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Amazing storyline. Great concept. Great characters. Interesting mechanics. Sad the online is a little bit hard to find games sometimes. I highly recommend you try the demo, and get the game if you liked it.

This game is one of the best racing games I have myself played. The unique addition of two meters that fill in different ways Sync Gauge (Boost Gauge) fills with active shifts and driving at your car's max gear and Entropy (Strike Gauge) fills by using boosts. The way these tactical systems flow into the actual racing product makes the entire concept seamless in the game and very much enjoyable. The in race quick time events via shifting, timing the boost for a perfect boost, and charging/aiming your strike makes it more than just the racing lines and can lead to burst movements that allow for much more action packed racing especially sacrificing a boost to shield yourself leading to a much more complex weave of interaction with other cars. Overdrive however is my favorite mechanic, by maxing out Entropy you can become incredibly fast, brake very well, and handle better but if you touch a wall or get hit by a striking car you explode and lose a lot of time, that high risk high reward gameplays is seen throughout the races and makes it very fun. Every character having not only unique car specs that feel different to each other, but also unique personal skills that are the centerpiece to their strategy makes each character feel far more interesting to try. The OST slaps, the tracks are decently designed (not amazing but satisfactory), the character designs are alright. But the main controversial aspect is the difference between Leaders and Members. Leaders are way faster and far better if you want to win a race, members are more like back markers. You of course are able to toggle if you want the race to have only members, only leaders, or both. But the main thing I like about it, is it makes Team Races more fun when you can choose to sandbag and seek kills or try to place high while your ally is doing their strategy elsewhere, it leads to a reliance and trust in teams that most other racers lack in team modes. My main problem with the game that isn't the story is that you cannot choose to toggle a character to Leader or Member. Say I really only like Lavinia, she will always be a member and never a Leader. I think a cool idea would be allowing one member of each faction to be a leader and downgrading the default leader to a member so I can play my favorite character on my preferred style in team races. The story however is the reason why that hasn't happened and the story itself is very good relative to the genre. It's told in a visual novel style with some cutscenes in between, but it was a decently gripping story which blows every other story in the racing genre's modern time out of the water. The bugs can be pretty horrendous sometimes like the subtitle glitch where you just don't have subtitles during cutscenes in story so when a character is speaking in their native tongue and don't understand it you cannot understand key aspects of the context. Another bad bug is in online sometimes you can't move on the character select screen, just press your left stick in and then do it again to reset the board. If you don't know that it can be a big problem. But most of the bad bugs like the Unlock bug are removed and patched out so there's no worries now regarding progression which can be completed in every mode, even online races so you can unlock all the character's in the way you want. Overall, I think the game is really good, it has flaws but that hasn't stopped me from logging a hundred hours practically in the game. It could use more modes, but the modes we have are adequate for most casual players, so don't get discouraged by that notion.