Well yeah, the completion list has destroyed my progress. Spent all tonight doing random missions, and am stumped as to where I get potatoes from (I reckon its something you grow, but can't find the ingredients either...)
Also cleared Shogi quick thanks to mission mode, grabbed the music CDs while I was at it (completion list again) and have a load of Shogi points left over, which is cool. I see a few silver bugs and other stuff there to pick up, which is important for other missions, but might wait just in case certain items in the list are exclusive to Shogi (last thing I want to do is blow all my points and have to play more Shogi!)
Also played a bit of Virtua Fighter 2, it feels brighter than I remember, or that's just Sega Blue Skies (tm). Plays great as always, though I swear "easy" mode isn't quite as easy as the name suggests ;) (oh well, Jeff cheese will get me through it as usual).
Oh, and doing the bonding conversations/missions is super worth while. Aside from actual good side plot, it also unlocks stuff like follow up attacks when you knock enemies over, which is super useful.
Do you think the reason why they don't include more retro games in Club Sega (esp. considering Sega has a huge pile of IPs) linked to licensing? I mean I love the Yakuza series, but it always feels weird to only have 2-3 games, and not the best either. I feel like they could include much more. Having something like Streets of Rage would fit thematically, maybe even Virtua Cop. Something as simple as ChuChu Rocket! would also work well. It always feels like an afterthought, which is a bit disappointing. I'd take one more quality arcade game rather than batting for instance.
I'm glad people seem to love Y7, I can't wait for the localized version in the West. Seems like a very fun game.
Streets of Rage makes 0 sense. Its not an arcade game, so that'd be a weak inclusion (even SoR2 as much as I love it). Chu Chu Rocket isn't an arcade game either.
Plus you have tons of Sega classics re-releases with it SoR in already... Something like Revenge of Death Adder would be far more interesting as that's never been ported. Also, we get way more that 2-3 arcade games these days, it hasn't been that low since Yakuza 5 and that was in 2012. Judge Eyes in 2018 had Space Harrier, Fantasy Zone, VF5, Fighting Vipers, Puyo Puyo, Motor Raid and the exclusive Kamuro of the Dead (inspired by HOTD and Yakuza DS). And bearing in mind Motor Raid's only home port is in JE, I'd say that's darn good. Now if you were to suggest that Ichiban should own a console in his hideout.. yeah I'd be on board with that, Sega toyed with that previously in FOTNS where you could play the Japanese Mark III HnK game. A roster of Sega games for Ichi to buy would be nice, but it'd still be the same stuff we were getting in countless classic collections (maybe with M2 ports though, which would at least be nice).
Arcade wise this game has Space Harrier, Fantasy Zone, Outrun, Super Hang On, Virtua Fighter 2 AND Virtua Fighter 5. Plus these ports are done by M2, and in some cases, are the only current console generation ports of certain games (Motor Raid, Fighting Viperes and VF2/5). Virtua Cop wouldn't be a great choice either, its a lightgun game and since difficulty isn't tweaked you'd have twitchy or slow cursor controls. KOTD worked because it was a game made from the ground up, side stepping the difficulty issue.
But yes, its licensing. Your not getting Daytona, Outrunners/Outrun 2/Turbo Outrun, Sega Rally, Scud Racer, Afterburner etc. when licensing is required. And I'd expect games like Sega Sonic the Hedghog are out as well (control issues) so it'll be whatever they want to grab from the arcade back catalogue that's not tied to a license in some way (which to be fair, still leaves loads). But the arcade in this is not the focus, we got great arcades in 0, 6 and JE but you can tell in this game they wanted to focus side content on several completely different areas, but still included some arcade games for the sake of it. Thankfully Outrun never gets old and neither does VF so I can't complain.
