a very silly game with weird bad physics, a lovably dorky soundtrack I will never listen to, and a strange turn of the century Japanese sensibility about what ‘80s America was
you interact a surprising amount with “the president,” (a bit crushed image of I’m pretty sure Bill Clinton, which in combination with the Dreamcasts appearing in both campaigns’ menus makes for a very weird ‘80s), and let's face it, what other game has ever had you assembling hot dogs using a car and delivering them to a Bill Clinton analog?
you interact a surprising amount with “the president,” (a bit crushed image of I’m pretty sure Bill Clinton, which in combination with the Dreamcasts appearing in both campaigns’ menus makes for a very weird ‘80s), and let's face it, what other game has ever had you assembling hot dogs using a car and delivering them to a Bill Clinton analog?
brutally difficult and lacking polish but with some cute (if poorly translated to English) writing and some fun concepts
a bit of a hidden, English-capable yet Japan-exclusive gem on the Xbox, with full 720p output support and fantastic graphics, and significant improvements in gameplay and polish over its predecessor (Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions in the west) - presumably never released in the west due to rubbing up too closely with the Xbox 360's launch
2019
the clearest kind of free to play to Apple Arcade conversion from the first wave of the platform's titles; this game has incredibly poor progression systems, irritating unlocks, clearly designed around asking you for money (except that got replaced with… nothing)
the racing is fairly mindless, though the controls feel reasonably nice, but it's nothing at all like a fully-fledged cart racer in truth
the racing is fairly mindless, though the controls feel reasonably nice, but it's nothing at all like a fully-fledged cart racer in truth
honestly a pretty impressive conversion, especially considering how the prior Midnight Club game performed on PSP - they really optimised this one, and it still manages to feel a lot like its big console brother in many ways
2018
an extremely solid little co-op arcadey game to weather typhoon hagibis to
2012
cool concepts but way too hard for my blood unfortunately
2019
Solid exercise with a cute enough little narrative to keep you hooked to the game. Could do with some quality of life improvements, like per-skill-colour difficulty tuning, but otherwise really good. I do worry about the durability of that peripheral, too, ours is sagging quite a bit at this point.
2018
chaotic evil, makes everyone hate each other for being in the lead and then makes them lose anyway
2019
an absolute delight of a game
this game won't start if you have OBS installed, lmao, the last two EA PC games I've tried have both been cursed
2019
rolled the dice on the Epic store discount and for nine bucks it’s okay but man, can someone please give Three Fields a little money for the next one, if they’re even still alive at this point lmao
I feel like the people pining for pre-Paradise Burnout got pretty much exactly what they wanted with this one; car feel which would’ve been acceptable on PS2 but feels downright bizarre in 4K, extremely unpolished progression and difficulty (you start with just one event you can enter, which immediately requires you to win the race, with extremely harsh opponent rubber banding going on, in order to even think about playing something else - and some later events are a walk in the park), a stark lack of car options (each “class” just has three to five of the same car with different attachments and subtly different performance), the UI is straight out of the old Burnouts (for better and worse)
oh also it doesn’t have any in-game music, instead offering a “connect your Spotify Premium account” button lmao
the graphics are really quite nice, it doesn’t have that “I am an Unreal Engine game” sheen all over the place, it’s just overall a good looking game, the environments are nice to look at and the tracks are varied, if on the longer side
it’s a serviceable return to that particular era if you’re filled with a deep nostalgia for it, even if (graphics aside) you might be better served by throwing Legends into PPSSPP, but frankly I’m more of a Paradise gal, so this experience may instead compel me to grab Paradise Remastered off Game Pass 🙃
I feel like the people pining for pre-Paradise Burnout got pretty much exactly what they wanted with this one; car feel which would’ve been acceptable on PS2 but feels downright bizarre in 4K, extremely unpolished progression and difficulty (you start with just one event you can enter, which immediately requires you to win the race, with extremely harsh opponent rubber banding going on, in order to even think about playing something else - and some later events are a walk in the park), a stark lack of car options (each “class” just has three to five of the same car with different attachments and subtly different performance), the UI is straight out of the old Burnouts (for better and worse)
oh also it doesn’t have any in-game music, instead offering a “connect your Spotify Premium account” button lmao
the graphics are really quite nice, it doesn’t have that “I am an Unreal Engine game” sheen all over the place, it’s just overall a good looking game, the environments are nice to look at and the tracks are varied, if on the longer side
it’s a serviceable return to that particular era if you’re filled with a deep nostalgia for it, even if (graphics aside) you might be better served by throwing Legends into PPSSPP, but frankly I’m more of a Paradise gal, so this experience may instead compel me to grab Paradise Remastered off Game Pass 🙃
2021
A cute and simple but surprisingly strategic word puzzle, which has been a staple of morning coffees for me since I discovered it.
Docked a star for unclear rules around duplicate letters (the rules do not include any indication of whether there could be multiple letters, they're engineered for words of all unique letters, but the dictionary contains plenty with repeats), but otherwise a really solid little brain teaser!
Docked a star for unclear rules around duplicate letters (the rules do not include any indication of whether there could be multiple letters, they're engineered for words of all unique letters, but the dictionary contains plenty with repeats), but otherwise a really solid little brain teaser!
2021
A really cute little physics puzzler, I got totally addicted the day it came out.
It has some quirks, but it's quite enjoyable mostly. I wish the game-over timer was more clearly shown, instead of relying on the slightly too unclear animation and sound.
It has some quirks, but it's quite enjoyable mostly. I wish the game-over timer was more clearly shown, instead of relying on the slightly too unclear animation and sound.
2019
apparently if you rebind controls to a gamepad it doesn't fall back to default keyboard controls (and there's no mouse input available) if that gamepad is not connected, so, cool 🤷🏻♀️
UPDATE: the PC port is so bad that this is much better played on console, or via Game Pass streaming; constant latency is better than the intermittent stutter it does on PC. underneath it is a kind of decent and entertaining racer, just a shame it's nigh-unplayable natively on PC
UPDATE: the PC port is so bad that this is much better played on console, or via Game Pass streaming; constant latency is better than the intermittent stutter it does on PC. underneath it is a kind of decent and entertaining racer, just a shame it's nigh-unplayable natively on PC