Duality

I’ve been playing Soul Calibur II again. See, Isaac challenged Joe (both HKN officers) to a match under the condition that Joe can’t practice. When I heard about it, all I could think about was playing SC2 again.

I love to compete. I think I love to compete to the point that it turns most people off. Most people play to have fun. To an extent, I do too, but I like to win as well. I end up practicing so much that the game becomes unfair. It’s not that I’m great at games; the beatdowns I’ve taken at the BEARcade are proof of that. It’s just that I practice more—perhaps too much.

Well anyway, I’m playing Nightmare the wrong way. I practiced against the “Extremely Hard” Nightmare AI and spent most of the time on the ground. It unsurprisingly parries most of my attacks, but when it doesn’t, it always uses the right attack to counter my attack. That’s the way I need to play Nightmare. His attacks are all pretty slow, so you can’t keep throwing out attacks hoping your opponent doesn’t block correctly.