I played Bomb Rush Cyberfunk for a few hours last night and it does feel like a spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio (which was clearly the goal) my favourite parts are that you get to know the stage by just freely exploring it before you do any Time Attacks in it. it's got open exploration rather than the mission structure of JSR. the plot is also a lot more developed, with the various factions in the city interacting with eachother a lot more than in JSR. Everything else just feels tight and like they've really captured the vibe (skating around and graffiti-ing things) and removed the parts that compounded that (excessive time limits, awkward controls)



it also became very clear to me that transphobes (of the like... young, male, edgelord kind) will insist that trans women are just effeminate men, but then, when Bridget was canonically a trans woman, they all denied it, and started to find her repulsive instead of attractive. interesting. so that proves there IS a difference, and it's a difference they consider so wide that they have to get aggressive about it*

*and I pointed this out on twitter and got replies of like, guys calling me "retarded" et al so that probably means I was right on the money



it is interesting and also very revealing of how little transphobes actually know about us: that they think trans women are insisting bridget is female because we "hate femboys"* or something, rather than the fact we're doing it because it's canon (and the creator has literally said so)

*not only laughably false that we'd hate femboys but I would've accepted it just fine if bridget had stayed male. ...but. she didn't