Just finished my Very Hard/Master playthrough, and what can I say that hasn't been said a million times before? This game is peak F-Zero, and easily one of the best racing games I've played.

Super satisfying gameplay, a stellar soundtrack, and probably some of the best and funniest characterization of the F-Zero cast to date thanks to SEGA's mega-cheesy writing. It's very easy to see why Nintendo has had such a hard time coming up with a way to follow this one up properly.

Side note: People talk about how hard this game is, and it is challenging on higher difficulties, but I feel like some who haven't played the game might get the impression that the standard difficulties are insanely difficult. Which really isn't the case and I feel it's a disservice to anyone who might want to get into this game to imply otherwise.
Normal does indeed mean normal in this gameeee

I headcanon this game as Otacon's anime-ified retelling of the Shadow Moses incident rather than what actually happened. It makes the copious amounts of cheese and the shit Snake pulls off make sense, explains why Snake only remembers the PS1 version's of events in MGS4, and helps develop Snake and Otacon's gay relationship

That being said, the redone voice work isn't super great in several scenes and the addition of first person aiming kinda kills the original's balance in multiple fightsssss

I feel like I'm the only person who sets movement to the ABXY buttons so I don't have to deal with the not-great default controls, like, is it ideal? No. But does it hurt my hands? Also noooooo

Fun lil game that basically did google feud before google feud existed, in that signature Wii-era Nintendo style.
Assuming you can read Japanese, it's a good time waster!