Car Quest Deluxe

Ramp.

[spoiler]Car Quest[/spoiler]

I feel like seeing footage of this game or even just hearing the concept gives the wrong impression of what you're getting here. I don't mean that as like actual false-advertising, but when I see footage of an adventure game where you play as a car picking up collectibles, my mind wanders to open collectathon levels a la Banjo-Kazooie, where you're boosting around big areas fit for a car and off of ramps for sick air time, maybe with some racing levels thrown in. The concept practically writes itself... but this is not what Car Quest is. The main gameplay consists of driving across a simple path to reach a collectible, which opens up a small area somewhere else on the map to pick up another collectible, rinse and repeat. It's an agonizingly linear structure for such a big hub world, often with paths skinny enough that you'll rarely want to reach top speed, and the distance from one collectible to another often spans the entire area. And you don't get a map. By the end of the game, the paths you open up get so expansive and maze-like that I've sometimes had to look up a walkthrough just to find where I'm supposed to go (and funnily enough the guy I was watching seemed just as los…

This is the best video game I've ever played in my life. I love to car, I love to quest. What more can I ask? I think a partnership with MapQuest would've been good though.

Easily one of my favorite chill games, I love all of the details to the world and the voice actor that accompany's the entire game is quite memorable. The new additional cars are also a welcome introduction, creating more replay value even for challenge runs. There's only a few small things I disagree like adding invisible walls to places you could sequence break to previously on the switch version but I'd say it's a worthy buy, or you could wait until it goes on sale but I simply love the physics and art direction.

absolute peak