I pity any child who saw this game and thought "yay a racing game!", and instead added another dust-collecting coaster and/or 20gb of regret added to their life. This game is hard as nails off the bat, with zero tutorial, confusing modes for anyone who doesn't know the technical terminology this game is full of, but, it IS a realistic rally sim. Any joy or fun to be beheld in the form of a quick & fun racing experience will not be a reality for anyone who experiences this happiness vacuum. While it's good at challenging experienced players, it will eat newbies to rally sims alive. One mode pits another unfortunate npc in the car with you, who won't cease to keep shouting random symbols and directions to you that look like math, Japanese, and various pasta shapes. It was so annoying that there's an option to turn him off. "Races" are a repetitive cycle of qualifying rounds that punish you for touching the gas too early and force you to run a mental gauntlet of the same torturous maps 4+ times without much reward. Joker maps (yes they're called that) make you feel like the game's joke, a jester, a clown for even attempting this sorrowful experience. This was given as a PS+ game a while back, which is equivalent of handing someone a basket full of rubics cubes with the stickers taken off and the hardest, most flavorless, hard candy known to mankind. If you're a fan of hard sims, a masochist, depressed, and want something to remind you about the cold hard facts of life, that you can't be anything you want to be, as a rotting flesh bag wanting to go fast in order to escape life's monotonous wheel of despair, play this game and then, only then, will you understand.
I pity any child who saw this game and thought "yay a racing game!", and instead added another dust-collecting coaster and/or 20gb of regret added to their life. This game is hard as nails off the bat, with zero tutorial, confusing modes for anyone who doesn't know the technical terminology this game is full of, but, it IS a realistic rally sim. Any joy or fun to be beheld in the form of a quick & fun racing experience will not be a reality for anyone who experiences this happiness vacuum. While it's good at challenging experienced players, it will eat newbies to rally sims alive. One mode pits another unfortunate npc in the car with you, who won't cease to keep shouting random symbols and directions to you that look like math, Japanese, and various pasta shapes. It was so annoying that there's an option to turn him off. "Races" are a repetitive cycle of qualifying rounds that punish you for touching the gas too early and force you to run a mental gauntlet of the same torturous maps 4+ times without much reward. Joker maps (yes they're called that) make you feel like the game's joke, a jester, a clown for even attempting this sorrowful experience. This was given as a PS+ game a while back, which is equivalent of handing someone a basket full of rubics cubes with the stickers taken off and the hardest, most flavorless, hard candy known to mankind. If you're a fan of hard sims, a masochist, depressed, and want something to remind you about the cold hard facts of life, that you can't be anything you want to be, as a rotting flesh bag wanting to go fast in order to escape life's monotonous wheel of despair, play this game and then, only then, will you understand.