February 6th - Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore

Well, firstly, we are terrible people and decided that 31 games for Fightbruary was not enough and we went out and bought another fighting game, which will be added to the schedule for the PS3 era. The schedule has also been slightly rearranged. With that out of the way, today we played some Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore. I've never played this game, I only played the 5th one in the series.



My winning streak of yesterday is now long gone and I have been returned to the norm of getting my butt kicked. The game also seems to heavily rely on blocking and countering and, well, that's just not something I do. I'm not good at it. I've never done it. I always neglect the guard buttons in games and suddenly trying to figure it out in a difficult fight does not yield the best results. And so I lost most of the games. I won a fair few rounds but very few matches. Oh well, I look forward to the day when I can win again



I was a bit surprised at the low number of female characters (relatively speaking) since 5 has a majority females, I think. It's at least pretty even. Happily though sharky had all of the outfits unlocked! We also played tag team on the same team and that was pretty fun. Ironically enough, I seem good at defeating enemies that he loses against, but I can't beat him? It was fun though. Obviously not as smooth as the later game, but still a good game. It's also very interactive with the environment which is pretty neat.