Yuber's ArcSys Fighters Challenge (COMPLETE)

[Yuber6969]

Thanks everyone!

 

@BrilloHD It's good to be in the club lol.

 

@AihaLoveleaf I meant that combos in this game were easier than the combos in BBTag. Overall, this game is slightly harder. They're both way too easy either way. And yeah, I was starting to worry about my PS4 overheating. ?

 

@Copanele I agree that a lot of the characters played too similarly. I was disappointed as a fighting game fan, but satisfied as a DBZ/DBZA fan. I'm gonna need that luck for that damn Deathbringer. ?

 

@Heather342 Haha maybe I could have had more fun if I implemented that variety ? . Respect for actually sitting through the zeni grind; I would have gotten so mad if I didn't use turbo. I don't know if you know this, but TFS recently started a DBZA spinoff about HFIL. It's not as good as DBZA but I think you'd like it.

 

@FreshFromThaDeli I totally respect that, but as a person who doesn't play online (other than for trophies), the easy offline content was disappointing for me. I've seen how damaging some of the combos can be when I was doing the combo challenges. If there was a Score Attack-type mode that was actually challenging, I would have loved to use some of those combos. As for that Deathbringer trophy... it's gonna take me a while. ?

[Honor_Hand]

Congrats on the DBFZ platinum, @yuber1234. ?

 

It's unfortunate that the game wasn't too deep in its gameplay. I personally don't have much of a gripe with that if the rest of the game manages to deliver. Kinda like Granblue Fantasy. Sure, it had a number of weak spots and it's not a fighter that would please the EVO enthusiasts out there, but its overall enjoyment was still on the high side and it was well crafted for the most part. At least we can agree that ArcSys really pushes the envelope in these when it comes to their presentation. The games look sick even for someone that's not a fan of the property or knows very little about them.

 

I am hardly a Dragon Ball fan but I picked DBFZ to play it at some point soon based mostly on the whoa factor it had on me and, well, the fact that it's an ArcSys fighter too. The 20 million Zeni grind does look like a miserable time but I hope the rest of the game will be able to deliver to me in some way.  

[Yuber6969]

Thanks @Honor_Hand! My issue wasn't the lack of depth; it was the lack of challenge. There are good mechanics and combos in both DBFZ and Granblue, but there is no need to use them as both games have no challenging single-player content. I do agree with you on the graphics of the newer Arcsys fighters, especially Granblue.

 

Don't worry about the zeni grind. There is a fully AFK method.

[Yuber6969]

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

 

I had stopped working on this trophy since my last update because I found out that you unlock the boss version of Deathbringer when you compete Story Mode. After unlocking him, I went into Practice Mode with him as my opponent, and set the AI to Very Hard and spent several hours practicing against him. Whenever I wasn't playing, I was listening to a song with the same BPM as the parry for the super with the hopes of burning the rhythm into my brain. None of it was working. In my best attempt, I parried 21 of the 22 hits of the super, and it was heartbreaking.

 

When I first started working on this trophy, I tried the pause cheese method, but I was doing worse with that method than I was with the regular one. I decided to try it again and eventually got to the point where I was able to parry the super about 50% of the time. I still had a very difficult time beating Deathbringer without taking any damage though. I used Coyori and my strategy was to stay on the other side of the screen as much as possible, parry his long range attack, heat up, step behind Deathbringer before he lands on the ground, use Crazy Cat Dance, and then quickly use Cat Storm. The problem is that the controls in this game are so janky that I would often end up doing a standing/forward C instead of the super, which would get punished.

 

Below is a video of my successful run. Please excuse the poor video quality. This was shot from my cell phone on a tripod, and my bed is right in front of my TV so I had to record from the side. A lot of the pausing outside of the super was me wiping the sweat off of my hands (gross, I know).

 

Thanks @AihaLoveleaf, @Copanele, and @FreshFromThaDeli for giving me tips!

 

 

Edited December 6, 2021 by yuber1234
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[Copanele]

13 minutes ago, yuber1234 said:

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

Fkin S++ man, congratulations! Finally the nightmare is over.

Loved how you literally mopped the floor with him as Coyori at the end

 

[AihaLoveleaf]

GG man! Deathbringer got smoked. ? 

 

Loved to see that final Crazy Cat Dance before Deathbringer's giant metal ass (or non-metal, not everyone can be Tager) finally went down. Hope the rest of the plat goes smoothly from this point. 

[FreshFromThaDeli]

2 hours ago, yuber1234 said:

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

BIG UPS YUBER!  Well done! Seems like that pause trick worked well for you and @Copanele. I found it easier just going for it raw.

 

What an amazing accomplishment. That bastard Deathbringer got death brought down on him in style. ?

 

I'm surprised you held it together at the end there. I was howling when I managed to do it after a gruelling 5 and a half hour session of attempting it. Ultra Rare sub 1% Plat incoming...

[Yuber6969]

Thanks guys!

@Copanele I loved that too at the end. She disposed of the corpse.

 

@AihaLoveleaf That final Crazy Cat Dance was the most satisfying beatdown. I would have paid good money to have a DLC with Coyori wearing the GET SMOKED hat. ?

 

@FreshFromThaDeli Oh trust me, I was thrilled on the inside. The only reason I made sure to keep my mouth shut is that I'm sick at the moment and didn't want anyone hearing a nasally voice. ?

[postofficebuddy]

Hot damn dude, hot damn. Congratulations. Thank god for no chokes. 

[Yuber6969]

1 minute ago, postofficebuddy said:

Hot damn dude, hot damn. Congratulations. Thank god for no chokes. 

 

Thanks! Honestly, there were plenty of chokes. That was far from my first attempt.  

[MissShake]

2 hours ago, yuber1234 said:

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

 

Oh yeah, this looks nuts. I know we miss that old Arcsys challenge on the newer lists, but this... Maybe Granblue's isn't that bad ? Big congrats, I doubt I'd have the patience to pull this off!

[Yuber6969]

5 minutes ago, MissShake said:

 

Oh yeah, this looks nuts. I know we miss that old Arcsys challenge on the newer lists, but this... Maybe Granblue's isn't that bad Big congrats, I doubt I'd have the patience to pull this off!

 

Thanks! Out of rep points at the moment lol. And yeah, this is definitely not what I meant when I said I miss the old school Arcsys trophy lists. ?

[Destructor-8]

3 hours ago, yuber1234 said:

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

 

I had stopped working on this trophy since my last update because I found out that you unlock the boss version of Deathbringer when you compete Story Mode. After unlocking him, I went into Practice Mode with him as my opponent, and set the AI to Very Hard and spent several hours practicing against him. Whenever I wasn't playing, I was listening to a song with the same BPM as the parry for the super with the hopes of burning the rhythm into my brain. None of it was working. In my best attempt, I parried 21 of the 22 hits of the super, and it was heartbreaking.

 

When I first started working on this trophy, I tried the pause cheese method, but I was doing worse with that method than I was with the regular one. I decided to try it again and eventually got to the point where I was able to parry the super about 50% of the time. I still had a very difficult time beating Deathbringer without taking any damage though. I used Coyori and my strategy was to stay on the other side of the screen as much as possible, parry his long range attack, heat up, step behind Deathbringer before he lands on the ground, use Crazy Cat Dance, and then quickly use Crazy Cat Storm. The problem is that the controls in this game are so janky that I would often end up doing a standing/forward C instead of the super, which would get punished.

 

Below is a video of my successful run. Please excuse the poor video quality. This was shot from my cell phone on a tripod, and my bed is right in front of my TV so I had to record from the side. A lot of the pausing outside of the super was me wiping the sweat off of my hands (gross, I know).

 

Thanks @AihaLoveleaf, @Copanele, and @FreshFromThaDeli for giving me tips.

 

Congrats! That looks pretty insane lol. I know you were going for this quite recently so it's good you were able to finish it up. That's another game done for you. Nice going!

[Yuber6969]

5 minutes ago, Destructor-8 said:

 

Congrats! That looks pretty insane lol. I know you were going for this quite recently so it's good you were able to finish it up. That's another game done for you. Nice going!

 

Thanks! It totally was insane lol. I've heard that Survival Mode is quite hard too, so I'm not done just yet. But that was definitely the trophy that I was the most worried about.

[Destructor-8]

2 minutes ago, yuber1234 said:

 

Thanks! It totally was insane lol. I've heard that Survival Mode is quite hard too, so I'm not done just yet. But that was definitely the trophy that I was the most worried about.

 

Oh I see, yeah I'm sure you'll finish it off with that out the way now.

[Yuber6969]

 

Faster Than Anything

Clear time attack mode within 6 minutes.

 

This took me about 5 attempts. I used Urs and spammed his Speed Glide after heating up. There are 13 fights and the AI starts getting tough after the sixth fight. There were several runs were I was making good time, but then lost to the second-last boss a couple of times and ran out of time.

[Thedah]

9 hours ago, yuber1234 said:

 

You Want Me To WHAT?

'In single-player arcade mode, on a difficulty higher than NORMAL, survive Deathbringer's Apocalypse Flame attack and win the round with full health.

 

 

Ayy congrats!

[Yuber6969]

5 minutes ago, Thedah said:

 

Ayy congrats!

 

Thank you!

[Yuber6969]

Got all of the combo trophies done. The game's janky controls added to the difficulty.

 

 

Maladie Des Griffes Du Chat
Get a 50+ hit combo with Coyori.

 

This was hard on my fingers. The actual combo is pretty simple, but the majority of the hits come from button mashing during Crazy Cat Storm, and it took several tries to reach 50.

 

 

The Hookening
Get a 20+ hit combo with Freed.

 

This is the hardest combo trophy in the game IMO, and it took me about an hour. You have to begin with a counter, followed by a jumping B, then your super, then a charge attack (think Guile from Street Fighter), then the super again. The first super requires very precise timing, and the follow up charge attack needs to be done very quickly. The timing is very unforgiving, and this was a lot harder than it sounds.

 

 

Size Doesn't Matter
Get a 40+ hit combo with Watson.

 

This was easy.

 

 

Groovy
Get a 30+ hit combo with Urs.

 

This was easy too.

 

 

With Our Powers Combined!
Get a 60+ hit combo with Odile and Dokurod.

 

This one was frustrating. 57 hits (IIRC) of the combo come from your super, and the amount of hits in the super depend on how high in the air you are when you start the super. The hits leading up to the super are basically just there to help you launch into the air. Following the instructions in the trophy guide usually scored me around 47 hits. A YouTube comment that I saw posted by user wblstudios posted a slightly modified but better solution, and I got the trophy after a few minutes with their method.

 

All that's left for me to do is to get 30 wins in Survival Mode. The best I've done so far is 15 wins. The AI is absolutely brutal in this game.

[Yuber6969]

 

Leonidas
30 consecutive wins in survival mode.

 

I had a really hard time with this until I learned how to properly use Deathbringer. Got some tips from @Copanele and then it became much easier. There was a lot of luck involved too because the AI is an absolute beast with Freed and with Dokurod, so if you fight them in the later rounds, it's going to be rough.

 

And with that, I have the platinum now!

 

 

Battle Fantasia

 

Rarity: 0.61%

Difficulty: 8/10

Enjoyment: 6/10

 

The biggest issue with this game is that the controls are way too janky; this plays like a PS2 game. There were so many times that I got screwed over because my character would use a regular attack instead of a special move or a super. I'm definitely not a fighting game noob at this point, so I can say with 100% certainty that I was inputting the commands correctly - at least most of the time. The janky controls really added to the already high difficulty.

 

The AI in this game is brutal. When I had to use characters that I don't like, I played on Very Easy mode and the AI still posed a challenge. Survival Mode had AI that I'm convinced was reading my inputs. And then of course, there's the trophy for beating Deathbringer on a difficulty higher than Normal without taking damage. Even with the cheese method to reduce the difficulty of parrying the super, winning the fight without taking damage was still very difficult.

 

The story was very mediocre (but still miles better than that of the average non-Arcsys fighter). The story was very generic, and almost every character had a very anti-climatic ending. One of the main characters - Marco, was one of the most annoying characters I've seen in a video game. He's 9 years old IIRC, and he tawlks wike twhis (I never found that kind of shit cute). I'm not exaggerating when I say that there are several times in the story where he throws tantrums and cries for about 10 seconds. Story Mode is annoying from a trophy perspective too because you have to lose every single battle to get 100% completion. One good thing I'll say about the story is that it's legitimately funny. There is a lot humor, and I laughed hard several times.

 

I would have liked this game more if it wasn't so janky. It did have potential.

 

Thanks @AihaLoveleaf, @Copanele, and @FreshFromThaDeli for giving me various tips, and thanks @Aridoyu for helping me with the Freed At Last! trophy!

 

[Copanele]

Congrats for this amazingly...bad platinum

This game had potential, but with those graphics, the characters and that GOD DAMNED online... this counts as a fail in Arcsys' Garden.

Glad they mad improved with the rest of the games though

[AihaLoveleaf]

Great job getting through the jank and picking up another 0% platinum! I love to see it. ?

 

Do your best to get Digimon out of the way before the end of the month comes around. ?

[Honor_Hand]

Congrats on the amazing platinum, @yuber1234.

 

Also, major respect points over for having used catgirl Coyori at the end to obtain the You Want Me To WHAT? trophy. Thanks for sharing that video. Now I know which technique to copy once my turn comes to try that one, lol. I have no idea how you guys can pull it off by using that pause trick. I've tried that idea with combo trophies in other fighting games before and I feel it just throws me off balance even further. ?

 

Coyori literally mopping up the floor with Deathbringer at the end was brilliant. The perfect way to get that trophy. ?

[Yuber6969]

Thanks guys!

 

@Copanele I completely forgot to mention how glitchy the online is. A lot of my wins didn't save and it further added to the tedium.

 

@AihaLoveleaf That <1% platinum is looking really nice in my trophy cabinet ?. Digimon All-Star Rumble is a horrible game and I already regret buying it.

 

@Honor_Hand Coyori's airdash is a great asset in that fight. For the pause method for the super, every time you see the circle around Coyori, you successfully parried a hit. You must must wait until after the circle has disappeared before inputting the next parry.

[FreshFromThaDeli]

Congrats on your shiny new sub 1% Platinum!