Hello everyone. This is Jet Set Radio. It's an
old title many of you might remember from the Dreamcast
and I think it made an appearance on the original Playstation, or maybe Playstation 2, I can't quite
remember.
Absolutely fantastic old game.
Basically the idea is that you are part of a group of
young rebels on nuclear powered rollerblades
and the idea is basically to take back your
city from the establishment, I suppose you could call it.
The idea is you've got to attack
various locations around the game world
earning points. You have a certain amount of time to complete each stage and
as the stage evolves things get more difficult.
There are other people out there tagging as well.
Computer control characters and you'll have to avoid them and overcome their tags.
You need to pickup spray-paint. Onscreen controls are reasonably easy to work with
you've got a power button and you have to jump and grind
between all the various points.
You can also
grab hold of the back of cars as well.
Jet Set Radio
It's quite a difficult game to actually play on the touchscreens I find,
and not the easiest of titles.
It actually works a little bit better on a controller
to be fair.
It's a shame they didn't come up with a slightly better
controller really. As I say, it's a bit jangly, I think in parts because we're converting
from such an old game Jet Set Radio, with quite limited buttons back then
to today. For instance you actually have the old camera button is still there
from the good old days so that if you actually turn your character around, the
camera doesn't follow, you have to hit camera button to then reposition yourself.
So you almost have to kind of line-up your
moves before you begin them.
Make sure that the line you are taking is absolutely spot on.
Just grab some paint. Whoops!
Ooh, Michael J Fox would be proud!
The graphics are absolutely fantastic although
they feel a little
out of date now, the texture is not particularly hot even though the
cell shading animation that we all know and love
from the original
it does feel slightly dated albeit
still running some nice lighting effects and so on that kind of make the game feel
quite light and vibrant.
Just spray paint that,
and get one on top of there as well.
And we'll run into a bus.
The game is reasonably difficult, it takes a while to get the hang of, this is one
of those games that's not exactly pick up and play but then the original wasn't really
a pick up and play game. You know, you have to put in a good number of
hours to really get the best out of this game. As you can see the stages themselves last for
around 500 seconds I think it works out at it's about 10 minutes, something like that,
seven or eight minutes.
So not quite a pick up and play title.
You can see now that I've
removed a few of those tags in the world environment the game world has
actually moved on a little bit now . But I have added
interesting swipe control
motifs, certain bits on that page
so that you can actually
swipe to do the actions that you would use with the paint cans so for instance
you have to swipe up, down, left and right to
complete
some of the harder spray challenges a little bit quicker.
See if we can just get this one to, so you see, swipe down and that completes the next bit.
There we go. Completed.
If you manage to get
all of the swipe moves in the right order then it doesn't take as long to actually
compete that particular spray can challenge.
You've got jump points, grind points and all sorts going on in this game.
Not bad for what amounts to £3 or £4 I think this game was.
Not a bad title at all. Nice to see Sega's Jet Set Radio
bringing up some of their older classic titles and doing quite a good job on them
on the mobile platforms.
You'll enjoy this one.