XF Extreme Formula

Game is a messy glitch-fest and an absolute graphical nightmare. Not even an hour into the game and it's entirely unplayable. Screen keeps going black randomly, ship keeps glitching left and right randomly and slams me into walls making racing impossible to control. Controls don't work, or refuse to sync properly generating a delay. I waited eagerly for this game and was sorely disappointed in it.

I just wanted to race. So much stupid interface and pointless nonsense trying to pad out limited content.

For an early access game, this is still really damn fun. I can definitely get behind these characters alot more than anyone in Spark TEJ, cause they feel a lot more real. That also means that whatever story that'll be added later on, I'll care way more about. The only thing missing is some more music tracks to get rid of the monotony, and maybe a subplot in the "Nogo" sections since they're already isolated from the main game. Those are super fun too.

Fun time but the story mode sucks ass. Just play the cups and you'll have a blast.

Was recommended this game by a friend and managed to get it while on sale as well. Some people call this game a spiritual successor to F-Zero, and while I personally have never played the series I can't say yes or no from personal experience, but it does seem to share a lot of the same sort of vibes that F-Zero does. Now for what I consider the good and bad parts of the game Good: Arcade championship mode with 4 difficulties unlocked by default with a 5th available to unlock. A story mode, which I feel is rare to see in a racing game with a pretty fair learning curve. It starts off pretty easy but gets harder the further in you go. Close to 60 tracks to race on spread across the different planets and moons of the solar system. The "Bad" (Not necessarily game breaking bad): You only start with a single character available in arcade mode and need to unlock the rest through either placing well enough on certain difficulties, or progressing through the solar system in general. The story plot falls apart about halfway through in my opinion. While it doesn't take away from the gameplay itself it sort of makes the ending feel less... important for lack of a better term. Sometimes if you are going too fast over a hill the vehicle can randomly jump off the track, even if there are walls around it (You tend to learn where those spots are the more you play any given track so it's not an all the time issue. and sometimes you are able to save the vehicle from falling off as they do glide once they are airborne). Despite these nitpicks and minor gripes I have with the game. I still really enjoy it, and even if you don't care for the story aspect of the game, it is still worth it just for the arcade mode.

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F-Zero > Wipeout

Another certified LakeFeperd banger

insane sense of speed and control, amazing game

Huge fan of this game, an absolute blast so far. Played a fair bit of the arcade more before the story mode and i gotta say, both are fantastic. Feels like a more-than-worthy successor to the F-Zero genre of racing, and also has some really fun sonic-esque combat in the story (and i do mean that in a good way). More than worth the money.