The ability to select any character as a partner significantly increases customization, although, to be honest, most assisting characters play about the same.
Fights in Dissidia 012 were given the ability to counteract enemies' strongest attacks by using assisting characters, while navigation is now done through a traditional-styled Final Fantasy world map.
The stage features Ridley as a stage hazard, while Samus appears as an assist character in the Morph Ball form, who will drop a Power Bomb that switches the combatants' location when a sound is made in the microphone.
The Think Twice conference featured performances from Arc Theatre - allowing the audience to assist characters in their decisions - stands and displays from the police and action groups as well as creative workshops where participants were asked to come up with advertising campaigns and crime prevention slogans.
I can see an AR/location game like this working well as a looter, as this footage shows how you level up different rarities of weapons, and I'm guessing you might get to level up your assist characters as well.
Waluigi is a mere "assist" character.
An Assist Break is performed by attacking the opponent's Assist character while the player is in EX Mode, causing him/her to be unable to call out the Assist character for a brief period; this also passes the stage's Bravery points to the character.
Guests of the Dollhouse can quickly become part of the story, encouraged to stir up conflict or assist a character in helping to solve the mystery of who shot Frank.
In Soulcalibur: Broken Destinys "Gauntlet" storyline, a side story set after the events of Soulcalibur IV, Ivy assists the character Hilde and her party develop a cure for her father's ailment.
Jennifer Hudson made her first appearance in the "teaser" for this week's episode of Empire, portraying a music therapist assisting Trai Byers' character, Andre, who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In the White House view, a senior administration official said, Mr. Rumsfeld proved his character by assisting rescue workers at the Pentagon on 9/11.
