OfTheOverflow
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I love that they still keep up the backstory of the AG racing league. The Tigron KSV-R media kit has a little synopsis for the ship itself that kind of explains how they can put Tigron into the game given its history.
Absolutely; I think the backstory and general lore are really important to the series because it fleshes out the world and adds context to all the otherwise minute details that could easily be overlooked. For example, the intro to WipEout Pulse canonically depicts a supercomputer '...a super computer starting up and surveying a wipEout race'.
I mean, even the expansive Pure concept art gallery left child-me's head spinning with imagining how awesome this futuristic society was