The thing about myths is that they always have at least some basis in truth.
Any outside legend or myth seeks to either explain how a thing happens or exaggerate an event that took place or an object that actually existed.
And while we usually think of myths as larger stories like religious parables or cultural folklore, these days nearly anything can become a myth if you try. Things like unreleased movies or the behind-the-scenes story someone having a nervous breakdown while trying to finish an anime series everyone loves but doesn’t understand can become a myth all unto themselves, in some cases eclipsing the work itself in favor of a story everyone can get behind, even if it’s frequently misinterpreted.
Video games are particularly susceptible to this. Even in the days of the Internet providing immediate and accessible feedback on basically every game we can get our hands on, there’s still a ton of narratives surrounding games that didn’t get an official release, or games that were never localized outside of their home country. As though every Japanese game that doesn’t get an official release in the West is somehow an unheralded treasure worthy of our admiration, praise, and several hundred dollars on eBay for a copy still in its native language.
A lucky few of these games are actually worth our hype and obsession, and out of all those an even smaller number actually becomes readily accessible outside of the import market and/or emulation and piracy. So few games make it to an official American storefront and actually stand up to the test of time and expectation that it seems almost like a story unto itself when it happens.
A mythological game about deflating the American myth. Sounds like Metal Wolf Chaos XD to me.
Video-Tron 2000 