1828: Fighting Vipers PS3 \\ Jane playthrough in cyber-Seattle!
3Playing through Fighting Vipers on PS3 as Jane!
My other fighting games playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPbqNlJ5ZwYaFzrG-P24_zr
0:00 - buttons
3:47 - Jane
19:02 - Jane-Jane trouble
30:18 - boss trouble
38:30 - credits
40:38 - Bahn (brief)
42:53 - wrap & ramble 'p'
I like the clean Sega Model 2 look here, but while the gameplay, simplified from Virtua Fighter 2, has been spiced up a bit with breakable armor, power moves, and a couple female characters in unfortunately cheesy costumes, the smaller moves sets can end up feeling a BIT restrictive. In retrospect, the additional combos, power moves, and juggling system added in VF2 are exactly what the game needed to flesh the gameplay out and take it in its own direction; it's a little tough to come back to not having them here in the prequel, but it does make for a simpler, more streamlined game--for those who might be looking for such a thing.
I played without Guard (called Block here) like I do VF--which doesn't work great against the game's boss, who likes to rush you down, although not quite as persistently here as he does in the sequel. Definitely missed Jane's FV2 kick combo. Purely out of necessity I did learn to at least get a hit off the boss after he came down from her dfP backfist uppercut launcher.
OH I only just now while trying to type "FV2" above realized that (F)ighting (V)ipers is (V)irtua (F)ighter backwards. = ooo
After playing blonde Jane in FV2, I'd forgotten she was brunette here in FV1, where she seems based on Vasquez from the movie Aliens.
FV1's setting has GOT to be based on Seattle: the tower with the round structure on top is the Space Needle, Picky's stage is the view of Seattle from I90 coming back from Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascades, Grace's stage is the Port of Seattle just south of downtown, Tokio's stage is Boeing Field SSE of downtown, etc. The resemblance doesn't really come across in the sequel, so if you want a fighting game set in cyber-Seattle, this is the one to get.
Belatedly noticed I had the game volume set a little low; I've set it higher for next time.
3/19/24
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