Success

Success

The Success mode (サクセス) is a story campaign mode that has been the mainstay of Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū franchise since Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 3.

Overview
Success mode is a hybrid between visual novel-style sim raising and baseball simulator where the player creates an original character to take part in a story, raise the player character's stats, and participate in the series of baseball matches in an attempt to achieve several objectives. Successfully clear the Success Mode will allow the player to use that original character in regular gameplay modes, primarily by arranging that player into an existing professional team or a custom team.

In Japanese games. success mode uses a suspending save system.where the player can only save when quitting the game. Loading the file will automatically delete the suspended save file. If the player gets a game over, the file, along with the character is permanently deleted. This; however, was changed in the oversea releases of the two MLB Power Pros games, allowing the player to save scum unwanted scenarios and random events so long that the player doesn't encounter a game over or an ending.

The contexts for the Success Mode varies, but there are three most recurring plot points

Gameplay
In your free time, you can practice, go to places, and boost up your attributes.

Notable Scenarios
"For in-depth details for the Success scenarios and strategies of the English released games, see Success (MLB Power Pros 2007) and Success (MLB Power Pros 2008)"

Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 3
The original concept of Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 3. is that the player character is a professional baseball rookie who is newly drafted into one of the 8 professional NPB baseball teams and plays for that team for 2 in-game years to prove himself as a capable baseball player. The player is moderated by coaches who evaluate the player's performances and provide him with more active roles in the matches provided that he performs adequately. Failing to impress the coaches and owners will result in the player character being fired from the team, resulting in a game over.

A lot of elements featuring in Pawapuro 3 was later used as a basis for My Life mode.

Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 7
Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 7 incorporates its predecessor concepts of comedic success mode scenarios into the game. Among 8 scenarios, the player character meets and teams up with some of the recurring success characters as follows:

Pacific League:
Akio Yabe will join the player character in every scenario, even though he is shown as a representative of Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters during the intro of the games.

MLB Power Pros (2007)
In MLB Power Pros (2007), the player character is a college freshman who dreams to become a professional baseball player. You and your roommate Marvin and you are on the last place Tulips. You get only three years of baseball. If you don't do good in those three years, you will not make it. Along the way, you can meet some ladies, like Becky or Annabelle, and go on dates with them. Since you are in college, you also have to focus on schoolwork and studying. I recommend that you study every single time you can until he becomes smarter. Then practice until his vitality bar is red. Then rest.

MLB Power Pros (2008)
MLB Prower Pros 2008 boasts a lot more dramatic and a lot more difficult success mode than in the previous game.

The player character, with a seemly dead father, grew up in jealousy over Jonathan Diamond for the latter's popularity with women, especially his childhood neighbour Lucy. He as encouraged by Marvin to play baseball in order to impress Lucy, but eventually found genuine love in the sports and sought to become a professional MLB player.

The main character and Marvin start their professional baseball careers as the players on the AA team, the GreenApples. Along the way, the player meets childhood friends and rivals as they must be promoted to the AAA team, the GoldenApples if you do good enough.

Success mode in MLB 2008 is notably more difficult for the fact you cannot rest in free time, so the only way to gain vitality is to buy POWERINs or hot dogs at Ben's. I would recommend the hot dogs because the most expensive one is $4 and it gains around three-fourths of the vitality. You can also meet ladies in '08, like Patty and Lucy.

Links
2007: Your team and your opponents