Everything people say about this games aesthetics are 100% true. Everything, from the menus, the soundtrack, the graphics, completely top-notch, it's just incredible. The game is easily worth playing for those alone. I completed the normal and hard difficulties and found them to both give a pretty good challenge (although hard kinda kicked my ass in the finals lol) and I loved how you slowly befriend the managers as you continue, it gives a nice human element to the races that give outside motivations. However (and this is the reason I'm leaving this as shelved), I never really felt like I got the controls down. This feels like the type of game where your supposed to hone in your skills over a longer amount of time and I'm just not the type of person to do that. Maybe sometime in the future I'll come back to it, because I do want to get better and maybe try for extreme difficulty.