Faster Than Lightning: A Virtua Fighter 2 Retrospective 

Easily in my top 10 of all time. Everytime I play a Yakuza game, I find myself spending hours inside the Club Sega playing VF2. Every time I’ve been to Japan, I’ve made sure to spend at least an hour playing it at a retro arcade in Akiba. I truly adore everything about VF2. The soundtrack, the general look of the game and just the way it plays. Sure, VF4 and VF5 may be better games as a whole, but there is something about VF2 that always keeps me coming back. It is my Street Fighter 2. I’ve beaten the game countless times. Have most of the move sets memorised. Everyone except Akira (I could never quite master his counters). Yeah, I just adore VF2. It’s an incredible game that gets so overlooked these days. Oh and that Saturn port. That Saturn port was nothing short of amazing! They took a state of the art $20k arcade machine and somehow got a pretty damn accurate version running on hardware known for being a pain in the ass to code for. Nothing short of incredible work all around.

the picture of Yu at the 1:21 is representative of sega spirit of the 90s ferocious confident innovative

So this is the base template on what Dead or Alive has been built upon😏

Playing this after VF1, was so impressed at playing double the speed. Lot more fun this way. I love Virtua Fighter

Fantastic tribute to one of my all time favorite games. I appreciate the quality of your work. Had to lol at those tekken 1 graphics. Could almost hear Sarah telling Kazuya "better run home to momma now" 😜

The vibe in these videos is amazing. And Yeah even today, VF2 is very beautiful.

Amazing graphics on the Saturn port, but also a phenomenal arranged soundtrack. My favourite music in a game ever (ok, tied with Saturn Sega Rally). Sega's sound studio was something else in the Saturn era. Great tribute video.

Kid me was obsessed with this game. It's so freaking good!

What an amazing video you made. I've backed in time to rhe 90's when I was playing VF2 on arcades and on the Saturn. Astonishing visuals and gameplay. Pure SEGA power. Great video 👍

Great video! Sega saturn and all the games i had and still play always transport me back and I shed a tear. Truly the best times of my life

This is a criminally underrated and undersubscribed channel

Loved this! VF2 was absolutely amazing, i can't tell you how many hours i put into this game on the Saturn and in the arcades. VF is my favorite 3-D fighting game series of all time.

In another video, I found myself responding to an online troll about how the Sega Saturn version of Virtua Fighter 2 was technically higher-res than it's arcade counterpart, even mentioning the same 704x480 statistic brought up in the video. Their response was something to the effect of it was only a theoretical number (?) for the Saturn to hit. I gave up talking to them shortly there afterwards lol

Thanks this made my day!

The combination of the music and images from the mag just made me break down in tears.

Omg....i miss, miss MISS my Saturn with vf2 and sega rally etc etc. I had that magazine also btw Richard leadbetter was my frickin hero in my school days.

Thank you mom for getting me that sega Saturn for my bday. Friends laughed as the PlayStation was the sheep way to go. But arcade perfect import to home. Children of the atom , street fighter alpha and virtua fighter 2. It was a hell of a sprite graphics monster

Absolutely amazing presentation to one of the most influential games of all time. TY 🤩😍🤘🏻👍🏻

One of my favorite games of all time. Nice treatment.

That intro song is so good! I literally workout to the song when i lift lol

I had a copy of the proper virtua fighter 2 pc port, tot the goofy thing that's on steam. and I gave it away to my nephew. Now I'm kicking my self

Animations were mind blowing for the time - some still hold up really well today esp Jacky

VF2 was such a large leap forward and still looks good to this day. Great strategy.

6:44 "The model 2, made everything else look..... sssssssssshhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" is the funniest bit ever 😆 Also, TRUE!

Thanks for the video

ON the Saturn, you need to play it on v2.0 mode. If you do that, you won't be able to do the dash-in-and-throw trick that you was doing before. Personally, I was a little glad that trick was there for it gave a little fighting chance when you set the difficulty to Expert mode. My favourite character in this game is Akira Yuki. and I was SPoD'ming, P+GG'ing, and floating combo to madness until I brought the game on the PS3 (HD version) and started playing against players from Japan. Boy, there are some serious players here I'd tell you that.

This is a great video, well done.

Very Nice, that you are make Work like this!

Fantastic overview, this game what can you say, great fun and absolutely fantastic looking, such a shame it didn’t get the love in the west.

Did anyone else do "Sumo Mode" on Saturn VF2 where you put both health bars to infinite and set the stage size to taste? Was pissed off I couldn't do this on the PS3 version.

A constant fixture in my Saturn line-up. Wasn't any good at it really - I was ten - but I played it all the time when I wasn't playing Sega Rally, Tomb Raider, or NiGHTS. It was nice replayig the arcade version in the Yakuza games too

Great retrospective! Speaking of finger movement team. When I last played Virtua Fighter 5, I had the impression that there was something wrong with the motion capture. I finally realized that it was because of the hands and fingers, which did not move and looked like attached static sculptures. The thought arose in me that these movements looked somehow better in VF 2, so I hurriedly turned on VF 2. I rubbed my eyes with disbelief, delight, watching the ultra-realistic movements of the characters' fingers. Yes you are right! Even Sega doesn't do this anymore! ;) Thanks for solving my investigation!

It's been over 30+ years and I can still mimick every sound and quote every character in English and Japanese...and I can't speak Japanese.

Could you make a Killer Instinct Retrospective? and DOA ? And even more documentaries about VF :) Dmamn we need a new Virtua Fighter 6 already !!!

Who made the music remix playing at 10:15?

Did the UK or Japanese version of VF2 for Saturn not have the learning A.I. of the US version? I've had to backup and start a new save file a few times because the A.I. would just destroy me if I did anything I normally do. Or maybe you were referring to the A.I. of the Arcade version being relatively weak? I wouldn't know about that. I need to try the throw exploit with my original saves loaded and see if it figures me out again.

Did you play the 2D mega drive version much?

Virtua Fighter 2 looks better than Tekken 3. I'll die on that hill.

Model 2 made everything else look... Shiiiiiiiit

This game has only 2 attack buttons!! Other games have 4 to 8!! Yet this games control system feels more adnaced then any other fighting game!

Not you dragging Tekken 😂