How One Of The Worst Racing Games Ever Taught Me To Enjoy Bad Things
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So reads the copy on the back of
Driving Emotion Type-S, one of the earliest PlayStation 2 games, released in March of 2000 in Japan.
Type-S was published by Square EA, a peculiar joint venture between the two gaming giants where they’d release each other’s titles in their respective territories. It was developed by a studio named Escape. As far as I can tell, Escape never made another game.
Illustration: Square Enix
Spend all of 10 seconds behind the wheel of any one of
Type-S’s 43 cars, and you’ll quickly understand why this forgotten racer might be Escape’s only credit.
Midnight In A Perfect World: Lena Raine
Seattle-based electronic musician
Lena Raine is an acclaimed composer/producer best-known for her soundtrack work on popular video games who has also recently made waves with her own solo cinematic albums of whimsical electronic music. Working behind-the-scenes on video game soundtracks for nearly a decade, her soundtrack for the award-winning 2018 video game Celeste became a massive underground success story and cemented her status as one of the premier contemporary video game composers. Outside of her video game soundtracks, Lena released her official solo debut full-length album
Oneknowing in 2019 through the British label Local Action Records, who also released a diverse remix collection of the album titled