dkmode's review
3.0
Pretty good coffee table book for Dreamcast aficianados like myself, though it's info-light. Most of the writing is telling the Dreamcast's business story which is fine but nothing new really. The sections where they interview developers about the games themselves are similar, but there are some good tidbits; wish they were longer, and it's a little criminal that there isn't a section on Skies of Arcadia specifically. In fact I wish the purview of the book was wider in general, especially when it comes to showing off the art from the console - would've been nice to have some representation of non-Sega games that nonetheless defined the Dreamcast, like Grandia II, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, and various Capcom games. As a result this doesn't feel exhaustive in the slightest, which is a shame with a book called "Collected Works" - if I'm going to get a coffee table book made up mostly of concept art and screenshots, I want as broad a representation as possible.
Anyways, worth it for the Sonic Adventure storyboards, early Jet Set Radio art, and wild concept art of the console itself.
Anyways, worth it for the Sonic Adventure storyboards, early Jet Set Radio art, and wild concept art of the console itself.
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