Bonus: Why doesn’t anybody know about Daytona USA 2/Sega Racing Classic 2?
The (second) never-ported sequel to one of my favorite games, hidden away in Like a Dragon Gaiden, is just weird and difficult enough to take it out of the mainstream
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The anime convention of the 2000s is alive at Anime NJ++, plus Keita Amemiya was there
I kind of forget that things are coming up, or that they happened two weeks ago, or indeed my position in space and time. So it was a last-minute thing when I asked my buddies if I could tag along with them to Anime NJ++, a very small convention run
Yasuomi Umetsu's Virgin Punk: Clockwork Girl packs 35 minutes tight with exquisite, artisanal violence
Legendary animator Yasuomi Umetsu (Kite, Mezzo Forte) dreams of girl assassins blasting their way through massive, bloody action movie set-pieces. A craftsman and a perfectionist, he looks to create the platonic ideal of a popcorn form, flawless in every detail from the fluttering of a jacket, to the precise shape
Road to Empress deftly uses the movie-game format to place you in Tang China and kill you, over and over again
If you’re of a certain age, games using live-action movie footage snap your brain to the “full motion video” fad of the 90s and the middling games that resulted from it. (Or Dragon's Lair, if you're a Gen-Xer.) I had a Sega CD as a
The English version of VTuber Kurono Senba's riichi mahjong hint book feeds a growing, but starved, niche
As evidenced by the tears of so many Like a Dragon series players, it’s kind of tough to learn riichi mahjong. In video game terms, riichi is a tutorial-required game. A few strict, inflexible, and complex rules shape the game’s strategy at its core; everything grows out from