Just a quick one after yesterday's post.
I think I said something along the lines that I felt that BRC is missing some personality. I played again today, and I didn't think that at all, it just came to me after thinking about it more for the article and comparing it to the Jet Set Radio games. The game has personality, the gameplay rocks, the music makes it all even better. It is just different. Obviously, it is a whole nother game, it is in fact not Jet Set Radio, even if it is inspired by it.
I felt like I viewed the game in a worse light after writing my review. Just made me think of the saying that Comparison is the death of joy.
My feelings were valid, I mentioned thinks I really liked in JSR, like Professor K or Onishima. But again, it's another game, and Bomb Rush definitely trumps JSR in other aspects, the most obvious ones would be the modern and improved gameplay. It just feels so good to play this.
And I have the feeling things we are not currently doing or playing get also covered in some kind of wrap of nostalgia. Granted, I didn't play JSR that long ago, but it has been some time. The effect is only amplified the longer we do not play a game. I've been replaying some games on the NDS, and I was surprised how easy some of them were, and how short others were. When I was younger, these games felt limitless, big. A magical world that you could explore forever. Now I can beat it relatively fast with ease. Nostalgia definitely makes you enjoy some things more. Thinking more about JSR, I also remembered my bad times. Like in the first mission Love Trap, when I was just learning the ropes of the game, I screwed up so many times and it annoyed me. The thing where you jump across the gap with the train, that jump was so infruriating to me, I tried it so many times. I actually saw a video some time ago, apparently you can just jump on the walls 😭
What I just mean to say is, don't ruin your own fun. Enjoy your games. I'm not much of a replayer, I rather have a new experience, a story, even if it is not so complex. I already beat JSR and JSRF, I don't feel particularly inclined to play them again in the near future (like, some time has to pass so it feels new and fresh again, you wouldn't watch the same movie every week). I'm glad I have these new experience, the songs are already getting stuck inside my head! I have great fun playing Bomb Rush Cyberfunk!
Last words: I don't think you can say or it makes even sense to say one game is better than the other. I see people complaining that the first Die Hard movie is the best, and that the following ones weren't so good. Guess what, I watched them (2 and 3), they all went hard, and were very cool. I get what people mean, it's hard to live up to expectations and some sequels for some movies are definitely cashgrabs. But like, in the case of Die Hard they are still great and very enjoyable. I just don't see the need to talk bad about everything. Cheers!