when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement
i realize the broad reaction is an understandable "who asked for this??" but honestly? it's pretty fun. not as clever or chaotic as mario 35 but there's a fascinating tension in boosting, and feeling the risks of lowering your health so much versus trying to pass people up and place better
the game assigns you a set of "rivals" at the start with a similar ranking to you, and they're the main people you want to stay ahead of to rank up, because placing in the top 10 is not easy. because the races are extremely finite unlike m35 and t99 it's easy to play to the end...which is why a lot of the pressure and danger comes from your own decisions about where to try and pick up the sparks and boost forward through stretches or take shortcuts over the rough patches. apparently if you get credit for a KO you heal a bunch, but i haven't managed to do that yet.
if you can choose to check it out, i think you should give it a spin. it's a decent little toy and the tutorial parts are just a few races before you can get into the actual online ones so in just 20-30 minutes or so you can easily figure out if you think it has any appeal whatsoever
i realize the broad reaction is an understandable "who asked for this??" but honestly? it's pretty fun. not as clever or chaotic as mario 35 but there's a fascinating tension in boosting, and feeling the risks of lowering your health so much versus trying to pass people up and place better
the game assigns you a set of "rivals" at the start with a similar ranking to you, and they're the main people you want to stay ahead of to rank up, because placing in the top 10 is not easy. because the races are extremely finite unlike m35 and t99 it's easy to play to the end...which is why a lot of the pressure and danger comes from your own decisions about where to try and pick up the sparks and boost forward through stretches or take shortcuts over the rough patches. apparently if you get credit for a KO you heal a bunch, but i haven't managed to do that yet.
if you can choose to check it out, i think you should give it a spin. it's a decent little toy and the tutorial parts are just a few races before you can get into the actual online ones so in just 20-30 minutes or so you can easily figure out if you think it has any appeal whatsoever
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