The driving is pretty on point, there are really cool set pieces, and the game as a whole can be at times a really good place to hang out and just enjoy the vistas and the flow of the road, but the characters and the general mood of this franchise annoys me so much. The characters can't stop talking about things I don't care, the dialogue itself is too nice and welcoming to the player that it comes out forced, which is something that relates directly to the progression system. The amount of visual stimuli this game thinks is needed to hook players is just insulting, the map is full of icons, the ending of every career is so full of colours, and ticks, even spins to a wheel of fortune, is like a casino for kindergarten kids. And it's a shame because the core is really nice and the game is beautiful to see, but I feel everything is so clearly put there to satisfy me with the lowest input necessary, like what the worse kind of a game pass game can be, trying to appeal every single human being who is just not enough interested in the game just for the sake of progression and achieving things that frankly are useless when all of your starting cars do the job. This is a very good game that fails spectacularly not to make me feel stupid while playing it, sorry.