Its a fast pace, less tourney focused VF. Basically, if you know VF's basics, you'll translate fine here for the most part.
One revolutionary thing this game introduced.... WALLS! Cages! Shit that most 3d fighters use from here on. And they are pretty broken for some characters.
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXgVbqsHS4
You got strings, moves that blow the opponent away and moves that specifically break armor (which no in-game movelist on any official release specifies.)
Throwing inputs are also simple (THANK GOD) compared to VF2. Just combine Punch and Guard. But for no reason, the throwing animation can hit from the farthest reach.
Game has armor. You can damage top armor and the bottom half. Have all armor broken (which there's a special input to do that) and you're a little faster, do a bit more damage.
Arcade a.i. is cheap as hell but that's par for the course with 90s arcade fighters. And it really gets cheap at the last 3 fights so you just gotta know more about the game( that means know the easiest exploit.)
Still no Mortal Kombat 2 or Art of Fighting 2 or even VF2 in terms of A.I. cheapness.
One revolutionary thing this game introduced.... WALLS! Cages! Shit that most 3d fighters use from here on. And they are pretty broken for some characters.
See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXgVbqsHS4
You got strings, moves that blow the opponent away and moves that specifically break armor (which no in-game movelist on any official release specifies.)
Throwing inputs are also simple (THANK GOD) compared to VF2. Just combine Punch and Guard. But for no reason, the throwing animation can hit from the farthest reach.
Game has armor. You can damage top armor and the bottom half. Have all armor broken (which there's a special input to do that) and you're a little faster, do a bit more damage.
Arcade a.i. is cheap as hell but that's par for the course with 90s arcade fighters. And it really gets cheap at the last 3 fights so you just gotta know more about the game( that means know the easiest exploit.)
Still no Mortal Kombat 2 or Art of Fighting 2 or even VF2 in terms of A.I. cheapness.