Akira's the mascot/lead so he just naturally has to be on the cover. There's barely any story in VF but he's the main character in the anime too.
This. If I didn't like VF so much, I'd probably say what they were going for with Akira is the "we have Streetfighter at home" frontman of the series
That's kind of what happened. At first Virtua Fighter didn't have any traditional Japanese martial artist - if you've played Fighters Megamix, you know there was a canned character named Shiba/Siba instead. But they felt that they had to include one, so Akira is based on the same archetype design-wise as Ryu (which goes back at least to the anime Karate Master from the '70s). The main difference is that they gave Akira a unusual fighting style, Baji Quan (aka Hakkyokuken), which is based on tackles and individual power moves, so he's actually the most technical character in the game (contrary to Ryu and Ken style shotos who are usually the easiest to play as).This. If I didn't like VF so much, I'd probably say what they were going for with Akira is the "we have Streetfighter at home" frontman of the series
These are some legitimately fun facts! Thanks
it was the first 6th gen console and they wanted to show off how shiny and cool Dural looked in the newest latest graphics.
Dural kinda reminds me of Lady Armanoid and Cristal Boy/Bowie from the Cobra manga.
4 is great! If you can emulate it, I also recommend 3tb. Also, the largest active community is for 5 REVO.
The Virtua Fighter 4 Vanilla, Evolution and Final Tuned are emulable in Flycast but at the cost that it asks for double the requirements to emulate the Naomi 2 although I played the original and the Evolution and they are fine but it gets difficult as you progress in the game so the furthest I could go is up to the 7th level after several attempts and until I gave up but on the PS2 I was able to pass it from start to finish even though it took me fewer tries.
All that’s very fair. I want to try 4 Evo then I can!
There comes a point with VF when you start playing and you’re like “I don’t know if I like this. This is kinda stiff.”
Can´t agree enough
I don’t want to be the “um actually”, but I have to be here. Honey is from Fighting Vipers, which is a different game/series mechanically from Virtua Fighter.
Damn, I actually tried aikido for a while because of Aoi!
I started with Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2, and then traded it in for Evo when that came out. I completely agree about the 'purity' of it - at the time, it felt like the fighting game that actually cared the most about what 'real martial arts' were, to me. I really clicked with it, for that.
The most recent release of VF5 which is on PC and is coming to modern consoles has a healthy online life. I can’t tell you whether or not you should play it, but I will say to watch this:Damn, I actually tried aikido for a while because of Aoi!
I've actually never returned to the series, even though it was certainly the one I loved the most as a kid. I only recently rediscovered my love of fighting games, so I'm also completely ignorant of the tech stuff/pro league play. Are there any VFs post-Evo that are worth the effort?
