Re-Rez NIGHT

Just got home from a rather cool party in Shibuya to celebrate the release of the "PlayStation 2 the Best" (i.e. Greatest Hits) version of one of my favorite PS2 games, Rez. If you've never played Rez, you should. Seriously. It's one of the most unique and interesting games in recent memory, and one of the few games that I'd say could truly be called "art." In a very basic sense, you could call it a 'music game,' though it's really much more than just that. Rather than ramble on too much though, let me instead point you to one of my favorite reviews of the game here for more info.

If you're in America, it'll probably be hard to track down a copy of the game (thanks very much to the marketing geniuses at SOA), but you should have no problem finding it in Japan. If you do seek it out, be sure to grab the Trance Vibrator peripheral as well to get the most out of your experience. (Just don't get too into it, or you might wind up like this girl.)

Keiichi Sugiyama and Tomoya Ohtani (DJOT) of Wavemaster performed live at the party, which resulted in a nice mix of really good house and trance music, about a quarter of which came straight from the Rez soundtrack. In the back room, they had a lovely lady on hand giving 'aromatherapy hand massages' for 500 yen a pop. Lots of cool people were in attendance (so many amazingly talented people were involved with the creation of this game, including one of my closest friends, so it's always fun to run into these folks), not to mention a seemingly endless number of extremely attractive women, which was definitely a plus. Only U-GA can throw a "game" party and have a crowd like this show up, let me tell ya. :)

In any case, it was a fun time, but now I must crash, for tomorrow is yet another long day. As for you all, go play Rez and let me know what you think!

Posted by john tv at July 5, 2003 01:55 AM | TrackBack