Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is a demonstration of using the Frog as a starting character in the Arcade MVS version of Power Instinct Matrimelee. Read on below for more information...

===== INTRODUCTION =====

In Matrimelee, there are two characters who can turn their opponents into animals temporarily. These characters are Clara and Sissy. Clara can turn the opponent into a bird or a pig; and Sissy can turn the opponent into a Frog. If you are turned into animal character, you can control them by moving them around.

The bird and the pig are able to attack the opponent through single strikes (that does next to no damage); but with the Frog you cannot hurt the opponent at all... and to make it worse, he is a much larger target unlike the other two animals.

Despite being temporary limited characters, they are almost like entirely different characters to "play as", which this concept kind of has become a staple of the Power Instinct franchise.

===== DEMONSTRATION & INFORMATION =====

As the animals cannot be selected as regular characters, this is my attempt at trying to play as them start off as a "regular character". As you can see in the video, it doesn't work properly at all and is very prone to glitching and resetting the game. Here is the information about the Frog:

---- Despite being the Frog from the start, the player has no control over him. It cannot move, attack nor do anything else. It just stands there. The animation is still, unlike normally when Sissy turns the opponent into him.

---- The colour palette of the Frog is incorrect with glitched colours. The colours of it can vary on different background stages.

---- When the opponent is near the Frog, it reacts by doing a different animation pose (think Fatal Fury 3). This is interesting and strange because the game's regular characters do not have a feature where they change pose if their opponent is close to them.

---- The Frog is able to be hit and thrown by the opponent. Some hits from specific moves will crash and reset the game. Trying to throw the Frog will also result in a game reset.

---- Defeating the Frog can cause a crash with extreme visual glitches but without resetting the game. You can see this starting around 01:36.

---- It is probably possible to get the animal characters to be selected and function as "regular characters", but I got bored.

===== TRIVIA =====

---- The frog's name is possibly "Frogger".