Couldn't really get into this one, unfortunately. To be honest, I couldn't tell you exactly why this didn't click with me, especially since I do really enjoy the series' mobile entry, KartRider Rush+, but I just wasn't really enjoying it very much and ended up deleting it.
Maybe the gameplay just doesn't translate particularly well to PlayStation 4 or something, but I felt that Rush+ was a lot more enjoyable all around. Something about KartRider: Drift just feels off to me. It felt slower, somehow less responsive despite using a controller instead of a touch screen, and overall there's just not a whole lot going on here, both in terms of its racing and its live-service elements. There's not many events or things to progress towards, whereas Rush+ feels like it's constantly popping off with something new to do.
It also seems like there's just absolutely no playerbase here. When I set it to only match me up with real players, I only ever got into one, single race after over four and a half minutes straight of waiting, and never got into another race after that. And this is with cross-platform play activated, mind you. Last time I played Rush+, I consistently found full-house races within 30 seconds, even when I was up in the higher ranked tiers. That just leaves you with racing against the CPU-controlled racers... who just blast off the starting line at top speed and never let up. I just can't catch up to them, no matter what I do. I don't know if it's a personal skill issue or if these bastards just cheat, but I was never able to finish ahead of... like, 6th place. So the choice is between trying to get multiplayer races in a game seemingly nobody is playing, or try and race against CPUs I have no realistic chance of catching up to. Either way, I'm not having fun, so I just stopped bothering with this.
The game has good qualities, such as its robust, ModNation Racers-esque suite of car customization features, wide variety of tracks, karts and characters and beautiful visuals, but when I'm not having much fun with the actual racing, I'm not gonna stick around for much time at all. It's a shame, because I really do like Rush+; unfortunately, this game failed to live up to that.
Maybe the gameplay just doesn't translate particularly well to PlayStation 4 or something, but I felt that Rush+ was a lot more enjoyable all around. Something about KartRider: Drift just feels off to me. It felt slower, somehow less responsive despite using a controller instead of a touch screen, and overall there's just not a whole lot going on here, both in terms of its racing and its live-service elements. There's not many events or things to progress towards, whereas Rush+ feels like it's constantly popping off with something new to do.
It also seems like there's just absolutely no playerbase here. When I set it to only match me up with real players, I only ever got into one, single race after over four and a half minutes straight of waiting, and never got into another race after that. And this is with cross-platform play activated, mind you. Last time I played Rush+, I consistently found full-house races within 30 seconds, even when I was up in the higher ranked tiers. That just leaves you with racing against the CPU-controlled racers... who just blast off the starting line at top speed and never let up. I just can't catch up to them, no matter what I do. I don't know if it's a personal skill issue or if these bastards just cheat, but I was never able to finish ahead of... like, 6th place. So the choice is between trying to get multiplayer races in a game seemingly nobody is playing, or try and race against CPUs I have no realistic chance of catching up to. Either way, I'm not having fun, so I just stopped bothering with this.
The game has good qualities, such as its robust, ModNation Racers-esque suite of car customization features, wide variety of tracks, karts and characters and beautiful visuals, but when I'm not having much fun with the actual racing, I'm not gonna stick around for much time at all. It's a shame, because I really do like Rush+; unfortunately, this game failed to live up to that.