Space Channel 5 VR hands-on: Ulala’s back, and I met her

BOSTON-It's been nearly 20 years now since swinging space reporter Ulala made her stylish, retro-futuristic, musical-theater melodrama debut in Space Channel 5 for the Dreamcast. In the years since, we've only seen her and her crew in an underpromoted sequel and a handful of Sega-centric cameos.

That long absence will finally end later this year with Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash for PlayStation VR. I was one of the first people to try the game out at PAX East this morning and the demo was a welcoming, familiar, and all-encompassing jump back into the series' unique world.

First things first-no, you don't get to play as Ulala. Instead, you're a similarly outfitted, silent cub reporter shadowing her for a day on the job (as a 36-year-old man, looking down at that provocative outfit from my first-person VR perspective is... interesting, to say the least). Ulala's voice is noticeably different from the original games-her original voice actress has been notoriously hard to track down-but the sound-alike is close enough to not be distracting.

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