I broke my game price record. But right now, I'm getting paid for two jobs, so decided I could spend the money. It doesn't feel good to spend over $60 on a game. But it does feel nice to finally import a copy of Sega GaGa.
It's an odd game, that was only released in Japan. With most copies coming from preorders. Basically SEGA is going out of business. It is up to you to create the best and most innovative games to gain market share back from the Dogma Corporation (very heavily hinted at Sony). The SEGA company is filled with old SEGA characters and cameos. At one point when you fail, you work at a retail store where Alex Kidd was demoted after Sonic came around.
It is a very unique thing that a company got to have a goodbye video game. From what I understand, you don't beat Dogma. The point is coming to the inevitability and learning that beating Dogma isn't even the end goal. It's about the personal journey, growth. The end goal starts as being against a stated enemy. But then it fizzles out to a different goal entirely. Very Shenmue. Then it ends in a nonsensical shmup fighting against all of the sega systems.
It's a game I can't imagine ever coming out again. It is a love letter and a goodbye to SEGA of old. In a lot of ways, I consider it the last real SEGA game. Certainly the last of an era.
Anyways, I'm excited. Here's a Happy Console Gamer video about it if interested:
