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Great video man! This brings me back to my Ps2 days playing Def Jam Fight for New York and 187 Ride or Die with my brother. And Narc actually sounds like a really interesting game. You definitely made me want to check it out and look for a copy 👍🏻

I enjoy your videos and was a little bummed to see Ridge Racer Type 4 get so much focus. I have always found it a bit troubling that R4 is so popular as a "Ridge Racer" game since it never felt like Ridge Racer to me. The gameplay and music were subdued, and it was the start of when Namco games started to feel "cold" to me. Compare Ace Combat 2 and 3 as an example of this. That is not to say R4 is not without its positives, the fireworks during the final round on Shooting Hoops were memorable, and I did enjoy the track called The Ride. I did not enjoy needing to remember to select it for every race, ha ha. Anyway, I was overjoyed when Ridge Racer V returned to the real roots of Ridge and Rage Racer. Hopefully someday I will see a video from you on those titles! Have a great one and hope you can play some ICO!

Thanks for the kind words about ICO! It is one of the best games I have ever played and I am so glad I randomly learned about it from a demo disc back in the day. If you do not have them, I highly recommend tracking down the Japanese PS2 or PS3 versions of ICO and SotC. They did some nifty things with the manuals on PS2 and the Japanese PS3 versions were perfect, if not smaller, reproductions.

PlayStation just hasn't been the same since closing Japan Studio and relocating their HQ to America. Don't get me wrong. I still like Sony games like Uncharted, God of War, and Spiderman, but not JUST that style of game. Playstation used to have a lot of variety, but now they just seem to care about "prestigious" games. I miss the A and AA games Playstation used to develop and/or publish. Where are games like Parappa, Vib Ribbon, and Motorstorm? Stellar Blade kinda gives me that feeling of the old Playstation, but we need more of it.

I remember not being able to play Ape Escape on a demo disc, because I got my PS1 right before the Dualshock dropped, and my mom was not dropping bread on a new controller lmao I was DEVASTATED Simpler times

U also forgot Puppeteer for the PS3

Why is From Software the only ones that get recognition for Bloodborne?

I wish they made a ICO remaster or even Last Guardian

This video was awesome! I remember buying The Getaway near launch. It's so good. I can't tell you how many times I played the demo prior to release. I think The Getaway gets some negative feedback because people didn't know you could lean on the wall to recover some of your health. Not having 100% or near 100% health definitely makes the game harder. I can't wait for part 2. Keep up the good work!

Bloodborne showed what Japan's studios can accomplish with amazing partner like fromsoft too bad Sony never gave them a chance to shine like they used too after Sony of America taken over and eventually shut them down

I just realized that Japan Studio was the only reason I bought a PlayStation. Majority of the games I loved from Tenchu to Tokyo Jungle were all fully or partly developed byJapan Studios Edit: I may have confused SCEI devs with Japan Studio on Tenchu, but I know they worked partly on a lot of games

I saw Japan Studio and thr first game came into mind was Gravity Rush. That game is so good.

It’s still absolutely insane to me knowing how important Japan Studio was to Sony and ultimately gaming as a whole and they just went “Get rid of it” never gone forgive em for that one

Not trying to be a hater but talking bout the greatest year in gaming ever and bringing up def Jam is wild...i. love the game but come on

legend of dragon was like the first game ive played that have VO in the cutscene and amaze how the cutscene look

The Puppeteer. One of the best games JAPAN Studio put out there. I still have my copy. Such a creative game

Great video, can you do a video about clap hanz studios

I was heartbroken when I heard Japan Studios was being closed. Truly the end of an era.

Narc, Bulletproof, 25 to Life, True Crimes Streets of LA and NY, and the 1st 2 Saint rows!!!

And we'll never see anything amazing from them EVER again because sony shut them down. How dare they get rid of such talented individuals.

gravity rush?

2:49-fun fact this game is a predecessor to wild arms

Whelp I thought Microsoft was the only company who cancels hard working studio

I knew the wait would be worth it. Amazing and very in depth video on an amazing company. I'll forever miss Japan Studio. They gave us the creativity and risk we truly need in this industry. I actually didn't know that they were so involved in Demon Souls and Bloodbourne. That's astonishing. Shadow of the Colossus might be my choice here although the japanese ICO cover will forever stay among my favourites

When I think of Japan Studios, the first game that comes to mind is Gravity Rush. One of the coolest games I’ve ever played. It’s a shame they’re defunct now ):

Vincent your videos are getting better and better man i love this fantastic work

Great work man, underrated channel

I'm playing The Last Guardian right now, a wonderful game

Bro, you're videos are top tier! Great job!!

The Ico American box art is what turned me off from it when I was a child at EB Games or GameStop. That box art was so bad that it made me think it was a low quality game, back then the box art was everything to go by when determining if a game was interesting enough to buy.

I had no idea Japan Studio was involved with Gran Turismo. Great video!

Great video! 💙

My favorite TH-camr 🔥absolute banger. So much I never knew… keep it coming brother!

Excellent !!!

PS studios mostly sucks nowadays. Santa Monica and Sucker Punch are the exceptions. Maybe Bend, but we have to see their next game since they were reorganized and maybe have turned into a ESG bs studio. Not considering Polyphony, they do their thing with GT. Edit: Phuck current Sony.

Great vid.

Another banger uploads 🔥🔥🔥

97-2013 was the greatest stretch of gaming

Crime crackers is the kind of game that Rick and Morty would just name drop just to show that they have game knowledge

The getaway was originally a PS1 prototype.

Something I'd love to do would be create a studio and physically re-release old near-forgotten games like "Wild 9" and/or even outright remake them. Beings *extremely* respectful and faithful the original I.P.. Be it the characters, lore, gameplay, and so on. Really something I'd personally love to do someday. There is a lot of fun, goofy, and interesting characters/art/lore of this game that is a dang shame nothing ever got done with it. And if someone beats me to Wild 9 before I ever get/got the chance, there's still PLENTY of others out there, in addition to my own ideas.

25 to life released in 2006.

True crime Streets of L.A

True crime New York be a good cop or a bad planting drugs on ppl so great

Man you really put a well developed video together here. The Getaway and especially Black Monday are favorites of mine to this day. Thanks for that taste of nostalgia

This is why video games are much more than just mindless entertainment. Thanks for sharing this story.