![]() ![]() (I can imagine cafés, with their dark blend of relaxation and caffeination, are ideal for him.) The place is run by a fellow named Luca, who supplies us with menus. Inside, the camera drifts along tables like a lazy driver, over pastures of polished wood and past gleaming coffee pots, and you get the impression that Yamauchi relishes not solely automobiles but any object that does its job-that lubricates our relationship to the world with style. That is why, in Gran Turismo 7, we get the Café. For Yamauchi, cars are not only a mark of our endeavour but a sea of tranquillity. ![]() No wonder, in Gran Turismo 6, we wound up on the moon, piloting a lunar rover across a silver prairie. Hence the cinematic that opens the game: footage of the early twentieth century, as brown as parchment, showing the Ford Model T clattering out of the past, before flaring into grainy colour as the flanks of rally cars stream by, and growing crisp with high definition as bodywork is painted, with a spotless spray, on an assembly line. The chief cogitator is Kazunori Yamauchi, the head of Polyphony Digital, for whom the automobile is, if not the measure, then the mirror of human progress: a gleaming reflection of its appetites, its worries, and its spirit-souping optimism. Slipped between its numbered entries are trysting titles such as Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, Gran Turismo Sport, and, my personal favourite, Gran Turismo Concept, as though it were less a thing to be played as thought about-a cogitation pressed onto a disc. In either case, this customer would leave with a masterpiece.ĭespite the title, Gran Turismo 7 is, in fact, the thirteenth game in its series. As mixups go, this would not be cause for consternation. If someone were to reel breathlessly into a game shop right now, and ask at the counter for that Japanese game everyone is talking about, you know, the really difficult one, by the eccentric guy, who stashes all the story stuff in item descriptions, and tells of a bleak and beautiful world by way of what it built and how it moved in its days of grace, they could end up with Elden Ring or Gran Turismo 7. ![]()
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