Well, I've finally finished the 4th season of my PES2012 ML with Hjorwesland, I just wanna say thanks to everyone that liked the posts I've made a while back where I had pretty much given up on it due to the dissapointment by the end of season 3, I'd also like to thank
@Madmac79 @ToZanarkand @*aLe @Flipper the Priest for their replies to that post, it motivated me to keep going, and it paid off.
It was a very odd ML in general, I picked Hjorwesland because they're the weakest team in the game, so it wasn't going to be easy, I've changed the difficulty, control and time settings many times, but it ended on Professional, 5min, FUMA, which are all the ideal settings in PES2012 to me, except the time, I prefer 10min, but switched to 5min because if I didn't then I would've never finished it, my attention span is too low to play so many matches and seasons unfortunately.
From the beggining I wanted the team to be very personal to me, so I made a new stadium, called Odense Park, since the team is from Denmark and Odense is the town where Hans Christian Andersen was born in, so it felt right.
I also changed the colors or the club from Red/Black/White to Wine/White, and the crest from an oval one to a standard circular one.
I chose to play on the PES League, with the fake Konami teams, and started in the D2, with the fake Konami teams aswell, since it felt fitting for the club I chose to play as.
My formation was almost always a 3-5-2 with 3 CBs, 2 DMFs, 2 Wingers, 1 CAM and 2 CFs. Possession style of play.
In my last post regarding this ML, which was a post venting about missing out on promotion on the last play of the last match, I genuinely wanted to stop there, but kept going into season 4, and the results were the best possible.
D2 League Champions and PES Cup Champions, a Double, I know it's the 2nd division of the league, but It still counts I guess.
The league was very rough, but thanks to me getting the hang of the defending, and also the fact that I was playing 5min matches, I didn't concede much, and therefore didn't lose much, only 2 defeats in the league, 16 wins and 16 draws gave me 64 points to finish in 1st place.
In the cup things were always more intense, since it was only a single match, no home and away matches, one slip and the dream is over, on two occasions it went to penalties, on the 1st round and in the SF, the youth GK Knudsen played on both of these matches due to being the only GK with decent arrows in them, he saved me on both occassions, and even went on to play the final due to Cjaestvela's injury just before it.
This final was the most important match in this ML, I was already the D2 Champion when playing this match, so this was my only focus, it was against Nitsaloskis, who were promoted alongside us, so they were strong.
Our main striker, Bjoerring, hadn't scored in a while, and of course he chose the final to go back to his scoring ways, 1x0, unfortunately corners in this game are worse than penalties, so they came back almost immediately, 1x1, but just before half-time Bjoerring once again scored to make it 2x1, and no goals came during the 2nd half, that was it.
So we got a 2nd tier title, and a 1st tier title, it took 4 seasons, but we finally won something, and we won it all this time.
It was great to see my captain Mungeroyer win a double for us in his last season before retirement, it would be a shame for him to retire with his hands empty, thankfully that didn't happen.
I also loved that my lineup in the final had 6 players that came from the youth team, it could've been more if Palmieri and Duffy didn't want to leave, thankfully the best one of them all stayed, Shimizu, and he was crucial.
Mungeroyer, Shimizu, Bjoerring... So many players that I've grown attached to with time, this ML finally made me understand the appeal of ML and why it's such a legendary mode, this felt special.
Suddently this club that was the worst of the worst is in the 1st division, receiving more sponsor deals than ever, with more healthy finances than ever, with a decent squad and a 1st tier title, it was very fulfilling to see.
I'm not sure if ML is really the mode for me, afterall it took me very long just to finish these 4 seasons, and in the end I had to change it to 5min, to me leagues are just too long so I get tired and even stressed very easily, I prefer just playing cups to be fair, but I'm glad I've got to finally experience a longer ML with actual closure for once, it's something you have to experience at least once.
I'll finish this ML here, on a high note, and go back to my good old Friendly and Cup modes that I'm more used to, however Hjorwesland and all of the players that were part of these 4 seasons will have a place in my heart forever from now on.
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