Or rather Pikmin and Captain Olimar, the Pikmin are noted first possibly because they ARE the franchise, but apparently Captain Olimar is useless without them. He can't use a Smash attach without one, quite sad, but because I actually PLAED Pikmin and somewhat enjoyed it, but thought it was too hard and stressful to play, which was dumb, I might try him out, actually I WILL try him out, I might as well try every character out at least once... Well, kind of have to. :o

BRAWL Banner

Sooo... I got up a new banner, I was GOING to do a Christmas one but I felt lazy and couldn't do it before, so I ended up doing a Brawl one when it was nearing Christmas, so I thought it would be pointless to make a Christmas one for like two weeks. Soo, a Brawl one would be appropriate for now as it's coming out in a couple months which I am VERY excited for! I posted Kirby's picture because he was the first character I was really good with in Super Smash Bros. I didn't start using Pikachu much until SSBM really... And I somehow got BETTER with Pikachu than Kirby! Probably because they nerfed Kirby. Haha. Oh well. I'm going to post my previous banner here too... I don't really have much to blog about at the moment anyway, so I'm just going to like, post random stuffs if I feel like it.

I think I'm going to see if I can make Wallpapers eventually, though I'm not quite sure how to make the backgrounds actually look good yet. :o

Stafy in Brawl

Noooooo~ I'm so sad! Stafy is an assist trophy! My hopes and dreams of him being a playable character... CRUSHED!

I posted about him before for Brawl... So when I saw tonight's update, I literally screamed out "NOOOO!" despite my hallmates being right next to me. I almost literally cried!

*Runs to sob in a corner.*

Micaiah for Brawl?

Newest main character for Fire Emblem, the only real Mage Lord, and a female main character of a moderately popular series. I think she has a good chance. Don't know how popular she is in Japan, but it would be nice to see her in the game.

King Dedede!

I literally shouted out "OH MY GAWD!" When I saw him on the website. KING DEDEDEE~ One of my most wanted characters to be in Brawl has FINALLY arrived! He was supposed to be in the last two but Sakurai was much too modest to put his own characters into Smash Bros. He finally made it though, and I'm UBER happy. :D KIRBY CHARACTERS FTW!

Gardevoir in Brawl

So... I was watching Smash Gameplay videos on IGN right? Look what I saw...Gardevoir is a Pokeball Pokemon. *sobs* Oh well, at least she's in it.

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OMGWTFBBQ! IT'S SONIC!

Enough said. I know, I'm cheesy in an uncool way.

Unfortunately it seems like the release date got pushed back... I hope not. *prays*

Lucas

Oh my! It's Lucas from Mother 3! I wonder if this mean that he replaces Ness. I sure hope not! Though I like Lucas' character design better than Ness' just by looking at him. We can't really tell if he has the same moveset as Ness yet or not... We need more screen shots before we can determine that. I want to try him out just because I find him a lot more adorable than Ness! Haha, plus he's psychic too. Maybe I just like blondes for some reason. *shrug* Man, I do want to try out at least one Mother game though. I had the chance when Earthbound came out here, but I was very ignorant about video games in my SNES days. :[

Piplup

Pochamaaaaaaaa~ In Brawl!!!!!!!!!!! Although he's only in a Pokeball... Oh well, at least he's in it! I like the name Pochama better than Piplup. *sob* Oh well, I just know he's going to have that English voice. *sob* Oh well... Pochama is like my favorite Water Pokemon right now. Yay.