As someone who's an absolute fanatic of the original riders and rated a 5/5, you might think I'd despise this game, and when I played it for the first time as a kid.
I thought it'd be just more riders: I tried drifting, I tried boosting, I tried tricking, none of it worked! I rage quit the game by how frustrated I was, and from then on would always put it at the bottom of my sonic tier lists.
Recently though, I gave it a proper chance, and after finishing the story mode and all related missions, it's... honestly not bad at all.
It's a very unique racing game with some STELLAR presentation, this is my 2nd favourite sounding and looking sonic game next to CD and that is VERY high praise!
The gameplay, while undoubtedly much slower and less advanced than the original Riders, is still quite fun, and very unique from its peers!
While it's not an absolute, timeless Classic like the original Riders game, I still felt very happy by the time I finished this one! I had a lot of fun with it!
Though, I certainly don't see myself re-playing it...
I thought it'd be just more riders: I tried drifting, I tried boosting, I tried tricking, none of it worked! I rage quit the game by how frustrated I was, and from then on would always put it at the bottom of my sonic tier lists.
Recently though, I gave it a proper chance, and after finishing the story mode and all related missions, it's... honestly not bad at all.
It's a very unique racing game with some STELLAR presentation, this is my 2nd favourite sounding and looking sonic game next to CD and that is VERY high praise!
The gameplay, while undoubtedly much slower and less advanced than the original Riders, is still quite fun, and very unique from its peers!
While it's not an absolute, timeless Classic like the original Riders game, I still felt very happy by the time I finished this one! I had a lot of fun with it!
Though, I certainly don't see myself re-playing it...