I was gifted this game from a friend who I believe received it as part of a humble bundle pack. I took a quick look at the screenshots, and I was instantly interested. At first I imagined I'd play it for about twenty minutes, say 'that was fun!' And be done with it. But I didn't expect to be as thrilled with it as I am. And I can say right now that I'll be going for 100% achievements with this game.

As I'm a huge fan of both the Super-Famicom and racing games, both arcade and simulation, this game just brought me back to the days where I was sitting at home with the CRT TV jammed against my eyes, cross legged on the floor.

The music is a fantastic mix of synthwave that mixes well with the screeching of tyres and engines revving! And the artistic styling is perfect for that retro-feel, reminding me of why I was just so impressed with the Super-Famicom's Mode 7 chip.

Jumping straight into the game, you feel a little overloaded at first, but that quickly passes with some experimentation. I didn't see the tutorial and played through two races with the AI just blasting past me. But once I saw them drifting, I realized that there was more to the mechanics than just brake, accelerate, and turning left and right. The drifting is intuitive, and only took me a few corners of trial and error to really nail it. And slipstreaming, as the game implies this mechanic, really boosts your speed to give you a rush!

Couple all this with a bunch of different modes to try out, one of which is a choose-your-own-course style endurance style race against rivals with different course themes, and branching paths with different course endings, and it really has a lot of replayability.

The only complaints I have are that, even after just an hour or so in the game, the medium difficulty AI feel too easy, and I wish there were a few more harder difficulties to help boost that.

I was gifted this game from a friend who I believe received it as part of a humble bundle pack. I took a quick look at the screenshots, and I was instantly interested. At first I imagined I'd play it for about twenty minutes, say 'that was fun!' And be done with it. But I didn't expect to be as thrilled with it as I am. And I can say right now that I'll be going for 100% achievements with this game. As I'm a huge fan of both the Super-Famicom and racing games, both arcade and simulation, this game just brought me back to the days where I was sitting at home with the CRT TV jammed against my eyes, cross legged on the floor. The music is a fantastic mix of synthwave that mixes well with the screeching of tyres and engines revving! And the artistic styling is perfect for that retro-feel, reminding me of why I was just so impressed with the Super-Famicom's Mode 7 chip. Jumping straight into the game, you feel a little overloaded at first, but that quickly passes with some experimentation. I didn't see the tutorial and played through two races with the AI just blasting past me. But once I saw them drifting, I realized that there was more to the mechanics than just brake, accelerate, and turning left and right. The drifting is intuitive, and only took me a few corners of trial and error to really nail it. And slipstreaming, as the game implies this mechanic, really boosts your speed to give you a rush! Couple all this with a bunch of different modes to try out, one of which is a choose-your-own-course style endurance style race against rivals with different course themes, and branching paths with different course endings, and it really has a lot of replayability. The only complaints I have are that, even after just an hour or so in the game, the medium difficulty AI feel too easy, and I wish there were a few more harder difficulties to help boost that.