I have some issues with this but overall it's a fun game. The core driving mechanics are actually pretty neat and I especially like how the drifting is handled, the fact that you have boosts on hand as you complete each lap of a stage, and that you have a health bar so you don't want to run into walls all the time. All this makes the overall driving very fast but also somewhat deep as you consider what the best approach is for quickly overtaking the other racers. Another great positive this game has is the overall aesthetic and track selection. It's fun to watch one of the earliest Mode 7 implementations work so well and damn is the game super pretty to look at too. I also really like a lot of the track design in this game too, ranging from very smooth simple roads like all the Mute City tracks, to more intermediate/tricky ones like both White Lands and Sand Ocean, to outright brutal ones like Death Wind II and Fire Field. It's not perfect since I don't enjoy playing on Silence and its 90 degree turns at all but there aren't a lot of misses and combining all this with the visuals and banging hectic soundtrack makes the overall experience fun.
That being said though there are quite a few problems I have with this game. First, the game is pretty thin on content, with the only other thing other than the main mode being a time trial thing where you don't even have access to all the tracks in the game. I would have loved to practice on Fire Field but nope apparently that is not a thing and that is really disappointing. Another more major issue is how the CPU gameplay is handled. It's probably some of the lazier rubberbanding I've seen. If you end up making an error and slowing down at any point while you're even, by perception, vastly ahead of the other racers then suddenly that racer is right behind you and has a chance to catch up. And you have to deal with that while also dealing with all the slow and sometimes "about to explode" ships on laps 2 onward that I'm convinced only exist to make the game less fun because it's very easy to hit them and lose health in the process.
Overall, neat game and it's worth checking out. I just wish it had more content, including an improved time trial mode, and there was a way to make the CPUs less aggravating to deal with.
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