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No More Heroes

Goichi “SUDA 51” Suda has gotten a lot of mainstream attention in the past two decades. He’s become one of those weird Japanese developers that embody artistry over mechanical satisfaction, both to amazing ends and frustrating lows. It’s difficult to ignore the guy, nor not have some respect for him, even if you don’t really like what he’s trying to make.

Yakuza

In the early 2000s, Sega developer Toshihiro Nagoshi had an idea for a game. He had been working on arcade hits and cult favorites for the company for years, including a stint as director for the Super Monkey Ball series. He had to fight for it, even sneaking in a reel during a meeting with a then CEO, but eventually got to get a team he was leading to bring an idea he had to life. That idea was Ryu ga Gotoku, or Like A Dragon, localized as Yakuza initially for the west. It was to be something aimed specifically at adult Japanese men, taking inspiration from crime dramas, and most likely some Shenmue DNA from Nagoshi’s time on the first game in its final six months of development. An RPG and beat-em-up hybrid, with a world to explore, but one very familiar to the target audience.

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper

Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper is the last of Frogwares’ little crossover trilogy, and possibly the strongest of them all yet. After the gimmicks of the last two mainline games, the team went back to basics, and found flavor in the subject matter of one of the world’s most famous serial killers. While this could have been an exploitative mess, the subject matter is handled much better than you’d expect, resulting in an interesting piece of historical fiction that also works as a strong Sherlock Holmes story with a darker edge to it. Just be warned, while the violence in The Awakened was somewhat goofy or unbelievable, that isn’t the case here. Just be glad that they didn’t show the most grisly details.

Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy

Frogwares, a dual studio in Ukraine and Ireland, came to be in the year 2000, and finally released a complete project in 2002. That game would be the first in their vast and long running Sherlock Holmes series, known as The Mystery of the Mummy. It would be what made them names in the European adventure game scene, eventually breaking through to significant attention from more mainstream outlets and audiences with The Sinking City in 2019. Or, rather, the chaos around who actually owned that game. Story for another day.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened

Things changed up for the third game. Things changed up a lot. Returning to the first person perspective, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is a mixture of classic Sherlock Holmes adventure and Lovecraft horror thriller. That should not be a formula that works, but it does, and the game has managed to carve out a place for itself not just in its series, but also in the genre as a whole. Heck, it’s so unique and stands out so much in the earlier catalog that Frogwares isn’t done with it yet.

Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis

Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, originally released as Sherlock Holmes Versus Arsène Lupin, is yet another crossover game in Frogwares eclectic flagship series of adventure games. It’s also kind of strange because its sandwiched between a horror game and a true crime game about one of the most infamous serial killers in history. The antagonist of this game, Arsène Lupin, is a master thief and snooty Frenchman who likes to dunk on people who go after him. This is, by far, the least serious entry in the series, and it’s wonderful for that.

Doom 64

Williams Entertainment, the company behind the Doom PS1 ports, were apart of a larger company called WMS Industries, which also owned Midway, a gaming company you may have heard of. Towards the end of 1996, Williams Entertainment was renamed to be apart of the Midway branding, which is why the same team as those PS1 ports made an original Doom game under a completely different studio credit.

It’s still the same guys, mind you, and they had been working on this particular game since 1994 with guidance and final say from Id Software, if you can believe it. It was under the working title of The Absolution, which is a fantastic title that for one reason or another got the much worse title of Doom 64. This caused confusion as a lot of people, for a very long time, had no idea this once N64 exclusive was a completely original Doom game, a direct sequel no less. It was assumed to be a port just pointing out that it was the N64 version, but it is much more than that. Doom 64 is a unique creature in the Doom franchise, with a mood all its own and with some fun new elements that had never been seen in the franchise until now. Some would even argue this to be the real Doom 3, and yeah, the fact it’s a direct sequel and not a reboot would make it a proper Doom 3.

TransBot

Sega followed up their mecha shooter Orguss with a spiritual successor on the Master System in 1985, stripped of any anime license. Called Astro Flash in Japan, it was renamed TransBot elsewhere, likely to capitalize off the Transformers property. It received a cartridge release in Europe and Australia, as well as Brazil, where it was renamed Nuclear Creature.

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