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SgtRicko Since: Jul, 2009
#1: Nov 1st 2024 at 4:56:33 AM

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This game looks like something Suda 51's studio would develop... yet it's not. Best way to describe it would be a road trip taking place in some fever-dream infusion of America and Japan set in the 1980's set after an apocalypse.

I'd like to also point out that despite the Japanese V As and American setting, the developers themselves are Chinese.

The game will be released on both the Play Station 4, 5 and PC.

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#2: Nov 1st 2024 at 7:28:29 AM

Well that was weird.

I appreciate that the subtitles gave us character names so we know one of your allies is named "Michael Hero".

The Shout-Out page for this is gonna be crazy saw everything from Ultraman to Rush'n Attack to Fist of the North Star.

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MrTerrorist Since: Aug, 2009
#3: Nov 1st 2024 at 9:11:31 PM

I remember the first trailer about a year ago since it has a certain pool from a certain genre of movies and this latest trailer has a certain truck also from those movies. ;)

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#4: Nov 2nd 2024 at 7:24:07 AM

...I literally did not see this pop up at all in my feed.

Huh.

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Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#5: Nov 2nd 2024 at 7:31:49 AM

So, is this meant as a satire?

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#6: Nov 2nd 2024 at 7:48:19 AM

Pretty obvious one, what with the tone and how it depicts All of America as a bunch of Weebs. [lol] Though as Japanese and other East Asian media continues to increase in popularity, thats not really too far off.

Edited by Demongodofchaos2 on Nov 2nd 2024 at 10:48:33 AM

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MrTerrorist Since: Aug, 2009
#7: Nov 2nd 2024 at 5:19:32 PM

Iirc the developers admit they didn't do any real research about Japan during the 1980s but what they thought how 1980s Japan was when they were kids.

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#8: Nov 3rd 2024 at 6:40:02 AM

"Be the American the Chinese imagine that Japanese thinks you are"

The game in a nutshell. evil grin

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#9: Nov 3rd 2024 at 3:11:20 PM

[up] That makes it look like the logical conclusion of Metal Wolf Chaos, the game about America filtered through the lens of Japan

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Nov 3rd 2024 at 3:12:02 AM

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#10: Nov 3rd 2024 at 3:59:05 PM

Now we need a Canadian game about how the Chinese view how the Japanese see Americans.

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