Why has every attempt to capture the spirit of Jet Set Radio turned out to be so completely soulless?

You'll like the real thing then

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This looks like some kind of arena shooter level.

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came here to post this

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because they don't UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND

>Why has every attempt to capture the spirit of Jet Set Radio turned out to be so completely soulless?

Following someone else's spirit so closely will not get you there. Hell, the closest is probably The World Ends With You.

The closest would be Hover, to the point they even got the Jet Set Radio composer to make a few songs for it.

because instead of attempting to take what JSR did and improve upon it, every single referential or 'spirtual successor' style game is just REMEMBER JSR GUIS WE EVEN HAVE MUSIC JUST LIKE IT. Instead of taking what made JSR memorable and interesting, it's just flat attempts to copy it verbatim.

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Hover is a textbook definition of missing the point.

>t. not a sweet soul brother

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>OC characters look like shit and try too hard to be cool, edgy, neon colored hipsters that only weebs can make up.

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This.

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It's because they can't understand a certain concept

Because Jet Set Radio is a shit game for hipster faggots. It always has been.

not trolling, I genuinely hate this game and anybody who says it's good immediately has their opinion discarded

Why are you so bigoted user?

spoken like a true snoyfag

>No Future release in 4K

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Yeah, and it sucks. It had a somewhat decent groundwork, but then it just added pointless fluff like character building/stats and shitty missions. The characters and plot weren’t too great either. It was trying to be this pseudo online multiplayer thing too.

If it was simpler, they could have had something. But instead they just threw a bunch of shit in a parkour style game and hoped it would stick.

This. Inspired > spiritual successor

i suppose one could argue splatoon has a pretty similar feel in a way that isnt soulless

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fucking this, why is it that every time I hear of a "JSR-inspired" game it's always some hyper futuristic shit with neon lights all over the place?
why does no one get it?

youtube.com/watch?v=B1lNhNHdoPI

NO
WEAK
SHIT

probably helps that Lethal League wasn't supposed to ape the JSRF style, it just kinda grew into it with the licensed music and 3D cel shading

Not vidya, but Air Gear gets it.

Where did the futuristic shit came from any?
Hell JSRF wasen't that futuristic.

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Splatoon 1,2 and the DLC is oozing with soul
The hub world of 2 is kinda less soul compared to 1's

Because it vaguely looks sort of futuristic. Their take on it is basically a Flanderized version of JSR's aesthetic - it's complete fucking mass media NPC logic. They see one aspect less than skin deep and make it the entire theme. Makes sense, it's the same to them because their perception is lacking any sort of depth.

You might like Air Gear, or maybe not.

I've heard good things about Lethal League Blaze, but it is it's own game with some JSR asthetics.

Uhm sweaty, it has a song literally called Sweet Soul Brother

Because jsr is all about gameplay and the 1-2 games that did tried to replicate it completely missed that.
But it also requires people to get the setting right, something they half ass, maybe they get close to the music but that's about it.

Theres some indie game being developed called Butterflies, the gameplay seems to be emulated well enough but the asthetics and music are a hard pass for me.

heh

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>Edge Gear

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There's a bigger problem with what I said and it's the fact that no game should straight up be copying another.
It always ends up being "man sure wish I was playing the actual game right now".

Get some mild inspiration on the setting and/or music, sure, but design your own fucking game, your own style, don't just try to blandly emulate jsr but with a stupid little twist that permeates the whole thing basically to not get sued, it just ends up as jsr donut steal deviantart version, that hover shit is the perfect example of this.
That's why rocket league is good, it's an original idea, with it's own concept and just happened to collide and mesh well with jsr style.

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>gum
>black panties
I swear these fucks didn't even play the game

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For all I know, Butterflies might develop to be it's own thing. But I agree, we dont need any more soulless "spiritual sequels" by indie devs, they almost never match up to the standards of the original because when your trying to simply copy a game it is very easy to miss a lot of small details, and then they realize too late that those small details eventually stack up to a noticeable difference in quality between the indie product and the inspiration.

Hit the nail on the head. With JSR of all games it takes a critical perspective for someone to figure out why they liked it in the first place. JSR was doing its own thing and it would almost be disrespectful to not see that when you decide to make a game inspired by it.

I've been making such a game for the past few years now and its interesting to see all these like-minded games coming out. I'd say Lethal League has been the best one of the bunch and I'm hoping people dig our project when we go public with it.

>haha i can't think up actual clever lyrics so just repeat FUNKY FRESH BEATS over and over

no, it's terrible

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JET SET RADIOOOOO

Place your bets now ladies and gentlemen.

This is like over half of JSR songs too?

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FLY
LIKE A BUTTERFLY

exactly, it's a soulless copy, just like OP states

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>track by the creator of the most of JSR and JSRF tracks
>souless copy
Are you okay there, retard?

People really don't understand the importance of music in the Jet Set Radio games. It's more than prominent for a reason and Naganuma is my heavenly father.

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because something can't be a copy, because the same person made it, right? no need to get defensive.

Then it's not a copy if it's on pretty much everything, it's a style inherent to the person, you fucking mongoloid.
By your reasoning every single work of everything ever done by the same person is just a copy of the past work

So, did Sega really lose their JSRF source code?

spend less time speaking and more time thinking. the issue here is the fact that the game is NOT JSR, and so it is trying to emulate it in a way that is forced, and doesn't work. the song doesn't work, it's terrible, and the game is terrible too. your brain is so focused on who made it, and not the result. remember next time to think a bit harder before you speak so aggressively, you might humiliate yourself too much.

youtube.com/watch?v=4XUL3Mui-gc

EXTRA SUGAR, EXTRA SALT

That makes no sense, it's just a musical style, how the hell is that copying?
Was Michael Jackson copying himself when he starts dancing or doing his random yells?

Christ, what a sad post user.
I pity anyone that has to deal with you.

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So, did everyone completely forget about this or what?
For fuck's sake, even Naganuma composed the whole soundtrack.

You want your sequel to JSRF? Here it is.
youtu.be/x2WR-9T7RV0

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Did you not read the fucking thread

The game is just a bland jsr copy with none of the charm, the gameplay sucks and the style and characters are nauseating.
It's basically a soulless jsr copy paste but with characters changed with deviantart ocs to not get sued.

>Hey guys we've made this gameball thing
>Sorry it sucks
>Required for progression
>Is the final boss
Fuck gameball, massive pile of shit

Sorry user
but the buyer's remorse thread is two pages down

did you play hover? its fucking terrible.

I like the style but not a fan of his Rocket Crocs.
Bit bizarre his headphones came out too, Beat would know how to avoid that

How long until you go public with it?
How will the peeps from this thread know which is your project?

But that's just what Naganumas music sounds like. You hire him for music cause he makes stuff like Funky Fresh Beats. Not because it's like JSR but because he makes sweet funky music.
Even in Sonic Rush the music is similar to JSR and they obviously werent making a JSR clone.

>even Naganuma composed the whole soundtrack.
No he didn't. He did Heaven up and Never4Ever. The rest was done by Cedric Menendez.
Says a lot about Cedric if you can't tell the difference