Recent content by Arctic Tern

What does it mean to lose your humanity? Is it merely becoming a monster? Or is it losing the ideals that you have maintained your whole life even when the world declares they are meaningless? Such questions are one that the subject of this document is all too familiar with - having lost all the...

LA+ DARKNESSS (Bubby) La+ Darknesss is from what I can gather basically Plankton as an anime girl, and as such has the requisite minion based-gameplan. I really like the way they’re handled; they have mini-movesets of their own, and can be used as either Nana-esque followers or set onstage as...

LORD CYBER (Dae) Fitting for what was originally written as an entry for the Deep Jamcon, Lord Cyber is easily one of the deepest cuts we’ve had in this contest, and easily one of the deepest cut F-Zero characters to make a set for. Regardless, the set uses what little we know about him and his...

ED (BrazilianGuy) Ed, naturally, takes inspiration from Ryu/Ken in terms of how to interpret Street Fighter gameplay into a platform fighter setting, but diverges from them in multiple notable ways. He doesn’t have EX inputs to reflect how his inputs in his original appearance were very simple...

SOPHIA (Potted Plant) Sophia immediately hits the reader with a very interesting mechanic in the form of a “Style Counter”. By hitting the foe with her attacks, she gains access to points that she can expend on either certain attacks to buff their normally low kill power or on DSpec to cancel...

Every Jamcon set has been ranked and commented! My nomination goes to Voyager, by Katapultar. Admittedly, this wasn't nearly as close as it was for the past Jamcon, but I still liked every set made for this Jamcon.

WRIOTHESLEY (Salty) Wriothesley is a fairly basic brawler set, but he’s still got some interesting stuff to him. His NSpec grants him a buff to his knockback at the expense of passive self-damage, which appeals to my liking of self-damage as a concept, though there isn’t any mention of how it...

Sorry to interrupt this Jamcon, gentlemen! I just have one question to ask you... Do you know why "oppose" rhymes with "dispose"?

"The kingdom fell into despair." "The king and queen had lost two children in one night." "The humans had once again taken everything from us." "The king decided it was time to end our suffering." "Every human who falls down here must die." "With enough souls, we can shatter the barrier...

SAIKA TOTSUKA (Kat) Saika is a set based around tennis, which ends up surprisingly interesting as a basis. His NSpec is the obligatory tennis ball toss that both he and the foe can redirect with their attacks, but he also gets a bonus to the amount of damage it can deal if it passes the blast...

CRASH BANDICOOT (Turtles) As someone who grew up watching Crash gameplay videos, I’m quite familiar with the series overall, and this manages to get across the general vibe of the character very well. While my personal plans for him are more slower-paced to get across the slower pace his games...

MIRAIDON (Hypah) Miraidon is a meter set focused on its Hadron Engine, where charging certain moves will also charge this meter. Doing so will grant a minor buff to its attacks, but more importantly make it so that all of its electric attacks create electric terrain, which adds a second of...

MAPLE (KAT) Maple is a tank in every definition of the word - ridiculous weight and potentially amazing recovery, but slower speed than everyone in the game, and a 7-frame jumpsquat just to make jumping that much more committal. On top of that, she also doesn’t have a lot of low percent KO...

Every set in this Jamcon has been read and ranked! You can find the block for this (and all other Jamcons) by clicking this link, which will automatically take you to the section I've designated for them. As for nomination, it would have gone to Knull... if it weren't for those meddling lawyers...

ACHERON (WCF) Acheron is a set primarily about treason, already a good start. By using NSpec, he can switch his allegiance to one of two rival nations and summon reinforcements from them, but having both on stage risks him becoming victim to one group’s attacks. This isn’t all doom and gloom...