Super Night Riders S1

I see the vision.

This games outside my usual sort of interest genrewise and I've never played any of it's inspirations but I've found myself really enjoying this one. The game itself is very straightforward, you just try to avoid crashing into other racers, go as fast as you can by using the boost as much as possible, and stay on track as best you can, roughly in that order of priority. Aesthetically the stages have decent variety, and it can be challenging at first to really differentiate them just on this merit alone which feels a bit odd to me for a racing game, but after you play more you'll start to recognize the general trend of each track type, even if you don't quite memorize all the turns and placement of enemy racers without replaying it a few times. What the game excels at though is a sense of speed and smoothness when you hit that flow state, as well as rewarding practice. It can be challenging but when you manage to keep boosting several turns in a row, stay on the track, weaving between the traffic but never quite touching anything it's really a satisfying experience not quite like anything else I can think of and even after clearing everything I keep booting up because I want that …

Lot of overall improvements since the last Super Night Riders, just as fun with a lot more polished experience. If you are looking for an experience like the old Super Hang On games, check this out. Great music as well.

fun and charming nostalgic arcade racer, engaging music and gameplay. graphics are servicable to pleasing and fully customizable. defaults to LoD pop-in which is very oldschool but you can switch that off if you want, just as you can switch tons of different effects on and off. runs rock solid. here are some things i'd love to see added: the races with one timer (and no time gates) are a bit annoying when they start at 99.99 and stay there for most of the race. please add a third digit there. its harder to gauge where you are at. i was disappointed when on the map where you drive through water, there is no splash effect at all happening. that and maybe gravel or sand (in the desert) would be neat to see - even if it just jets off strictly downwards like the drift cloud trails, that would be more than fine. other than that, yeah, that's actually it for me.

I wish I could give this game two thumbs up. Super Hang-On (specifically the 3DS remaster) is one of my favourite games in this genre, and now someone has remade it with phenomenal controls/physics and anime waifus. What else do you need besides that? I'm not sure why the Steam algorithm recommended this game to me, but I'm so glad that it did. Recommend more games like this!

such a sick game, definitely gonna buy the dlc just to support the dev