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Leave it to Square Enix to make one of the neatest-looking arcade games shown at this year’s Japan Amusement Expo.
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Peter Tieryas is the author of Mecha Samurai Empire & Cyber Shogun Revolution (Penguin RH). He's written for Kotaku, IGN, & Verge. He was an artist at Sony Pictures & Technical Writer for LucasArts.
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