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{{quote|''You win! Perfect!''|'''Announcer''', ''[[Street Fighter]] II''}}

 

 

Games that bother with [[Scoring Points|points]] will usually give you points for it, but it's not necessary. After all, even having it acknowledged is something of a [[Bragging Rights Reward]].

 

 

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* ''[[Intelligent Qube]]'' ([[Market-Based Title|also known as]] ''Kurushi'') has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHpgzgX1yls "PERRRRRRRRRRRRRRFECT"] for when you complete a stage in the alloted number of 'steps' and "[[Large Ham|EEEEEEXCELLENT]]" for when you do it in fewer 'steps'. You ''have'' to get these or you'll lose your back row. Which is quickly lethal.

* ''[[King of Fighters]]'' has had it since '94. "PERFECT!" Thing is, because the KOF series is a team-based fighter, you can knock your opponent to a tiny percentage of health, lose the round, then take them out in two hits with your next character and ''still'' get a Perfect bonus. This is why "Straight" (defeating the entire enemy team with one character) gives a higher bonus than "Perfect".

** Forget that, there was an achievement for never taking any damage and ''never attacking anyone.'' Good thing they were only [[For the Lulz]].

*** [[One Hundred Percent Completion|And there's a trophy for getting every award in the game at least once, including those.]]

* ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' gives you extra gold in story mode for getting perfects, as well as, in some trials in ''IV'', giving hidden items for fulfilling a certain criteria.

* ''[[Tekken]]'' has "Perfect!" It also inverts it with "Excellent!" (or "Great!"), which you get by winning with 5% health or less.

** It's also inverted for the losing team, who receives the message [[Epic Fail|"Flawless Defeat!"]]

*** "You didn't kill ''any'' of them!"

** There's also an achievement for defending certain levels and not letting the offensive team get any capture points. Fairly hard to do, but oh so satisfying.

* In ''[[Mischief Makers]]'', beating a boss without taking damage is the way to get that stage's [[Gotta Catch Em All|Gold Gem]].

* The ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' games will have the announcer shout "GREAT!" while the same word displays on the screen if you avoid getting hit during a round. If you avoid getting hit in both rounds of a match, the second round will have "GREATEST!" instead.

* [[Rhythm Game|Bemani]] games often have some form of this, usually with one for a Full Combo (hitting every note with a satisfactory judgment) and a perfect run:

** In ''[[Beatmania IIDX]]'' from ''10th Style'' onwards, if you clear a song hitting every note with a GOOD judgment or better, the judgment line will light upward and you'll get a "FULL COMBO" caption. The song will also be marked with a flashing "FULL COMBO" caption by your score record data on the song selection menu. If you hit every note with a GREAT or better, this is replaced with a gold "PERFECT", although the flash at the end of the song still only says "FULL COMBO".

** In ''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' games starting with ''DDR X'', getting a GREAT! or better on every step causes a green light-up effect at the end with "FULL COMBO" over it and a green circular mark; both the text and the mark are displayed next to your grade. Meanwhile, getting a PERFECT!! or MARVELOUS!! on every step nets you a "PERFECT FULL COMBO!" with a gold flash and a gold mark, and the announcer yells "Perfect Full Combo!" at the Results screen. Additionally, your combo is displayed in gold instead of the usual green if your combo has consisted of all PERFECT!! or MARVELOUS!! so far, and has a white glow for all MARVELOUS!!. Previous versions also had various recognitions of such feats:

*** Up through ''DDR 3rd Mix'', the game would award a [[Rank Inflation|SSS]] grade for a Perfect Full Combo, and the [[Announcer Chatter|announcer]] would say "Oh god! Oh god!" at the Results screen. A Full Combo earned you a or a SS or S depending on your ratio of Perfects.

*** ''SuperNOVA'' had a white swirly effect under your grade for a Full Combo.

*** ''SuperNOVA 2'' changed the requirement for a AAA to simply 99% of the maximum score, but added the "Perfect Full Combo!!" and gold mark, and a darker yellow mark for Full Combo.

*** - "Full Fantastic Combo" with a trophy above it for getting every single step "Fantastic!"

*** - "One Excellent" with a flag above it for getting one "Excellent" and all the rest "Fantastic!"

*** All of the above also require that you not drop any hold or roll arrows.

*** In addition, once you're 20% into the song, your combo will glow blue if you're getting all Fantastics, or gold if you're getting all Excellent or better.

** ''[[jubeat]]'' has the usual "FULL COMBO" acknowledgment for hitting every note, while hitting every note with perfect timing triggers a brief flashy animation that culminates in plastering "EXCELLENT" all over the [[Score Screen|results screen]], which also replaces your grade.

* In ''[[Castlevania]]: Order of Ecclesia'', defeating a boss without taking damage will reward you with a medal.

** In ''Dracula X: Rondo of Blood'' (and the ''Dracula X Chronicles'' remake), if you defeat the boss with a full life bar, you get an extra life. Contrary to popular belief, you CAN take damage, as long as you get a meat/ice cream (depending on who you're playing as) before the end of the stage.

* In the [[Story Mode]] of ''[[Final Fantasy Dissidia]]'', one of the potential DP bonuses (DP being what you use to move around the map and having more of it leading to bonuses) in certain fights is to clear the fight without taking any damage. This bonus is even called a "Flawless Victory."

** There's also a milder version, "Flawless HP Victory", where you must not take any ''HP'' damage - you're allowed to take Bravery hits.

*** Don't forget about Battle Revolution. Same thing. Only those are your only continues. Granted, you won't really need them if you brought your own, but still... You do get extra money for them.

* The ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' franchise, especially GHWT and beyond, award extra in-game cash for a perfect performance.

** Most GH games give a gold star result (usually 5-star, although 4-gold-stars and 3-gold-stars are possible) for hitting all the gems. In [[GH 5]], getting a full combo (No errors)<ref>An error is defined as any action that breaks your combo. For singers, it is any result that isn't "Excellent". For Instrumentalists, it's missing a note or playing the wrong one.</ref> gives you an extra star on top of what you have (which will ALWAYS be 5 stars) in addition to turning them gold.

** What's worse on both of these is that the Drummer must use two different scoring strategies (or "Overdrive Paths") - one for single player, a different one for multiplayer. The difference? Every fill removes some notes from the chart, decreasing the possible combo. At the same time, a fill must be played (complete with the crash at the end) to activate Overdrive, and they'll keep appearing as long as you have 50% Overdrive without being in Overdrive. This means five drummers can get 100% notes hit, never break their combo, and have completely different note streaks on the same song.

* The ''[[Unreal]]'' series has this.

** The game only checks if the winner has full health, not if he actually got hit or not. Thus, you can still get this bonus with Ragna even if you get hit, as Ragna can heal himself for an extremely small amount every time he hits with a some attacks (unless it's his Unlimited form). His HP Draining abilities are so weak though, you may as well have not gotten hit.

* Many [[Shoot'Em Up|Shoot Em Ups]] will yield a "No Miss Bonus" for clearing a stage without dying.

** In ''[[Touhou]]'', if you drain a boss's spell card's corresponding section of the boss's [[Life Meter]] without losing lives or bombing, you get a Spell Card Bonus and the spell card is counted as "captured." However, if you're playing as the Marisa-Nitori team in ''Subterranean Animism'', due to Nitori's bomb mechanic (which instead of clearing out bullets grants [[Invincibility Power-Up|temporary invincibility for one hit]]) the condition is slightly different: you can still fire a bomb, as long as you don't get hit.

* In the ''DJMAX'' series (except for ''Trilogy'' and ''Technika''), getting 100% judgments will yield an S grade. In ''Technika'', this is accompanied by a "Perfect Play" graphic next to the song disc.

** In ''Trilogy'', your grade and the announcer's comments are based on your score (which is heavily influenced by your combo, which you inflate by spamming [[Super Mode|Fever]]). Which means if you get 100%, if you don't use Fever at all, it's still quite possible to get a D and some disparaging comments (What do you mean I am "the novice"?! I 100%'d this song, [[Jerkass]]!)

* In the ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' series, winning an exhibition match in a complete shutout with at least 5 goals earns you an [[Rank Inflation|S rank]]. This is the only way to get an S -- if the other team scores even a single goal, the best you can do is an A rank (though thankfully you can replay exhibition matches as much as you please if you want the S).

* Apogee shareware fighter ''Xenophage''. Not only will the announcer say "Perfect!" for a flawless victory, but when you are on the receiving end of one, he will call you "Pathetic!"

* [[Dragon Age]] has achievements for completing origin stories or the game without anyone dying in combat.

* ''[[Gears of War]] 3'' has the "I'm a Beast!" medal, which requires you to complete all 12 waves of Beast in a row without failing on each of the four difficulties.

 

== Non Video Game Examples ==

* Comedian Dat Phan brings up this very phrase, joking on how he was at a urinal in a public restroom when a stranger approached and asked if he knew martial arts.

* [[Real Life]] example: In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Commodore Dewey managed to lead the U.S. Navy into defeating the entire Spanish fleet stationed in Manila Bay without a single American casualty.]]

* A [[Game Show]] example: Japanese game show ''[[Tokyo Friend Park 2]]'' called it a "Grand Slam" and awarded a bonus prize of a trip to either Disneyland (California) or Disneyland Paris if the contestants pull off a perfect 5-for-5 record in the main game.

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