I've always wondered about the future F-Zero presents to us. at a glance it seems to be one that solved the energy crisis, one that populated other planets and has a general sense of peace. on the other hand these people keep racing to the death and apparently that's the most popular sport in the galaxy???? I can't figure out what they mean with this, is this supposed to be some sort of critiscism to our own dangerous racing sports like F1? some sort of commentary on men's fetishistic longing for the spectacle of the coliseum? is this just blade runner or something I'm not getting the reference because I didn't watch many movies? nevertheless, these people keep racing to win some fabulous cash prize so I can just assume inequality is still rampant on this world.

honestly this game is just not really good. don't get me wrong driving feels great, much better than it's sucessor, Super Mario Kart, that came 2 years later. but that's it. the grand prix mode beyond the standard difficulty is a terrible mess.

I'm a bit of a fan of games that will just resort to chaos and make you try over and over again due to said chaos. it's usually fun because more often than not designers know that they're being deliberately unfair. that's not the case here, anything on expert and up just feels untested, unbalanced, some sort of "ok let them deal with it" kind of case. game is already exceedingly brutal with it's 3-lives system per cup, but the cherry on top are the non-competitor cars present on these track. yeah, non-competidors because they're there just to mess you up, they do not count towards your overall position and they're extremely random and the exploding ones will drain a huge chunk of your life and honestly with all caps and every emotion I can muster here it just plain SUCKS. the rubber banding AI won't help you either because any tiny mistake, most of them which aren't even your fault, and you'll get overtaken instantly or rammed into or whatever bullshit the CPU decides it's gonna do next. even if I can accept that this is a 1990 game I don't think it wasn't just as unfair at that time either

if you want to play this because of the music (it rocks), because of the aesthetics (usage of color is incredible and this game is super pretty for the SNES, being a 1990 release too!) don't go beyond standard please. even if the game won't give you any credits screen or boomers on gamefaqs will tell you the game only gets fun in expert that's not true. if you MUST do expert, only go till queen league. if you MUST experience king league expert, abuse save states. don't be like me I'm a gal with too much patience and too much time and doing it "legit" was not worth it, not one bit.

but really just play F-Zero 99 it's a much casual friendly and funner experience than this, it's surprisingly less caotic and more fair too.

I was able to extract a bit of value playing this though, it should come up any time I need to prove that a rock solid foundation isn't everything or sometimes not even enough for a game to be good.

echo-commentary, cyberpunk platformer. really good, even if odd designed - very labyrinthine levels that may seem strange if you play this after 2 and "worse" when thinking about it on 3. turns out, though, that it is way better replaying it than playing for the first time - some levels that may seem gigantic, after recognition, you can finish them pretty quickly. the future/past mechanics are very well implemented, because it not only sustains the environmentalist message but also the levels has big linear spaces and loops for you to use or creates challenge where losing your momentum is losing the time-travel. love the bosses!! they are fast and smartly designed. the music rocks too!! really a sonic masterpiece and after replaying, thinking if it could be my new favorite . . .

Literalmente o primeiro videogame que joguei na vida. Tudo até Labyrinth Zone é extremamente familiar, como se eu conseguisse lembrar o que eu pensava e sentia quando tinha meus 4 anos (não eram coisas que faziam sentido).

É curioso como eu ainda tenho a impressão que de Starlight Zone até o final é o lado "secreto" do jogo, como se fosse coisas das versões novas e que não tinha no meu Mega Drive.

Se Sonic não foi meu primeiro amigo certamente foi o segundo e ditou toda minha vida