When Shogo first landed in 1998, it was in a world where anime was finally making a splash in the West.
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In retrospect, Shogo is a slightly toe-curling snapshot of that early excitement. Like so much of the anime world, it seemed exotic and authentic at the time, when we hadn't seen much of it. Through more experienced eyes now, Shogo's take on Japanese mecha feels heavy-handed, clichéd, and obvious; like a tourist visiting Germany and immediately investing in a pair of lederhosen and a beer stein to fit in with the locals.
Cheap also describes the general feel of. Shogo was the first outing of Monolith's Lithtech engine, which would go on to power the amazing No One Lives Forever, as well as Blood 2.
Oddly, though, even in the mecha stages where you're high above the streets shooting at enemies who exist solely to be crushed underfoot, the experience feels more like running around a model town than actually being a giant. This is partially because there isn't a lot of stuff in the environment to provide a sense of scale, but the problem is mostly the speed of the action.
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