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Tetchy

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Please let this be true. JSR is still one of my favourite games ever and to have this and Crazy Taxi released on XBLA would be the best thing ever. Just need Powerstone 1 & 2 and Shenmue to be released and I'd be in heaven.

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Dimahoo

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I loved JSRF, although was late to the game.

It was the only game apart from Densha De Go that made me feel some great sense of being in Tokyo. Or rather (never having been to Tokyo) - one that takes the best parts of its culture and implants them into your head.

Its probably just me but play it to see what i mean. You get a feeling you just don't get elsewhere and you look back and it felt like you really were escaping from the norm and being put into a great city.

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Number 28

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Yeah, i'm in the JSR rocked, JSRF didn't camp. :)

JSRF controls better, has tidier, more impressive graphics, but there are too many flaws. It's a weak, imprecise platformer when you boil it down, and the jumping and sliding around just wasn't fun enough to sustain a 20 hour slog through such huge levels. Hitting X and Y fifty-odd times to hear Professor K. say "SWWWWEEEEEET!" doesn't help me feel skilled.

The 'battles' were truly dreadful, caging you off, and making you target and boost at enemies, needing cans to do so. A lot of the levels had a vertical focus and were massively unforgiving. Your graffiti got painted over about 3 times to artificially lengthen the game.

Also, the dancing and slang made me cringe big time, whilst somehow I thought the first one was proper hipperty-hop funky otaku cool (if there's such a thing).

JSR had its issues (controls, camera), but it was so much tighter. Each level had its song, and characters, and the progressing police attention business. It'd be nice to see the franchise reborn. There's still so much potential. And I don't mean being able to skate on ceilings this time, or something pointless. :hat:

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Qazimod

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seriously? you didn't think it was stupid amounts of fun and utterly beautiful at the time? Lies.

Dude, don't go there. Me and Meh discussed this ages ago and I think we agreed to differ. They're so different as to be nearly incomparable. I hated the original's restrictive areas, awkward spraying and infuriating clocks; other people dislike the sequel's dodgy camera, crap arena/boss battles and oversimplified mechanics. I can concede and agree with the first two points, but as I said in the linked post, neither game is truly great, you just have to decide which shit you don't mind swallowing.

EDIT: in terms of wishlists, a re-release of JSR is begging for a "Free Mode", with a clock that counts upwards and a Jet ranking that scores you on how quickly you clear a level. If it had that, it'd be a day one download for me.

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Joyrex-J9

Joyrex-J9

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Let's get this clear I fucking loved Jet Set Radio back in 2000. Loved it enough to battle with infuriating timers, a very dodgy camera, and baffling Japanese menus.

But in the cold light of 2010 I can't see it holding it's head above water. Things have moved on :hat:

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Just when you thought this thread couldn't get any crazier, into the ring wades Revival - Dreamcast Defender!

But yeah - I think I'm a bit of a rose-tinted fool myself when it comes to JSR (no F). It's probably niggly as fuck now.

I guess, in a way, qazimod's a bit right, really.

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JSRF is an amazing game; with or without rose-tinted glasses, compulsive combo fun with amazingly designed levels and perhaps the best soundtrack to ever grace game history. Controls may take a bit getting use to now but things haven't moved on so much that it would would feel rusty or old. I'll admit that police fights weren't as good as they could have been but they got better as you went along, the barriers got less confined and the battles became more fun the further you got through it. Combos and tricks weren't as freeform as other skating games even back then - but they didn't need to be!

The main concentration for the player was grinding up massive, beutiful and varied set pieces, combos were there so your fingers had something to do whilst you were grinding. It wouldn't have aged that badly.

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Wiper

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Would you stop?

W-w-would you stop?

I'm tryin to get to-

I'm tryin to get to-

I'm-Would you-Would you-Would-*screech*

JSR's soundtrack is amazing :wub:

JSRF wasn't as good, but it had The Concept of Love on it, which made up for it. Wonderful track.

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The second soundtrack is more polished, but the first is definitely cooler. I think I prefer Ollie King's to them both, though.

I tried playing the Dreamcast original last year and it was horrible. I don't know if it was the game or because of the dreadful pad.

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