I played Jet Set Radio Future with my cameraphone to feel like I was traveling somewhere, to feel like I was escaping from my living room, my house, my street, inevitably escaping from myself a bit. It was instead very much like being a strange man sat in his living room, pointing his phone at a TV screen.Īnd yet! Here's the thing. It was not at all like being a tourist in a city. If I already sound like an idiot here - and I'm pretty sure I do m8s! - I definitely felt like one. Okay: so while I was doing this, it felt super stupid. I ended up taking screenshots of the actual screen. Partly, though, I wanted to take phone pictures of Tokyo-To as a tourist would. Partly I just wanted to feel the game under my feet again - that hectic, freewheeling pleasure of city space and cold night air. One of the more tragic things I did during lockdown involved loading up Jet Set Radio Future for the first time in an age and playing through it with my phone by my side.
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