I have no game manual.
 

...ugh. I guess it was inevitable huh?

Of course, there are other possible reasons they wouldn't be there.
 

AFAIK those are the only two characters I don't have from word go, if that's any consolation.

To unlock Frank West: Beat arcade mode with three Capcom characters.

To unlock Zero: Same, but with six. Replace Capcom with Tatsunoko to obtain Tekkaman Blade and Joe the Condor.

It's pretty much straight forward to unlock people, it doesn't even demand an specific Difficulty level. And beating the game 12 Times isn't really absurd.

It's just too bad we lost all the Japanese minigames and the original music, but the new characters and balanced gameplay is actually really better.

I'm not gonna say much that won't go in a review/analysis that won't matter except for people as fucked up in the head as I am so I'll just say I'm enjoying my copy and considering forcing my roommate to get a Wiimote/Classic just to go a few rounds with me.

EDIT: VV I thought that too, but hey we get Viewtiful Joe and Zero and Frank West, I think we're alright for now.

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Karas is still an awesome robot samurai Batman.
 

Wait no Dante or vergil... why Capcom? WHY!?

It's a counterattack - Yuri works the same way with her Ultra. If you want to see it put the CPU on in Training and do it. They walk right into it, usually, especially with infinite Hyper.

I swear I'm so glad I actually liked Casshern before I got this game. He's like the standard rush/beatdown character and I'm totally digging his movelist. Viewtiful Joe might be my new favorite unique fighting game character, trumping Johnny, just for the cool way his height and abilities works within context to the VJ games.

EDIT: Read the manual. Works with - and indeed, prefers, Gamecube Controllers.

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