Man... what an incredible game! A true gem brought to us by Insomniac Games, with a production that never leaves anything to be desired, pushing any machine to its limits. Art direction from another planet, incredible, extremely vivid worlds with interesting characters (they leave something to be desired, though). Due to the scope of the production, the story may have been a little lacking, but in the end, with everything this game has to offer, such a rich and beautiful worlds, I can't help but love this game with my heart.

sick as hell, and you know i sat my zoomer ass down and listened when this 20 year old game insisted that it was the future. but the whole time i was thinking about how i spent my 2020 seeing this game's composer tweet about funky femboys, and this dj professor k rp account that was warning people not to get vaccinated, in character. i think hes still going. people were @ing him going JET SET RATIOOO.

this is to say that the actual future just confuses me. but the game itself makes it clear it's not about the future future anyway. just what we choose to do to shape it. im taking that as another reminder to be less online.

i spent all my teen years listening to cibo matto (still lives in my heart) thanks to jsrf, even though i wasnt able to actually play it back then. it simply looked like the coolest shit, and id enjoyed the first game too. having finally played it in 2023, as an adult, was a bit anticlimactic for no particular reason? - it's everything i expected. it's the sequel to jsr, it's bigger, badder, but still a fun little thing about skating around tagging shit to funky music. all those songs id heard thousands of times, finally sounding off with full context. neat mini dj mixes for each chapter. it really did end up being the coolest shit.

fuck exclusives lol. theres some irony in no one being able to play a game all about the undying rebellious spirit because they dont happen to own a 2 decade old slab of plastic with a particular brand stamped on it. my uncle had an xbox but he wasnt cool enough to carry this game. unfortunate. and this shit still carries itself more like the dreamcast than it does xbox anyway. wheres the french guy on twitter begging #BreakFreeJSRF.

it's cool that video games can affect us even when we've yet to play them. jsrf ended up being as important to me as a lot of games i actually played growing up. always the game i was going to play one day, always that game in the future. and when the future finally came, there was that satisfaction of seeing all these disparate things id absorbed by osmosis, allowed to move and flow together for the first time. theres that song i spent so many years listening to. those character designs id adored from afar. that refinement upon the first game everyone would go on about. i still lost my mind a bit in the sewer level, as you do, but it was all in good fun.

ultimately id have liked to vibe to it all as the 14 year old spacing off to Skate 2, and not the 24 year old with nothing going on. but this works too.

its more splatoon, but the single player is actually good now and they finally (after 7 years) figured out that its fun when youre able to play with your friends. holy shit. just ignore the communication errors. paid online service btw.

maybe i was just really burnt out when splatoon 2 dropped, as it hadnt been that long since the first game which id poured hundreds of hours into. but that game simply didnt grab me the way the first one did, and the way this has been doing. i cant stop playing, its summer 2015 all over again. i love how fucking stupid everything about this game is, the cheesy dialogue, the music going BEN BEN w/ the among us theme, getting spawn camped on mahi mahi because some genius decided it should have like 10cm^2 area now, getting tenta missiled by 3 flyfishes while waiting 10 years to do a roller flick because some genius decided the current salmon run rotation should have dynamo roller, trying to get the shades to sit on the moai head in your locker just right, keeping lil judd in your peripheral vision at all times after beating him in a childrens card game, etc etc

i dont want to be out here talking about how splatoon's core game design is genius or whatever because i dont actually play other shooters these days. likewise i dont want to be talking about how innovative this is because splatoon has gotten pretty comfortable now. 1 was the trailblazer 7 years ago, this is the third rodeo. ive already started seeing people unhappy that the word "splatoon" has gone from meaning "creative new weird wii u ip" to "hugely successful series that has started putting out entries that all look and play the same" which is fair really. maybe ill be more cynical when we get around to like splatoon 6 with idols called like Carol and Reefe ready to announce the single worst map rotation youve ever seen. as of right now its simply too fun and charming. now if youll excuse me i have to grind to level 98 so i can unlock the dab

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