This is the kind of magazine page that 90s-kid-me would stare at for hours fantasizing over. Even looking at it now, it’s surprisingly easy for me to ignore the objective technical limitations and get hyped.

Side note: can we talk about that 1ST PC GUN on the mid-left there? Dude…

Right?

“64-year-old composer dares to retire after lifelong career of creating genre-defining compositions; REFUSES to create more!”

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Maybe I’m the outlier here, but if I’m a big enough fanboy of a certain anime, I don’t mind a semi-crappy video game port that let’s me further bask in that universe. Even moreso if the game’s throwing out extra new lore or good fanservice at me.

Plus there was always something oddly charming about clunky PS2-era licensed anime games to me, although I admit nostalgia may be influencing my perspective there.

And this is coming from someone who played through both PS2 Eureka Seven games to completion.

Good ol’ Fink Manufacturing…

Good to know!

I’m fortunate enough to still have my full collection of RB4 instruments functional after all these years, and I frequently bust them out with my wife and my friends when the booze hits just right.

In the announcement they really emphasize that you’ll keep the songs you’ve already bought. What they haven’t clarified is whether you’ll still be able to continue downloading dlc tracks that are already released. Severing that from the playerbase would really suck.

Although they are releasing one final DLC pack before this ends, so who knows?