Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from a graveyard in New Meridian, with everyone’s favorite undead; Squigly! By the by, Squigly, how’s your music career going? Haven’t heard any new songs for a while. Squigly: “Aifos, I died a decade ago..” Right.. That.. I suppose that would get in the way of the whole.. Singing thing.. Hm.. I just made things awkward, didn’t I? Well, not to worry, perfect solution! Let’s move on with the thread! The longer you play a game, the more you learn the ins and outs of its mechanics. Many aspects of the game become second nature to you, and sometimes you don’t even need to think to pull off amazing feats. This process, often called “gitting gud” comes with another effect, though. See, as we grow, and change, we.. Well, we grow and change! Maybe we cast off a weak, but easy to use weapon, for something with a higher skill requirement, but greater payoff. Maybe, we learn that there are deeper mechanics we ever knew of. Maybe, we just know how to use what we’ve been using better. And that’s what we’re talking about today! How your playstyles have evolved. How you went from using Stone Kirby to any of the other better abilities, how you don’t need to pause your favorite fighting game to see button inputs, how you starting showing those whippersnappers who’s the real PvP master! [b][u]Tl;dr? Here’s my point![/u][/b] Let’s here some ways your playstyles havr evolved for various games (for better or worse). My answer; [spoiler]A certain conversation I had recently resparked my interest in Skullgirls. Now, I never stopped liking the game, but I found myself not playing it often, but playing it again, I remembered why I love it so. I hop on, 3v3, and decimate the competition as—decimate!? Who wrote this script, I don’t “decimate” anything, that’d only be 10% of their health bar! *ahem* and DOMINATE the competition, without losing a single one of my fighters. But as triumphant a team Squigly, Ms. Fortune, and Fukua make, they weren’t my first team. From the moment I picked up the controller, I knew I was going to [i]love[/i] Ms. Fortune. Between her cat puns, ad rushdown playstyle, it was great. So, I played a rushdown Fortune at first. My mind was blown when I learned Fortune was actually a puppeteer character.. Which, I couldn’t get the hang of.. Eventually, I started to like the game enough to buy the DLC characters, and Squigly’s playstyle resonated with me perfectly. She quickly overtook Fortune as my most played character, though, eventually, I ended up wanting to make use of the team features, and threw Squigly, and (rushdown) Fortune on a team. As I kept playing, I wanted a third character to join my swuad. I went through a few characters who just didn’t click, including Double, Big Band, and Robo Fortune, but eventually I settled for Painwheel, and while I had finally gotten Ms. Fortune’s head in the game, I was just [i]awful[/i] with Painwheel. As my proficiency with tje other characters improved, I found hers to be stagnant. Eventually, though Painwheel was one of my favorite characters, I let her go, and returned to my duo. That lack of a third character bugged me though, and then it happened. As surprising as it was, the game [i]updated[/i] and made one crucial change that would change my playstyle forever! It turned Fukua’s ghosts [i]green[/i]! Yes, the shadows who used to look something like clones, now looked like green projections of her soul, and I thought that was [i]awesoms[/i]! And after some training, Fukua became the third member of my Skullgirls team! Oh, and also, honorable mention to tbe journey every Kirby player takes at one point or another; realizing Stone is, quite frankly, an awful ability, and never using it when they don’t have to.[/spoiler] That’s all for now, folks! Jambuhbye!