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I got this game for my birthday one year, from my Mom. She tried. But the local video store only had a few games, apparently, and this was one of them. She thought it would probably be pretty cool. The year after that, she got me San Francisco Rush for the PlayStation, which had 1-minute load times and extremely bland visuals between them. It was not a great few birthdays, for sure, but it was the thought that counted. Those disappointments just hit harder because I was lucky to get 2 new games in a single year. One of them being a stinker caused trauma.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy on reality

"What if everything you see is more than what you see--the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things." - Shigeru Miyamoto on secret doors to another world2

I was kinda-sorta in the same boat with my first few Sega Saturn games. I was happy to get a Sega Saturn for Christmas... but my local electronics store had a very-lacking and small selection of Saturn titles. It got so bad that I had to resort to renting Saturn games to experience some of the better games in its library.

There's a lot of details I'm leaving out, since that would end up being at least five more paragraphs, but that's the basic gist of it.

Thanks for reading. I almost didn't get this review out in time because of other stuff, so this was a major crunch to play, screenshot, review, and proofread just to get it out on the 4th.

I heard spaceshit noises.