Pretty impressive as far as indie F-Zero inspired titles go! There's a faurky hefty amount of content with 4 cups of 6 races each, a track editor, and even online play that, while I didn't try out, is a pretty insane offering for a game that's still in early access. For the £10 price tag, there's a lot of content in here that I think make it worthwhile! I mean, I grabbed it for about half price on sale a bit ago so I might be biased, but ehhh who's gonna hold me under the flame for that?

But it's the devs' commitment to the feel of F-Zero that really lands Super Pilot as something worth keeping my eyes on. A lot of the tracks are solid enough, but it's when I press the triggers and do that cool strafe drift that I know I'm back home. The boost-HP system gets changed slightly to be a cooldown that refills when you aren't boosting, which is honestly fine by me. I think it does a good job easing newbies into F-Zero's mechanics without being quite so punishing. That said, the weird hybrid of Sonic Riders and Mario Kart's drift boost wasn't really clicking with me, but that might just be a skill issue I need to get over. Though, I really think the game could use an offensive maneuver like the spin or the weird ball move from GX. It gets rid of a lot of the strategy of the series; choosing whether to target opponents close in the ranks to you, or to pick off small fry for the sake of it, and all to earn extra lives and make a wider break in the rankings was one of my favourite parts of X and especially GX. Game's still in development, so I'll be crossing my fingers the devs stumble across one of the two reviews on Backloggd.

On the whole, though, super impressive! Here's hoping Super Pilot comes out of early access some day, and ends up being even better than it is, cause there's some real potential for a good title to become great!