Wait a minute, haven’t I already reviewed this game? Yes of course, I played it when it was first released as an exclusive to Apple Arcade. Now the exclusivity is gone and the game is out on PlayStation. Naturally I played it again, and this time I platinumed it.
I still agree with all I said in my previous review. There aren’t any noticeable changes between the versions, but since I’ve taken the platinum trophy I have some more insights.
The game is still great! I did buy it again and spend another 20 hours in it! But it has some flaws.
The first flaw is the progression system. When you start you have 3 cars to choose from, and you earn experience for each car which will allow you to upgrade them. But soon you unlock more cars, and then you stop playing with the old cars so you never really upgrade one car fully. At the end you unlock fully upgraded cars, and then I wonder what the upgrade system really is for. Every car you unlock is also noticeable better than the previous, so there is never a reason to go back to old cars or stick with the car you have.
Once you finish the main campaign you will unlock the best car, and so there is never any point of changing cars. There are two more unlocks but they are more of a novelty than anything else.
Another thing that bothers me is that when you play so much that I have for the platinum trophy you start to see the algorithm behind the AI for the other cars. It is the same every race and the rubber band effect is very noticeable. It’s still enjoyable but it kind of ruins the game a little.
The difficulty is also very uneven in this game. I finished all the tournaments with Gold medal on my first try, except the last one where I was unlucky and had to do it twice. Then we have the time trials where I spend hours on the same track to pop all the time bubbles. I finished the last track of the campaign on my first try with gold medal, but I still had time trials from 3 continents past that I hadn’t even achieved bronze medal on.
I did struggle for a long time, but then I found out that if I put my TV on gaming mode, the time trials got much easier. Who would have thought? 🤣
Still a really great game. I had lots of fun with it and I will play it again when I just need something quick and arcady.
I rate this game as GREAT
Replay 