Dannyboi2.0

So real talk, here are my thoughts on this character:
 
1) Despite what a lot of other people that play MUGEN think, extended cutscenes used for animations, are honestly not bad. Like sure, it is much easier to just cut out some video frames and make an "animation" out of that, but while it doesn't show any kind of classy skill that a lot of actual sprite animators on here do, it does show that people are creative.
 
2) Although most of the animations are REALLY long, they're very enjoyable to watch over and over again.
 
3) I really hope to see more characters like this. Cause sure, a lot of people seem to complain and say that "the purpose of MUGEN is to play it, not to watch it", well... if that was the case, then why does SaltyBet exist? Why did MUGEN come with a watch feature? Don't get me wrong, I love to be in the heat of the battle, but its always nice to see characters like this where you just want to watch them go HAM on someone else's character, especially when the stakes are high and you can run this character up against characters like God Rugal or something/someone else with a tough AI.
 
NOW ONTO THE FLAWS
 
1) This character's Ultra Instinct mode is freaking dumb to acquire. The fact that you have to lose a battle just to use it makes it pretty freaking lame to use, and almost all the time, you want to go up against an enemy with a brutal AI, that way you actually can lose (unintentionally). That said, despite Ultra Instinct form being apparently the most powerful form possible, even this form, despite its ability to dodge and be unhittable by almost everything, well... that's the key word... "almost" everything. Depending on the AI you go up against, the Ultra Instinct form is still a pushover. For example, I ran this character up against Dragon Claw with Vensen's AI patch and after I got him to Ultra Instinct, despite being able to just teleport non-stop and be unable to be hit by almost everything, Dragon Claw was still able to sweep kill Goku.
 
2) The file size is really obnoxious. Don't get me wrong, as the more packed a character gets with all these files and animations and sounds and such, that is to be expected, but the sad thing is, although this character has a lot to it, much of the data that takes up the space, isn't needed to be such a vast size. In fact, a good percentage of it really just comes from the damn audio file, mainly because it plays music during some of the animations. Of course, that's an easy fix, but ya know... its still unnecessary, especially if the download link was to stop working and the only version of this were to be on shitty MA, where most people wouldn't be able to access it.
 
3) Some of the sprites are misaligned, but then again, I've seen far worse. So its not something that I notice right off the bat, but at times I do go "yeah, that's a tad bit out of place, but I can ignore it".
 
4) The music is really quiet. Not gonna lie, I think this is my biggest complaint about this character, is that when he does go Ultra Instinct and uses one of his supers/finishers, the music is really quiet and makes it a bit bland in a way. Probably an easy fix, but definitely my main concern. Like, you added an epic song... but the epic song is quiet, which is really unfortunate.
 
 
 
Overall though, while this character is impressive as a visual piece, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that wants to CONSTANTLY be active while fighting. Many of the animations for the supers and specials and such are rather slow and time consuming. However, if you can overlook that and ignore some of the small issues, this is quite the impressive character. Back in the day, LegendTTA used to be the big hot shot when it came to Dragon Ball characters, since almost all of his characters had multiple transformations, specials/supers, and all sorts of fancy crap that made you go "HOLY SHIT!", but it looks like 280gou is certainly someone worth mentioning when you say "who makes good characters these days?". Is 280gou the best? Of course not, nobody is. But certainly someone I can say that their characters are worth downloading.
 
This is one of the few characters that I keep in my roster, purely because it is exciting to watch, and even lose against (especially when it does something like Spirit Bomb or Ultra Instinct Kamehameha (the same one used against Kefla)).