Jet Set Radio

Fun game but repetitive. Clunky gameplay makes it fun in ways more than hindering the experience.

A unique and stylized game that suffers from many design problems. It increasingly gets harder each level to know where you are supposed to go because there are no indicators and a time limit, to the point where it becomes near impossible to continue. You are constantly being attacked with no means to retaliate, which interrupts you from completing your objectives. Controls are janky, making it hard to grind from one rail to the next. This game glorifies graffiti as 'art' and 'cool', but in reality it is typically just vandalism used to gauge how dangerous the area is. Lastly, Sega removed this game from Steam for no reason.

Unsatisfying gameplay due to clunky controls, skating unfocused on speed and tricks, and boring missions. However, I RESUSE to give this a negative rating. The artstyle, the music (holy hell the music is so good) and the vibes is what carried me to finish the main story. Also this game was delisted from the store somehow. Despite the gameplay, I'm hyped to play the sequel and now I want a proper new game. Though I'm no hopeful it will maintain it's artstyle well.

Owned on the Dreamcast back in the day, replayed it after about 12 years, and now having recently played the excellent Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, I've finished replaying JSR on Steam after about another 12 years. Although Cyberfunk isn't an official sequel, I'd recommend playing that first before replaying this. Though this original JSR is a well rounded title that gives nostalgia, it shows its age with very clunky controls and irritating platforming. I won't be replaying it again. As with this whole series, the soundtrack is excellent but gets very repetitive if you listen to what the game gives you as you play. So here's a playlist with highlights from the soundtracks and some similar stuff to put on instead while you play: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5hHJm5VaoGEv6MaJxCJkuW?si=d144c682dd734af1 Now to dust off my X-Box to replay Jet Set Radio Future again while we await the next official game.

This game has a great presentation. The art style is beautiful and the soundtrack is amazing but the controls are so bad. Just play Bomb Rush Cyberfunk you will have infinitely more fun. I don't understand why they decided to bind graffiti and camera reset to the same button but it makes the levels where you have to tag the rival gangs seizure inducing. Also, doing tricks in this game feels more like a coin flip than an actual responsive system where the players inputs result in a trick being performed.

Beautiful