Guess I’ll finally write about Angel Cop
But if this is justice, I'm a banana.
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Here’s what it’s like to run the Ridge Racer course for 20 hours
(My Switch says it's been 10+ hours, but I feel like it's been 40+. This could just be the time dilation of practice.) Like I've said, I’ve been really stuck on this year’s release of Ridge Racer in the Arcade Archives series.
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