Truck-kun is Supporting Me from Another World?!

Delightful humor! Delightful gameplay! Love the blue skies and light hearted nature of the game, and the core mechanics are really clever.

With its very fun art style, and music that makes you want to bounce along as you play, T.K.I.S.M.F.A.W. will easily draw you in enough to look past the atrocities you commit as you play. The gameplay loop will be familiar to fans of the old-school Tony Hawk games, in that it's divided into time trial rounds with varied objectives. Each round lasts between 90 seconds and 10 minutes, depending on how many time bonuses you can accrue from clearing objectives, and along the way there are meta-objective goals for story progression, such as smashing through billboards and maintaining your day job delivering packages around town. My one noteworthy complaint is that the driving controls are a bit sloppy, with the throttle feeling unresponsive at times, and the steering leaning more towards jerky than sensitive, but despite being a game where 100% of your interactions in the world are through driving, it isn't bad enough to make me frustrated with the game. Because of how fast-paced the game is, precision-focused driving isn't necessarily the be-all and end-all, since most of that sloppiness is offset by some degree of forgiveness in the physics and hitboxes. On top of that, because the lion's share of progression-tasks are tied to overall task completion and not single-run goals, the pressure to drive perfectly at all times that others games have is somply not here. The gameplay loop definitely steers towards repetitive, though at time of writing I'm about 70% of the way through, so it isn't long enough to have the chance to fully become that. The story itself doesn't lend itself particularly well to replay value, given how straightforward it is, but parts of the gameplay lend themselves well for continued replaying through things like speedrunning, for example. I'll definitely be finishing this game very soon, and though I'm not sure how much I'll come back to it down the line, I feel like it was well-worth the buy for me.