Category Archives: Shadowrun

Rhythm & Gaming Obscura Podcast: Episode 1

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After listening to a ton of podcasts over the holiday, I was inspired to do something a little different.

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Download Links:

http://iwakuraproductions.akaisora.org/RGO1.mp3

http://www.mediafire.com/?6hkv4w6stybnze6

Note: the audio is a bit off balance. The music came out louder than the spoken portions. This should be fixed next time, so just be careful if you have the speakers up high during the spoken segments.

Little under an hour long, you can listen to me ramble on about assorted projects, rhythm games, and quirky stuff I’ve been playing recently.

Legend:

00:50 – Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers

11:27 – Pump It Up Fiesta 2

20:43 – Shikigami no Shiro

27:14 – Bulletstorm

30:46 – Persona 2, Persona 4 Golden, DJ MAX Technika Tune

38:36 – Shadowrun (Sega CD)

 

 

Music:

Big Bang – Fantastic Baby

Garoad – Out of Orbit

Jake  Kaufman – City Stage 02 / Mango Tango – Neon Jungle (Double Dragon Neon)

Yoichi Shimamura – Stage 03 / End Credits (Shikigami no Shiro)

Toshiko Tasaki – Amami Airport[Reality] (Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers)

Toshiko Tasaki – Knights of the Holy Lance (Persona 2: Innocent Sin)

Shadowrun [Sega CD] Update and History

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Since the Shadowrun Returns kickstarter is nearing completion(I donated,  and you should too!), seems like a good time for an update.

So, just what differentiates Shadowrun [Sega CD] from its western counterparts?

Quite a bit!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shadowrun was one of the last Sega CD releases in Japan, and to this day remains one of the rarest. Shadowrun’s Sega CD version is a mixture of genres. It’s one part visual novel/graphic adventure, similar in vein to Snatcher and Rise of the Dragon, and one part grid-based Strategy RPG, along the lines of Final Fantasy Tactics and Fire Emblem.

Seriously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gives things an extra layer of depth(and time-consumption), no doubt.

If you’re worried the games Japanese aesthetics will distract from Shadowrun’s cyberpunk/dystopian future vibe, fear not.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shadowrun SCD has that in spades.

The script is approaching the milestone of the first scenario’s completion, so stay tuned for more as we get there.