![]() ![]() I wondered how Tokyo-To would work as a Fortnite island. Not the hundred-player jazz, just the geography. What I want to tell you about is slightly different: for a few minutes this morning I thought about Jet Set Radio through the lens of Fortnite. ![]() Watch on YouTube Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is the latest in a range of games that attempt to recreate the magic of Jet Set Radio. I don't know the first thing about business or game design, so I would never want to pretend to have an idea of how any of this will turn out. I don't think you're going to get Tokyo-To as an island, as it were, with you dropping in to battle dozens of other people. I don't for a minute think that Sega is just going to dump Jet Set into the Fortnite structure. Now: I want to clarify, slightly awkwardly, what I'm trying to do here. How it felt.Īll of which is to say: like a lot of people I read the news yesterday that Sega wants to give some of its games the Fortnite treatment. ![]() I look back at the pictures and think of the place I have been to, and the different times I have been there. And now, months later, when I look back at the pictures on my phone - a blurry streetcorner here, Dogenzaka Hill tearing slightly as a lightbulb in the background renders the screen a pearly blue - the effect finally works. I played Jet Set Radio Future with my cameraphone to feel like I was traveling somewhere, to feel like I was escaping from my living room, my house, my street, inevitably escaping from myself a bit. It was instead very much like being a strange man sat in his living room, pointing his phone at a TV screen.Īnd yet! Here's the thing. It was not at all like being a tourist in a city. If I already sound like an idiot here - and I'm pretty sure I do m8s! - I definitely felt like one. Okay: so while I was doing this, it felt super stupid. I ended up taking screenshots of the actual screen. Partly, though, I wanted to take phone pictures of Tokyo-To as a tourist would. Partly I just wanted to feel the game under my feet again - that hectic, freewheeling pleasure of city space and cold night air. “Even if you are traveling in first class on a commercial airline, you are still subject to the same queues, delays, and operational decisions as anyone in economy,” said Byrne, adding that their service offers the flexibility of time with no lines at check-in or immigration, a departure of one’s choosing, and no delays.One of the more tragic things I did during lockdown involved loading up Jet Set Radio Future for the first time in an age and playing through it with my phone by my side. Still, Byrne is bullish about affluent Chinese couples’ willingness to pay the price. These private jet weddings certainly don’t come cheap-Highlife Asia Group offers a very “auspicious” package starting at 68,888 yuan ($11,000) per person for a charter of 26 people, perhaps hoping that all the eights in the price (which sounds like ‘prosper’ in Chinese) would distract the happy couple from the cost. Private jet charters have only just begun taking off in this $80 billion wedding industry, as the Chinese government recently loosened the strict requirements for the procurement of private aviation licenses. In a Hong Kong Expedia survey, 80 percent of the survey takers expressed interest in having destination weddings, and overseas weddings are becoming popularized as Chinese stars such as Yao Chen and Yang Mi hold their nuptials in far-flung places. “It’s a chance to wow family and friends and put on a bigger and better wedding than any before, as well as opening up the world for family members who may not yet have much global experience.” “The expectations of an affluent Chinese wedding party are vastly different from their Western counterparts,” said Mark Byrne, the CEO of Highlife Asia Group. Shanghai-based event planner Highlife Asia Group announced in a press release Monday that it is partnering with American private jet charter company AVICUS to create a line of wedding packages targeting the affluent in China. With both of these factors in mind, private jet charters are offering the super-rich a wedding experience beyond flying first-class to tie the knot in the Bahamas or Maldives-now, an entire private jet can fly family and guests to exotic locations before bringing them back to China for the banquet. ![]() (Shanghai Hawker Pacific)Īs more Chinese couples look overseas for destination weddings, they’re also becoming willing to spend more for the perfect ceremony. The options for luxury weddings are soaring in China. ![]()
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