Sorry folks but it actually kind of rules. Clearly has a lot of love for the series behind every aspect of its design (porting over elements like boost/health management and the spin attack from later entries is great, the character art in the menus is cool) and the skyway is a genuinely well thought out comeback mechanic. Of course it's not a GX remaster or big budget new entry, but so called F Zero fans really seem to hate... the original F-Zero with X's mechanics. There is an element of luck that's going to come with a 99 person race, absolutely, but I'd say that the skill based racing and really tense risk/reward are here just as much as in prior series entries too. Really addictive arcade like experience that is unfortunately being beaten on by people for imo pretty superficial reasons.