Dreadfully boring video game. In the 4 and a half cups I finished with the default character and default loadout within the refund window, I only lost a race one time at the end to AIs that cut straight through offroad corners losing zero speed, which was exciting. Didn't help that they tried that on another course but the rival straight up got stuck on a wall and didn't know how to free himself for 2 laps - something that also happened to me during one of the damn tutorial replays. I probably could have gotten to the 6th cup or beyond if it weren't for those needless tutorials, the mind-numbing dialogue spouted between races and if I had stopped doing the totally pointless objective-based side-events sooner.

Yeah sure the visuals are pretty but that doesn't make it distinct or memorable. I don't remember any of the courses already aside from the last one I did where I repeatedly fell off the sides during turns and got teleported back on top of the road because I guess I was "close enough." It's all just the same plain roads and boardwalks with the same big arrows you barely read at your speed, just with varying scenery. Speaking of arrows, the actual rally events where a co-driver yells pace notes at you? Totally meaningless. "Easy" "medium" "hard" are vague and inconsistent categories and they usually don't even come out in time before the turn.

I had a buddy come up with the term "artist game (derogatory)" recently, to describe when a game's visuals are such a priority to the developer that they come at the expense of the gameplay. I'd call this game that, but then I read about how this was originally a kickstarter game where the courses were supposed to be made of sprites like the arcade game Power Drift, and they couldn't even pull that off and made them 3D instead, which I think is very funny and further evidence of how this game's nostalgia bait is skin deep. Many such cases!

Why don't you put a demo back up so people can save themselves the trouble seeing how dull the gameplay is without having to pay for it and refund it like this? You clearly have enough people who see retro thing and immediately call it goty even without their help.

Dreadfully boring video game. In the 4 and a half cups I finished with the default character and default loadout within the refund window, I only lost a race one time at the end to AIs that cut straight through offroad corners losing zero speed, which was exciting. Didn't help that they tried that on another course but the rival straight up got stuck on a wall and didn't know how to free himself for 2 laps - something that also happened to me during one of the damn tutorial replays. I probably could have gotten to the 6th cup or beyond if it weren't for those needless tutorials, the mind-numbing dialogue spouted between races and if I had stopped doing the totally pointless objective-based side-events sooner. Yeah sure the visuals are pretty but that doesn't make it distinct or memorable. I don't remember any of the courses already aside from the last one I did where I repeatedly fell off the sides during turns and got teleported back on top of the road because I guess I was "close enough." It's all just the same plain roads and boardwalks with the same big arrows you barely read at your speed, just with varying scenery. Speaking of arrows, the actual rally events where a co-driver yells pace notes at you? Totally meaningless. "Easy" "medium" "hard" are vague and inconsistent categories and they usually don't even come out in time before the turn. I had a buddy come up with the term "artist game (derogatory)" recently, to describe when a game's visuals are such a priority to the developer that they come at the expense of the gameplay. I'd call this game that, but then I read about how this was originally a kickstarter game where the courses were supposed to be made of sprites like the arcade game Power Drift, and they couldn't even pull that off and made them 3D instead, which I think is very funny and further evidence of how this game's nostalgia bait is skin deep. Many such cases! Why don't you put a demo back up so people can save themselves the trouble seeing how dull the gameplay is without having to pay for it and refund it like this? You clearly have enough people who see retro thing and immediately call it goty even without their help.