Games that feature a tournament arc or something similar

Something like Yu Yu Hakusho but in vidya.

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Does it have to have a similarly retarded plotline as well

>I'm now at 100% power
>I LIED, NOW I'M AT 100% POWER
>LIED AGAIN, NOW BEHOLD 100% OF MY POWER
>BEHOLD, 120% OF MY POWER

Star Ocean 2

hype tho

YYH was so fucking good, arcsys game when

Just something that has the tournament structure, but yeah I say the cheesier the better

Paper Mario TTYD
DBZ Games

Is this that anime where a guy shoved his fingers in the temple of his opponent to detach one of his optic nerves?

Tekken

I don't remember that happening but I haven't seen it in a while.

>In a world of supernatural bullshit and magic, the villain has the power of MUSCLE
What games do this?

Nah. You're thinking of Baki the Grappler.

Tournament of Arms?
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>entire series is a tournament arc

Fable 1 had a sort of tournament arc

You're talking about Yusuke, right? I don't remember Toguro doing that.

No More Heroes?

Megaman Battle Network has a bunch of them. BN4 is Tournament Arc: The Game.

The .hack//gu trilogy had three of them one for each game.

>what is every action anime ever

I fucking wish.

This series was a 9.8/10 for me. The riezen arc fell flat at the end. Also to all anons who enjoy yyh there is an ova after the last episode. It's a different artist, and a series of jokey events. Most likely not Canon. It's on YouTube somewhere.

Breath of Fire 2 and 3

I agree. My favorite shounen for sure. Never really got the insane amount of vidya like some popular series get (DBZ, Naruto, One Piece, etc.)

he did but only once not like 4 times

thats the whole point of tekken and king of fighters,

>He's made out to be the big bad god that can wipe out anyone in one shot
>Find out he's average with the most pleb demons in the very next arc

>all those 90s anime games that never made it out of Japan

FFX

>Tfw have the beginning of the opening as my ringtone

>I've gotten complements because of it and even made some friends

Oh shit, that's a good one. I've been meaning to play that for a while.

Yusuke was such a cocky fuck.

The SNES Yu Yu Hakusho fighting game is fun as shit.

Where was the tournament arc there?

>(insert anime here) BY ARC SYSTEM WORKS WHEN?!?!

ugh, i guess they stole the meme studio title away from platinum

he powers up throughout the fight and keeps telling yusuke what power level he's at

eventually he literally goes to 120% power

i'm pretty sure he lied once about being at 100% too, but maybe i'm just remembering him going to 120%

How important is it to play in order? I heard BN1 isn't too great compared to the others but the series has been in my backlog for a long time.

Aren't the Dead or Alive mainline games basically one huge tournament arc series?

paper mario thousand year door

welcome to shonen tripe

I guess he's referencing Blitzball.

Dark Souls if you're really into the arenas.

MMBN4

Trust me you don't want this.

>We will never have a Togashi FigtherZ with characters from YYH and HxH.
Why live?

Paper Mario: TTYD
Kingdom Hearts
Final Fantasy X
Fable 2
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

FFX has the best tournament arc

Blitsball was gay af desu

>Everybody in this world can learn a type from this chart

>Rare occasions 2, but in this chart, you'll never reach the farthest point from your type, a counter balance

>>>>>>Mary Sue has a special ability that enables ALL TYPES

HXH is retarded at times holy shit

I played 3 first. It's the best game for sure. I hear 1 hasn't aged too well.

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I swear to fuck Hercules World in KH3 better not be ANOTHER tournament or god help me

Why not?

STRfag leave dex is clearly superior

god i love the artstyle

To be fair, Yusuke won because his Spirit gun is OP, not because he tried to dodge attacks. Togoro hit him a bunch of times too

A soft spoken badass with red eyes no less.

In one of the routes in SaGa Frontier you have to go to a tournament under cover while you 1 v 1 one of the head crime bosses of Black X.

Nah probably not in hercland maybe they'll move to tourny to the underworld.

I thank god everyday that Togashi did YYH before Hunter X Hiatus

That's where it was in 2.

the "final" boss of persona 5 kinda reminds me of this, but doesn't quite fit the description perfectly

MGRR in a way too, but armstrong had bullshit improving his muscles

Kurapica revealing that and BTFO out of Not-Robot Franky was the best moment in the series

Second best being the first 30 seconds of Gon vs Hisako at the arena

I don't remember 2 that well I played it once 30 years ago. Maybe they'll have it in shit idk...destiny islands or radiant garden

I've seen Paper Mario pop up a lot in the thread and I can't imagine the circumstances leading to there being a tournament arc in a Mario game but it makes me happy.

>I've never played an Arcsys game

Their shit is legit. Platinum is a meme, but Arcsys is the real deal, both visually and gamepllay.

>Hunter X Hiatus

The worst part is that you'll never truly know when the series will fucking end because it doesnt have a straight forward protagonist without introducing another character

You never played Thousand Year Door?

Go download Dolphin or something, REALLY good game

Toguro only reaches 100%, then he goes into "100% of 100%" full power bullshit mode.
Yusuke is the one that goes 120% and BTFOs him.

At least we're getting new chapters next week. I have a feeling that this boat shit is going to put Berserk to shame.

In TTYD there's an arc where Mario enters a fighting tournament that mimics professional wrestling. It's one of the best parts of the game.

Yeah for some reason I never got into Paper Mario. I've heard it's great though.

Jade Empire has a fantastic tournament arc that involves a companion's backstory. And eventuates with said companion fighting his undead brother.

Some of the saints row games have a group of side-missions, where you just brawl against other people in a cage.

Saints Row 4 makes it less of a brawl, but you get to fight another guy with super powers.

Megaman Battle Network 4 has lots of issue with pacing, constant "over world" reuse instead of dungeons, and above all, you have to beat the game 3 times to get access to all the different souls aka playstyles.

1st time through the game you get 3 souls, then 2 on your second, then 1 at the end. What you get each time is random, and not all of them are useful.

Finally all the pain in the ass stuff you do to unlock stuff gets reset when you start the game over, and harder more annoying enemies remain in the over world. I hope you didn't grind a lot of money to pay off some people to get a key to go to this place where you have to have a rare battle chip. And I hope you didn't like a specific area with easy enemies, because now they are harder and much more tedious

Also, MMBN4 has the worst implementation of Dark chips. Just avoid it.

It's a chapter in the game with probably one of its more memorable characters. Personally, I found it to be a tedious part of the game but I'm weird apparently because that chapter is actually very popular among fans.

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You have to play the game three times too unlock everything. Dark Chips were pretty cool, though.

Xenogears had a part where your guy enters a tournament while your B-team does an infiltration job. And the infiltration gets harder if your kung fu master main character no-sales all the chump competitors.

It's a chapter that's more memorable on your first playthrough

It is definitely tedious on future playthroughs but most people preserve the first time

That being said, Chapter 6 never seems tedious to me for whatever reason

A tournament arc is only as good as the game/show itself. Cant just be done randomly

Paper Mario TTYD Glitsville works because there is a decent corruption story intertwined

Megaman Battle network 4 is random tourneys spliced together for the sake of shitting out a game

Same thing with Anime, YYH had one great torney arc (Dark Tournament) and one shitty one (Demon world tournament)

DBZ Super is on its 2nd tournament and its still a hunk of shit thats worse than GT

Steambot Chronicles has a coliseum you can fight to the top of

The random nature of the souls is fucking terrible. The game becomes a cakewalk if you get a good one, but the bad souls are just traps for inexperienced players.

Play 2,3,(maybe 5) and 6

Try a little bit of 5, the liberation map gimmick isnt for everyone

That sounds fucking awesome.

Sayonara Bye bye

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>no Mechwarrior 2 Mercs or Mechwarrior 4 mentioned

You niggas need some Solaris Championships in your life

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Damn those sprites stayed super close to the actual anime.

>they didnt use best end


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Gunnm Martian Memory has one...and unlike the manga where is goes on for 10 god damn books and contributes nothing to the story, the version in the game is over in 10 minutes then you go to Mars with no fucks to give.

One thing about licensed-based games based off anime is that they usually got the visuals rights, regardless of the gameplay. I loved the look of the Super Butoden games and Hyper Dimension.

my nigga

The first Golden Sun. Instead of immediately fighting, you lose your current equipment, and have to race your opponent in an obstacle course to get better equipment at the end. The rest of the party helps by being able to discreetly move some of the obstacles around with psychic powers to make things easier.

posting a real nigga

Didn't they do something similar in TLA? You didn't lose all your items at the start, but you had to drop items along the way iirc

>literally eternal suffering
Jesus I know he was an asshole but fuck, Kurama.

>Will live until the end of the universe endlessly ripping apart an illusory Kurama
Did he deserve it?

Kurama is bro tier but he's not afraid to do horribly cruel things if he has to. Since Elder Toguro couldn't die or whatever, entrapping him forever was about the only thing he could do to stop him for good.

The stuff Kurama can do with his plants seems kind of asspulled at times, but at the same time it winds up being so amusing that I don't mind.

Contrast DBZ Super's tournaments with the tournaments in the original Dragon Ball. Those were amazing, and every fight was meaningful and hyped to hell and back. I think you can break a good tournament arc down into a few distinct must-haves:
>narrative outside of closed matches
Stuff has to be going on outside the arena. Why are the competitors there? Why are the spectators there? What is everyone doing during their down time? Are the competitors training or relaxing? Answering those questions answer the question that really makes the reader/player interested: Why do I care who wins?
>balanced match-ups for everyone
Everyone that's ever done a randomized bracket in something like the DBZ fighting games knows that sometimes you'll end up with Master Roshi fighting Omega Shenron. It gets old and boring to watch the handful of people clean house five matches in a row just to fight each other. That's why a good tournament has competitors that, either through sheer power or counter-strategies, can stand up to the characters that are more central to the narrative. You might be there to watch Goku fight Jackie Chun, but you're still going to remember the fight against Nam when it's all over.
>Super hype finals match
Tournaments are about hype if nothing else. Everyone is there to see who gets to be champ, and everyone knows the hero will get a shot and the villain/rival is going to stand in their way. All the other matches, and all the other events outside the arena are meant to build up to that one fight. This final battle is where the tournament narrative and battle techniques should blow their loads. Master Roshi blowing up the moon, Piccolo blowing up the arena, Yusuke and Toguro destroying almost everything around them, etc.

I think so. I remember the first game more because of the race for the item, and the game continuing if you lose the last round.

>could not romance the brown thief queen

I have never dropped a game so quick.

I wouldn't even call the demon world tournament an arc. It was just a hacked up way for Togashi to finish the story so he didn't have to write anymore.

Yeah, but it's only one match. It's called Trial Road. Instead of gaining equipment, you're supposed to give some up in a chest. The slower person has to fill two chests. It also falls kind of flat because you don't hear anything about it until the guy says, "Hey, you have to fight me at the top of this obstacle course now."

In the first game, you spend an entire arc making your way to Tolbi by boat, hearing everyone in Kalay and on the trip excited about Colosso. When you arrive in Tolbi, the city is jam-packed with tourists there for the spectacle, to the point that the party has to use a spare room in the castle instead of a regular inn because everywhere else is full. By the time the player finds out they'll be competing, you know full well what Colosso is and the stakes it entails.

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