Umurangi Generation VR Review (PSVR2)
The earlier days of social media were a more precious time. As were the early days of the Internet that preceded the apps that have now interwoven themselves into the fabric of our daily lives. I remember a time when Instagram and Facebook feeds were simpler, benign, often adding glimpses of slices of our lives. We shared pictures of our boring pasta meals, a simple cup of coffee, or even a silly ...[Read More]
Umurangi Generation Macro
Umurangi Generation’s vibrant ambience validates the rebellion of its doomed youth culture. It also renders the player a transient witness to a surging tragedy. Umurangi Generation’s key is its camera, as it allows its protagonist and its player the agency to access and capture a world beyond their control. It creates a vantage point untended since Jet Set Radio, and Umurangi Generation didn’t eve...[Read More]
Umurangi Generation
It is difficult to look at Umurangi Generation’s lush presentation and listen to the energetic melodies of its soundtrack and not immediately think of Jet Set Radio. Smilebit’s cel-shaded skate-and-spray-paint sensation captured Japan’s youth culture (and its innocuous insurgency) at the apex of the year 2000. Two decades later, Umurangi Generation uses a similar blueprint to bui...[Read More]