1) This game is awesome, go buy it. Or get someone else to buy it for you by being awesome like I did :3 2) Let's discuss how awesome it is. Even if the keyboard controls aren't great. 3) Any advice on getting all Jet runs? I finished today and need to unlock everything now; I keep trying, but it's like a voice is telling me...
i loved the soundtrack in JSRF. If this game has the same music then its right up there with the GTA radio
There's no way you can compare this soundtrack to GTA radio. 99% of the tracks were created specifically for this game by Hideki Naganuma and god the controls are horrible. Camera is still zoomed in waaay too much, they didn't add the ability to do tricks while grinding (from JSRF) so if you're grinding up a rail you lose momentum quickly. This game needed so much polish but all they did was upgrade models (some of the game uses original textures, such as the stickers inside DJ Professor K's booth) and I don't think that was enough to bring this game into 2012. You go from playing SMNC or Borderlands 2, recent games, with these amazingly tight controls then switch over to JSR and wanna shoot yourself
I haven't played Borderlands 2, but yeah, this game really needs a controller, and there was a lot more they could have done for the port/remake. Doesn't make it less fun, but given a lot of remakes being made these days... yeah. GTA never struck me as having good radio.
There's a lot of diversity on GTA Radio, meaning there's no way you can't find a channel you don't enjoy. This game also has a lot of diversity, there's some industrial metal songs (Rob Zombie, Cold) classic Hip-hop (Jurassic 5) but Hideki Naganuma's sampling and J-pop drives the entire game. That's the only comparison I could see Also, yeah, I'm playing with a controller and the controls are still horrible. I weep for anyone playing this game with a mouse and keyboard. How do you even spray with your set up? Do you move the mouse in the directions it tells you to? EDIT: Also, for Jet runs you need to find the optimal path. Every level has a set path that you need to follow and if you do it correctly, you'll never run out of cans and you'll be able to hit every spot the second you get to it. If you wind up going for a spray and waste all your cans, just start the level over. Make sure you don't mess up your sprays AT ALL. You'll get HUGE points if you completely finish the largest type of spray by doing it flawlessly. Finding the Soul tokens also increases your score I believe
Its painful to start, but you get used to graffiti on KB&M. You have to move WASD to do it, and it's quite weird when it recognises wrong moves. JSR music is a compliment to the games style though. I never like Japanese music on its own (or japanese anything, JSR just holds a special place as JSRF was the first game I ever owned) but it works in context. I've played a couple of GTAs and never found much I liked. I will say though that JSR feels more like JSRF-lite. It's the original and older, so you can tell where they've decided something wasn't working and so on, and it's much more of a leaderboard-based perfect run sort of game than JSRF's more open style. Hopefully a remake of JSRF comes at some point though - I searched everywhere at home and couldn't find a used copy :<
The soundtrack is considered J-Pop because of the 'Tokyo' style of the game. If anything Hideki Naganuma makes east coast soul sample based hip-hop music. He's like the Kurosawa of making music, Japanese but considered very westernized. If you started with Future then yeah, the regular is gonna seem inferior; this game was my childhood, but it really should just remain there. It doesn't make a good 2012 game, and I guess they realized this with the pricetag. I still have my original Jet Set Radio and my Future. I love collecting vintage games, they're gonna be worth a lot in the future
I wouldn't think JSR/F are going to be valuable in the future, honestly x'D they aren't incredibly rare or incredibly popular (not that they were bad, they just weren't mainstream. I distinctly remember JSRF being voted "most unfairly unrecognised game of 200X" in a magazine.) I've actually been hoping they'd make a new game with the IP but it probably didn't sell well enough, since SEGA only really stick with their major IPs.
Well yeah the regular Dreamcast and the bundled Xbox version of JSRF wouldn't be worth much I have the stand alone JSRF, the Japanese editions as well, new in box (not the bundle that came with the Xbox) I also own a copy of De La Jet Set Radio used, without the limited edition box. I agree that JSRF won't be as valuable, as it was sold to everyone that get the Xbox bundle, but ALL Dreamcast games will be valuable in the future, since they had such a limited run. Also, tell that to MvC2 and Super Mario RPG for SNES which go for insane prices used, let alone new in the box. (I don't own these new, I wish I did )
I had it in the Xbox Bundle AND Standalone, since the bundled disk broke and two years later I really wanted to finish JSRF. Still the most "fun" game I've played in a long time.
