10 Video Games Sega Should Be Releasing Instead Of Sonic
2. Jet Set Radio 3
The epitome of cool: both Jet Set Radio and Jet Set Radio Future set the gaming world alight when they were released in the noughties. Known equally for its stylish gameplay and pioneering cel-shaded visual style, both games garnered critical acclaim for their innovative gameplay, stylistic charm and overall appeal to a then niche audience. As part of a skating gang living in a fictionalised Tokyo, the player got the choice of playing as several different 'grinders' on their journey to liberate a conformist city intent on suppressing self-expression. Displayed through the anarchistic art form that is graffiti and combined with the alternative sport of skating, the player is let loose in several different locations to grind rails, 'tag' walls and generally avoid any form of authority in their journey to paint the town in psychedelic colours. As is the prevailing theme throughout this list, no other game since has managed to match Jet Set Radio in terms of its gameplay, and only one other title comes to mind when considering great examples of the cel-shaded visual style; the equally brilliant The Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
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