Battle Theater: Lapis Edition

“Style and substance.”''—The game's tagline

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Battle Theater is a 2014 Umbrella game developed by [http://fantendo.wikia.com/wiki/Wario_Inc. Wario Inc.], that is a 2D fighting game. However, instead of the traditional recipe, the game has an audience, and the goal is to please them and get higher ratings, because if not, you'll pay. It is the first of the series. The game is inspired by Tatakai! and Fighters of Lapis and the audience element was partially inspired by Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

Gameplay
Battle Theater is not your regular fighting game, instead, it focuses on ratings and style. The main mode, Brawl, features a 2D SSB esque-fighter with an audience. Each characters can punch, run, and jump, but also have special moves and three Super moves. The unique mechanic of Brawl, is that characters have a Ratings meter in their hud, rather then an HP bar. Characters must do combos and specials on foes and fight well to keep the bar up. However, the bar must be kept up constantly, because if it is depleted, the character will lose a life. Character have an energy meter, that must be filled by having foes drop it or getting it through items. Fill one bar to pull of a Level 1 super, and so on, for up to three bars. Variables are up to the players, and lives can be altered from 1 life to up to 5, items can be turned on or off(off if you're a sissy), and more. Besides basic audience members, rare Guest Stars will show up depending on what stage and characters you choose, as well as randomly. These stars enjoy specific moves and will award more rating if their objective's are complete.

That Umbrella's Show is the story mode of the game. It features various missions the player must complete in stages and the hub, the Colliseum. Bosses are fought in this mode and supers are only available in fights.

Crowd Favorite is the third mode. Rather then having you die when you have a depleted ratings bar, whoever reaches max ratings first wins.

In Arcade, you have to fight up the ladder in different matches. The final foe is Master Hand.

In the Deadly Dungeon, the player must fight through 100 floors of enemies or characters. Every ten floors, you get a prize. The final floor pits you against Crazy Hand.

In the Shop, items, equipment, characters, stages, music, and stickers can be bought with coins from the other modes.

Cheat codes can be used in this game in the Code section of the shop.

In the Blacksmith's Office, you can create items, characters, trophies, stages, and music with different equipment found or bought.

Stickers can be dropped in fights or in various modes. These are collectable items that tell you about them or that series. They can be viewed in Sticker mode.

Stages can be created in the Stage Builder mode, using tools from other stages. These can be exported and imported fairly easily.

Script mode has the player fighting against every playable character one at a time(with healing available), but following the special conditions given at the beginning of the match. The final fight has the player fight against Giga Stick, Mini Galleom, and Electrified JOS in a no-rules match.

Match 1: Stick
Conditions: Use only punches and kicks.

Match 2: Rawk Hawk
Conditions: Use only special moves.

Match 3: Lakitu
Conditions: Only use aerial attacks.

Match 4: Watt
Conditions: No summons.

Match 5: Tingle
Conditions: No aerial attacks.

TBA

Guest Stars
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Story
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Default
There are 25 default characters.

Unlockable
There are 25 unlockable characters. 9/25

Default
There are 10 default venues. 5/10

Bosses/Enemies
TBA

Props
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Extras
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Trivia

 * Continuing the theme of a show, the character-select screen is a curtain, which opens when the battle begins. Winners are also shown down on by a spotlight.
 * Mewtwo's unlockable capabilites is a refrence to SSB Melee.
 * The plot was partially inspired by Dreammix TV World Fighters and Rayman Raving Rabbids.

Pre-Reviews
Pre-review here.