I go to the restaurant for the first time, and I comment on how good the atmosphere of the place is. I said I'll do my best to reach those higher goals. He says he has his sights set higher than MVP, which is what I have my sights set on. I tell him I got noticed by a scout, and ask him how he feels about that. There are, and I say, "You just like sharks, don't you?" He fawns over them, apparently. He hasn't heard of the Golden Apples before, and wonders if there are any other AAA teams besides the Galaxy Sharks. However, he thinks I'm on the Galaxy Sharks, and, well, I'm not. I tell him that I finally got called up to AAA, and he thinks it's amazing. I get a phone call from my friendly rival over in Japan. So, basically, I make less than an actual Minor Leaguer makes per month, and that's really bad. We're now in March, and I get my first $100 paycheck. Likability of her went up by 5, and motivation went up by 1. I formally introduce myself to her, and she formally introduces herself as well. I say that tennis training is hard, but that training is still necessary, even when it's not with the team. At the end, Hayley thanks me for being her practice partner. Got a decent amount of strength, and I believe speed and mentality points. It continues, and after I take a rest, I finish up with a little more running. After a bit, I complain that I ran to much and want to die. Didn't mention this in Day 1, but default commands in a week is 2, with the possibility of getting up to 4 or 5. A year? Jeez, these Success Modes just keep getting shorter and shorter, eh? However, he says I could be in the majors in a year. My character asks if it's good enough to make the Majors, and of course, Rudy says no. Rudy says I did better than he thought I'd do. That's better than I've done in the American Power Pros games. Since I'm a pitcher, I have to hit the squares with precision. Coach is introducing an "important" person, and lo and behold, it's the scout! Rudy's back! "Find a way to be alone in a baseball stadium at sunrise, when the only sound you hear are about nine birds that got lost, and found themselves in a stadium, and they’re chirping across the grandstand trying to figure out where the *(censored)* they ended up." -Dan Besbris "Best way to get laid: Tell her you're the community manager of a baseball video game forum." -SkittleMonster "Another year older, another year better at Power Pros!" -Me Did I really say that? Google Translate said I did, but I don't wanna believe that. Also, don't call Hayley a "cheeky woman". I accepted, but that will be for another random event, I think. I chose 4, and she said 6, then challenged me to train on her schedule for a day, and see if I like it. She asked how much I train per day, I had the option of 2, 4, or "until I die". Went running in the park, and ran into Hayley. Spoiler alert: we don't really get along right off the bat, because I didn't know anywhere to train in the neighborhood besides the baseball team's facilities. She's a tennis player that turned pro at 16 years old and has won a few tournaments. One of the girls you can be in a relationship is named Hayley. Bison's shop returns, which isn't a surprise. Ben's shop returns, but because of the backstory, he doesn't know me. You actually start out with 20 points in all the columns in the level up screen, so that's not too bad. There's actually a manager character for the Golden Apples. Job, Marvin, Joey, and Terry return! And Joey's a bit of an asshole? Not sure, but my player got all mad and stuff, so. My character will be a pitcher, for the record. I decided to go to America to try to make it into the Major Leagues there, and in a couple years, I made it to the AAA level with the Golden Apples. After high school, he got drafted into the NPB, while I didn't. Backstory: I've been playing baseball in Japan since I was a little kid, with a friendly (?) rivalry with another person who played with me. I'll make individual posts with my observations on Success for every day I play the game, which probably won't be every day. I know it can be inaccurate (I'll probably know when the app is steering me wrong) and it might be a bit of a gong show, but it's the only way I know of to understand what the hell is going on in the game. Now, most of my observations are made by using the mobile Google Translate app, taking a picture of the Japanese text, and translating it directly from there. In lieu of that, I decided to make a bit of a log detailing my observations from playing the Success Mode in MLBPP09. I was planning on doing a YouTube video of me going through the first 30 minutes of gameplay, with an Exhibition Mode game, but lag problems halted that progress right in its tracks. So, recently, I managed to find a rom download of the 2009 MLB Power Pros game released only in Japan.
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