What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown (PS4)

March 16th, 2025

I feel extremely, almost intolerably nervous today, so even though I played a lot of games yesterday, I want to make today's post easy on myself. I wanted to play Sonic Chaos start to end yesterday, but I ended up doing some other things and abandoning it after the first four zones. Sonic Origins Plus has game saves, so this is no big deal. I'll probably finish it off soon. It's always good to make full use of a PS4 with some Game Gear emulation.

When I decided I didn't want to finish off Sonic Chaos, after realizing I'd left my PS4 on for 8 or 9 hours, I switched over to Virtua Fighter 5 for a little bit. My first playthrough of the night was as Brad, who was ok, but not all that interesting at that moment.

After that, I did a run through as Vanessa, who was more interesting. I was a lot worse as playing as her, but that didn't mean I was having less fun.

After skipping the credits, I jumped right back in to do another Vanessa playthrough in a different costume, getting marginally better. From there, though, I shut the PS4 off for the night.

Before bed, I played an extremely cheap Steam game I'd picked up months ago called Horses.io. It's a normal little game, where you guide a horse around to build a big herd of horses, all of whom have weirdly human screams for their neighs. I don't mind this, though. The two minute playtime keeps things zippy, so I'll probably at least brave the bots to unlock everything here.

February 24th, 2025

I'm struggling hard to focus and pay attention tonight, but luckily, I was not in gamer-mode yesterday. I did one playthough of Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown, in which I played as Jean in his basic outfit. I was so sleepy and zoned out while playing that I don't have much to say about him, even though I was able to face Dural at the end. It was fun, but nothing was clicking with me.

December 24th, 2024

Last night, I picked up Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown to cheer myself up from having nothing specific wrong, which led to me getting way too into Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown. I'll have to do some game page organization later, since my normal "one screenshot per playthrough" will get a little ridiculous for what I intend to do here. That'll be fun, though.

Even though I didn't think I'd want to play for very long, I ended up doing five arcade ladder playthroughs last night. I haven't really played Virtua Fighter a ton overall, other than a spot of the 2D port of 2 to Genesis and VF4, back on PS2, but insofar as I have a character I use, I guess it's Pai. I started off with her and had a lovely little jaunt through the arcade mode, though Dural's bonus stage did me in.

I then, thinking it was rather fun, played through again with Pai in one of her super polygonal original game costumes. This gave me the impression that the game was rather easy.

From there, I picked Jeffry and got stomped into the ground hard for a bit. This led me to remember I really had played Virtua Fighter 4 quite a bit, and probably had some muscle memory that propelled me through the last two playthroughs. As it turned out, this game was not bafflingly easy.

My next choice was Goh, which wasn't as bad. He looks unwell and seems to have some attitude problems, but international fighting tournaments are probably hard on people. I don't handle stress well, either, so I can't judge him. He was zippy, though, and I felt like this playthrough went well.

I then ran through as Akira in his Tekken 7 costume, having a bit of a challenging time again. I've spent quite a bit more time with Tekken than Virtua Fighter, and the costumes here were close enough to trigger my brain to start hitting the Tekken button inputs by mistake! Akira's fighting style did not suit me that well, either. Also, as I realized after finally getting an unlikely win against Dural, it was 1:30 in the morning, which couldn't have been helpful. With that, I went to bed rather than running through the arcade ladder for a 6th time.

Other than that, I just did normal gaming for the day. I did a 12 minute exercise routine in Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku to force myself to move.

I played a little more of Farm Land to avoid staring at a wall, too, but wasn't very interested in it yesterday.