A battle royale game featuring tracks from the original F-Zero for Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Line up with 98 other F-Zero machines and race to the finish in this thrilling take on the original Super NES game. Keep an eye on your power meter as you boost and bash, because speed is just as important as survival. Defend yourself with a Spin Attack and collect Super Sparks to breeze past the competition on the elevated Skyway. Outpace and outlive your opponents in rotating modes The core F-Zero 99 mode is just one way to race at breakneck speeds. Mini Prix and Grand Prix modes appear on a set schedule and challenge you to compete and qualify in a series of races. Team Battle and the extra-tough Pro Tracks mode rotate throughout the day. Prepare yourself in Practice Mode and race against your ghost.
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But after playing it.... you get it! This is a great addition for any Switch player.
It takes the adrenaline inducing energy and speed, and the risk-reward boos system... and puts 98 other players into the circuit, creating a exelerating multyplayer experience that I feel surpasses the chaos of past 99 titles.
Being a free-to-play experience means that it is pretty limited in its scope. The various modes and tracks go on rotation, it's doesn't add a lot of variety in customization and overall designs, and I kinda wish more pilots where playable (I know we got the main 4 from the OG F-zero, but it would be cool to see some X newcomers recreated in the SNES design, Like Mighty Gazelle, Jody Summers or Black Shadow).
Bu the costant additions of modes and circuits, alongside the costant stream of online players makes it an always enjoyable experience.
If this will not be a side mode in a future F-Zero, I will feel betrayed. Icredible udea and realization.
The actual game-play in 99 mode is very hectic and most of the time it doesn't feel like you have too much control over what's going on, but somehow I still found it fun, and if that's not your style there are other game-modes offered in the events section such as classic races. The UI design in my opinion is way better than Tetris 99, and one really cool detail I'd like to mention is that there are a ton of references to and usages of classic F-ZERO art, which I found really cool.
This game definitely goes above whatever expectations I had for a free F-ZERO game and is an awesome and much needed bonus reason to actually pay for Nintendo Switch online.