Ha, yeah, and there's .

I think we can now declare this thread into a spoiler fest. We should change the title to something more appropriate.

well, we shouldn't. I mean, this IS rath's SSLP thread, so that wouldn't be fair to him.

Like what, "Minimum Gameplay, Maximum Spoilers"?

Besides, I've seen worse. The Dead Rising thread on SA is a clusterfuck of spoiler tags.

And Fighter, how did you get that



Or, at least that's the impression I got anyway.

well, I guess that's a reasonable idea.

ok, let's stop with the spoilers.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Olympus Colliseum's second edition of the annual Olympic Games! I'm Kratos, your announcer for this event - EVEN THOUGH I SHOULD BE PARTICIPATING - so let's see who's going in for the preliminaries this year.



Here's our first contender: Donald Duck. First debuted to the world in... what do you mean it's Daffy? I'm telling you, it's Donald. Don't lie to me; I KNOW DONALD DUCK WHEN I SEE DONALD DUCK.



(Jiminy then explains the Olympic Games and how Hercules in competing and has never been beaten before (which is a lie)... I practically paraphrased it at the very beginning anyway)

Sorry about that everybody. As I was saying... oh, it doesnt matter now; a new contender has appeared: Jiminy Cricket. Something tells me though that he'll be filling more of a cheerleader role, like he did last year.



Of course he's going to be competing; the winner of the last Olympic Games and - according to this dossier I have on everyone in this game - he's only 14 folks: Sora [last name withheld]!



The last competitor we know of - aside from Hercules - is this guy folks, one George "Goofy" Geef. According to his wikipedia page, he was born on May 25th 1932 making him older than most of the cast of the game. For such an old fellow, he sure can handle himself well in the arena. Let's go to a live-feed now to see what the competitors are planning for this years events.




Isn't it amazing folks, the tournament hasn't even started yet and Sora is already displaying his confidence. He reckons he can handle the entire event on his own... He's done so once before so it wouldn't surprise me if he did it again!



Sorry Donald, new rules say that this years event is to be done with no more than 2-people per team. It's Sora's choice who he takes with him.



Goofy. Definitely Goofy.

Well, you heard it here folks: Donald and Jiminy are on the bench! Now, our teams are set for the preliminaries, so we'll now go live to the event!

Meanwhile...



I'm certain we all recognise the Disney villain voiced by James Woods... if not, I'll be surprised. Very surprised in fact.


"Hercules is a model of true strength and gallantry - the perfect hero"?!


Oh, he's perfect all right. PERFECTLY INFURIATING!!

Wasn't that line used in the film? It sounds like it.


Everytime I read this, I always read the last part as "he makes me blood boil" for some reason, despite that the word blood is omitted. Just seems like it should be there.



He'd tried before, and failed. I don't think it's gonna work, what with 'Herc' being a demi-god and all.



Hmm...? Who could this be? (Note that for the sake of actual suspense on this matter, I'm omitting the rest of the scene; I'll include it in the next update).

And, we're back with the live feed on the competitors. It seems that during the break Sora decimated the entirety of the preliminaries with minimal help from Goofy. Here are the highlights of what you missed:



Each world has a keyblade unique to it in a sense. Whilst there is another way that the keyblade variants can be found, certain types are only found in certain worlds (such as the Kingdom Key being unique to Traverse Town) map items. I'll cover the other way when we get access to it.



The first new contender that Sora encountered was a Bouncywild! These little buggers are weak - the best card they can use has a mere value of 2... hah, a 2 - but they love throwing banana's around which, unlike last year, are a massive hinderance.



After the battle, Sora collected a card to a special room. I wonder if he'll use it.

Moogle Rooms are, in my opinion, one of the best map types you can get. They have no enemies in them at all, but they function as shops. You buy cards here in packs of 5; weapons, magic, items, and a mixture of the three. The chance of getting a decent card out of one is directly proportional to the rarity of the pack, which is based on how far through the game you are.



And in his last match of the preliminaries, Sora encountered two new contenders: Large Bodies and Powerwilds. Neither is particularly powerful, but Large Bodies are somewhat problematic; they are completely immune to any non-sleight melee damage not dealt to their back. It seems that they're only common weakness is something I have been told is "Chronic Backstabbing Disorder".

Large Bodies are annoying to fight as explained above, but are one of ~3 enemies in the entire game that it's worth using Sora's slide sleight on. Powerwilds have one of the better enemy cards in the game in my opinion, but don't really have much else going for them. In general, neither enemy actually has the ability to make you worry too much (unlike in the console games where Large Bodies are much more annoying...), but can use non-crap card values.

Also: Which world is next? (I'll finish this one in the next update most likely)

Wonderland,
Olympus Colliseum,
Agrabah,
Monstro,
Halloween Town

That counts as fanart I do believe.

I normally don't like stepping on the toes of other people's fanart, but this just seemed more fitting.

Spymind. I was going to use the Gang Garrison spy, but I couldn't find a decent sprite.

So instead of taking five or so more minutes to find the sprite, I take half an hour cutting a spy out of a random TF2 screenshot and then putting it behind the soon-to-be-dead baddie.

I am selectively lazy, apparently.

I just got the sprite sheet straight off the game's website.
Unfortunately, they didn't have all the sprites, so I couldn't get it mid-backstab like I wanted, but oh well.

Took me a couple of seconds to realise what it was behind the LB, but I did anyway.

Added to OP ^^

Excuse me, good Sir, but you made a mistake there.
Goofy, being only 77 years old is not the oldest participant here. Hercules is about 2800 years of age.

And I love how the game just puts Tarzan world's monkeys from the first game on the Peloponnese. There's no monkeys in these parts of Greece!

I'm voting for Halloween Town by the way since the others are annoying.

I say agrabah, since it's what they go first in the MANGA.

Oh, I know he's not the oldest, which is why I said 'one of' the oldest

And Fighter... there's a KH manga? o.O

Okay, you leave me no choice but to commence extreme whippersnapping:



I think you get my point.
I don't think he's one of the oldest if pretty much everybody else who was not created by Squeenix is older than him.

Indeed there was. I remember a fan was animating the manga into flash, as for the actual Mangas themselves, I haven't read them yet

Now I know what I'm reading after I finish the book I'm reading at the moment (not literally, but you know what I mean).



Touche'.

In all honesty, I was expecting to get a bit further before causing nerd rage.

Never underestimate Nerd Rage, it can come when you least expect it. Also, Halloween Town FTW!

Hopefully I won't screw up again (and I'll do a bit more research - when needed - just to be safe... heh) so I won't invoke the ire of (an) angry nerd(s) again... but, knowing me I will

You probably will. Other than that I'm enjoying this =P