First up, my fight pad arrived today and I like it a lot. The clicky D-pad is very lovely — I'm still not all that good at the common fighting game movements but I feel like I got better today with just a little bit of practice.
The buttons, meanwhile, are absolutely glorious; obviously with this being a pad rather than a full-size stick they don't have the heft of full arcade-style buttons, but they're still better than standard joypad buttons. They're a little larger than the standard DualShock buttons and have a touch more travel to them, which means that they're satisfying and enjoyable to press. The layout is taking a little getting used to — there's the standard four face buttons, then an additional two that are an alternative means of pressing R1 and R2 — but again, that's something that will come with practice.
I'm not sure I was appreciably better at Art of Fighting when I tried it earlier — the second stage in Story mode against Jack was still a near-insurmountable obstacle, though I did actually manage to beat him once — but it was certainly a much more comfortable experience with an appropriate controller. I will continue to put the game through its paces and perhaps write about my experiences!
Secondly, in completely unrelated news, I went swimming today and managed 24 lengths in a little less than an hour (I didn't time it exactly, but somewhere around 45 minutes, I guess?). This is better than my previous of 20 in the same space of time, and can be partly attributed to my excellent new goggles that made me feel a lot more confident sticking my head in the water, but I felt a little more confident in general. I'm still painfully slow compared to literally everyone else in the pool, but I don't mind too much so long as I meet and occasionally exceed my own personal goals.
So that's good. I am absolutely knackered now though, so hopefully I will sleep well this evening; I emphatically did not sleep well last night, which was not a great start to the week, but oh well.
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