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| Ammadeau 291th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):Jet Set Radio"
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There was nothing else. OXM made it up.
And no, there's no way to restart the game with all the stuff you've unlocked. Sucks, I know. At least you don't have to play through the story mode multiple times in order to unlock the extra characters.That's absolutely retarded. Are you sure they made it up????? Argh. Somehow, I figured as much. I wish Smilebit would patch it so that you could at least loop the Story mode. It pisses me off that they had to ruin so many things they did perfectly in the first one. JSRF is really good, but they killed the fun in the high score mode, changed the story around (basically threw out the first one's story), and I'd PREFER the old way of tagging. Although I can accept the new way. Someone said JSRF was a "remix" of the old one, which makes some sense as far as the story changes and stuff. I wish they'd port the old one to XBox or something, I'd play the hell out of it like I did on the Dreamcast.
JGR GBA uses the old tagging. If you have a GBA you might want to give it a spin. It's a lot closer to the DC game, but at the same time feels like a new experience. Hard though, and the controls take getting used to.
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| Undead Fred 745th Post
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| "Re(4):Jet Set Radio" , posted Thu 10 Jul 22:29
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What do you mean? No more golden Rhinos? Is the little iggy doggie still there?
Hmmmm... maybe it's a good thing I couldn't play it...
Dude,
Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
Gouji Rokkaku gets thrown off the top of a building at the end of the first one. Then, in JSRF, it's as if it never happened. No "this is how he didn't die in the first one" story. Nothing.
End of Spoiler
Plus, the GG's are just Tab (now called "Corn"), Gum, and YoYo. The rest of them act as if they'd never worked together before. Mew isn't Mew, now she's "Ryth." RYTH. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???? Are they too lazy to add the M to make "Rythm"??? Mew is so much better and works well with the character. Other character's names were changed, and even some of their "backstories." Like Cube is the leader of Poison Jam and doesn't have any link to Combo. The cops are total pushovers (literally), and I don't remember the Golden Rhinos really doing anything. I THINK they show up, but they aren't the same.
Oh boy! It's summertime!
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| Undead Fred 752th Post
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| "Re(8):Jet Set Radio" , posted Sun 13 Jul 23:53
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This thread has gotten me playing the original JGR again, with my own custom tags made from various random art I've done. A feature sorely lacking in JSRF. The game isn't quite as good as remember it, the control needs some work and the graphics are kind of underwhelming now, but the soundtrack is even better than I remember so I guess it balances out. :)
Well, to me the custom tag feature was much much better in JSRF. I mean, you've got the hard drive to store them on (I could only use TWO custom tags in JGR... that's all I had space for), and you can re-edit tags to make them just how you like them. I think gameplay and story were much much better in JGR (as well as soundtrack), but graphics, controls, and custom tags were much better in JSRF. I just wish it were more of a sequel instead of a "remix" of the first one.
Oh boy! It's summertime!
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| Grave 425th Post
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| "Re(9):Jet Set Radio" , posted Mon 14 Jul 23:46
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I think gameplay and story were much much better in JGR (as well as soundtrack), but graphics, controls, and custom tags were much better in JSRF. I just wish it were more of a sequel instead of a "remix" of the first one.
See, I held out on buying an Xbox until the JSRF/Sega GT + Controller S deal, hoping JSRF would be what I wish the first JSR was, and... well, it turned out to be just that. Yes, the simplistic tagging was a bit weak, but the control was much tighter, and that made me happy.
The first was the kind of game I really wanted to love but just couldn't. I hated the control, it frustrated me a great deal when I continually messed up and fell from high places to take way too long to get back there again, and I just didn't have a lot of fun with it. I didn't care to adjust to it.
JSRF seems... well, more intuitive. Of course, it's a lot easier, but if a game's difficulty stems from your inability to control it, well, that's a moot point. And yes, I know, that's not why all people found JSR to be challenging. I'm only speaking from my own experience.
And people say the GBA version is even less forgiving. I think I'll keep my distance, thanks.
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| Undead Fred 760th Post
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| "Re(10):Jet Set Radio" , posted Tue 15 Jul 00:23
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See, I held out on buying an Xbox until the JSRF/Sega GT + Controller S deal, hoping JSRF would be what I wish the first JSR was, and... well, it turned out to be just that. Yes, the simplistic tagging was a bit weak, but the control was much tighter, and that made me happy.
The first was the kind of game I really wanted to love but just couldn't. I hated the control, it frustrated me a great deal when I continually messed up and fell from high places to take way too long to get back there again, and I just didn't have a lot of fun with it. I didn't care to adjust to it.
JSRF seems... well, more intuitive. Of course, it's a lot easier, but if a game's difficulty stems from your inability to control it, well, that's a moot point. And yes, I know, that's not why all people found JSR to be challenging. I'm only speaking from my own experience.
And people say the GBA version is even less forgiving. I think I'll keep my distance, thanks.
I didn't think JSRF was too easy... I just got really good at connecting long grinds in JGR, so those skills carried over. I mostly had a problem with the story changes and the fact that you can't start a new story game from your old saved game (THAT'S the big one)... I mean, there's NO replay value in JSRF. Trust me. I couldn't stop playing JGR, and there's those cool little high-score modes to play with. Replay value all up and down the street. The high score modes are ridiculous in JSRF because they set the high scores so high that you have to find a particular line and milk the hell out of it to get a good score. And after getting the Love Shockers (after a million tries squeezing a retarded amount of points out of the only high-scoring line in that level), I didn't want to play the game anymore. I had re-painted the whole city, and there was absolutely nothing left to do. The characters I loved using were just about all unlocked much, much later in the game (Cube, Rapid 99, Jazz, and Clutch), so not only did I not really get to use them, but to start a new game meant I couldn't play with them for a long time. That pissed me off. Too bad they won't patch it or something to at LEAST include a code to unlock all the characters...
Oh boy! It's summertime!
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| Ammadeau 310th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):Jet Set Radio" , posted Tue 15 Jul 03:30
Yeah, I'd personally love to use Jazz through the entire game, with a little Rapid 99 on the side, but they left that out sadly. Still a great game, but it is so damn easy without the time and the cops bugging you all the time.
JGR GBA is definitely the hardest game in the series. I'm stuck on Explosion right now, keep running out of time with four tags left and I am making only a couple of mistakes. You literally need a perfect run just to clear, forget about getting Jet. It is the only game where Professor K is playable though, for what its worth.
If I have the time, I'll do a few screencaps of JGR with my custom tags in it. There used to be a Japanese website where the artist used his own JGR fanart for tags, but it doesn't exist anymore and the tage were rather pornographic anyway. I should have saved them while it was still up :p
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| Undead Fred 762th Post
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| "Re(3):Re(10):Jet Set Radio" , posted Tue 15 Jul 21:15
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Yeah, I'd personally love to use Jazz through the entire game, with a little Rapid 99 on the side, but they left that out sadly. Still a great game, but it is so damn easy without the time and the cops bugging you all the time.
Yeah, I know. The cops in JSRF are NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. I really miss trying to get tags done before the cops can get to you...
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JGR GBA is definitely the hardest game in the series. I'm stuck on Explosion right now, keep running out of time with four tags left and I am making only a couple of mistakes. You literally need a perfect run just to clear, forget about getting Jet. It is the only game where Professor K is playable though, for what its worth.
If I have the time, I'll do a few screencaps of JGR with my custom tags in it. There used to be a Japanese website where the artist used his own JGR fanart for tags, but it doesn't exist anymore and the tage were rather pornographic anyway. I should have saved them while it was still up :p
I think I might know that site... Anyway, your tags look pretty cool. I wouldn't mind looking into trying that link-up you were talking about so I can transfer tags I've done on the computer....
Oh boy! It's summertime!
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