I took another shot at Vice City and caught back up to where I was before, with the final package, all of the save point properties bought, and a stolen tank in the garage. The tank will be useful for the Vigilante missions, but I can’t seem to do those right now; it won’t trigger properly on the west island, and I can’t take the tank back to the east island while the barriers are still up.

So, instead I worked on some other side mission types. I did cab fares for a while, which were fairly easy on the west side since the routes often take me right past a pay-n-spray. I managed to do 50 fares before accidentally flipping the taxi, which is only halfway to the reward, but it’s not that great a reward anyway. I then tried to do the pizza delivery missions, but couldn’t do them on the west side since some of the deliveries went to areas still blocked off (another consequence of sequence breaking), but I went back to the east island and did it there. The deliveries were fairly easy, and I now have 150 health maximum.

I’m already at 13% completion according to the stats screen, even though I haven’t even started the main missions yet. It’s probably about time I did though, since working my way past these barriers on the islands is a bit of a pain and preventing me from working on those other missions.