Dulcify in 1979 is said to be the last Australasian-bred runner to die in the race.Ī Racing Victoria spokesman said a report into Anthony Van Dyck’s death would take several weeks to complete and would include the results of a post-mortem. Araldo, who sustained a leg injury after that race when spooked by a flag-waving spectator, had been trained in Australia for more than a year before his death but is sometimes referred to as a British horse by local media because he was bred in Britain. Japan’s Admire Rakti collapsed and died after the 2014 race. Cliffs Of Moher, from the same Irish stable as Anthony Van Dyck, that of Aidan O’Brien, broke a shoulder in 2018. Fatal leg injuries were sustained by France’s Verema in 2013 and Britain’s Red Cadeaux in 2015. After watching that video, I’m still not completely sure that’s reality and what’s fantasy.Anthony Van Dyck is the sixth horse to die after taking part in the Melbourne Cup since 2013 and it has been widely noted that most of the casualties had been bred and trained in other countries. I can always dream - that is, if I’m not already hallucinating that this game exists in the first place. If this game ever hit the market, I for one would definitely buy it hell, I might even buy a console specifically TO play it if it got released on one I didn’t have. If I had the resources, I’d waste no time in contacting the game devs responsible for this glorious spectacle and see if I could work out a deal on bringing the game to the console fighting market, but as I’m now a broke college grad that’s still scraping together loan payments, I can only hope that a major publisher with enough sense to realize what a gold mine this game could be might have the same idea. If you can look at this and say you don’t want to play as one of these characters, you’re lying. Not only would it give the game a wider variety of outcomes (since nothing would have to be predetermined), it’d also put the focus on the gameplay - where it rightfully should be in a video game. This would redirect the core gameplay to a balance between getting the jockeys ahead and attacking competitors at opportune moments. Brawl, and the players were able to choose their contestant and duke it out mid-race in whatever ridiculous manner they desired. Imagine if this game were designed to work more in the vein of Super Smash Bros. If this game were to be rearranged into an unconventional fighting game, it could potentially skyrocket into a very popular position in the console gaming realm.
The revelation that it’s really just watching a movie with a bit of interface at the beginning was a big disappointment, and it made me revel on how I’d construct the game had I been able. The first time I ever saw this video, I didn’t realize that the players didn’t control the racers, and it made me immediately want to play it. Watching the race is what the player really wants, and in my opinion, that’s where the gameplay ought to be.
The interesting thing about Japan World Cup 3 is that (based on the video, anyway) the joy of the game does not come from its actual gameplay. Incidentally, the race cut scenes have been released on DVD - which is just as well for shmoes like me that can’t access the game’s site due to bandwidth limits. Does that make it any less fun? Not when these are the types of races you end up watching. All of the races are pre-rendered animations, and the player has no indication of which race will run when they make their bet, reducing it all to a game of chance. Is it a game? It is a movie? Is it a cultural phenomenon? Whatever it is, it’s definitely a prime example of Japan Happened.Īs I understand it, Japan World Cup 3 is a browser game in which the player doesn’t play as the ‘horses’ (we’re stretching the definition of ‘horse’ a bit here) so much as they bet on the races and root for their chosen competitor. This week, everyone’s buzzing about Japan World Cup 3.
If you’re unfamiliar with this sort of aesthetic, a quick glance at certain animes and Japanese game shows should be more than enough to fill you in. When I say that “Japan Happened,” I’m referring to that special brand of over-the-top fun and absurdity that it seems only the land of the rising sun is able to produce. Now is as good a time as any to let you guys in on a common saying of mine.