I Don't Trust Sega With Jet Set Radio Or Crazy Taxi
A few months back, we heard that Sega was planning a Super Game initiative, which felt like an odd idea. Sega is, after all, a games company, so the idea that it would now focus on making games raised questions about exactly where that focus had been previously. Then we came to understand that the initiative was exactly what it sounded like - the plan to make one Super Game, a more expensive game than Sega had ever made before, one on par with Rockstar or Naughty Dog. Exciting stuff, if it was to come off. However, a little while after, it came to light that the initiative was in fact not what it sounded like, and was just a plan to make multiple games, some of which had NFTs in them. Decidedly less exciting. Now, a further leak has revealed that two of the titles in the Super Game initiative are reboots for both Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi. Now we're back to it being exciting again, but I suspect the toppings contain potassium benzoate. After all that, I'm not entirely sure I trust what Sega has to offer.
Reboots for both Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi sound like excellent ideas. I've written about the need for a new Jet Set before, as well as heaping praise on Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, which has all the trappings of a spiritual successor but should also be given the space to breathe on its own. I've also, more desperately, written about the need for a new Crazy Taxi, if only to save its own legacy from cash-trap mobile business sim games that use the logo of the game but completely forgoes its spirit.
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And therein lies the issue. With Jet Set Radio, it was just left to die. A shame, but not the only great game to be locked away by a studio that moves on to
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