877: Virtua Fighter 5 PS3 \\ Jacky / Vanessa / Sarah Quest - VF5 is legit if I play w/o throws??

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Published on April 3, 2022 3:17:07 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVuYQm-FBoY

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Virtua Fighter 5 (2006)

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Playing Quest mode as Jacky Bryant, Vanessa Lewis, and Sarah Bryant on Hard difficulty in Virtua Fighter 5 on PS3, without guarding, throwing, or evading:

0:00 - I called it a stream but it's a recording, I'm silly
1:46 - Jacky - throw exploit demo
4:16 - removing throw button
7:12 - (J) Sega Arena Coast
9:42 - (J) Club Sega Bay Area Tournament
15:07 - (J) costumes & Black-Rimmed Glasses
27:43 - (J) Lion Hair (?)
34:22 - (J) 1st dan promotion, costume C unlocked
44:28 - Vanessa - Sega Arena Coast
56:18 - Sarah - Sega Arena Coast
58:00 - (S) Sega Arena Coast Tournament
1:26:50 - wrap-up & what's next!

Yeah so I stopped playing VF5 uh a year or whatever ago because I found it was just too easy to throw the AI and that's all I was doing at high ranks; since then in VF4:Evo I stopped using a Guard button--holding Guard all the time was hurting my shoulder because I would inevitably start leaning on it and my shoulder's kinda messed up from years of leaning on my drawing board ; )--and it occurred to me just this morning that I could likewise remove the Throw button like I've had set in Evo (to handle P+G in the absence of an independent Guard button) for a VF5 control config, and thus not have the throws-dominate problem because I can't throw. ; )

So I tried that here and it actually seems to have worked fairly well; without Throw, the fights, even against mid-rank opponents, are pretty challenging. What's nice coming from Evo's Quest mode is that even the higher rank AIs here seem to let you get away with a range of attacks, rather than brutally counter-attacking all not-safe-on-block attacks like they do in Evo's Quest mode. So the fights are a lot more open and I can actually play around with stuff, which is nice.

Also it looks like they put in a mechanic to stop Jacky from spamming the main safe-on-block move from Evo, P+K,K: if you follow it with another P+K, Jacky instead does a punch ending with a long pose, so you probably get hit. This was aggravating me at first--and would have almost completely ruined me in Evo--but I do appreciate that it shall we say encourages attack variety. ; )

Fortunately Jacky seems to have some new punch and kick combos to flesh out his move set here, as do Sarah and Vanessa--so Vanessa actually feels possibly viable (and can put herself in Offensive style before the round starts...although still why they couldn't just have it remember your last style, I don't know), and Sarah doesn't absolutely have to spam a single move...although her somewhat-safe-on-block K,K,K,P,P,P,ubK quasi-combo is maybe a bit too tempting.

I want to play all three of them RIGHT NOW but maybe I'll work on Jacky first, I dunno.

4/2/22

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