Gaming is fucking back baby, despite the generically edgy cover and premise this is some grade fuckin A bakage. From the very first mission giving you a choice between driving a regularish cop car or a giant pink buggy car called the funny bug as the mission itself involves you smashing through literally everything and anything in order to take down cars labelled "YAKUZA" in gigantic bold letters to the arena levels where you get absolutely dogpiled by suicidal yakuza cars with zero sense of self-preservation, this game really is a series of absolutely absurd over-the-top missions and I was all for it. Just an extremely fucking video game ass video game, you know what I mean? The physics are all sorts of fucked up as it really does feel like EVERYTHING has this weird weak weightlessness, like the world is made out of cardboard and all the cars are made out of Styrofoam. While in my heart of hearts I would give this game a 4 stars with no question as I eat stupid shit like this up for goddamn breakfast, and I really never found myself in a state where I was actively disliking what I was doing even if sometimes the levels have infuriatingly specific demands, strict time limits, or just moments where the physics can and will fuck you over, though there definitely was enough of it to stagnate progress just enough to start to get under my skin by the end. If they tweaked the balance by just a hair to make things a bit more understandable and forgiving this would be an all-time peak kusokino, but as it currently stands I'd only really rec it to people that can admire and enjoy some absolutely dumb ass bullshit. If that sounds like you, you're gonna have the blast of a lifetime with this. Otherwise, you'll probably just think it's crap. Definitely a classic of video game for sure.

Reviewed on Jul 03, 2024


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