Patlabor: The Case Files turns decades of police mecha into a playable archive while already making room for EZY
Patlabor has always had a strange relationship with futurism. Its giant machines work construction jobs, its police pilots spend as much time dealing with institutions as supervillains, and the franchise has repeatedly rebuilt itself since the late 1980s. The Case Files approaches that history less like a reboot than an archive you can climb into.