Last night, I got my fifth character to the rank of Divine Fist, thus unlocking the final unlockable in Tekken: DR for PSP: an image of Jinpachi Mishimaon the mainmenu screen. I know, big freakin'whoop. But, still, Iraised five wholecharacters all the way upto Divine Fist mostly for the purpose of unlocking it, knowing full well that that was all thatthe payoff was going to be... I just had to unlock it... because it was there to unlock, I guess.

What is it with unlockables that I just need to unlock them all?They're a double-edged sword, I tell you. On the one hand, I might not replay a game as much if it didn't have unlockables. Tekken: DR might have been collecting dust after the first or second Divine Fist if not for the Jinpachi background image unlockable. On the other hand, I start to play a game for the end result, rather than theactual enjoyment of the game itself. Taking five characters through the same dojo mode levels, against the same AI-controlled ghosts (sure you can download different ghost packs, but all the ghosts fight virtuallyidentically) gets pretty repetitive no matter how awesome Tekken is (and it is awesome!).

Here's the orderI ranked upmy fiveDivine Fists:

1) Law: Law's been my favourite since the firstTekken. I simply had to get him to Divine Fist (although I already got him to Tekken Lord on Tekken 5 on my PS2--It didn't feel too repetitive).

2) Eddie Gordo: Eddie's been my other favourite because of his awesome Capoeira styles. It was fun getting him to Divine Fist, because I had never used him so much before, and I learned a pile ofnew moves andcombos.

3) Christie Monteiro: Since Christie is identical to Eddie, this feltrepetitive, but I thought it would be a fast and easy way to get a third character to Divine Fist. This was the tipping point where I went from playing Tekken for Tekken's sake to playing Tekken to get the unlockables unlocked.

4) Lili: I didn't evennecessarily like Lili when I chose to use her. I just knew that she had a couple of easy Anti-AI techniques. Although I did learn to appreciate her more after using her, she was merely a toolto facilitate unlocking the Jinpachi wallpaper. Is this getting sick or what?

5) Devil Jin: I don't like Devil Jin at all. He irritates me.Yet I used him overothercharacters I would have preferred to try (like Baek, Raven,or Yoshimitsu) just because he has an easy Anti-AI combo. I breezed through about 300 matches with him, simply spamming d+1, 3~4 over and over again, just to finally get the last unlockable.

Now that I have the final unlockable I have this strange tension remaining in me. Part of me wants to never play Tekken: DR ever again... "Wait until Tekken 6 comes out" that part of me says. But some other part of me, obsessed with 100%completion and unlockables, wants to keep going. How many Divine Fists can I get? There are 31 more characters after all...