Job 11:
Credit to
Speed Weed
for original unaltered write-up.
Arcade character: Temjin from Cyber Troopers Virtual-ON
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Cyber Troopers Virtual-ON is a series of 3D fighter/shooter hybrid arcade games developed by the AM3 team at SEGA, who are most famous for also having been behind Crazy Taxi. Virtual-ON revolves around Virtuaroids (VRs for short), who are basically big ****ing robots who are decked out with weaponry and are fighting each other for the fate of the world. These battles are made possible thanks to one of this series' most distinctive and defining quirks: the use of a twin-stick controller to control the VRs, in which you have two arcade sticks complemented by a variety of other controls. This made for a rather unique control scheme in which the VRs are actually controlled like industrial machinery, which was a big factor in the series' popularity and is sometimes considered to have revolutionized the use of twin sticks in gaming. The mechs in this series are also notable for having been designed by Hajime Katoki, a character designer who has worked on Gundam.
The series has 4 main games that were released between 1996 and 2003. In more recent years, there has also been a crossover game with the light novel series A Certain Magical Index and a collection of the first three games on the PS4. This is actually a very notable series for SEGA - the original games were big hits on arcades, the series has quite the cult following, and SEGA reference it, like, all the time. I think the two most shining examples of the series getting referenced are the original game being playable in Yakuza Kiwami 2 and some of the more recognizable mechs from the series showing up in Super Robot Wars (fun fact: an unspecified Virtual-ON character was in the cards for Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed - apparently even having had a model made of them - but was unfortunately scrapped. But it also just keeps popping up in all sorts of smaller ways. The old SEGA 60th anniversary pfp thing they did had like a bajillion Virtual-ON icons. If you listen to any of these big SEGA music albums, there's a pretty high likelihood that there will be some Virtual-ON representation. It's just a series that SEGA clearly have a lot of reverence for (it's also gotten stuff like figurines, light novels, and drama CDs).
Also it's a series about cool robots fighting like cmon we gotta get it in.
Temjin is more or less the face of Virtual-ON. It's the mascot. The poster bot, if you will. Temjin is an all-around fighter, whose main weapon is a laser blade that can also be transformed into an energy beam.
Temjin is SEGA Soccer game would be too big, but we fan shrink him down to make him balanced in the game. He would focus on defense and strength due to being a giant robot and he would be slow, but powerful character that could even defend the ball from going to the goal.
I know he could be very odd addition, but he would join the roster if you're inventive how he could work in the soccer game.
Arcade Stadium:
Distorted Shrine (Virtual-on)
Distorted Shrine is one of locations in Virtaul-On game and it's a structure that exists in outer space. It's also a Shrine where robots fight in the Game.
(I really don't know about the series, so I need to write is very shortly)
As Stadium, it would be themed after Virtual-ON, where aesthetics are future-based and everything is made out of metal except grass, where you play the soccer.
The Hazard is Z-Gradt and spawns on the middle of Battlefield and shoots out the rockets at opponents to damage them. Also, he could shoot at the ball sometimes, creating an explosion that lets ball bounce to the goal by accident.
He appears for while and he goes away, leaving the Battlefield.
Despite his huge size and possible unfairness of the stage Hazard, he could be smaller version of him that is not very dangerous as original one.