A lovely tribute to Jet Set Radio! My main complaint is I just wish the game was longer. I had a lot of fun.
Incredible soundtrack, beautiful art direction, lovely graphics, pixel art textures and cel shading... Level design is pretty good, though I wish they were a bit bigger. It could use a world map to help you find your way between zones.
The scoring system for combos is a bit weird and emphasizes extreme map knowledge over thumb skill.
Story was actually surprisingly interesting and bit confusing to explain.
There's apparently quite a few extra unlockable characters, though the game doesn't do much to hint at that to you. I don't have most of them right now, and I'm not sure if I'll make the time to go back and get them.
My main complaint is the weird emphasis on combat in this game. The boss fights are not very good, and one in particular completely changes the formula with 0 explanation and repeatedly insta-kills you until you magically deduce (read online) how to beat the boss. Also once you get high "rep" in an area (do lots of graffiti), cops show up absurdly fast any time you do graffiti. This doesn't change after beating the game, and it makes tracking down the final missing graffitis a drag. I didn't enjoy the "run from the cops to find a bathroom to change clothes" as a game mechanic, and the combat is underdeveloped and uninteresting. I think they could make a better game by scrapping the combat entirely and giving you timed escape sequences from cops as part of the story mode only.
Lovely game and I'm hoping for some cool DLC and maybe a sequel eventually.
Incredible soundtrack, beautiful art direction, lovely graphics, pixel art textures and cel shading... Level design is pretty good, though I wish they were a bit bigger. It could use a world map to help you find your way between zones.
The scoring system for combos is a bit weird and emphasizes extreme map knowledge over thumb skill.
Story was actually surprisingly interesting and bit confusing to explain.
There's apparently quite a few extra unlockable characters, though the game doesn't do much to hint at that to you. I don't have most of them right now, and I'm not sure if I'll make the time to go back and get them.
My main complaint is the weird emphasis on combat in this game. The boss fights are not very good, and one in particular completely changes the formula with 0 explanation and repeatedly insta-kills you until you magically deduce (read online) how to beat the boss. Also once you get high "rep" in an area (do lots of graffiti), cops show up absurdly fast any time you do graffiti. This doesn't change after beating the game, and it makes tracking down the final missing graffitis a drag. I didn't enjoy the "run from the cops to find a bathroom to change clothes" as a game mechanic, and the combat is underdeveloped and uninteresting. I think they could make a better game by scrapping the combat entirely and giving you timed escape sequences from cops as part of the story mode only.
Lovely game and I'm hoping for some cool DLC and maybe a sequel eventually.