Each district is a glorious tiered structure of train tracks, banisters, scaffolds, and billboards, all of which can be used to keep your skater moving fast, and gaining air. Plus, you’ve got cops bearing down on you and they will literally kill you if given the chance (the authorities’ murderous nature is part of what makes being a vandal okay in Jet Set’s world).Īdventures in graffiti are only as interesting as the town they take place in. Mess up, and your score multiplier is broken. Small tags go up with just a quick pull of the left trigger on your controller, but medium and large tags require you to slide the left analog stick in time with onscreen prompts. You choose small, medium, and large tags for your skater - you can design your own or collect them in a tough to reach spots throughout the levels - and mark up the town appropriately. Most levels in the game give you a time limit to enter a city district and spray down a set number of marked locations. You’re allied with Professor K, the DJ of a 24-hour pirate radio station called Jet Set Radio, whose mission is to expose the corrupt rulers of the city, the Rokkaku Corporation, and their police force cronies.įighting the power in the world of Jet Set Radio mostly entails grinding rails and tagging everything in sight. Rudies) kitted out with magnetic inline skates vying for dominance of Tokyo-to’s districts. You’re just trying to be the coolest rudie in Tokyo-to, placing your tags around town and shutting down your violent, unsavory competitors while sticking it to the fascistic police force.įor those that missed Jet Set in its first go around at the dawn of the century, here’s the scoop: You control the GGs, one in a number of graffiti artist gangs (i.e. You’re no hero here in one of Sega’s defining Dreamcast games, now reborn in HD. What you aspire to in Jet Set Radio is coolness. Jet Set doesn’t trade in those usual modes. You play Skyrim, you want to feel like a destined hero Madden, you want to feel like a tactical genius of the gridiron. You play Call of Duty, you want to feel like a badass, no matter how morally dubious that badassery may be. Jet Set Radio, like most video games, is aspirational.
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