{"id":1352,"date":"2004-08-17T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/08\/thunderstorm-hovercrafts\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:08:07","slug":"thunderstorm-hovercrafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/08\/thunderstorm-hovercrafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm hovercrafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p><i>F-Zero GX<\/i> does, indeed, go fast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy this, lots. This game has spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The original F-Zero never caught me. It struck me as little more than a glittery tech demo for the <b>totally amazing<\/b> Mode-7 capabilities of the SNES. Then, I had that problem with a lot of SNES releases.<\/p>\n<p>This is clearly a real game.<\/p>\n<p>* *<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that there could be a less-deep reason for the whole Kobe\/Igarashi twist in the Castlevania series. Igarashi, of course, includes Kobe&#8217;s games in his revised timeline. (He also omits <i>Dark Night Prelude<\/i>, or &#8220;Castlevania Legends&#8221;, as it&#8217;s called here, for even murkier purposes.) The obvious rationale is that these games generally aren&#8217;t all that good (save <i>Circle of the Moon<\/i>, which is fun and well-made for what it is), and that they kind of ruin the storyline that Igarashi had been putting together.<\/p>\n<p>A less-obvious and less-inspiring possibility lies in something that I learned from someone at Konami a few days ago. It seems that every development studio has independent rights to the games it produces. Even for as self-referential a company as Konami, it seems that the different studios have to be careful not to reference each other&#8217;s games without permission, for legal reasons. So KCE Tyo can inwardly reference anything it wants (<i>Castlevania<\/i>, <i>Contra<\/i>, <i>Gradius<\/i>, and so on) &#8212; but it can&#8217;t mention games made by, say, KCEJ (Kojima), without reason. And vice-versa. And all around.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-Zero GX does, indeed, go fast. &#8230; I enjoy this, lots. This game has spirit. The original F-Zero never caught me. It struck me as little more than a glittery tech demo for the totally amazing Mode-7 capabilities of the SNES. Then, I had that problem with a lot of SNES releases. 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