I've been just mashing my way through the two "arcade" routes of Virtua Fighter 10th Anniversary on PS2 on the easiest difficulty setting with all the different characters, but I wanted to see if it was possible to get a good solid challenging difficulty setting for myself out of it--not way too easy, not way too hard--so this time I tried setting it to "Normal" difficulty instead of "Very Easy," and went at it with Lau Chan.
It went about like I expected: piece of cake fights right up until I get stomped. : P Part of that was because I'm bad at dealing with Vanessa and how she just catches middle punches : P, but since the order of opponents, in whichever of the two routes you pick, is always the same, for me that means there's definitely a big difficulty bump at the Vanessa fight regardless; also I think the game's difficulty curve is maybe a bit on the old-school side where it goes easy--too easy...--for a while, then suddenly gets real hard. I don't find that all that fun so I sort of retired hastily, and haven't been back since.
I should probably try it on a "Hard" setting or something to see if that gives me decent earlier fights, and maybe smooths over the rough landing on Vanessa.
Recorded 1/11/20 w/ PS2, OSSC, Framemeister, Elgato HD60
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