L.A. Machineguns - 1999 Developer Interview + Tomba 2 (Patreon)

https://shmuplations.com/lamachineguns/

This short-but-sweet L.A. Machineguns interview was originally featured in Dreamcast Magazine. Often called a spiritual sequel to Gunblade NY, the Sega AM3 team is in a jocular mood here as they discuss this game's intended market and design challenges, including a more robust scoring system and an ambitious (for the time) "AI" system for both camera and enemies.

I've also added the much-requested Tomba 2 interview that user ProtoSnake generously uploaded. Unfortunately, it's a very short interview (there was some silly in-character banter that I opted not to include since it was a lot of grunting that didn't translate very well, haha), but it makes a nice bookend to the original Tomba interviews. I've appended it here: https://shmuplations.com/tomba/

...that wraps up this quarter for us! We'll have a new poll for the New Year, and I hope to get another video piece up soon too. Hopefully updates will return to a more regular schedule now that the stress of moving is (mostly) behind me now... thanks for your patience. Cheers and Merry Xmas + Happy New Year to all!