![]() Now, I will admit that the game itself is not as action-packed as the trailer. ‘Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden’ is available for PC free and can be downloaded here. It has been five years since Tales of Games unleashed this masterwork, this fusion of science fiction, basketball and Japanese role playing games. The trailer for ‘Barkley, Shut and Jam: Gaiden’ was an instant classic that persists today to introduce new players to the post-cyberpocalyptic ruins of Neo New York. Really, though, almost any excuse to show you this would do. I have no doubt that the Finals coverage will be some of the best HD content available. Yes, the NBA Finals begin this week between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Miami Heat. In honor of the NBA Finals, which begin this week in Oklahoma City, I present ‘Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley Saga’. But – and this should already be clear from the details above – Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden is absolutely insane. It's the standard JRPG format, and beyond a few innovations in the attack system, doesn't expand hugely on the template. When meeting an enemy, the screen shifts into a side on view of the forthcoming battle: played out with turn-based attacks selected from each member of your group's unique move-pool. Barkley is the player's main character, but is joined throughout his travels by another three companions. Looking to casual observers like a relic from Japan's 1995 Super-Nintendo catalogue, the game's party setup and battle system will be familiar to anyone who's ever tangled with a Final Fantasy game. Since that day, Charles Barkley has had to live in the city of Neo New York, knowing that he's the sole reason his beloved sport is expressly banned.įor unhinged indie collective Tales of Game's (the apostrophe is entirely intentional), Barkley's dunk-less world is best represented in a top-down lo-fi role-playing game. ![]() ![]() In focusing all of his basketball energies to impress his infant son Hoopz, Charles leapt in the air, performing a slam dunk so utterly awesome that everyone in the crowd was killed outright, bar his baby boy. In 2041, during the last seconds of a game his team were about to lose, Barkley performed a Chaos Dunk. He just wanted to forget, but it was Barkley that got the world into this mess. ![]()
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