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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20 years ago, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence dared to be the philosophical mood piece of a blockbuster cyberpunk action series
"(Oshii's) thinking about everything we make... human attempts to build a purer, better form of ourselves without all the original sin. Something innocent."
The fighting game based on a mobile game has a reasonable battle pass, while Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 expect you to take up a part-time job
Nobody likes battle passes, but they’re tremendously psychologically effective. Players in a battle pass game are dished out a cookie-crumb trail of little tiny in-game prizes the more they play the game. The “premium”, as in paid, battle pass hits players with FOMO over some attractive grand prize; if
How the alternate universe Genshiken spinoff Spotted Flower caused fans to disown a beloved millennial otaku icon
(Just as a heads-up: I’ve kept things relatively non-graphic, but very late in this piece I describe a sexual assault in the manga in question. I'll also be talking about a comic that only exists in English in fan scans, and which for reasons we will get
In Tekken 8, I have to shift my brain between “smart” and “stupid” gears over and over again
In its nearly decade-long run, Tekken 7 left behind a complete package that left nowhere to go next. The gameplay is that unique Tekken blend; it works because it works, and you don’t mess with it. The graphics are already pretty high-end ten years later. The cast– adding enough