#363 Fatal Fury 3 PS2 \\ I broke the AI with its own annoying mechanic ; P
2(Trying to go off my memory--which is horrible!--I got everything wrong at the beginning here: this is Battle Archives vol. 1, not 2, and the Fatal Fury series goes 1, 2, Special, 3. : P)
I *tried* to play legitimately as Andy Bogard against the Normal (level 3/8) CPU in Garou Densetsu (Fatal Fury) 3 of the "Garou Densetsu Battle Archives Vol. 1" on Japanese PS2, but the unusually aggressive, blatantly input-reading--sometimes they seem to start their counterattack animation before your attack animation begins--AI, and unforgiving controls--I found it hard to do even simple quarter-circle-forward fireball motions reliably, and found a z-style uppercut motion under pressure more or less impossible--crushed my attempts pretty effectively. Even fireball spam wasn't working out all that well against most opponents, so in the end I tried a desperate measure: just mashing Light Punch + Light Kick, to execute the dodge-out, attack-in sidestep--the series' signature mechanic, and the one the AI kept using to dodge and counter *my* attacks.
And it worked, at least once I found the button that was mapped to fire both LP and LK unerringly together, and learned to back off the AI once they'd been backed into the corner, where they got a little better at blocking and countering the spam; just mashed that darn button over and over and churned right through the later stages and all the bosses. Game over; now I can put this one back in storage. Too bad, because there's a lot of interesting stuff here, and AST is great, and the combat feels like it *could* be good; but when mashing a single button trumps everything, there's no game left.
Did *anyone* ever like Fatal Fury's "sway line" dodge-in, dodge-out system? At least they finally got rid of it in Garou. :P
0:00 - start
1:10 - intro video
1:55 - Option
2:28 - Arcade mode w/ Andy Bogard
3:08 - vs Bob Wilson
4:50 - crying vs Franco Bash
12:50 - vs Blue Mary
15:44 - vs Joe Higashi
20:39 - vs Yamazaki
22:32 - vs Mai Shiranui
24:34 - vs Andy Bogard
29:17 - vs Hon Fu
40:26 - sloppy side-step mashing
43:41 - single button mashing
43:58 - mashing Sokaku
45:18 - mashing Terry Bogard
50:08 - mashing Geese Howard
54:49 - mashing Yamazaki
57:58 - wrap-up & what's next!
49'49 - dodge-kicking Terry into the bay 'ooo'
1/20/21