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Character Select Forcing

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Character Select Forcing	comment	You pick your favorite character in the character select screen. Then you play the game and lose. Let's try it again. No dice, you lose again. And this keeps happening until you change to another character, who creams the level, without being the Game-Breaker. Usually, this didn't even look like a job for Aquaman. What happened was that the game designers wanted to encourage players to try out the more obscure characters, abilities or techniques. Sometimes, the level design suggests that much, when it should be set up with the general mechanics and bigger potential issues in mind instead. But at any rate, the game has artificially limited which characters you can use by making many of them poorly suited for the situation. A form of Fake Difficulty, albeit one that may be hard for designers to avoid. Compare with Trial-and-Error Gameplay and Plot Tailored to the Party. Some fans try to overcome this with Character Tiers. See also Required Party Member, when you must have a certain character in your party for plot-related purposes (since you typically have a party of three, this may mean leaving a preferred character behind).
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Character Select Forcing / int_114a5d0	comment	Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia has a low-key version of this. Each week, a certain handful of your characters will get twice the experience points, encouraging players to level them up. And during character recruitment events, two other characters (aside from the new one) will have "Boosted" stats and will probably have a 2x experience point bonus, making it desirable to bring them along. This is particularly true when taking on the multiplayer quests; the developers had to add a "just for fun" mode to keep players from reflexively disbanding any party that didn't have a Boosted character in it.
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Character Select Forcing / int_14004ff5	comment	The X-Men Legends games both have shades of this, because some enemies in various areas will be resistant to the kind of damage your heroes are dealing. The most egregious examples include the Morlocks, which will come in swarms of all the different kinds of resistance, forcing players to switch characters while in the center of a stampede; and the Sentinels and other robots, which are resistant to mental damage. Which makes sense in and of itself, but this trope really comes into play in the second game, where Jean is the only character who specializes in mental attacks and is thus useless against the robots. Additionally, there is one part of the final dungeon in the first world of the sequel where you come face to face with a door that's sealed shut on the outside and an additional switch inside its room must be thrown in order to proceed. Though Nightcrawler isn't required, with his teleporting ability he's the only way you can get through this part.
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Character Select Forcing / int_196b618d	comment	PokÃ©star Studios in PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 requires you to first complete each scenario with rental PokÃ©mon, with later movies forcing a very specific strategy in order to win. After filming any movie with rental PokÃ©mon, you could use your own, often resulting in much easier wins. *A notable example is the Mecha Tyranitar movie which involves swapping abilities, swapping defensive stats, and changing the weather for rental PokÃ©mon. A party PokÃ©mon can just use Earthquake to one-shot the Mecha Tyranitar as it takes quadruple damage from Ground moves.
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Character Select Forcing / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Monster Hunter usually averts this, as a player with some skill can avoid timing out or getting pasted with any given weapon, but there are some fights that are much easier or much harder with some weapons. For example, Plesioth is typically a bow hunt because its questionable hitbox makes melee very frustrating. Fast monsters like Barioth or Blangonga are often easier with the sword and shield because it's easier to keep pace with them. The Dual Blade's constant aggression is hard to use effectively against the Tigrex (which is just as aggressive and also much bigger than you), while the Great Sword is better at taking advantage of the few large openings it leaves. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne however plays this straight with Alatreon, who can cause Escaton Judgment, an instant kill nuke that can only be weakened by using elemental weapons, and some elements will be better choices in certain phases compared to others. Granted, it is possible to just use either a Raw weapon anyway and just carting to just the Judgements, but itâ€™s not recommended outside of single player.
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Character Select Forcing / int_1fe8c3be	comment	Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth: Several strata feature special events that can only be completed when there's a character from a specific race in your party (there are four races in total: Eathlain, Celestrian, Therian and Brouni).
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Character Select Forcing / int_21e2f10d	comment	In Dragon Quest III, you can customize your party to your heart's content, but in order to progress, you MUST recruit a Merchant at some point to fulfill the "Build a New City" quest and be rewarded with one of the six Orbs required to summon a Phoenix which will fly you to Baramos' castle.
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Character Select Forcing / int_255e22be	comment	In Legend of Mana, going up against a certain dog-like boss on high difficulty with a glove class weapon is tantamount to suicide. Unfortunately, you won't know this until you're already in the fight and get hurt every time you punch him.
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Character Select Forcing / int_261a3cc	comment	Diddy Kong Racing (or at least, the N64 original) makes you try different characters constantly. In fact, the first Wizpig race is just about the only one where it doesn't make a difference what character you choose. Anything else either requires balanced middleweights or fast lightweights, except rare occasions where a heavyweight would keep you from being pushed into water. The characters were finally balanced in Diddy Kong Racing DS.
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Character Select Forcing / int_262de01c	comment	Gloria Union has five main characters and (usually) only five deployment spaces per map, while your team will have between eight and thirteen members. All of those five main characters are repeatedly required-deploy late into the game, which forces you to use them to level them up instead of getting the chance to try out the rest of your party.
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Character Select Forcing / int_283badac	comment	Dark Cloud and its sequel Dark Chronicle both have this: In the first Dark Cloud, the usefulness of your allies varies widely, with different ranges and 'wait times'. To make matters worse, certain dungeon floors will switch you to one of your allies without warning and force you to use them. Woe befall any player who can't adapt to the Mighty Glacier's awkward attacks after breezing through with the ranged characters... In the second game, Red and Blue Seal floors force you to use either Max or Monica exclusively, unless you use a special, consumable, expensive "unlock" item to let you use both like usual. The thing is, Max is generally overpowered because of his guns and his Ridepod Mini-Mecha, so Blue Seal floors are just like any other to him; Monica is typically handicapped by Red Seal floors because these are almost always populated by Ridepod-class enemies against which swords and magic are almost useless.
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Character Select Forcing / int_289f3039	comment	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lets you customize your character with "spirits" representing video game characters or elements of many different series. However, many fights in adventure mode have stage hazards that make the fight nearly unwinnable unless you equip a spirit that negates the hazard. The end result is that, rather than change the gameplay of the fight, hazards just serve as a spirit tax.
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Character Select Forcing / int_2a04866b	comment	Guild Wars. There are numerous occasions, mostly in PvP, where if you are playing a particular class or build, you will lose. All the time. The developers have even admitted there are some builds and classes they specifically don't want players to play.
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Character Select Forcing / int_2ffcbd43	comment	While Fire Emblem casts can be sorted into Character Tiers, usually in the easier difficulties it's possible to utilize even the weakest characters if you give them plenty of experience and organize the other characters properly. But in the harder modes, that choice gets far more constrained. In particular, Fire Emblem: Awakening's Harder Than Hard modes Lunatic and Lunatic+ are nicknamed 'Frederick Emblem' by the fandom, as no other character except Robinnote though even then, Fred will likely at least be leaned on in chapter 6, due to a chokepoint he holds competently even on Lunatic+, plus providing some support in the shaky first five chapters even has a chance of getting through the early areas without him. This is also very common due to map design. For instance, many maps essentially mandate the player have at least one character in the Pegasus Knight or Wyvern Rider classes, since they can fly, letting them bypass things like mountains and forests—for instance, if a village is about to be burned down by a brigand, often only the flier can reach it first. On the other end of the spectrum, desert chapters slow cavalier units to a crawl, meaning the player needs at least a few characters who can fight on foot (preferably mages, who ignore the sand penalty). Commonly, the design of the final boss will strongly suggest the player kill them with a specific unit, typically the main Lord. If the boss isn't outright invincible to attacks from other units, then they'll still take very little damage from them. Medeus in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon is a particularly nasty example; pretty much the only reliable way of killing him is with Tiki (or Tiki's replacement, Nagi), and even that will require an Aum Staff for her to deliver the final blow. An interesting variant can occur in Fire Emblem Fates. Due to the way marriage candidates were set up, a male Corrin will deprive another man of a wife if he marries one of the first-gen girls, besides one of the four who are exclusive to him. In Conquest, Flora is the only one of these exclusive ladies available (without DLC), so players who want to get all of the second-gen units without having to marry one of them are forced to pick her. Fire Emblem Engage expands the deployment slots from 12 to 14 for the last set of chapters, right after two Eleventh Hour Rangers Mauvier and Veyle join. Since you'll likely have no-one else raised to the appropriate level for the endgame, these slots seem made to be filled by those two specifically.
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Character Select Forcing / int_31e1eca3	comment	In PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, there are only two lines of Fire PokÃ©mon in Sinnoh. If you didn't pick Chimchar the starter, you were stuck with Ponyta, a mediocre Fire type that evolves late and brings very little to the table. If you want to deal with Bronzor easily, you'll have to pick Chimchar, deal with Ponyta or grind in the Game Corner to teach Flamethrower to something without STAB. Platinum amends this by introducing the Eevee, Magmar and Houndour families to help Trainers who didn't pick Chimchar, as well as opening up the Wayward Cave secret entrance to allow Trainers with certain Trainer IDs to Take a Third Option and use Mold Breaker Earthquake Rampardos. The remakes have the same PokÃ©dex as the originals, but with the Grand Underground allowing the player to get certain PokÃ©mon before obtaining the National PokÃ©dex, the player can still catch a Houndoom (or a Magby, but only in Shining Pearl) before taking on the second gym.
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Character Select Forcing / int_36395288	comment	Most Kirby games require the use of specific abilities to access objectives or secret areas. However, since copying enemy abilities on the fly is Kirby's whole shtick, it's probably justified in this case.
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Character Select Forcing / int_3f85b55b	comment	Singular Stone: In the first fight against the Major Rolling Stones in East Forest, the only character strong enough to take the fight is Meiko. The bosses' area are only accessible underwater and requires the Air Ball item, and the copy for Meiko in particular is accessible with Luka near the bosses' area. Also, Meiko's Level 2 Skill Stone is located at the waters in North Lake and also immediately accessible, which allow Meiko to break past the Level 8 cap.
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Character Select Forcing / int_42329cd	comment	Sonic Chronicles has a poison gas obstacle in the overworld that requires Big the Cat to be in your party to navigate through (Big has immunity because the gas makes him sneeze so much he blows it away). Unless you unlock E-123 Omega, but he's a secret character who's entirely missable.
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Character Select Forcing / int_454d0351	comment	The first Heavy Gear averts this by allowing the player to change up what Gear they pilot from mission to mission as requirements demand. Some Gears do better or worse than others in certain missions—good luck doing that scouting mission in a Mammoth—but all are viable as the player is allowed to choose at the start of each mission. The sequel is not nearly so forgiving—it gives players a choice of several 'Dark' Gears at the beginning, but locks them into that choice for the rest of the campaign. Choosing anything other than one of the three Jack of All Stats is a recipe for trouble. The Dark Cheetah is fast and sneaky but can't carry much in the way of weaponry or armor and therefore ends up getting killed by tanks a lot, while the Dark Kodiak and Dark Cobra have ammo and armor for days and at least five different weapons each, but have only a snowball's chance in hell of completing the pursuit or space missions. This means that you ultimately have to pick the Dark Warrior, Dark Jaguar, or Dark Mamba to stand a chance of completing the campaign mode without pulling your hair out at some point.
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Character Select Forcing / int_455ede40	comment	With Super Paper Mario there may be 4 heroes, but Mario will likely be the one you'll use the vast majority of the time, given that his flip ability to go from 2D to 3D is required to solve the vast majority of the puzzles and find the most secrets in the game, with the other 3 having a handful they are specifically required for. This also true of the Pixls; aside from Tippi, Thoreau will probably be your most used Pixi for puzzles and general exploration, as his ability to allow the player to pick up and throw things is much more useful for solving puzzles and fighting enemies than the rest of the Pixls, which you'll only use on rare occasions with a few only once or twice in the entire game, typically right after you find them.
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Character Select Forcing / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III does this with job classes, as it was made in the days before switchable party members. Some dungeons force you into the "mini" status, which nukes the strength stat, so you have to switch everyone to a mage class if they're not in one. A few boss fights also require a certain job (eg Garuda and Dragoons) if you want to stand a chance of winning. The Video Game Remake downplays this in one of the Mini sections that makes your Guest-Star Party Member use only lightning attacks when/if they help out (and certain jobs are buffed to be more useful), but generally remains the same.
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Character Select Forcing / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: Dungeons can be run with team of up to four members of any composition, as long as the team is already in a party when the leader starts the dungeon. Otherwise, queueing up for a dungeon will put together a team which enforces the "1 healer, 1 tank, 2 DPS" class balance to make sure that the dungeon is doable without being frustrating. Endgame/End of Content dungeons and trials, like Castrum Meridianum at the end of A Realm Reborn, forces an 8-person team of "2 healers, 2 tanks, 4 DPS", unless, again, the full party is assembled beforehand. Raids, consisting of 3 8-person parties, likewise enforce proper class balance. The Duty Roulette, which allows a player to sign up to participate in a dungeon run, features another downplayed example of this: the role that is least represented among all the players signed up for the Roulette gets an experience and money bonus for being the "role in need". The most common role in need is usually Tank, followed by Healer, but of the 19 combat classes available to players as of Endwalker,note Not counting Blue Mage, which is a "limited" job that can only queue up for instanced content solo or with premade parties only 4 classes are tanks and 4 classes are healers.
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Character Select Forcing / int_49ad83ee	comment	Very common in most MMORPGs, like World of Warcraft, where choosing the wrong group setup in endgame raiding can easily thwart all chances at success. World of Warcraft itself has gone from strictly this (The Four Horsemen were notorious for requiring eight well-geared warriors to beat) to a bring the player, not the class style of play. Instead of having unique abilities and buffs that may be required in certain fights, the classes are defined by different playstyles and any 10-player group is very likely to be able to beat any encounter, especially now that changing specializations is much easier. Buffs in particular have been made comparatively weaker and more available. One problem that is still rampant in Mists of Pandaria is that some fights are considerably harder if you have too many mÃªlÃ©e damage dealers. MÃªlÃ©e damage dealers can attack whilst moving and can often ignore a boss's ranged attacks but must run around after their targets. Ranged damage dealers can keep their distance and avoid close ranged attacks but have limited options if they are forced to move (although hunters have the best of both worlds). The mechanics of most fights seem to end up favoring ranged players, especially in cases where the boss starts dropping abilities on the mÃªlÃ©e group if there are not enough ranged targets available. Groups with many mÃªlÃ©e players will find a lot of the fights much harder and all-mÃªlÃ©e groups are all but impossible in many circumstances. You still need at least 2 tanks thanks to "tank-swapping" mechanics, enough healers to last through the fight, and enough DPS to kill the boss before his enrage mechanic, so going for an all-mage or rogue team ends in failure.
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Character Select Forcing / int_4a2f06f1	comment	In Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, you will need an Elementalist at all times during the second half and endgame. Thanks to Dynamic Difficulty, the Elementalist's ability to amp up elements on attack and grant immunity on defense are indispensable.
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Character Select Forcing / int_52488502	comment	Undersea caves in ARK: Survival Evolved are filled with Cnidaria and Electrophorus, whose attacks will forcibly dismount players and stun-lock both players and creatures for easy kills. Because of the close quarters of the caves, they can't be avoided. The only way to complete those caves is by riding one of the only two creatures immune to stings and shocks, Basilosaurus and Tusoteuthis.
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Character Select Forcing / int_53b30902	comment	You're rarely forced to bring Alicia, Rosie, and Largo to missions in Valkyria Chronicles. However, it's a good idea to always deploy them, even if the map isn't suited to their abilities, since they provide extra CP, which means you get more actions per turn.
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Character Select Forcing / int_5921531c	comment	Fittingly, Haru in Persona 5 is practically required to both get through Okumura's Palace and actually beat Shadow Okumura himself: the Corporobos resist all but a select few elements, but Haru both excels in Psychic damage (which the most powerful green variants are weak to) and learns a move with a chance of confusing the entire enemy team (Corporobos are vulnerable to most status effects), meaning she can still do heavy Technical damage even if they resist her attacks. She's also the only team member besides Joker himself to learn additional Gun skills at that point in the game, which none of Okumura's Corporobos resist.
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Character Select Forcing / int_61aa972d	comment	In 1001 Spikes, if you want to make any genuine progress towards finishing the game, you need to complete levels as Aban, the main character. He's the only one to get the items to unlock other characters, and the second half of the game is completely locked off to all other characters until he beats it first.
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Character Select Forcing / int_6209d3ce	comment	In Trauma Center: New Blood, you have the option of playing as either Dr. Vaughn or Dr. Blaylock. In chapter 1, there are two operations where you're forced to play as Vaughn and Blaylock respectively due to them unleashing the power of the Healing Touch for the first time.
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Character Select Forcing / int_67ce5a04	comment	An interesting variant can occur in Fire Emblem Fates. Due to the way marriage candidates were set up, a male Corrin will deprive another man of a wife if he marries one of the first-gen girls, besides one of the four who are exclusive to him. In Conquest, Flora is the only one of these exclusive ladies available (without DLC), so players who want to get all of the second-gen units without having to marry one of them are forced to pick her.
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Character Select Forcing / int_6bff288f	comment	Banjo-Tooie: Played with. Like in the game's predecessor, the player controls Banjo who is accompanied by his sidekick Kazooie. However, in this game, the duo eventually learn the ability to separate from each other, allowing them to explore the worlds individually and, over the course of the game, learn unique abilities that cannot be performed when they're together. As a result, there are many areas in the game that feature puzzles and obstacles requiring either an ability that involves Banjo alone, an ability that involves Kazooie alone, or an ability that involves the two together; so the player will have to recurringly separate them or regroup them depending on the case. There's also Mumbo Jumbo, who is Promoted to Playable in this game but can only be played as while Banjo and Kazooie wait for him in his hut; and the worlds also feature spots where Mumbo has to perform his magic spells, thus also requiring a character swap in case the player reaches said spots but with the starring duo.
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Character Select Forcing / int_6c47db4e	comment	The story modes for Dynasty Warriors 7 and 8 both restrict what characters you can use in story mode, with 7 picking the character for you and 8 giving you 2-4 playable officers to pick from. This is moderately alleviated by the fact that anyone can use any weapon style, but due to proficiencies and EX-attacks tailored to each character's weapon of choice, it's highly suggested by the game to use their default movesets.
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Character Select Forcing / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver and their remakes have the infamous Miltank in Goldenrod Gym, which is difficult to defeat through brute force unless you prepared and accounted for Muscle, the female Machop from an in-game trade in the Goldenrod Department Store.
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Character Select Forcing / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Nintendo Wars: In the first battle against Drake in Advance Wars 1, if you selected Max or Sami as your commander and lose, Nell will outright ask you, "how about using Andy next time?". Drake's Super CO power damages all enemy units, while Andy's heals all allied units; it only makes sense. Of course, you need to complete the next few missions with only Sami in order to unlock an Optional Boss. Sonja is the best candidate for the Yellow Comet team in Advance Wars 2's "Great Sea Battle", even though her unique abilities don't have much effect. This team's whole purpose is to ferry a Rocket unit across the ocean and use it to break the pipe seam. Kanbei's increased unit prices mean he takes too long to get set up (Yellow Comet starts on a small island and has to expand to others to build income, and Kanbei's Landers are absurdly expensive), while Sensei's Rockets are weak. Sonja, with neither of those drawbacks, wins out by default. Advance Wars: Dual Strike has the War Room map, Megalopolis. This map gives the enemy loads of free income, negating the enemy CO's usual weakness of having better soldiers in exchange for having to pay more for them. However, there are six Com Towers on this map, which screams "Use the CO whose defense goes up when he captures a Com Tower or DIE!" There are also situations in Campaign mode where you NEED the CO who can lower the enemy power bar with her CO Power, but those are minor compared to Megalopolis. Any map in Dual Strike with at least two Com Towers quickly becomes "choose Javier or lose". Once you've captured two of them, he basically becomes Kanbei without the downside of having to pay more for his troops. Given how Kanbei is already considered a Game-Breaker even with said drawback, you can do the math.
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Character Select Forcing / int_7668653a	comment	Whether or not you lose team members during the Mass Effect 2's invasion of the Collector's base is determined by which characters' loyalty you have earned, what upgrades you purchase for your Cool Ship, and by whom you pick to fill what role. Assuming people are loyal, pick the wrong person to escort the hostages back to the ship, or to crawl through the conduit, or to shield you from the bugs, and you'll lose people. Make the right choices, and you'll almost certainly get everyone through alive. Alleviated by the fact that the selections make sense, and even the character description blurbs given on the screen do hint reasonably well at what choices should make more sense, such as Tali the tech genius for the conduit crawl and Garrus leading a commando team. Choose the wrong character - or choose the right character but without earning their loyalty first - and they die with No Saving Throw. The mission can quickly snowball. If you ignored the boring planet-scanning and thus couldn't upgrade the Normandy, people die during the space section of the approach. They, obviously, can't be chosen for roles in the next part, which can leave you lacking loyal party members who make good choices for each role, and thus more deaths ensue. One section involves your party conducting a rear-guard action while you advance. Each character has a certain hidden value for how much they contribute to defense, and it is halved for characters who aren't loyal. If the party's "defense value" is too low, characters are killed off in reverse order of how much they contribute to defense. Also, any not-loyal party members who go to the final battle die. It is possible that no one survives, not even the Player Character, if the player makes truly bone-headed decisions.
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Character Select Forcing / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3, meanwhile, has a much more limited cast than the second game, which lends itself to this. If you didn't keep Kaidan alive and didn't buy Javik's DLC, Liara will be your only biotic squadmate. Same goes for EDI being your only tech squadmate if Garrus and Tali died during the second game (or in Tali's case, if you side with the geth on Rannoch), and James as the sole combat specialist if Ashley's dead. You might be able to reclass Shepard to fill in the gaps, but that requires some foresight.
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Character Select Forcing / int_7e7124af	comment	Persona 5 Strikers gives you nearly every character at the start, so it encourages switching your team around frequently both because of this trope and because inactive party members don't level up as fast as active ones. Usually, the most useful characters in each Jail are the ones with Character Focus during that particular arc (meaning Ann in Shibuya, Yusuke in Sendai, and Haru in Sapporo for example). It's taken to extremes by Akira Konoe, who is weak to Electricity and Nuclear but whose first phase resists or nulls every other element except Almighty, essentially forcing you to take Ryuji, Makoto, and Zenkichi into the fight to have the best chance of winning.
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Character Select Forcing / int_7eaeb7c1	comment	In PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond, the player has the choice of playing as any of the four possible playable characters... but during the story mode only the one most recently unlocked will register as a win. You can do absolutely perfect with Pikachu and it still won't give you the passing score until you agree to play as Oshawott/Snivy/Tepig.
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Character Select Forcing / int_818d613a	comment	Blackguards: Most of the first chapter, you are accompanied by a fighter and a mage. Later on you gain an archer, but she's only a temporary guest member; the remaining two party members are also a fighter and a mage. Which means if you don't make your main character an archer, you're going to have an overly imbalanced team that will have practically no means of countering long-range attacks once the mages quickly run out of mana. Partially subverted, as the party's complex skill tree means all six characters can be customized to any physical fighting style to fill the gap, and only two of them are barred from using magic.
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Character Select Forcing / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario 3D World plays with this. A few levels have character-specific switches that must be pressed in order to collect items, but in general, you can play as whoever you want throughout the game and not have any problems. Each character (except for Jack of All Stats Mario) has a special ability (Peach can float, Luigi has high jumps, etc.) that makes certain levels easier, but again, it's well-balanced. However, if you want to collect everything in the game, you have to play through every single level five times, once with each character, including Rosalina. Super Mario Maker 2: Prior to being patched out, the four playable characters (Mario, Luigi, and both Toads) in the New Super Mario Bros style threw fireballs at slightly different heights depending on the character. Some observant creators noticed this, and made a contraption that would grant access to a different door depending on the height of their fireballs. As one could easily abuse this to make levels unwinnable for Mario, Luigi, or a Toad, Nintendo patched it out and gave all characters in the NSMB style the same fireball throw height. Paper Mario: Paper Mario 64: Want to play through the series with your favorite partner? Too bad, you're going to need to switch out every 60 seconds to solve puzzles, sometimes even on the overworld (and warping via Warp Pipe doesn't bypass them). There's also plenty of Spiked and Flaming enemies that are protected from aerial attacks like Goombario and Goombella's Headbonk, as well as Flying enemies that Kooper and Koops can't reach. Do you want a complete Tattle Log in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? Only Goombella uses Tattle, so prepare to use her against every generic enemy at least once, including those she can't actually attack. With Super Paper Mario there may be 4 heroes, but Mario will likely be the one you'll use the vast majority of the time, given that his flip ability to go from 2D to 3D is required to solve the vast majority of the puzzles and find the most secrets in the game, with the other 3 having a handful they are specifically required for. This also true of the Pixls; aside from Tippi, Thoreau will probably be your most used Pixi for puzzles and general exploration, as his ability to allow the player to pick up and throw things is much more useful for solving puzzles and fighting enemies than the rest of the Pixls, which you'll only use on rare occasions with a few only once or twice in the entire game, typically right after you find them. Paper Mario: Sticker Star does away with the partners except for Kersti and a few Guest Star Party Members, but you're still going to need certain Stickers to beat almost every level, and bosses take way too long or in some cases are nigh-impossible without a certain sticker (which isn't pointed out to you until AFTER you lose, and even then very vaguely), so you can't fill up your album with your favorites. Color Splash ramps up the issue so you can't even win certain boss fights without non-Replica versions of their weakness.
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Character Select Forcing / int_83abcf04	comment	Paper Mario: Sticker Star does away with the partners except for Kersti and a few Guest Star Party Members, but you're still going to need certain Stickers to beat almost every level, and bosses take way too long or in some cases are nigh-impossible without a certain sticker (which isn't pointed out to you until AFTER you lose, and even then very vaguely), so you can't fill up your album with your favorites. Color Splash ramps up the issue so you can't even win certain boss fights without non-Replica versions of their weakness.
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Character Select Forcing / int_83d81bd4	comment	It is virtually impossible to complete mission 18 of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, "Fortress", without a full-on attacker plane (i.e. a plane specialized exclusively in air-to-ground combat), so if you swept through the previous A2G missions in your fancy A2A fighter jet, you are in for a rude awakeningnote Because the mission requires the elimination of a large number of ground targets quickly, and most of those ground targets require more than two normal missiles (but are quickly destroyed by dedicated ground-attack munitions), you're either required to be extremely precise and lethal with your missiles, use the right kind of air-to-ground weapons, or use one of the end-game planes in New Game Plus. It is especially jarring since the very next mission is pretty much one big Hopeless Boss Fight against two squadrons of aces flying state-of-the-art air superiority fighters. And you are not allowed to change your plane.
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Character Select Forcing / int_85698529	comment	Paper Mario 64: Want to play through the series with your favorite partner? Too bad, you're going to need to switch out every 60 seconds to solve puzzles, sometimes even on the overworld (and warping via Warp Pipe doesn't bypass them). There's also plenty of Spiked and Flaming enemies that are protected from aerial attacks like Goombario and Goombella's Headbonk, as well as Flying enemies that Kooper and Koops can't reach.
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Character Select Forcing / int_86caec9f	comment	Sonic Rush Adventure: The Sky Babylon stage has a lot of fire scattered about randomly, which can get really annoying since you'll probably be moving too fast to avoid it in time. Blaze the Cat happens to be immune to fire, so unless you really want to do things the pointless and difficult way, you'll want to choose her. Haunted Ship as well, as some areas consist entirely of ship rigging used as trampolines to bounce over the masts. Sonic requires successive bounces to reach the heights needed to get to the next rope, whereas Blaze can use her mid-air dash to clear these areas quickly and effortlessly. In most other stages, Sonic and Blaze are pretty even with how quickly they can finish the stages, but Haunted Ship has Blaze with an unquestionable advantage.
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Character Select Forcing / int_87a44867	comment	In the TaleSpin video game for the Sega Genesis, if a one-player game is played with Kit Cloudkicker, the flight stages are a lot more difficult. The computer controls the Sea Duck, which can sometimes cause it to bypass power-ups necessary to beat the stages, specifically, health power-ups that keep the Sea Duck from taking too much damage. To beat these stages with Kit, the best advice is to play a two-player game so that another player can control the Sea Duck. However, if a second player is unavailable, the best choice you have is to play a one-player game as Baloo. Thankfully, this problem was fixed in the Game Gear port.
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Character Select Forcing / int_87b4dc3c	comment	Donkey Kong: Diddy Kong Racing (or at least, the N64 original) makes you try different characters constantly. In fact, the first Wizpig race is just about the only one where it doesn't make a difference what character you choose. Anything else either requires balanced middleweights or fast lightweights, except rare occasions where a heavyweight would keep you from being pushed into water. The characters were finally balanced in Diddy Kong Racing DS. Donkey Kong 64 only has five characters, but you need to switch them out constantly. The game has thousands (that's not an exaggeration—there are 3,500 bananas across the levels) of collectibles to find, and 700 of them can only be claimed by a particular Kong; furthermore, you can only switch in certain locations, as opposed to whenever you want. The game gets downright nasty about it in the later worlds, deliberately leaving a few Kong-specific bananas or coins in areas designed for other characters (for example, in Creepy Castle, the player must hit a switch as Diddy, run back to a Tag Barrel, change to Tiny Kong, run inside a now-opened door, and use Tiny's teleportation move to reach an otherwise inaccessible area). Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Though the game can be cleared by having any of Donkey's sidekicks, or even only playing as DK himself, certain secret exits that unlock hidden levels require Donkey to be accompanied by a specific sidekick (for example, an aquatic level has a secret exit obstructed by a strong water current that can only be overcome with Dixie's Helicopter Hair, while a factory level has a secret exit behind a spiky path that can only be crossed with Cranky's cane).
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Character Select Forcing / int_8a0f6e8a	comment	Donkey Kong 64 only has five characters, but you need to switch them out constantly. The game has thousands (that's not an exaggeration—there are 3,500 bananas across the levels) of collectibles to find, and 700 of them can only be claimed by a particular Kong; furthermore, you can only switch in certain locations, as opposed to whenever you want. The game gets downright nasty about it in the later worlds, deliberately leaving a few Kong-specific bananas or coins in areas designed for other characters (for example, in Creepy Castle, the player must hit a switch as Diddy, run back to a Tag Barrel, change to Tiny Kong, run inside a now-opened door, and use Tiny's teleportation move to reach an otherwise inaccessible area).
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Character Select Forcing / int_8da0ea80	comment	PokÃ©mon Red and Blue and the remakes have Brock and Misty as the first two Gym Leaders. Both are resistant to Fire-types, making defeating them potentially quite difficult if you picked Charmander as your starter (Brock is also completely immune to Pikachu in Yellow Version), though Brock is at least tolerable because both his Pokemon have low Special (Defense), meaning Ember will hurt them a lot either way. In contrast, Squirtle and Bulbasaur are both double-effective against Brock's Rock/Ground Pokemon and resistant to Misty's Water-types. Downplayed in that Brock's Pokemon thankfully lack any actual Rock- or Ground-type moves in the originals note the remakes give his Onix Rock Tomb or Rock Throw instead of Bide, and you may have other options besides simply level-grinding and brute-forcing it: Yellow and the remakes make Mankey available on Route 22, fix a typo in Nidoran's moveset that kept them from learning the Fighting-Type move Double Kick until Level 43 (supposed to have been Level 12), and made Butterfree learn Confusion at Level 10 (right when it evolved from Metapod). You can catch a Pikachu to deal with Misty in Viridian Forest. While Brock's PokÃ©mon are still immune to Pikachu and resistant to Eevee in PokÃ©mon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, you can now catch Oddish or Weepinbell on Route 1 and Bulbasaur in Viridian Forest, which will cut through his team like butter—and you'll need to, since the gym guide won't let you in without showing him one.
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Character Select Forcing / int_8ec33a86	comment	In Xenoblade Chronicles 1, you are effectively screwed if you don't control Shulk. There are several instances where your party has to fight Mechon. The only thing that can harm them is the Monado and Anti-Mechon/Machina weapons, which only appear about halfway through the game. It doesn't help the fact that 1.- Shulk has terrible AI, 2.- he has Monado Arts, which make him invaluable in breaking visions (not just for Mechon), 3.- out of the aforementioned Monado Arts, there is Monado Enchant, which allows the entire party to surpass the Mechon immunity and 4.- the only other way to damage Mechon is to Break them, then Topple them; which, surprise, surprise; means the most viable candidate for breaking is Shulk, since he has 2 Break arts, which just so happen to be the best Break arts in the game. Just use Shulk at the beginning, really.
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Character Select Forcing / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: There are multiple points during the game in which party members and/or blades leave the party, limiting your options. There is also one area in the game that heavily nerfs all blades outside of Tora's. While you can clear it without using him, and you will eventually overlevel it, rendering the effect moot, trying to get through it the first time without using him isn't easy. Since the game puts a heavy emphasis on a party composition of Attacker-Tank-Healer, you'll probably want to play as Rex for the majority of the game since: a) you don't get another Attacker party member until a ways into the game, b) playing as a small party cripples survivability, c) at no point in the story does Rex ever leave the party, and d) Rex has the Aegis, a very powerful Blade, as his main weapon, and excluding him would drastically reduce your damage output early game, when you have few rare blades at your disposal. His importance only becomes greater when he becomes the Master Driver in Chapter 8, allowing him to use any of the party's Blades beyond his own, further increasing his versatility in a battle. There is also a case of Blade-Select Forcing, due to obstacles requiring Field Skills to bypass. Is the main plot blocked by a grate that requires Superstrength to move? Of the Blades with this skill, only Poppi and Wulfric (plus Poppibuster with DLC) are recruited without relying on lucky draws from Core Crystals, and their combined Superstrength level might not be enough unless you use them frequently and upgrade their Affinity Charts.
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Character Select Forcing / int_8f4731fb	comment	This also shows up in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. Normally, virtually every PokÃ©mon is viable due to allowing you to use stat boosting items to compensate for any stat deficiencies (unlike the main games). However, the dungeons that temporarily revert your PokÃ©mon to a low level throw this out the window. The only PokÃ©mon who have even a slight chance of surviving through one of said dungeons need to have high starting stats and/or high stat gains for their early level-ups and they also need to have a decent level-up moveset. PokÃ©mon lacking the former qualities will get torn apart on earliest floors, while those who lack the latter will suffer for it later when the enemy PokÃ©mon become too tough for their moves to deal with them efficiently. It becomes even more limiting if the dungeon also forbids bringing items and/or other party members, as they can compensate for the flaws of a given PokÃ©mon to a degree. There typically ends up being only around a dozen or so PokÃ©mon out of the hundreds available who can actually clear these dungeons with some semblance of reliability as a result.
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Character Select Forcing / int_90f94684	comment	Fire Emblem Engage expands the deployment slots from 12 to 14 for the last set of chapters, right after two Eleventh Hour Rangers Mauvier and Veyle join. Since you'll likely have no-one else raised to the appropriate level for the endgame, these slots seem made to be filled by those two specifically.
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Character Select Forcing / int_91684031	comment	In PokÃ©mon Black and White, the Striaton Gym has three Leaders, one of each starting element, and the one with the type advantage against your starter will always be your opponent. Clyde the Gym Guide will unambiguously point you to an easy side area where another trainer will donate you the third point in this Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors to even things up. Chose Oshawott and think the early-game bird will circumvent this? You can't get it until after beating the Striaton Gym.
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Character Select Forcing / int_92a3f728	comment	Aquanox 2: The Revelation has a tough late-game mission that forces you to pilot your piddly starting sub instead of the Infinity +1 Sword you just got in the prior mission. What makes it worse is that nothing prevents you from sortieing in your favorite sub, only to realize halfway through the mission that your sub is too large to fit through the tiny opening that is the only way to proceed. You do get a warning to choose a small sub during the mission briefing (and your starting vessel is the only one that fits the bill), but it's easy to miss if you don't pay close attention. To add insult to injury, the mission concludes in a Boss Battle that's much more difficult than it needs to be because of the crappy sub you're sitting in.
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Character Select Forcing / int_935a39be	comment	Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Happens on a regular basis in Adventure Mode. You will always be forced to play as a select group of characters and only when you reached the Great Maze can you choose anyone that you want to play as, and even then you're only limited to Luigi, Bowser, Kirby, King Dedede, and Ness if you haven't bothered to collect the others' trophies, Sonic won't show up until the final boss, and Jigglypuff, Toon Link, and Wolf aren't available until the game is cleared.
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Character Select Forcing / int_93fc1d2b	comment	Paper Mario: Paper Mario 64: Want to play through the series with your favorite partner? Too bad, you're going to need to switch out every 60 seconds to solve puzzles, sometimes even on the overworld (and warping via Warp Pipe doesn't bypass them). There's also plenty of Spiked and Flaming enemies that are protected from aerial attacks like Goombario and Goombella's Headbonk, as well as Flying enemies that Kooper and Koops can't reach. Do you want a complete Tattle Log in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? Only Goombella uses Tattle, so prepare to use her against every generic enemy at least once, including those she can't actually attack. With Super Paper Mario there may be 4 heroes, but Mario will likely be the one you'll use the vast majority of the time, given that his flip ability to go from 2D to 3D is required to solve the vast majority of the puzzles and find the most secrets in the game, with the other 3 having a handful they are specifically required for. This also true of the Pixls; aside from Tippi, Thoreau will probably be your most used Pixi for puzzles and general exploration, as his ability to allow the player to pick up and throw things is much more useful for solving puzzles and fighting enemies than the rest of the Pixls, which you'll only use on rare occasions with a few only once or twice in the entire game, typically right after you find them. Paper Mario: Sticker Star does away with the partners except for Kersti and a few Guest Star Party Members, but you're still going to need certain Stickers to beat almost every level, and bosses take way too long or in some cases are nigh-impossible without a certain sticker (which isn't pointed out to you until AFTER you lose, and even then very vaguely), so you can't fill up your album with your favorites. Color Splash ramps up the issue so you can't even win certain boss fights without non-Replica versions of their weakness.
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Character Select Forcing / int_9521e2e4	comment	Mordheim: City of the Damned: The story missions not only pit your warband against infinitely-spawning enemies that are not affected by morale losses, but are seemingly tailored to each warband's specific weaknesses. For example, take the Sisters of Sigmar (all-female spell-slinging melee fighters clad in mobility-limiting heavy armour) who in their first story mission face a load of super-strong melee units camping bottlenecks and snipers shooting them from balconies, and then an exhausting climb up a tower while being continually chased by units that have no such problem climbing up after your warrior-women.
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Character Select Forcing / int_9abca283	comment	Dragon's Dogma has various degrees of this ranging from disadvantageous to nearly impossible. While all enemies have things they are weak to, it's how well they respond to their resistances that causes the problem. Griffins for example fly around making it hard to melee them, but they still land occasionally making them vulnerable. Ghosts however are weak to magic but take no damage at all from physical. A ghost is vulnerable to physical if they start possessing someone, but they disappear and reset after one hit so if you specialize in rapid but weak physical attacks you're effectively useless. To add on, there's the haunted armor that is at first only weak to physical and then only weak to magic. Overall this can normally be mitigated by having a balanced party, but since you have no direct control over your teammates things can soon devolve into A.I. Roulette if you have to rely on them for damage. But perhaps the worst offender is the golden golem since it can only be harmed at all by destroying the talismans that supply it power... talismans that are often high up (so no melee), resist magic (no casters), and can be in remote locations (good luck directing the AI to target a hard to find one). Meaning if you happen to have the leader as an archer, the fight is a cake walk, but anything else and the fight might be utterly impossible.
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Character Select Forcing / int_9b1b6065	comment	Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle requires you to have Mario and at least one Rabbid on your team of three. It wouldn't be "Mario + Rabbids" if that wasn't the case, after all.
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Character Select Forcing / int_9f02efb1	comment	EverQuest: During its first several years, the game had a total of three classes capable of acting as healer in a group: druids, clerics, and shamans. Clerics, however, got considerably stronger spells, and were the only class that had the Complete Healing spell, a heal that had a long (10 seconds) casting time, but restored anyone it hit to full health. Because of this, raid encounters were essentially impossible without having a cleric, as the game's developers actually designed encounters specifically around guilds having access to multiple clerics that could set up a rotation for Complete Healing using overlapping cast times (which came to be known as a "CH Rotation"). Likewise, for the longest time, the only way to tank raid bosses was to have a Warrior use their "Defensive" discipline, which reduces incoming melee damage by 33%. Again, due to developers specifically engineering raid encounters around this ability, warriors were required to tank raid bosses for much of the game. As a result, any serious raid basically required at least one warrior, and at least two or more clerics. Period.
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Character Select Forcing / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: PokÃ©mon Red and Blue and the remakes have Brock and Misty as the first two Gym Leaders. Both are resistant to Fire-types, making defeating them potentially quite difficult if you picked Charmander as your starter (Brock is also completely immune to Pikachu in Yellow Version), though Brock is at least tolerable because both his Pokemon have low Special (Defense), meaning Ember will hurt them a lot either way. In contrast, Squirtle and Bulbasaur are both double-effective against Brock's Rock/Ground Pokemon and resistant to Misty's Water-types. Downplayed in that Brock's Pokemon thankfully lack any actual Rock- or Ground-type moves in the originals note the remakes give his Onix Rock Tomb or Rock Throw instead of Bide, and you may have other options besides simply level-grinding and brute-forcing it: Yellow and the remakes make Mankey available on Route 22, fix a typo in Nidoran's moveset that kept them from learning the Fighting-Type move Double Kick until Level 43 (supposed to have been Level 12), and made Butterfree learn Confusion at Level 10 (right when it evolved from Metapod). You can catch a Pikachu to deal with Misty in Viridian Forest. While Brock's PokÃ©mon are still immune to Pikachu and resistant to Eevee in PokÃ©mon Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, you can now catch Oddish or Weepinbell on Route 1 and Bulbasaur in Viridian Forest, which will cut through his team like butter—and you'll need to, since the gym guide won't let you in without showing him one. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver and their remakes have the infamous Miltank in Goldenrod Gym, which is difficult to defeat through brute force unless you prepared and accounted for Muscle, the female Machop from an in-game trade in the Goldenrod Department Store. In PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, there are only two lines of Fire PokÃ©mon in Sinnoh. If you didn't pick Chimchar the starter, you were stuck with Ponyta, a mediocre Fire type that evolves late and brings very little to the table. If you want to deal with Bronzor easily, you'll have to pick Chimchar, deal with Ponyta or grind in the Game Corner to teach Flamethrower to something without STAB. Platinum amends this by introducing the Eevee, Magmar and Houndour families to help Trainers who didn't pick Chimchar, as well as opening up the Wayward Cave secret entrance to allow Trainers with certain Trainer IDs to Take a Third Option and use Mold Breaker Earthquake Rampardos. The remakes have the same PokÃ©dex as the originals, but with the Grand Underground allowing the player to get certain PokÃ©mon before obtaining the National PokÃ©dex, the player can still catch a Houndoom (or a Magby, but only in Shining Pearl) before taking on the second gym. The Battle Frontier in Platinum includes the Battle Hall, in which you're required to face 10 battles against a PokÃ©mon of each of 17 types (meaning 170 battles in total) using the same PokÃ©mon and without losing if you want to get the Golden Symbol for the attraction. The number of PokÃ©mon that are actually capable of pulling this off reliably is extremely low, as you need one that's both strong and having a movepool that's diverse enough to cover all of its weaknesses. In PokÃ©mon Black and White, the Striaton Gym has three Leaders, one of each starting element, and the one with the type advantage against your starter will always be your opponent. Clyde the Gym Guide will unambiguously point you to an easy side area where another trainer will donate you the third point in this Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors to even things up. Chose Oshawott and think the early-game bird will circumvent this? You can't get it until after beating the Striaton Gym. PokÃ©star Studios in PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 requires you to first complete each scenario with rental PokÃ©mon, with later movies forcing a very specific strategy in order to win. After filming any movie with rental PokÃ©mon, you could use your own, often resulting in much easier wins. *A notable example is the Mecha Tyranitar movie which involves swapping abilities, swapping defensive stats, and changing the weather for rental PokÃ©mon. A party PokÃ©mon can just use Earthquake to one-shot the Mecha Tyranitar as it takes quadruple damage from Ground moves. HM Moves can result in this, particularly Surf. Most games before Black & White will include at least one long stretch of water route, so one will almost always require a Water-type to learn Surf to traverse them without having an 'HM slave' dedicated just to Surfing. Whether the other HMs join your main party depends on how frequently they are encountered and whether they are blocking access to a boss like Sinnoh's Cyrus. The only silver lining is that Surf, unlike other HM moves, is fairly strong and therefore usable in battling. This also shows up in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. Normally, virtually every PokÃ©mon is viable due to allowing you to use stat boosting items to compensate for any stat deficiencies (unlike the main games). However, the dungeons that temporarily revert your PokÃ©mon to a low level throw this out the window. The only PokÃ©mon who have even a slight chance of surviving through one of said dungeons need to have high starting stats and/or high stat gains for their early level-ups and they also need to have a decent level-up moveset. PokÃ©mon lacking the former qualities will get torn apart on earliest floors, while those who lack the latter will suffer for it later when the enemy PokÃ©mon become too tough for their moves to deal with them efficiently. It becomes even more limiting if the dungeon also forbids bringing items and/or other party members, as they can compensate for the flaws of a given PokÃ©mon to a degree. There typically ends up being only around a dozen or so PokÃ©mon out of the hundreds available who can actually clear these dungeons with some semblance of reliability as a result. In PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond, the player has the choice of playing as any of the four possible playable characters... but during the story mode only the one most recently unlocked will register as a win. You can do absolutely perfect with Pikachu and it still won't give you the passing score until you agree to play as Oshawott/Snivy/Tepig.
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Character Select Forcing / int_a25325a5	comment	Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Though the game can be cleared by having any of Donkey's sidekicks, or even only playing as DK himself, certain secret exits that unlock hidden levels require Donkey to be accompanied by a specific sidekick (for example, an aquatic level has a secret exit obstructed by a strong water current that can only be overcome with Dixie's Helicopter Hair, while a factory level has a secret exit behind a spiky path that can only be crossed with Cranky's cane).
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Character Select Forcing / int_a2add1d3	comment	Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion: "Girl Power Station" gives you the choice of using any of the game's primary weapons to defend an orb from several waves of Octolings. However, the mission becomes massively more difficult if you choose anything but the roller (which is capable of one-shotting the Octolings) or the Inkbrush (which allows for faster movement speed).
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Character Select Forcing / int_a2add1d4	comment	Splatoon 3's overall map design has caused quite a bit of frustration for players due the layouts being rather cramped towards spawn, and the center areas being too open with little to no flank routes. Because of this design most players often fall back to long-range weapons like the chargers and heavy/hydra splatlings in order to sustain their survivability longer.
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Character Select Forcing / int_a7bb29b2	comment	That said, even your choice of character at the beginning of Mega Man X5 matters a lot. Choosing X means you lose Zero's arm cannon, which is annoying but of little consequence, while choosing Zero means you lose X's Fourth/Force Armor. Obviously nobody tells you about this little consequence. Since the game is effectively built with the armor in mind, as stages practically require air dashes and enemies do ludicrous damage and knock-back without it, choosing Zero in the beginning permanently cripples X and renders him worthless until you manage to scrounge together the Falcon Armor or if you know about the hidden Ultimate Armor (both of which you can't get until later in the game). By then of course you've probably built up Zero to the point that you wouldn't want to go back and use X anyways, as discussed prior. To make matters worse, it's possible to lose Zero for good and whether or not you do is largely determined by luck. There's a reason the game mod that lets you keep both character's abilities (along with sharing bonuses and disabling all of Alia's hints) has been downloaded over three thousand times.
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Character Select Forcing / int_a7bb29b5	comment	An occasional complaint about Mega Man X8 is that obtaining all of the items more or less keeps Zero on the bench up until the fortress stages, leaving Axl (who is admittedly fun to use this time around) and X to do everything.
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Character Select Forcing / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy III does this with job classes, as it was made in the days before switchable party members. Some dungeons force you into the "mini" status, which nukes the strength stat, so you have to switch everyone to a mage class if they're not in one. A few boss fights also require a certain job (eg Garuda and Dragoons) if you want to stand a chance of winning. The Video Game Remake downplays this in one of the Mini sections that makes your Guest-Star Party Member use only lightning attacks when/if they help out (and certain jobs are buffed to be more useful), but generally remains the same. Final Fantasy X encourages the player to switch party members around regularly by making specific enemies suited to different members' attacks. Tidus deals well with fast wolf-type enemies, Wakka can aim for flying creatures, Lulu deals magic damage to attack-resistant flans, and so on. That's the carrot, the stick is the fact that if you don't switch they won't gain EXP for when you want them later It's really severe early on. Against the correct enemy type, each character normally gets a one or two hit kill. If you try to attack that same enemy with any other character, they will either miss or do virtually no damage. Only a handful of enemies you encounter aren't specifically made for one character to deal with. This mellows out later on when you can move into another character's part of the sphere grid to get similar stats and skills and can start customizing weapons. Kihmari tends to fall behind the other characters because there is no enemy type he is specifically made to counternote His initial special skill, the ability to pierce armored enemies, isn't needed because you don't encounter armored enemies until you reach Luca, at which point you get Auron, who can also pierce armored enemies and does so much more effectively than Kimahri. Dissidia Duodecim will require the user to pick Cloud if he or she is going to farm money and weapons. Because the gateways are punishing to newer players (lvl 50-80 gateways when fresh characters are in their twenties), the player will have to bend the rules in the bonus scenario 00. Manipulating the rules to max out EX force, Wall Rush Damage, and Ex Damage is required to meet the goals in the gateways comfortably. Cloud's EX abilities suit the rule manipulation perfectly, so Cloud will have to be used in the majority of the fights solely because his Ultima Weapon can Guard Crush enemy blocks and can slam an enemy for almost all of their HP (save one since Wall Rush can't be the determining blow). As a result, the battles go quickly and comfortably. The scenario is certainly doable with the other characters, make no mistake, but Cloud's skillset and abilities are ideal to complete it for farming purposes. In Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light, you will need an Elementalist at all times during the second half and endgame. Thanks to Dynamic Difficulty, the Elementalist's ability to amp up elements on attack and grant immunity on defense are indispensable. Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omnia has a low-key version of this. Each week, a certain handful of your characters will get twice the experience points, encouraging players to level them up. And during character recruitment events, two other characters (aside from the new one) will have "Boosted" stats and will probably have a 2x experience point bonus, making it desirable to bring them along. This is particularly true when taking on the multiplayer quests; the developers had to add a "just for fun" mode to keep players from reflexively disbanding any party that didn't have a Boosted character in it. Final Fantasy XIV: Dungeons can be run with team of up to four members of any composition, as long as the team is already in a party when the leader starts the dungeon. Otherwise, queueing up for a dungeon will put together a team which enforces the "1 healer, 1 tank, 2 DPS" class balance to make sure that the dungeon is doable without being frustrating. Endgame/End of Content dungeons and trials, like Castrum Meridianum at the end of A Realm Reborn, forces an 8-person team of "2 healers, 2 tanks, 4 DPS", unless, again, the full party is assembled beforehand. Raids, consisting of 3 8-person parties, likewise enforce proper class balance. The Duty Roulette, which allows a player to sign up to participate in a dungeon run, features another downplayed example of this: the role that is least represented among all the players signed up for the Roulette gets an experience and money bonus for being the "role in need". The most common role in need is usually Tank, followed by Healer, but of the 19 combat classes available to players as of Endwalker,note Not counting Blue Mage, which is a "limited" job that can only queue up for instanced content solo or with premade parties only 4 classes are tanks and 4 classes are healers.
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Character Select Forcing / int_a83e83d4	comment	The last three levels of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War force you to keep the same plane and weapon for all three, regardless of what you actually go up against. Pick a dedicated bomber for "Avalon"'s trench run and you'll have trouble taking care of the enemy aces in "Demon of the Round Table" or the final one-on-one ; conversely, go for a decent air-to-air fighter to take out those eight aces and you'll have to make multiple runs through the trench, using basic missiles to slowly take out the five different targets in every given section while that trench is slowly closing itself off.
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Character Select Forcing / int_aabf6d1d	comment	Darkest Dungeon: While no hero is useless, there are a lot of bosses you shouldn't fight with specific people. For example, the Hag spends her entire boss fight in the rear two ranks, meaning that heroes like the Leper and Crusader (who don't have effective long-range attacks) are basically relegated to knocking over her pot every turn. Other forcing is in party comp: the Vestal won't team with the Abomination unless you've downloaded the Farmstead, so you need an Occultist, while the Shieldbreaker suffers from debilitating levels of stress if she gets dream-ambushed, meaning your choices are a Jester or an affliction check.
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Character Select Forcing / int_ad11427a	comment	Might and Magic VII makes a Cleric more or less essential to your party, and that's because they are the only one who can cast Protection from Magic at grandmaster level. This spell, at grandmaster level, protects from every status effect in the game barring Mana Burn and, for some reason, Insanity. There are many monsters that can cause One-Hit KO and one boss that causes Eradication at alarming rate, which are also blocked by this spell, but only at grandmaster level. While the game can be completed without Cleric, it's much, much easier with one in your party.
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Character Select Forcing / int_ade4304c	comment	If the player takes too much time selecting the character in A Nightmare on Elm Street (PC), Freddy will start capturing them, making the last one available the choice.
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Character Select Forcing / int_afa87e53	comment	Backyard Sports. The pros are usually the only viable characters to beat the game, except Lightning Bruiser Pablo. In fact, most of the rest of the Backyard Kids, who were only introduced two games before the pros, are awful in the games with the pros. Averted in Skateboarding, however.
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Character Select Forcing / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights: The base campaign's dungeons tend to be a hellscape of traps and locks, meaning that you end up choosing between 1) playing a rogue, 2) bringing along Tomi Undergallows, the one rogue companion (in a campaign where you get to bring exactly one companion at a time), or 3) dying repeatedly to a constant bombardment of fireballs as you attempt to clumsily brute-force it, then losing out on prime loot because you can't get the chest open.
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Character Select Forcing / int_b3ebd61e	comment	Rogue Squadron is an odd example: the first you play a mission you are typically obliged to use the designated ship, and Snowspeeder missions cannot be completed by any other ship and thus the trope is enforced. It is downplayed in most missions, since you may choose other ships after beating the level once, and in some cases these work better than the intended original. After completing the game - i.e., collecting all gold medals - it is mostly averted and you are able to choose any ship for most of the missions without penalties.
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Character Select Forcing / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Wanna have a shot at taking on the True Final Boss in any game in the Sonic Advance Trilogy? Playing as Tails, Knuckles, Amy or Cream? Tough luck - Sonic is the only character allowed. Sonic Rush Adventure: The Sky Babylon stage has a lot of fire scattered about randomly, which can get really annoying since you'll probably be moving too fast to avoid it in time. Blaze the Cat happens to be immune to fire, so unless you really want to do things the pointless and difficult way, you'll want to choose her. Haunted Ship as well, as some areas consist entirely of ship rigging used as trampolines to bounce over the masts. Sonic requires successive bounces to reach the heights needed to get to the next rope, whereas Blaze can use her mid-air dash to clear these areas quickly and effortlessly. In most other stages, Sonic and Blaze are pretty even with how quickly they can finish the stages, but Haunted Ship has Blaze with an unquestionable advantage. There's a downplayed example in Sonic Heroes. Most levels have at least one point where you WILL have to switch to a different formation note The three formations are Speed, Fly and Power, each representing one character in the three-man teams in the game. Speed Formation is led by Sonic, Shadow, Amy and Espio, Fly Formation is led by Tails, Rouge, Cream and Charmy, and Power Formation is led by Knuckles, Omega, Big and Vector in order to progress. The reason it's downplayed is because but when you are forced into a certain formation, the game will outright tell you which formation you should be using. It's played straight in the Emerald Challenge Special Stages, though, where there's almost no reason to ever switch out of Speed Formation. In Sonic Superstars, there is an extra Act in each of four Zones where you play as a specific character on a given adventure of theirs. Unfortunately, this means that those who truly want a single-character experience will be seeing a lot of pink, because Lagoon City Act Amy is mandatory to the plot: the events of Act Amy are what set Trip's future Heelâ€“Face Turn in motion. Sonic Chronicles has a poison gas obstacle in the overworld that requires Big the Cat to be in your party to navigate through (Big has immunity because the gas makes him sneeze so much he blows it away). Unless you unlock E-123 Omega, but he's a secret character who's entirely missable.
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Character Select Forcing / int_b63ff53e	comment	Deep Rock Galactic: The On-Site Refining missions are tremendously easier with a Driller on the team. The Driller's most important ability is that he can drill through pretty much any terrain in seconds. The On-Site Refining mission involves laying pipes from a refinery to Liquid Morkite spouts scattered throughout the map, and it is vastly easier to lay down these pipes with the Driller cutting through the intervening terrain. The mission can still be done without a Driller, but it is so much quicker and easier with one on the team. Other mission types do occasionally favor one class over the others (like Point Extraction favoring the Scout's quick movement or Salvage Operations being easier with the Gunner and Engineer's entrenchment capabilities), but On-Site Refining is the most prominent example. A different example with the Driller are Escort missions. Normally you need to bring the fuel canisters to spots of oil shale in the middle of the escort to refuel the drilldozer and resume your way to the objective. It's folly to dislodge the oil shale with your pickaxe, as it's tougher than even the toughest terrain types. However, with a certain upgrade to the Experimental Plasma Charger that carves terrain upon its projectile being hit mid-air, the oil shale can be instantly dislodged instead. This can be absolutely crucial to accessing the highest nodes of oil shale. Similarly, in single-player, BOSCO can be ordered to dislodge the oil shale with relatively little difficulty, making escort missions one of the few examples where it may be easier to play alone.
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Character Select Forcing / int_b97f910f	comment	Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: In Frostbite Caves, one must select thawing plants or plants that can instantly destroy ice, otherwise all the player's plants can get easily frozen over by the icy wind or Hunter Zombie snowballs. The Jester Zombie forces the player to ditch projectile plants and forces them to use penetrating plants and/or spikeweeds, the reason being that he can Catch and Return almost all projectiles and thus cause your plants to damage themselves instead. MC Zom-B forces the player to use either long-ranged plants or spikeweeds/spikerocks, the reason being that he has an "Instant Death" Radius Spin Attack that can destroy most non-defensive plants instantly and even destroys nuts very quickly. The Lost City has two zombies, the Excavator and Parasol zombies, who are immune to straight-shot attacks and lobbed attacks respectively. Either of them showing up will shave off your options on what plants you can use, but when both show up, you might as well use penetrating plants which bypass both forms of defense at once.
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Character Select Forcing / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	During certain story or event chapters in Granblue Fantasy, some characters will be locked out of selection for plot consistency, such as not allowing you to use Black Knight on a certain boss battle. Players may have to change their party compositions if said characters are not applicable. Subverted on certain Hard and Extreme Arcarum stages where the player is forced to use only R or SR characters for the duration of the stage. The subversion is that the rest of your party often contributes so little that the recommended strategy is to just make a setup where the main character does the fight more or less themselves.
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Character Select Forcing / int_bc758ea9	comment	A Tiny Toon Adventures-based game on the NES allowed Buster to switch places with Plucky, Furball or Dizzy. The character to whom he switches is chosen before the level. Not only are many levels easiest with a specific character, but the game even tells you which character that is if you sit on the character select screen long enough. That said, Plucky's ability to fly provided he can get a running start allowing the player to skip large portions of a level makes him generally the best character to use in order to simply get through most stages.
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Character Select Forcing / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: The initial run through the Blackbird is much easier with the right party configuration. At the beginning of the dungeon, your party is thrown in jail, with all of their equipment, items, and money stolen. If you get attacked by anything in this condition, you have to start the whole dungeon over unless you have Ayla in the group. She is the only character who uses her bare hands to kill enemiesnote apprently they took Robo's arms. However, without armor, she's a Glass Cannon until the party's equipment is recovered.
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Character Select Forcing / int_c0d295c4	comment	Example where the opposing team forces your hand: In Team Fortress 2, if you run into a wall of 2 or more sentries, you may be forced to switch from poor long-range classes like Pyro or Scout to specific Engineer-haters like Spy or Demoman. Also enforced in competitive play with class limits. Notable examples are Highlander play which uses nine players per team, one of each class and 6v6 matches which limit you to two of each class (except for Medic and Demoman which have a limit of one).
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Character Select Forcing / int_c1b43f85	comment	Super Mario 3D World plays with this. A few levels have character-specific switches that must be pressed in order to collect items, but in general, you can play as whoever you want throughout the game and not have any problems. Each character (except for Jack of All Stats Mario) has a special ability (Peach can float, Luigi has high jumps, etc.) that makes certain levels easier, but again, it's well-balanced. However, if you want to collect everything in the game, you have to play through every single level five times, once with each character, including Rosalina.
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Character Select Forcing / int_c1caa781	comment	The levels in Mega Man & Bass were clearly designed with the Double Jump and the ability to shoot in 8 directions in mind, and only Bass can perform either (as well as fly). This is meant to be balanced by the fact that, for boss fights, Bass's machine gun can only inflict one sliver of damage every four seconds, must stand still to shoot it and his dash isn't as good at dodging as Mega Man's slide, but if one uses the boss weaknesses, that flaw barely exists after the first two stages. The game also has CD collectibles that require both Mega Man and Bass' abilities, meaning you will have to play through the game as both characters if you wish to get 100% Completion.
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Character Select Forcing / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X encourages the player to switch party members around regularly by making specific enemies suited to different members' attacks. Tidus deals well with fast wolf-type enemies, Wakka can aim for flying creatures, Lulu deals magic damage to attack-resistant flans, and so on. That's the carrot, the stick is the fact that if you don't switch they won't gain EXP for when you want them later It's really severe early on. Against the correct enemy type, each character normally gets a one or two hit kill. If you try to attack that same enemy with any other character, they will either miss or do virtually no damage. Only a handful of enemies you encounter aren't specifically made for one character to deal with. This mellows out later on when you can move into another character's part of the sphere grid to get similar stats and skills and can start customizing weapons. Kihmari tends to fall behind the other characters because there is no enemy type he is specifically made to counternote His initial special skill, the ability to pierce armored enemies, isn't needed because you don't encounter armored enemies until you reach Luca, at which point you get Auron, who can also pierce armored enemies and does so much more effectively than Kimahri.
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Character Select Forcing / int_cbb36d5c	comment	In the last mission of Star Lancer, the only way to survive for in the presence of the enemy Ion cannon is hoping it never targets you when you're too close to get away (very unlikely) or use the cloak generator that only one fighter in the entire roster has. Not only is this never brought up in the mission briefing, but that one fighter is under-gunned for the grueling Escort Mission that starts about 30 minutes into the mission.
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Character Select Forcing / int_cd00c365	comment	Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi employed this trope in spades. Some levels let you choose from a small pool of characters to use for a level while other levels forced you to use a specific character, all based on which characters were present for the corresponding parts of the movie. A cheat code lets you remove this restriction and use any character in any stage, though.
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Character Select Forcing / int_cdac637a	comment	Jet Force Gemini: As the game progresses, each of the three main playable characters (Juno, Vela and Lupus) goes through a specific route of three worlds (namely two planets and one enemy mothership) to reach Mizar's Palace. But in those paths, they will find obstacles or Locked Doors that can only be overcome with a character other than them (for example, Juno goes through Goldwood and finds a chasm that can only be traversed by Lupus with his Jet Pack flight, Vela goes through Sekhmet and finds a tunnel in a lava foundry that can only be traversed by the fireproof Juno, Lupus goes through Eschebone and finds a submerged entrance that can only be accessed by Vela, and so on), so the player will need to back track to those areas with the correct respective characters during the second half of the game.
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Character Select Forcing / int_d126742a	comment	Super Mario Maker 2: Prior to being patched out, the four playable characters (Mario, Luigi, and both Toads) in the New Super Mario Bros style threw fireballs at slightly different heights depending on the character. Some observant creators noticed this, and made a contraption that would grant access to a different door depending on the height of their fireballs. As one could easily abuse this to make levels unwinnable for Mario, Luigi, or a Toad, Nintendo patched it out and gave all characters in the NSMB style the same fireball throw height.
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Character Select Forcing / int_d3470914	comment	Kinder plays this straight only for the Final Boss battle. This is the only battle the player is allowed to pick themselves which three children to add as party members, and will quickly learn that Hiroto or Aya have to be in the party. Their unique abilities are Shout (lowers opponent's Willpower by 50) and Dark Gaze (causes opponent to skip turn), respectively, and are the only way to prevent the Final Boss from using a party-wipe attack during its first phase. Its remake Re:Kinder removes this necessity, as the player can obtain a well-hidden item that one-shot kills the Final Boss and skips to its second phase.
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Character Select Forcing / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends (and perhaps any other Multiplayer Online Battle Arena), being a game based heavily around teamwork, practically requires this. A properly balanced team of one tank, one fighter/off-tank, one jungler, one ranged DPS and one support will usually demolish a team of people who just picked their favorite champions. Key word: usually.
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Character Select Forcing / int_da02c1ef	comment	Do you want a complete Tattle Log in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? Only Goombella uses Tattle, so prepare to use her against every generic enemy at least once, including those she can't actually attack.
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Character Select Forcing / int_dc500fbe	comment	In Tales of Zestiria, even after (and almost all the time) you chose your favorite Seraphims (e.g. Lailah and Edna), to ensure the game's cutscenes will flow smoothly, the game will change the Seraphims to Mikleo or Dezel/Zaveid to the point that it can be frustrating or annoying or both. At one point Dezel even gets annoyed at Sorey for not having him on the battlefield during one important moment, usually forcing the player to comply. Additionally, Sorey is the only one usable on the field outside of battle in the main story (Alisha in the DLC) because he is a human. Normal humans cannot see the Seraphims so it won't make sense for Seraphims to be controllable on the exploration/traveling segments.
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Character Select Forcing / int_defedb34	comment	Shadow Hearts: Covenant and From The New World basically force you to take Anastasia and Johnny, respectively, because they're the only ones with the Enemy Scan move. It's not vital in Covenant, but you lose an entire game-wide subquest if you neglect to take Johnny anywhere in the latter game.
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Character Select Forcing / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, unless Hawke is also a mage, Anders will be the only healer available for most of the game. Since only relying on healing potions is costly and risky (thanks to potions' cooldown time), Anders will probably be in the party most of the time. This makes the final decision concerning Anders' betrayal that much more difficult. What makes this example particularly painful is that Anders lacks the Spirit Healer specialization and instead half of his unique skill tree, Vengance, consists of inferior versions of the Spirit Healer spells, while losing out on some of the helpful passives that exists there. Vengance's other half turns him into a Glass Cannon and is mutually exclusive. The two other mages, Bethany and Merrill? Bethany can only learn the basic heal spell and will be killed near the end of the prologue if Hawke is a mage or be otherwise unavailable until the very final battle (assuming she was brought to the circle), while Merrill can't learn any healing spells whatsoever.
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Character Select Forcing / int_e863cc41	comment	The Mega Man Battle Network series has three Virus families that force you to use certain chip types or fusions in order to even harm them at all. Shadow and Nightmare Viruses are immune to everything except for cutting attacks like swords, meaning that they're downright unbeatable without those in your folder or fusions.
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Character Select Forcing / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Dissidia Duodecim will require the user to pick Cloud if he or she is going to farm money and weapons. Because the gateways are punishing to newer players (lvl 50-80 gateways when fresh characters are in their twenties), the player will have to bend the rules in the bonus scenario 00. Manipulating the rules to max out EX force, Wall Rush Damage, and Ex Damage is required to meet the goals in the gateways comfortably. Cloud's EX abilities suit the rule manipulation perfectly, so Cloud will have to be used in the majority of the fights solely because his Ultima Weapon can Guard Crush enemy blocks and can slam an enemy for almost all of their HP (save one since Wall Rush can't be the determining blow). As a result, the battles go quickly and comfortably. The scenario is certainly doable with the other characters, make no mistake, but Cloud's skillset and abilities are ideal to complete it for farming purposes.
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Character Select Forcing / int_ed664b2d	comment	Mind Zero forces you to use Leo and Sana in your party in Phase 6 due to the urgency of the plot event happening. Though due to not having Leaked Experience, you're forced to grind them up to par, or just quit playing.
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Character Select Forcing / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: The levels in Mega Man & Bass were clearly designed with the Double Jump and the ability to shoot in 8 directions in mind, and only Bass can perform either (as well as fly). This is meant to be balanced by the fact that, for boss fights, Bass's machine gun can only inflict one sliver of damage every four seconds, must stand still to shoot it and his dash isn't as good at dodging as Mega Man's slide, but if one uses the boss weaknesses, that flaw barely exists after the first two stages. The game also has CD collectibles that require both Mega Man and Bass' abilities, meaning you will have to play through the game as both characters if you wish to get 100% Completion. An occasional complaint about Mega Man X8 is that obtaining all of the items more or less keeps Zero on the bench up until the fortress stages, leaving Axl (who is admittedly fun to use this time around) and X to do everything. If you chose the Shadow Armor to complete Gate's fortress in X6, you WILL have to continue and change armor after the first stage because of a Bottomless Pit you can't cross. Everyone else can cross it, but Shadow Armor lacks an air dash. Ironic, since the Shadow Armor otherwise makes these final stages far easier with the immunity to spikes. You have to equip a specific combo of Parts (Hyper Dash and Speedster, but do NOT use Jumper or you'll go too high and hit a wall above you) before you start the stage and to have proper positioning to have a chance of making the jump. There's a variant in Mega Man X5 and X6. While it's certainly possible to use both characters equally, you really wouldn't want to. That being because while parts are shared, Heart Tanks and Weapon Tanks (life and weapon energy increases, respectively) are not and there's no real use in splitting them (except for the ones in X5 that are impossible for Zero to get) because you're using one character or the other, not both. The effect is that you're forced into using whoever you started upgrading, and leaving the other permanently benched. The problem still exists in a different way in X7, where there are three characters instead of two, but one of them will still be sitting out because you can only use two at a time and power-ups still aren't shared (though nothing's stopping you from never using more than one character). X8 finally eliminates the problem by having power-ups be bought, allowing you to build every character equally instead of being restricted to the amount of heart/weapon tanks that exist. That said, even your choice of character at the beginning of Mega Man X5 matters a lot. Choosing X means you lose Zero's arm cannon, which is annoying but of little consequence, while choosing Zero means you lose X's Fourth/Force Armor. Obviously nobody tells you about this little consequence. Since the game is effectively built with the armor in mind, as stages practically require air dashes and enemies do ludicrous damage and knock-back without it, choosing Zero in the beginning permanently cripples X and renders him worthless until you manage to scrounge together the Falcon Armor or if you know about the hidden Ultimate Armor (both of which you can't get until later in the game). By then of course you've probably built up Zero to the point that you wouldn't want to go back and use X anyways, as discussed prior. To make matters worse, it's possible to lose Zero for good and whether or not you do is largely determined by luck. There's a reason the game mod that lets you keep both character's abilities (along with sharing bonuses and disabling all of Alia's hints) has been downloaded over three thousand times. The Mega Man Battle Network series has three Virus families that force you to use certain chip types or fusions in order to even harm them at all. Shadow and Nightmare Viruses are immune to everything except for cutting attacks like swords, meaning that they're downright unbeatable without those in your folder or fusions.
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Character Select Forcing / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing's level 12 quest has you start a war between the Frat Orcs and the Hippies, and then, ostensibly, join whichever side you like to wipe out the other one. However, the vast majority of runs join the Frat side and wipe out the Hippies, for three main reasons: the long Arena side-quest can be completed in its entirety the moment you start the war rather than having to clear out nearly half the troops before you can even begin, a Sequence Break that lets you save 8 turns by finishing the Nuns quest at the start of the war despite technically not having access to it, and being able to entirely skip the mostly-unoptimizable Dooks side-quest, as the Frats unlock it last where it is the least useful.
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Character Select Forcing / int_f367511c	comment	One of the most divisive rule changes to Yu-Gi-Oh! is the set of rules that accompanied the introduction of Link Monsters. Anything coming from the Extra Deck now entered the Extra Monster Zone, of which there is only one per player. This put a heavy damper on most Decks of the time as the metagame was focused on summoning many Extra Deck monsters. However, if a player controlled Link monsters that point to their own Main Monster Zones, those Zones can then accommodate other monsters coming from the Extra Deck. Essentially, you had to dedicate parts of your Extra Deck to Link Monsters if you wanted to continue to play your old deck, and many players were not happy with the change. The rules were revised in April 2020 to reduce the need to run Links, and the change was met with much praise.
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Character Select Forcing / int_f46e85c0	comment	Some areas or levels of Klonoa Heroes: Densetsu no Star Medal force you to play as only Klonoa, Guntz, or Pango.
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Character Select Forcing / int_f6db149f	comment	In Sonic Superstars, there is an extra Act in each of four Zones where you play as a specific character on a given adventure of theirs. Unfortunately, this means that those who truly want a single-character experience will be seeing a lot of pink, because Lagoon City Act Amy is mandatory to the plot: the events of Act Amy are what set Trip's future Heelâ€“Face Turn in motion.
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Character Select Forcing / int_f7c8e36e	comment	Octopath Traveler: While the characters can have their jobs replicated at a given shrine, most of those are in Lv. 17+ areas... except the Dancer job, which is tucked away amidst a throng of Lv. 30-ish monsters. So unless you want to go without the buffs and Dark damage the job brings to the table, you have no choice but to bring Primrose along until you can safely access that shrine. Therion is the only character who can open the locked chests scattered around since this is his personal Talent, and not bestowed by the Thief class. As a result, if you want to get all of those treasures, you either need to keep him constantly in the party or take him back to previously-visited areas.
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Character Select Forcing / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Happens on a regular basis in Adventure Mode. You will always be forced to play as a select group of characters and only when you reached the Great Maze can you choose anyone that you want to play as, and even then you're only limited to Luigi, Bowser, Kirby, King Dedede, and Ness if you haven't bothered to collect the others' trophies, Sonic won't show up until the final boss, and Jigglypuff, Toon Link, and Wolf aren't available until the game is cleared. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: Certain challenges in Spirit mode are set up so that you have to equip certain Spirits to overcome the stage hazards. For example, the Kapp'n battle is almost unbeatable without using a Spirit that gives resilience or immunity to winds. Coincidentally, you find one, a Snorlax, very close to Kapp'n's location.
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A Dance with Rogues (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Arknights (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
AstroPop (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Audiosurf (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Bayonetta 3 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
CMC+ (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Chrono Trigger (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
ClaDun (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Cocoron (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Daikatana (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dark Cloud (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Deep Rock Galactic (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dislyte (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Donkey Kong 64 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dragon Ball Z: Legendary Super Warriors (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dragon: Marked for Death (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dragon Quest Swords (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Elden Ring The Convergence (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Epic Seven (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Etrian Odyssey (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Expeditions: Rome (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Final Fantasy Brave Exvius (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Final Fantasy III (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
FinalVision	seeAlso	Character Select Forcing
Fire Emblem Engage (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Freedom Planet (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Friday Night Funkin' Online VS. (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Fusion Generation II (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Girls' Frontline: Neural Cloud (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Gladius (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Gran Turismo (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Gundam Battle Assault 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Gundam Vs Series (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Heroes of the Storm (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Jet Force Gemini (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Jet Set Radio (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Jumper (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Kinder (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Kingdom Hearts III: Re𝄌Mind (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Kirby Star Allies (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Klonoa Heroes: Densetsu no Star Medal (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Knights of the Old Republic (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Konjiki no Gash Bell!! Makai no Bookmark (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Last Dream (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Limbus Company (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Loomian Legacy (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Lost Odyssey (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Love Live! School idol festival (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mario Kart Tour (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Meat Boy (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mega Man Maker (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mega Man X (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mega Man X (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Midnight Suns (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Mini Ninjas (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Monster Hunter: World (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
MouseHunt (2008) (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Nicktoons Unite! (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
No Straight Roads (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Octopath Traveler (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Persona 3 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Persona 5 Strikers (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Phantom of the Kill (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Pilotwings (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Planetfall (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©Park Wii (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Black and White (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Masters (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Red and Blue (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Pokémon Shuffle (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Unbound (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
PokÃ©mon Unite (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Puchiguru! Love Live! (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Rise of the Blood Elves (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Robopon (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Rogue Squadron (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Rolling Thunder (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sailor Moon R (Game Boy) (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Shadowverse (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Shining Force II (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Singular Stone (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic Advance Trilogy (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic Forces: Speed Battle (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic Runners Adventure (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic Superstars (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic the Fighters (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Splatoon 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Star Ocean (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Starlancer (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
StreetPass Mii Plaza (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Suikoden (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Sunset Riders (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Super Mario Maker 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Super Robot Wars GC (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Teen Titans 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Radical Rescue (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
The Battle Cats (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
The King of Fighters All Star (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
The Path (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
The Scorched Contract (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Time Commando (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Tiny Toon Adventures (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Tom and Jerry: Frantic Antics! (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Touhou Labyrinth (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Transformers (2004) (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Warzone 2100 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Wing Commander: The Kilrathi Saga (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
World of Tanks (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Zombie Stories (Roblox) (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Zoo Tycoon (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Spirit Caller (Video Game) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark (Visual Novel) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II (Visual Novel) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Tears of Themis (Visual Novel) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
DaThings (Web Animation) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Solo Farming in the Tower (Webcomic) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing
Gaia Online (Website) / int_2bcd6fc8	type	Character Select Forcing

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