Cobalt Champions: First Strike

Cobalt Champions: First Strike is a 2016 Baby Waffle game developed by Inora for the The V2. Inspired by retro Baby Waffle games (or Umbrellas, if you're an uncultured swine), the game is both an attempt to pay tribute to those games, and bring some more unique features to the genre. It probably won't work.
The game's a side project that will be worked on throughout the second half of the year, and is the start of a possible franchise. Reception for the game has been (TBA). And no, I'm totally not going to regret making this.
==Gameplay==
===Core Gameplay===
Cobalt Champions: First Strike is a 2D fighting game that pulls elements from several other 2D fighting games (because Sr.Wario is a hack fraud). The core of the game is a high-speed, flashy, kinetic fighting game resembling the popular Marvel vs. Capcom series, where players will take control of a character and fight to the death against an opponent with light, medium, and heavy attacks, and pull off successful chains to fill up a Star Meter, which, depending on what Cobalt Star you've equipped, will allow the character to use their unique Star Moves.
However, one significant difference inspired by the Super Smash Bros. series is that special moves are rather simple to pull off and require a mere button press to use, with four different directional special moves for each character. Another feature taken from that series are the large, platform-filled stages that each have different hazards and conditions related to them, with Injustice style interactive elements.
The game's main gimmick are Card Decks (inspired by the first draft of Fighters of Lapis 7). Each character has various Cards, and upon collecting their Card, you can unlock them. Stages, badges, Cobalt Stars, and even parts of the game's story mode are all based upon how many Card Decks you've completed, as these things are unlocked in bulk when you complete a Card Deck. The game starts you with a handful of characters, badges, stages, Cobalt Stars, and story labeled as the Cobalt Champions deck. Collecting another Card for a character you've already unlocked will upgrade them and open up new alternate costumes and moves.
Badges and Cobalt Stars are the other two big features. Badges work as the game's items, and each character has a number of Badge Points that determine how many Badges they can wear at a time. Badges can't ever be permanently kept, and are randomly dropped in stages for use in that particular battle.  Cobalt Stars however, are always kept in the character's inventory, and are equipped before every battle. Depending on which Cobalt Star you pick, that will determine your character's Star Move for that battle. These features were inspired by the Paper Mario series.
===Game Modes===
The game mode tables are inspired by Masses, a way better game. Go check it out, then come back. I'll wait. Seriously.
Mode	Description
 	
The game's primary mode, First Strike has you and an opponent battling it out to the death. The mode features heavy customization, you can turn on/off several gimmicks and make the match very complex or barebones simple if you like.
First Strike can be played with a computer, against friends, or against scrublords on the internet. There's even a cool tournament feature where you can easily set up competitive bouts. Who would play this baby game competitively in the first place though?
 	
The game's story mode. It's sorted into various episodes, which are unlocked based upon which Card Decks you've completed, making it a rather expansive mode once you've unlocked every episode.
This mode features a world map, where you can visit different levels and battle through them. There's some light platforming and minigames to mix things up, as well as different enemies and the game's dangerous boss battles.
Besides the levels, there's a shop where you can buy power-ups from Charlieton, and various random side missions that will earn you a wide variety of rewards. This mode is single player.
 	
An unlockable mode that's only available upon completing every episode of Champion Hunter. The game combines various modes from other fighting games.
Selecting a team of three characters, you'll venture into a giant world map and battle every character and boss in the game. As you progress, more rewards will appear.
This mode has three difficulties, Pleb, Casual, and Scrublord. The harder it gets, the better and more plentiful rewards are. This mode is single player.
 	
A mode that is unlocked from the start and is inspired by Team Kirby Clash from Kirby: Planet Robobot. With a band of four characters, you'll venture into various areas.
Each area has a host of random battles, enemies, new bosses, and a lot of loot to pick up. You can earn XP here to upgrade the stats of your characters.
This mode can be played with computers, friends, or even online.
 	
This mode is unlocked after completing every episode of Champion Hunter and takes the player to a giant theater, where THEY'RE the new entertainment.
Here, you'll fight through 30 different teams of enemies, each with different strengths and weaknesses, even with some new enemies. Each match has a random condition you MUST comply with to advance.
Upon completing this mode, you'll unlock the Classic Baddies Card Deck. This mode is single player.
 	
In Dungeons & Douchebags (ha, what a clever name!), the player and 3 other party members will enter a giant labyrinth and are forced to find the exit to prevail.
Each room in this massive maze is randomly generated, featuring minigames, puzzles, enemies, and even bosses, as well as Moogle shop rooms and rare treasure rooms.
Upon reaching the end, you'll all collect a random rare card. This mode can be played with computers, friends, or online.
 	
Moneybags, everyone's favorite foreign bear shopkeeper from a dead series (and the only one of those, too), will sell you things here for money you've earned. Hey, at least he's not charging you gems to progress.
Cards are Moneybag's primary good, but he also has a lot of little bonus goodies you can buy for The Vault like songs, concept art, and tips.
 	
The Vault, also known as all the shit that's not important enough to get their own sections. We just went with The Vault, because it's shorter. Hey, we have a budget here!
You can listen to songs you've bought (and import songs to use in the game), view Tattle Log entries, concept art, and tips, as well as customize the game settings like brightness and volume.
==Intro==
TBA
==Story Mode: Champion Hunter==
TBA
==Roster==
The game features a rather large roster of (I dunno this is just a placeholder for now) characters, sorted into 15 decks. Wow. There's 2 characters so far.
===Cobalt Champions===
Character	Description
 	
<tabber>Description=
Look, what were you expecting from a game made by Sr.Wario? Wario is pretty much the definition of a traditional anti-hero, being someone who does good deeds on occasion, but lacks the admirable traits someone like Mario is known for. Boisterous, disgusting, rude, and above all greedy, Wario isn't always likable but he's smarter and stronger than he looks. Waa!
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Unlocked from default. Extra Wario cards can be bought from Moneybags or found as a commonly-dropped item.
 	
<tabber>Description=
Goombas seem to get a bad rap. Not all of them are the toothy, easy-to-stomp monsters that assist Bowser, some, like Goombella, are quite sophisticated. A sophomore at the University of Goom, Goombella is an intelligent young woman who has a book that seemingly has information about every monster you'll ever meet, throwing in her own sass and sense of humor along the way. Also, she wants to fuck Mario, but that's not super notable.
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Unlocked from default. Extra Goombella cards can be bought from Moneybags or found as a commonly-dropped item.
 	
<tabber>Description=
The blow thrower. Independent flower. Magic emerald holder. Born on Angel Island (an island in the heavens), Knuckles is the last of the echidnas (sort of, it's complicated) and the guardian of the powerful Master Emerald. Being isolated for much of his life, he can be gullible and naive but he's strong-willed and takes his job very seriously. Knuckles would never be found chuckling, he'd rather flex his muscles.
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Unlocked from default. Extra Knuckles cards can be bought from Moneybags or found as a commonly-dropped item.
===Super Heroes===
===Toon Team===
===Mario's Party===
===Sonic Heroes===
===Dark Rivals===
===Fantendoverse Fighters===
===Real People===
===Vile Villains===
===Inora Icons===
===Classic Baddies===
===Big Jokes===
===Video Gamers===
===Super Smash Bros.===
===Cinema Squad===
==Stages==
TBA
==Badges==
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==Cobalt Stars==
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==Enemies==
TBA
==Cobalt Theater==
TBA
==Champion's Quest==
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==Minigames==
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==Tattle Log==
TBA
==Reception==
TBA
==Trivia==
TBA
Category:Baby Waffles
Category:Games
Category:V2 Games