This is almost the dystopian cyberpunk racing game of my dreams, but they didn't crank it up hard enough. The breakdancing mechanic should be framed as a reward for risking your life to please the audience. I want more sexual exploitation, more human rights violations, more in-game billboard advertisements. And I want more songs by Adrian Gray, holy hell this guy.
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Breakneck pace - in a future where time moves so fast that its accelerated, fleeting nature is built right into the architecture/technology. Anyways that's a lot of gobbledygook just to say that this is a very unique, stylized, and - above all else - scorchingly fast racer. Like seriously, the speeds this thing reaches get so red-hot that it's often impossible to comprehend what's even taking place - requires superhuman reflexes and an element of precision that's much more turbo-charged than anything I'd expect out of a PS2 game that released hardly a year after the system itself did. Very admirable job, memorable and overlooked. If Nintendo ain't gonna do shit with F-Zero anymore then I vote for this to come back instead tbh.
Games I Like That Everybody Else Dislikes
Breakneck pace - in a future where time moves so fast that its accelerated, fleeting nature is built right into the architecture/technology. Anyways that's a lot of gobbledygook just to say that this is a very unique, stylized, and - above all else - scorchingly fast racer. Like seriously, the speeds this thing reaches get so red-hot that it's often impossible to comprehend what's even taking place - requires superhuman reflexes and an element of precision that's much more turbo-charged than anything I'd expect out of a PS2 game that released hardly a year after the system itself did. Very admirable job, memorable and overlooked. If Nintendo ain't gonna do shit with F-Zero anymore then I vote for this to come back instead tbh.