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Japanese Things in Video Games

The Japanese are very into this idea that most things in life have an objectively ideal or "correct" form. They even have a word, kata (型), which,

The Pointless Samurai Level

Here's an axiom of classic game design: the less effort that went into a Japanese-made video game, the greater the likelihood that game will contain

The Characters

Beginning in the late 1990s, it became fashionable for Japanese game companies to churn out titles whose dominant theme was simply self-aggrandizing 

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