Whenever a big-name fighting game is released, there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth as gamers everywhere buckle down and get to unlocking all the characters. This could be a simple process, such as throwing in a cheat code. There could also be prerequisites that are nearly impossible. Unlocking all the characters in Street Fighter IV lands somewhere in the middle.
I was one of the loud complainers when I began my quest to unlock Akuma, Seth, and of course Gouken, but during my journey—and I'm not done yet—I came to appreciate the road for what it was. To unlock Gouken, you have to beat the game with everyone except Seth, and then win with a perfect victory, and then win with three Ultra Combos. It's not easy, and when I began I didn't even know how to land an Ultra Combo.
Needless to say, I learned. I began the quest with a good friend over a few sodas; we passed the arcade stick back and forth as we discussed each character we played in turn. We didn't run through it, although we did turn the difficulty down and change the matches to one round. We looked up the moves for each character and tried each one at least once or twice. Seth went from an annoyance to a challenge: you simply had to find the cheese-tastic moves for each character to beat him.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/02/the-road-to-gouken-in-defense-of-unlocking-characters.ars
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