agreed.
its not a game for casuals. i cannot get any of my friends to play this with me. the first night i had it yeah, after severl hours of training and a few weeks of quest mode, they were pretty uninterested in playing for more than 5 minutes with me, and i SUCK.
i finally bought it a few months back after buying my first PS2. i didnt want to bother begining my training or quest mode with Shun Di (my fave) untill i got a decent arcade stick, so i chose Pai.
i started to get pretty decent with her (for a n00b), but then i bought and borught home a brand new shiny pelican Arcade stick, so fucking excited to play VF the way god intended (albeit with a shitty stick), untill i found out first hand that this POS stick will not work with the slim PS2...
id still be unlocking goodies and clearing arcades now if it werent for that. it kind of depressed me on the whole thing.
i need to import a Hori allready.
VF=Love.