History YMMV / JetSetRadio

** ''Future'''s final battle against [[spoiler:Gouji/A.Ku.Mu]]in their disorienting, psychedelic arenas. Getting to the fight requires a difficult series of jumps, too. Since the paint is at the bottom and the boss has a large health bar, the player needs to refill and clear the jumps at least twice.

*** Grind Square's suspended grind rails and tricky jumps usually lead to a lot of fall damage. Since the GGs' best graffiti artists are frail, it's more dangerous for anyone pursuing a Jet rank.

* HypeBacklash[=/=]SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Classic's'' HD remaster, while still liked, was criticized more than the original Dreamcast version despite being a near-perfect port. A common thread in many reviews was that cel shading's novelty distracted critics from the game's many frustrating design elements, which became more obvious over time. Compare the Dreamcast version, which scored in the 90s on Metacritic, to the remasters, which usually score 20 points lower.
* JustHereForGodzilla: While ''Sega GT 2002'' was a really fun racing game that holds up to this day, how many times did you play it compared to ''Jet Set Radio Future''? Many will tell you, not as much. Some who otherwise had no interest in ''Sega GT 2002'' whatsoever simply bought the disc because it was actually cheaper than getting ''JSRF'' on its own. (And that's not even getting into the fact that many who bought the Xbox bundle with both games would go out and get rid of both to buy something else, typically ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', which accounts for the combo disc's large presence on the second-hand market.)

** ''Classic'' Yo-Yo is hated for several reasons. His recruit race is a DifficultySpike[[labelnote:note]]It's Benten-Cho's Jet Crush mission. Since Yo-Yo challenges the player before it's unlocked in The Garage, they likely don't practice beforehand unless they delay his, and the other characters', challenges.[[/labelnote]], he's one of the hardest characters to use thanks to his low Power, low paint storage and complex graffiti combos, and he has annoying voice clips and a mediocre character design[[labelnote:note]]His defining traits are his 3D glasses and unappealing green hoodie[[/labelnote]]. None of these apply to his ''Future'' counterpart, who got the opposite reaction.
** Clutch is the face of a GameBreakingBug in which he stops appearing, halting the player's progress unless they have an earlier save file. Stealing the GG's Graffiti Souls and having the same stats as Jazz doesn't help.
* ScrappyMechanic: In ''Classic'', graffiti and camera control are inexplicably mapped to the same button. This makes tagging hard to reach small spots way more annoying than it should be, and tag battles can become nightmarish and disorienting. Thankfully, this can be reconfigured in the HD remaster.
* SequelDifficultyDrop: ''JSRF'' is significantly easier than the NintendoHard first game for a variety of reasons:

** ''Future'''s final battle against [[spoiler:Gouji/A.Ku.Mu]]; if the incredibly distracting, seizure-inducing location wasn't hard enough to cope with, it requires navigating a rather difficult and complicated vertical course to the very top just to reach the battle itself... multiple times.
** The Hikage Street Terror Drone is all that but ''worse.'' Hard to get in a hit on it, a flow-crushing cutscene in the middle of the battle and an agonizingly long trek back up, plus framerate drops to the bombs going off making it ''even slower.''

*** Bantam Street has some hard-to-reach tags that can drain the player's timer. To make matters worse, the only two available characters the first time through have the highest Graffiti stats in the game (making multi-spray tags harder in return for more points) and multiple tags are guarded by [[DemonicSpiders Assassin No. 5]], who has good range, good speed and can't be stunned. This creates one of the worst [[DifficultySpike difficulty spikes]] in the game.
*** In Grind Square, you are constantly at risk to suffering fall damage, and many of the tags require some of the most difficult jumps in the game.
*** Combo's recruit race. You're stuck with a character with the second lowest speed in the game against Beat, who has above-average speed. To make things worse, one section forces you to enter a door placed above a half pipe, which can be hard to get through thanks to Combo's large hitbox. If you get stuck on an obstacle, the match is practically lost, forcing you wait, lose and try again.
*** "Fight or Flight" has snipers from hard-to-reach spots, not helped by the heavily-guarded graffiti tags and confusing sewer connecting each area. Then, ''gunners in jetpacks'' will show up. With their speed and firepower, they will give you hell of a time to rest or spray graffiti, especially the larger ones.

*** The Tokyo Underground Sewage Facility is a repetitive, vertically-oriented gauntlet of half-pipes, rails, precise platforming and numerous falling hazards over health-draining pools of water. With no fast way to get back up and plenty of ways to fall down, falling off of a higher level or getting a Game Over makes it infuriating. Its worst objective involves wall-riding up a giant vertical passage; the walls must be ridden in sequence (as trying to wall ride the same wall twice in a row doesn't work), the two safety platforms in the passage have no barriers to prevent you from falling again, getting stuck in a corner is easy and there are numerous metal wall panels that cannot be used for wall riding. If you hit them, they can unceremoniously send you back to the start.
*** The Skyscraper District & Pharaoh Park has an obnoxiously dark color palette, tight jumps, ''tons'' of life-sapping [[NonLethalBottomlessPits pits]], odd ramp mechanics required for progression [[note]]for some reason, you accelerate while going up specific sloped surfaces in this area; in almost any other stage, you'd lose speed trying to do this on similar setpieces[[/note]], merciless checkpoints that often dump you far away from where you fell, and a very specific series of rails to grind and jumps to make. These combine into one hellish experience, especially when traveling into the very far reaches.
*** Hikage Street is a boring maze with frequent stops to fight the police and a long, repeated stair-grinding setpiece (with minor variations in rail structure) in multiple parts of the map. All of the graffiti is on the top of these setpieces, and if you fall, you need to ascend the whole thing again.
* ThatOneSidequest: In ''Classic,'' trying to Jet rank any of the Jet Crush levels can be annoying because of their tough time limits, unforgiving knockback mechanics that drain momentum and fling the player away, and players constantly mashing the dash button. Benten-Cho is particularly obnoxious because of its narrow corridors, lack of shortcuts, and multiple jumps that, if you miss them, cost you the race.

** Has a bizarrely amicable one with ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', thanks to Hideki Naganuma posting it frequently on his Twitter account. Ever since his followers followed suit, a lot of ''JSR'' crossover art/memes use the Griffins ironically.

* CrazyAwesome: Onishima's over-the-top demeanor and [[DisproportionateRetribution military-grade responses to graffiti artists]] provide [[RuleOfCool the best obstacles and setpieces in JSR]].

*** Gum stands out for her fun character design and [[AwesomeEgo glimpses of personality]]. For hardcore players of the original, she's also a decent way to get Jet ranks because she's a starting character with maximum Graffiti and usable stats in other areas. Because of all these, she's considered one of the unofficial mascots of the series and tends to appear in [[VideoGame/SEGASuperstars SEGA crossover games]] alongside Beat as a result.
*** Cube's goth aesthetic and comparatively extensive backstory in both games led to her being a fan favorite as well, especially for Western players.

*** The Noise Tanks have an [[GangOfHats appealing and distinct cyborg-based aesthetic]] which manifests in their numerous gadgets, such as rocket skates and tertiary arms.
** DJ Professor K is a LargeHam who broadcasts the series' SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic in-universe.
* EpilepticTrees: The recurring fan theory that Clutch is Coin's ''Future'' counterpart. There is ''very'' little evidence to support this, if at all, since he doesn't have any history with JSRF's versions of Combo and Cube.
* EvenBetterSequel: ''JSRF'' irons out nearly every flaw of the original game, with a more interesting story and far more fleshed out gameplay. Many of the frustrating elements were dropped (see SequelDifficultyDrop) and the elements that did work were expanded upon with more depth and better control. Even those who have the SeinfeldIsUnfunny reaction to the original game freely admit to having enjoyed the successor.

** The extreme levels of police brutality, such as through teargassing and military weapons, become a lot less fun and cartoony when you consider how often they happen in real life.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Japan, JSR was released [[ObviousBeta in an unfinished state]] on a [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast sinking ship]], while ''Future'' was exclusive to the Xbox, which sold much worse than the competition. Neither game appealed to the wants of their Japanese audience at the time of their release, which preferred anime [=RPGs=] and arcade fighters. On the other side of the pond, Western players consider both games [[CultClassic cult classics]] and have been frequently cited as examples of the artistic and aesthetic potential of video games.
* HypeBacklash[=/=]SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The HD remaster, while still generally liked, was more poorly received than the original Dreamcast version despite being virtually unchanged from it, with a lot of reviewers arguing the then unprecedented visual style blinded them from initially seeing many of the faults with the game. Compare the Dreamcast version that scored in the high 90% range with the HD versions that ended closer to the 70% category. A lot of contemporary players have also complained about some of the more frustrating elements that are a lot more obvious now than they were back then, and wonder if anyone even looked past the visual style when playing the game, and cel shading becoming much more omnipresent these days has worn off the original novelty of the concept.
* JustHereForGodzilla: While ''Sega GT 2002'' was a really fun racing game that holds up well to this day, how many times did you play it compared to ''Jet Set Radio Future''? Many will tell you, not as much. Some who otherwise had no interest in ''Sega GT 2002'' whatsoever simply bought the disc because it was actually cheaper than getting ''JSRF'' on its own. (And that's not even getting into the fact that many who bought the Xbox bundle with both games would go out and get rid of both to buy something else, typically ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', which accounts for the combo disc's large presence on the second-hand market.)
* MemeticMutation: The chorus of "Concept of Love," due to its repetitive and bizarre lyrics when taken out of context.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In ''JSR'', casual players tend to dislike Yo-yo. His recruit mission is a DifficultySpike, he's one of the hardest characters to use thanks to his low Power, low paint storage and complex graffiti combos, and he has annoying voice clips and a mediocre character design. Nearly all of his flaws were retooled in ''Future:'' he's unlocked at the start, his stats are more well-rounded, the graffiti mechanics were retooled to remove combos, his voice clips were re-recorded and his design was overhauled to be more iconic.
* TheScrappy: Clutch is responsible for a GameBreakingBug in which he stops appearing, halting the player's progress unless they have an earlier save file. Suddenly stealing the GG's Graffiti Souls at their lowest point and having the same stats as Jazz doesn't help.
* ScrappyMechanic: In ''JSR'', graffiti and camera control are mapped to the same button. This makes tagging hard to reach small spots way more annoying than it should be, and tag battles can become nightmarish and disorienting. Particularly infuriating is that there are several other buttons on the controller that go unused, making it completely inexcusable that this problem exists. Thankfully, in the HD port, this can be reconfigured to separate buttons.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM "Birthday Cake"]] from ''JSRF'' is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs.

*** Bantam Street has some hard-to-reach tags that can drain the player's timer. To make matters worse, the only two available characters the first time through have the highest Graffiti stats in the game (making multi-spray tags harder in return for more points) and multiple tags are guarded by [[DemonicSpiders Assassin No. 5]], who has good range, good speed and can't be stunned. This creates one of the worst [[DifficultySpike difficulty spikes]] in the game, some considering it practically unwinnable.

*** Trying to Jet rank any of the Jet Crush levels can be annoying because of their tough time limits, unforgiving knockback mechanics that drain momentum and fling the player away, and players constantly mashing the dash button. Benten-Cho is particularly obnoxious because of its narrow corridors, lack of shortcuts, and multiple jumps that, if you miss them, cost you the race.

*** The Tokyo Underground Sewage Facility is a repetitive, vertically-oriented gauntlet of half-pipes, rails, precise platforming and numerous falling hazards over health-draining pools of water. With no fast way to get back up or any kind of shortcut ''at all'' (there's fast ways to get ''down'' safely, but no vertical shortcuts), falling off of a higher level or getting a Game Over compounds these issues. Its worst objective involves wall-riding up a giant vertical passage; the walls must be ridden in sequence (as trying to wall ride the same wall twice in a row doesn't work), the two safety platforms in the passage have no barriers to prevent you from falling again, getting stuck in a corner is easy and there are numerous metal wall panels that cannot be used for wall riding that can unceremoniously send you back to the start.
*** The Skyscraper Distract & Pharaoh Park has an obnoxiously dark color palette, tight jumps, ''tons'' of life-sapping [[NonLethalBottomlessPits pits]], odd ramp mechanics required for progression [[note]]for some reason, you accelerate while going up specific sloped surfaces in this area; in almost any other stage, you'd lose speed trying to do this on similar setpieces[[/note]], merciless checkpoints that often dump you far away from where you fell, and a very specific series of rails to grind and jumps to make. These combine into one hellish experience, especially when traveling into the very far reaches.

* ThatOneBoss:
** ''JSRF'''s final battle against [[spoiler:Gouji/A.Ku.Mu]]; if the incredibly distracting, seizure-inducing location wasn't hard enough to cope with, it requires navigating a rather difficult and complicated vertical course to the very top just to reach the battle itself... multiple times.
** The Hikage Street Terror Drone is all that but ''worse.'' Hard to get in a hit on it, a flow-crushing cutscene in the middle of the battle and an agonizingly long trek back up, plus framerate drops to the bombs going off making it ''even slower.''
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Initially, a huge chunk of the soundtrack couldn't be licensed again for ''JSR'''s UpdatedRerelease. Fortunately, efforts by Sega brought back all but one of the original songs and even a few from ''Future'' to compensate.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Many were probably confused by the Teen rating on the games...until they listened closely to the lyrics of most of the songs. Although the most explicit lyrics were censored, several are about drugs, giving good blowjobs, polyamory, whispered moans of a loving couple having sex, and the [[PrecisionFStrike S and N-bombs out of nowhere]].
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: While there are quite a few trippy elements to the game, [[spoiler:Rokkaku's dream world where you fight giant robots]] is the strangest because of either fight's disorienting colors and music.
* YouLookFamiliar: Some speculate that Clutch could be Coin, though there is no evidence supporting this.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Japan, JSR was released [[ObviousBeta in an unfinished state]] on a [[UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast sinking ship]], while ''Future'' was exclusive to the Xbox, which sold much worse than the competition. Neither game appealed to the wants of their audience, which preferred anime [=RPGs=] and arcade fighters. On the other side of the pond, Western players consider both games [[CultClassic cult classics]] and frequent examples of the artistic and aesthetic potential of video games.

*** The Tokyo Underground Sewage Facility is a repetitive, vertically-oriented gauntlet of half-pipes, rails, precise platforming and numerous falling hazards. With no fast way to get back up, falling off of a higher level or getting a Game Over compounds these issues. Its worst objectives involve wall-riding up a giant vertical passage; the walls must be ridden in sequence (as trying to wall ride the same wall twice in a row doesn't work), the two safety platforms contain no barriers, getting stuck in a corner is easy and there are numerous obstacles that can unceremoniously send you back to the start.
*** The Skyscraper Distract & Pharaoh Park has an obnoxiously dark color palette, tight jumps, ''tons'' of life-sapping [[NonLethalBottomlessPits pits]], odd ramp mechanics required for progression, and a very specific series of rails to grind and jumps to make. These combine into one hellish experience, especially when traveling into the very far reaches.
*** Hikage Street is a boring maze with frequent stops to fight the police and a long, repeated stair-grinding setpiece. All of the graffiti is on the top of these setpieces, and if you fall, you need to ascend the whole thing again.

** ''JSRF'''s final battle against [[spoiler:Gouji/A.Ku.Mu]]; if the incredibly distracting, seizure-inducing location wasn't hard enough to cope with, it requires navigating a rather difficult and complicated vertical course to the very top just to reach the battle itself...multiple times.

*** Gum stands out for her fun character design and [[AwesomeEgo glimpses of personality]]. For hardcore players of the original, she's also a decent way to get Jet ranks because she's a starting character with maximum Graffiti and usable stats in other areas. Because of all these, she's considered one of the unofficial mascots of the series.

** Music:
*** Despite being the least played song in ''Future'', Let Mom Sleep (No Sleep Remix) is a popular song for mashups.

* CrazyAwesome: Onishima. He's obviously not right in the head, using machine gun-wielding soldiers, attack helicopters, and tanks [[DisproportionateRetribution just to stop some graffiti artists]], but [[RuleOfCool it's still pretty cool]]

** Cube is apparently popular with western gamers, for obvious reasons.
** Don't forget DJ Professor K.
** As far as songs go, Let Mom Sleep (No Sleep Remix) has become surprisingly popular in mashups despite being the least played song in JSRF.
** The Noise Tanks of the Dreamcast JSR, with their goggles and the rest of their [[GangOfHats gang uniform]].
* EpilepticTrees: The recurring fan theory that Clutch is Coin's ''Future'' counterpart. There is ''very'' little evidence to support this, if at all, especially considering that he doesn't seem to have any history with JSRF's versions of Combo and Cube.

** Teargassing teens, using excessive force for something mostly passive and peaceful, police brutality on an extreme level, all become severely less funny and cartoony when you realize that sort of thing happens with alarming frequency these days.
** DJ Professor K says that he's "hijacking the airways and terrorizing you with tunes..." It's unlikely that kind of line would pass after September 11th, 2001.
* FriendlyFandoms: With ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse.'' The former thanks to both games being about youth in Shibuya spreading paint everywhere, and the latter due to somewhat similar aesthetics, and a comment from the creator about one of the characters loving the game's soundtrack. Hideki Naganuma, the composer for ''Jet Set Radio'', [[https://twitter.com/Hideki_Naganuma/status/585785661065531392 retweeted some fanart]] of two Inklings in Beat and Gum's clothes, stating a crossover between the two series would be a "dream project".
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Very. Not helped by its condition of ObviousBeta in its original Japanese release, JSR was never considered much of anything except a cute little sideshow while you were waiting for your arcade fighters/anime [=RPGs=]. ''JSRF'' caught it even harder, since the only reason anyone in Japan owned an Xbox being their ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' waifus. In contrast, the West has elevated the games to CultClassic status and regularly points at them when arguing the artistic and aesthetic potential of video games.

* PortingDisaster: The UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version of the first game was an ambitious effort to put the whole game on inferior hardware, but aside from less of the music in game, the controls were poor, and the level design was not always optimized to put the new isometric view into account, leading to many frustrating moments that weren't in the original.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Yoyo was retooled from a short, chubby, annoying kid who challenged you to a painful race in ''JSR'' into a much more likable and attractive starting character in ''JSRF''.
* ScrappyMechanic: The fact that the graffiti button and the camera control button are mapped to the same thing on the original Dreamcast version. This makes tagging hard to reach small spots way more annoying than it should be, and makes bosses downright nightmarish. Particularly infuriating is that there are several other buttons on the controller that go unused, making it completely inexcusable that this problem exists. Thankfully, in the HD port, this can be reconfigured to separate buttons.

** In ''JSRF'', the Tokyo Undergound Sewage Facility. A vertically-oriented gauntlet of half-pipes, rails, and and numerous falling hazards due to all the pools under the courses. A spectacularly unlucky player might just go careening off one of the upper floors all the way back to the start, forcing them to skate through all the obstacles again. Bonus points for one of its final graffiti souls, which requires using the wall-ride move up a narrow vertical passage; the walls must be ridden in sequence (as trying to wall ride the same wall twice in a row doesn't work), the two safety platforms contain no barriers to stop you accidentally falling, getting stuck in a wall corner is very easy and ''the walls are covered in non-wall-ride-able sections designed to make you fall back to the start.''
** No "love" for the Skyscraper Distract & Pharaoh Park? Dark color pallete, ''tons'' of life-sapping NonLethalBottomlessPits, and very specific series of rails to grind and jumps to make combine into one hellish experience, especially when traveling into the very far reaches.
** Hikage Street is full of incredibly boring level design, frequent stops to fight the police, and having to climb up the stairs repeatedly due to all the graffiti being at the top and it being incredibly easy to fall back to the bottom.
** Bantam Street in the original game, especially with a hard-to-reach tag that usually ends up to be the last one to be done with barely any time on the clock left. The fact that the only two available characters the first time through have the highest graffiti stats in the game (making multi-spray tags harder in return for more points) makes it practically unwinnable.
*** Grind Square qualifies as well, in which you are almost constantly in danger of dying from fall damage as well as having to pull off some of the most difficult jumps in the game just to reach many of the tags.
** Getting a Jet rank in any of the Jet Crush levels is already annoying, but the Jet Crush in Benten-Cho is by far the worst. The way Jet Crush works is a simple race to the goal, which is a graffiti tag, meaning you'll have to get a spray can and tag it to officially win. This wouldn't be so bad if maintaining a higher speed in the original game isn't so painful to do (requiring you to hold down a button, but it only works in short bursts more often than not and if you wanna go any faster, be prepared to jump.... a lot). Add in the fact that your opponent can hurt you if you get too close to them, usually smacking you into another direction that you don't want to be heading in. The game ensures you won't cheat while getting Jet Ranks either, because the fastest routes are actually the routes your opponent races on the entire time, making getting ahead a pain in the ass in most stages (though there are some shortcuts along these paths that make things a bit easier if you're willing to take them). Now with all that said, what makes Benten-Cho's Jet Crush so special? The fact that it's the exact same race you have to do to unlock Yo-Yo, but made more painful because you now have to beat it in a fast enough time for Jet Rank, meaning you have to put up with the same narrow pathways that your opponent will take advantage of when they get within smacking distance, there is absolutely NO special shortcuts you can take that your opponent doesn't, and there are a good amount of jumps that, if you miss them, will cost you the race entirely.
** Combo's recruit race. You have to race against Beat and make a graffiti when you reach the goal. Sounds easy, right? The problem is, Beat is stat-wise faster than you (Beat's Technique/Speed is 14 and Combo's 10, the second lowest), so if you get hit by a car or get stuck against anything, the race is lost since you won't be able to catch up with him. And to make things worse, one section forces you to enter a door placed above a half pipe, and it's really hard to go through it as you will struggle to control Combo by jumping and rolling all over the place. Even if you managed to get in front of Beat (a hard task by itself), he will happily go through it on his first attempt so if you don't cross first, the match is lost and all you can do is wait to lose so you can try again.
** Jet-ranking "Fight or Flight". Kogane-Cho areas combined consists of a massive sewer that connects the other three areas. It starts off with snipers taking aim on you from hard to reach spots, not helped with the heavily-guarded graffiti tags in all four areas. After tagging certain number of red tags, ''gunners in jetpacks'' will show up. With their speed and firepower, they will give you hell of a time to rest or spray graffiti, especially the larger ones.

** The final battle against [[spoiler:Gouji/A.Ku.Mu]]; if the incredibly distracting, seizure-inducing location wasn't hard enough to cope with, it requires navigating a rather difficult and complicated vertical course to the very top just to reach the battle itself.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Initially, a huge chunk of the soundtrack couldn't be licensed again for the UpdatedRerelease, which caused a lot of this. Fortunately, the amount of missing tracks has been reduced to two songs, with Sega trying to get the rights to those. Thankfully, leaving aside one song, this was not the case for the HD rerelease.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Many were probably confused by the Teen rating on the game, even through the first few playthroughs...until they listened closely to the lyrics of most of the songs. Although the most explicit lyrics in these songs were censored out in the actual game, one of said songs gives you tips on how to give a good blowjob. Another has you hearing the whispered moans of a loving couple, busy in the sack. You also hear LOTS of references to polyamory. Also, the song "Rockin' the Mic" contains constant use of the S-word and N-word.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: If not the entire game, then DEFINITELY [[spoiler:Rokkaku's dreamworld where you fight the final Boss battle]].
* YouLookFamiliar: There is fan speculation that Clutch could possibly be Coin. However, there is no evidence supporting this.

* EarWorm: ''Every single song''.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM "Birthday Cake"]] from ''JSRF'' is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs, being a legit EarWorm.

* JustHereForGodzilla: While ''Sega GT 2002'' was a really fun racing game that holds up well to this day, how many times did you play it compared to ''Jet Set Radio Future''? Many will tell you, not as much. Some who otherwise had no interest in ''Sega GT 2000'' whatsoever simply bought the disc because it was actually cheaper than getting ''JSRF'' on its own.

** In ''JSRF'', the Tokyo Undergound Sewage Facility. Bonus points for one of its final graffiti souls, which requires using the wall-ride move up a narrow vertical passage; the walls must be ridden in sequence (as trying to wall ride the same wall twice in a row doesn't work), the two safety platforms contain no barriers to stop you accidentally falling, getting stuck in a wall corner is very easy and ''the walls are covered in non-wall-ride-able sections designed to make you fall back to the start.''

** Getting a Jet rank in any of the Jet Crush levels is already annoying, but the Jet Crush in Benten-Cho is by far the worst. The way Jet Crush works is a simple race to the goal, which is a graffiti tag, meaning you'll have to get a spray can and tag it to officially win. This wouldn't be so bad if maintaining a higher speed in the original game wasn't so painful to do (Requiring you to hold down a button, but it only works in short bursts more often than not and if you wanna go any faster, be prepared to jump....a lot. ). Add in the fact that your opponent can hurt you if you get to close to them, usually smacking you into another direction that you don't wanna be heading in and it makes it more painful. The game ensures you won't cheat getting Jet Ranks either because the fastest routes are actually the routes your opponent races on the entire time, making getting ahead a pain in the ass in most stages (Though there are some shortcuts along these paths that make things a bit easier if you're willing to take them). Now what makes Benten-Cho's Jet Crush so special? The fact that its the exact same race you have to do to unlock Yo-Yo, but made more painful because you have to beat it in a fast enough time for Jet Rank, meaning you have to put up with the same narrow pathways that your opponent will take advantage of when they get within smacking distance, there is absolutely NO special shortcuts you can take that your opponent doesn't, and there are a good amount of jumps that if you miss them will cost you the race entirely.
** Combo's recruit race. You have to race against Beat and make a graffiti when you reach the goal. Sounds easy, right? The problem is, Beat is faster than you (Beat's Technique/Speed is 14 and Combo's 10, the second lowest), so if you get hit by a car or get stuck against anything, the race is lost since you won't be able to catch up with him. And to make things worse, one section forces you to enter a door placed above a half pipe, and it's really hard to go through it as you will struggle to control Combo by jumping and rolling all over the place. Even if you managed to get in front of Beat (a hard task by itself), he will happily go through it on his first attempt so if you don't cross first, the match is lost and all you can do is wait to lose so you can try again.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Initially, a huge chunk of the soundtrack couldn't be licensed again for the UpdatedRerelease, which caused a lot of this. Fortunately, it has been reduced to two songs, with Sega trying to get the rights to those. Thankfully, leaving aside one song, this was not the case for the HD rerelease.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Very. Not helped by its condition of ObviousBeta in its original Japanese release, JSR was never considered much of anything except a cute little sideshow while you were waiting for your arcade fighters/anime [=RPGs=]. JSRF caught it even harder, with the only reason anyone in Japan owned an Xbox being their [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive DOA]] waifus. In contrast, the West has elevated the games to CultClassic status and regularly points at them when arguing the artistic and aesthetic potential of video games.
* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For Jet Set Radio Future]]: For the bundle. While ''Sega GT 2002'' was a really fun racing game that holds up well to this day, how many times did you play it compared to ''Jet Set Radio Future''? Many will tell you, not as much. Some who otherwise had no interest in ''Sega GT 2000'' whatsoever simply bought the disc because it was actually cheaper than getting ''JSRF'' on its own.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Yoyo was retooled from a short, chubby, annoying kid who challenged you to a painful race in ''JSR'' into a much more likable and attractive character in ''JSRF''.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Originally, Roboy was an obsolete Noise Tank Model (NT-1000) that was taken by the GG's, repaired and reprogrammed.

** Bantam Street in the original game, especially with a hard-to-reach tag that usually ends up to be the last one to be done with barely any time on the clock left. The fact that the only two available characters the first time through have the highest graffiti stats in thw game (making multi-spray tags harder in return for more points) makes it practically unwinnable.

* [[JustHereForGodzilla Just Here For Jet Set Radio Future]]: For the bundle. While ''Sega GT 2002'' was a really fun racing game that holds up well to this day, how many times did you play it compared to ''Jet Set Radio Future''? Many will tell you, not as much.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''[[TonyHawkProSkater Tony Hawk]]'' meets ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5''.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM "Birthday Cake"]] from JSRF is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs, being a legit EarWorm.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM Birthday Cake]]" from JSRF is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs, being a legit EarWorm.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM Birthday Cake]]" from JSRF is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs, being a legit EarWorm.

* SoBadItsGood: The general opinion about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLz3ia7TFqM Birthday Cake]] from JSRF is that it's annoying, deranged and nonsensical. Naturally, it's also one of the game's most memorable songs, being a legit EarWorm.

** The Noise Tanks of the Dreamcast JSR, with their goggles and the rest with it.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: If not the entire game, then DEFINITELY [[spoiler:Rokkaku's dreamworld where you fight the final Boss battle]].