#400 Virtua Fighter 3tb \\ Dreamcast \\ Jeffry play-through & breaking Alphabet Character = ooo

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Published on February 28, 2021 2:29:58 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yuV__OJixo

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Virtua Fighter 3 (1996)

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Let's Play

Duration: 50:43

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Playing through Virtua Fighter 3tb on Dreamcast, at the default "Normal" difficulty, with Jeffry McWild, then horsing around a bit with "Alphabet Character" after entering my initials, and kind of breaking him and strewing his pieces around the desert. : oo It was all a horrible accident!

0:00 - start and Options
1:30 - Normal Mode w/ Jeffry
2:09 - vs Wolf
3:49 - vs Aoi
5:20 - vs Sarah
8:15 - vs Lion
11:08 - vs Kage
16:05 - vs Lau
19:40 - vs Jacky
22:17 - vs Akira
24:47 - vs Dural
27:23 - credits
28:29 - Name Entry
29:28 - breaking Alphabet Character
36:54 - ending movie & babbling
46:31 - wrap-up & what's next!

So it looks like what happened with "Alphabet Character" (I was calling him "letter man" in the video; the internet seems to call him "Alphabet Character" most often, although I don't know that there's any official source) after Name Entry is that well first the game waits for you to hit Start to quit, maybe just because I got the first game clear (I'm not using a memory card) that unlocks the Ending Movie; then, in that untimed period you have to just horse around in the desert with Alphabet Character, I knocked him down four times; this changed his pieces to say "End" instead of a letter, and he wouldn't get back up.

From there, though, it got weird; his pieces, at the edge of the screen, began slowly drifting back toward me. And then, I noticed that when I backed far enough away--and you can get really far away in that version of the desert stage--his hands and one of his letter pieces followed, like they were leashed to me somehow. I could tow them all over the desert!

So, uh, that was weird.

I got to thinking about something else after this session. I think I was talking here about how VF3tb didn't have a story, and maybe that didn't help its sales in the States--but it occurred to me that maybe, if VF *had* had a story, we never would have got a purely story-free single-player mode like Kumite/Quest, which first came along in the next VF game, VF4. If I remember, I'll talk more about this in the next VF episode--or maybe the next Tekken one, I dunno. ^_^

2/26/21

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