Okay, this is ...a bit of weird filler while I work up some more usable "normal" material, kinda like the last one, but at least not so incredibly redundant or self-aggrandizing... but I'd actually picked up a couple of spectator matches while I was letting the game "grind" itself some online time accumulation for me one weekend. Granted, I also watched it and paid enough attention to notice something really strange happening: Galactus attacked!
...granted, as a self-proclaimed fan, but also someone who can't really play this game for beans (least of all the kinds of beans the game frequently gets played for on average), I don't really keep up with what waves are made in the online scene... but apparently it's not all that difficult to hack your preset teams to include Galactus, who is seen as a perfectly valid choice for online play... huzzah! ... ... ...we're doomed.
If that's not bad enough, being obviously unintended for use in versus play, much less so online, Galactus still only occupies ONE character slot... so... a proper team will still need to include two other characters... both of which can also be hacked to be Galactus, while we're at it. The more interesting element to this is that you can also hack the character slots to contain duplicates of any character, like an even crazier version of the Multiple Man card in Heroes and Heralds... but, no... it's obviously going to be used for Galactus. Duh.
Anyway, this is a completely ridiculous situation that basically speaks for itself... rather quickly. So, here's a ridiculous number of them put end-to-end so you can absorb the great and terrible might that is Galactus. He also shows that any stage beyond his own is completely unsuited to hosting him, for a number of obvious reasons... his stage incidentally being the only one you can't select in multiplayer... so he's guaranteed to break through the stage if you're using him outside the intended mode.
Specifically, just to hit the tip of the iceberg... he's got freebie Hyper Combos, a normal attack that's a free Snap Back, complete armored status at all times, a number of attacks that can hit on-the-ground opponents... some of which also result in a hard knockdown with none of the apparent limits regular characters are subjected to, and because he was never intended to have teammates (and not just extra copies of himself as teammates), team-based Hyper Combos get... really wonky and tend to make all attacks "instantaneous" by pausing everything else in play. His one "weakness" is that he can be made to suffer a stun status if you hit him enough. In short, he's a boss. He was only made playable at all for a bit of fun on a variation of the Arcade mode for a bit of a laugh... and I guess this unintentionally allowed for some sick laughs once this potential for unintended repercussions of unrelated modes and unchecked conditions on in-game values modifiable through unsupported and unintended means. (Apparently this is much easier to accomplish on the PS3 version than the Xbox 360 due to far less stringent checks on data access and integrity, but however you manage to alter the game save data and inject it back into the game, the result is the same.)
So anyway, the whole "point"... if we're generous enough to suggest I have one and am NOT simply stalling for time to get more "real" YouTube content produced (such as it is with me anyway, am I right?! High five? ...low five? ... ... ...five dollars?) is that Galactus is totally outside the realm of the possible and intentional... so, like... almost all conventional strategy goes straight out the window and you desperately need to lay the hurt on him faster than he can utterly decimate your team... without creating any openings that will let him completely annihilate you because of some broken loop shenanigans that only he gets access to.
For the record, whether or not I can actually win against Galactus when he's running his intentionally stupid and pseudorandom move selection routines as the Arcade mode boss is fairly up in the air... so I wouldn't dare fight a human-controlled one myself. I mean, heck... with even a small dose of intelligence an nearly zero required technical skill, *I* can apparently shut down anybody who's not specifically out to take down the big man himself... although, my only sample for such an assertion is picking on poor, defenseless AI opponents in the one mode as Galactus intended.
So yeah, Galactus: makes-gods-look-like-chumps tier... Vergil: still completely broken and makes-that-which-makes-gods-look-like-chumps-look-like-chumps tier?
(I'm probably definitely couldn't-possibly-be not a Herald of Galactus.)
