CAR TALK

In 1999, Japanese RPG developer Squaresoft was on top of the world. Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII were blockbuster successes and every other quirky RPG it released seemed destined to become a cult classic. But even at the peak of its popularity Square was still releasing games it decided were too niche, too hard to translate, or too Japanese to release in the West. One of those was Racing Lagoon, an RPG that blended trendy street racing and bizarre, almost poetic writing into a game that nearly defies description. Imagine if E E Cummings wrote