Recent reviews by BuhGok

Genki did a really good job with this reboot of the series after a long hiatus. The Tokyo Xtreme Racer video games are some of my favorite racing games, having played through all of them multiple times and playing one of them every year I was so happy to hear that they were bringing the series back.

The game play is fantastic once again. The cars feel weighty but have the grip you would expect from an arcade racer and how you would expect them to handle from playing the previous games in the series. The vehicle list is pretty good at this stage in the game. It's small but very JDM focused much like the older games. The map is opened to the player a lot sooner than I was expecting. After the first chapter you get access to the whole Wangan route and can explore the course from there. The menu music is a great throwback to Tokyo Xtreme Racer Zero and I love it!

The game isnt without flaws though.
-The leveling system is a nice touch at first, until you notice it hasn't been tuned to match the amount of money the player is making in the early stages. You'll reach a point where you have earned too much money and without the higher level perks for increased bank amount you will lose money if you dont spend it, this lead me to buying a new car so I could sell it later to make some of the money back.
-Another issue I have is the difficulty. I know some people have said the game is too hard at times, especially against Melancholic Angel, I find the difficulty for the rest of the game to be too easy. A charm of the older games was how difficult some of the team bosses, 13 devils, wanderers, and zodiacs were. I played through most of the game without losing to opponents until my Suzuki Swift was just too slow for them.

Personal Suggestions:
-I would remove the perks for increasing the amount of bank the player can have at once and set it without limit. I don't know if they were hoping players would spend their bank on cars or what, but I wouldn't want to spend the money I earn on cars I am not planning on driving.
-I would also do an increase in difficulty for the team bosses, and regular bosses along with some of the wanderers.
-More diversity in boss vehicles. A lot of the early game bosses are driving Levorgs or some version of the BRZ. Seeing a bit more diversity for that would be nice, maybe its only in the early game since we only have about half of the rivals at the moment.
-I would also like to see the Oil Temp and Water Temp gauges to come back. It added something more unique to the game that games didn't really have back then and they still don't have today.

With all that said I think Genki did a fantastic job on this video game. After playing through it I can't wait too see what further updates will bring and what changes will come.

pretty gud