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This isn't the first fighting game I 100%/Platinum but it's the first one I've done completely legit (actually this isn't true, I just remembered I did Tekken 7 last year but that one was quick and easy), and holy fuck was it the hardest one by far. I mean, there's really no way to boost this one. You need to make it to Gold League in ranked. No choice but to git gud. Shit, this is probably the hardest game I've ever completed. Dustforce was hard as fuck but it was still just a single-player game all about execution. In Street Fighter V, other people stand in your way. And some of these people are really fucking good. It's not enough to practice, you need to actually learn how to play fighting games. And I'm really glad I finally did because it's something I'd been wanting to do for over a decade and it made them go from something that looks cool but didn't feel like it was for me to now being one of my favorite game genres. Not that long ago, sinking almost 300 hours in a purely competitive multiplayer game was unthinkable for me. I lose interest way before that. Best case scenario, after like 20-30 hours I start feeling like I've seen everything the game has to offer and I move on. But this fucking game got its hooks into me like no other game ever has. I just can't get enough of it! I've literally seen everything the game has to offer 10 times over by now yet I feel like I've only just scratched the surface. Anyway, I made it to Gold a little over a month ago. So why am I only now posting my 100%? Because this achievement list requires you to earn 1 million fight money and Capcom, in their great wisdom, basically nerfed every single way to earn FM. So going through some characters' story modes and doing some tutorials and combo trials early on and playing about 250h of ranked got me a little over halfway there. I then went through all the story modes for the remaining characters and watched some character specific demonstrations and that was good for another nice little boost. Then the only viable way to get the remaining ~350K was to play survival mode. Survival mode kinda sucks! This was such a tedious fucking grind. Making it to Gold took way longer but at least that was fun. This was so time consuming that at some point I started listening to the Always Sunny Podcast while I was grinding survival runs and I made it to episode 30 before I was even done! But anyway, I'm done now. I can rest. Until the next fight.* *and by that I mean Street Fighter 6