Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram 5.66 (NAOMI) - 10/80 Special Run (60FPS)

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Published on October 26, 2022 2:16:50 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlMJbpnsZM

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Cyber Troopers Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram (1998)

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6 years after Temjin went out for a ride in the original Virtual-On, I finally got around with my new PC to play through VOOT 5.66 (The NAOMI version through Flycast) using the 10/80 Special, which is exclusive to 5.66...and since it wasn't playable in the Dreamcast version (which was the one I could emulate easily the most on my laptop back then), I couldn't get to play with until the last few years.

...and even then I hadn't got around to it until now. Things that happen, y'know

Anyways, it was cool to see so many people nostalgic for the original game (my video playing it is the highest viewed one lol) so I thought on giving its sequel a proper spin once more, this time with the 10/80 which is pretty unique for a few reasons.

10/80 Special itself is basically the classic Temjin model from the first game (though with a gray color scheme; you can recolor it to the classic colors with the customization disc to bring the color with a VMU in NAOMI, but I didn't have it at hand), not only in appearance...but also in abilities. While it does have new turbo attacks that are weaker but faster than the original versions, it does NOT have airdashing, a mechanic added in this game but that was left out of this machine since its supposed to resemble the first game's Temjin...no airdashing in that regard.

5.66 already has a few new nods to the original game through Stein-Vok's stage, Autobahn, using Fei-Yen's theme from VO-OMG), and Apharmd-C being fought in Space Dock (which was Apharmd's stage in VO-OMG) as well, and 10/80 Special's stage is Waterfront (Dorkas's stage in OMG) , which is the only one you don't see in this run. Unfortunately Vertebrate Shaft, a remade version of Raiden's stage from it, is still stuck to Versus mode since it wasn't given to a new machine here.

The VR select theme in this specific version (5.66 NAOMI) also has a backing beat similar to the select theme in the first game, a nice detail that's actually lost in the modern ports since they use the recorded Dreamcast soundtrack (instead of the slightly different variants played with real time sounds in this version). That's why I ended up uploading a bunch of music from this version years ago...and sorry that I got messy with it/never finished uploading everything.

It was still fun to get a run out of this legend-turned-legacy underdog in this game, and had a long time since last time I went for a Virtual-On run. And yes, as the 5 seconds of text at the start indicaed, I spliced out a lot of deaths in this run (mostly thanks to Raiden lol) but I'm working on a montage where you will get to see what went wrong so many times when fighting it :)

Thanks for watching!

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