This has to be one of the most obscure games to be released on a console. There is hardly any footage of this game on the internet; and I could have sworn I hallucinated this game's existence because the game looks like a feverish hallucination.

I can't add pictures on Backloggd, so I want you to conceptualize a cel-shaded, 3D Bugs Bunny model -- and consider the model like the nucleus of a cell. Upon proper magnification of microscope it's quite easy to see that it's central to the image the eye projects to your brain. Now consider the game's quarter-assed attempt to border the cel-shaded model as the ectoplasm to the nucleus. The mind struggles to visually grasp the ectoplasm seemingly random movements around the surface around the defined nucleus, as if the bordering's intent was obfuscation of conceptualizing the character model as a whole. That's how much the cel-shading bothers me and if the cel-shading was a guy I would slash his tires and steal the radio out of his car.

Every several years or so i unearth this game a box and go "what the FUCK is this?" and then remember that I've owned a copy of this game for 20 years, I remember every previous time I've unearthed the game and questioned it's existence only in that moment that I unearth the game. Dooming myself to a cycle of perpetual mystery that I keep myself from solving. As if no one is allowed to have concrete memory of LOONS and their fight for fame.

Oh, the game sucks by the way.

Playing the fan translation on Duckstation in 4k resolution is the ideal experience. It's truly a fun, innovative game that is a must play if you care at all about racing or Playstation 1 era games.

What if the Final Fantasy 7 team made a car based RPG inspired by Initial D? This is your answer. Neon skylines, 90's anime cool guys racing to be the best of the best. Absolutely phenomenal soundtrack pumping while you fight for your life in the streets -- grinding for better parts and cars like a maniac. It's simply bliss.

This is one of the most unique experiences in gaming. From developers who were creatively on fire, in a time where gaming was highly exploratory and experimental in approach and execution of ideas. Racing Lagoon is the ideal "caRPG" that hasn't been surpassed.