He'd be the Boss

* Builderboy is excited for Illustat 14 *

Yea me too
Can't I be the vilian? My name represents my face already
and my helpers would be nazi zombies (no rasict shit I just like the concept  ) singing some specific song from a certain guy called Rick Astley, IN GERMAN! :O

"The Master," from ActRaiser 2. He's actually supposed to be "God," but that was kind of lost in the English translation.



Why? I think the game is a masterpiece. It's perfect in every way. I'm not even sure where to begin...

First off all, I like the game's approach to the concept of divinity. You play the role of a god, but he functions like any mortal man. He's not omnipotent in any way. He actually has to manifest himself as a physical avatar in order to fight evil creatures. While in this form, he can be harmed, and even killed. To me, this implies our "Master" has possibly gained this title through many tedious battles with evil, as opposed to being innately divine. The fact that he can survive all of these battles in lieu of his own mortality makes him a sort of stoical strongman worthy of being considered a god.

Secondly, I love the difficulty. The game is extremely rigid and unforgiving. Every achievement means something, because you have to go through some serious effort to progress. This also goes hand-in-hand with how our "Master" must have risen to divinity in the first place. Surely, this one-man army is extremely able-bodied to have survived so many battles with such unrelenting evils.

Third, I like the simplicity of the gameplay. It's really straightforward, and you only have a few moves at your disposal. The challenge before you is memorizing enemy patterns, and finding strategies that will allow you to survive every few steps you take through any given battlefield.

Fourth, I like the fact that the game uses a password system. All the data really keeps track of is which levels you've cleared, and which difficulty mode you're on. This gives you the freedom of coming back to the game at any time to retry levels over and over again, without having to hoard a ton of lives or continues; and you will be retrying some levels many times.

Fifth, I really like the overall design: Graphics, music, special effects... It's all one very nice, neat package.

Strangely, I didn't like the first ActRaiser game. I just didn't care much for the "SimCity" parts. I think it's cool that ActRaiser 2 just dropped all of that and threw you straight into a bunch of action scenes.

i would say either solid snake, link, or captain falcon

Ash or Red from Pallet Town. lol  Pokemon.

Gotta love Chocobos in general, *KWEH!*

But seriously, they pop up in almost every square enix game

Marco Rossi from Metal Slug.
That arcade game just kick a**

@JosJuice: Necro reply!

Me!(I made a game where I play as myself(a walrus) and collect scallops )
other than that, mario, just because he appears in such a wide variety of games