So if you're getting enough points for everything, it will take a bit of playing the songs over and over. The most expensive car will cost 100k points. For example, you can gain about 1500 points per song when playing decently. If done legitimately (there are ways to finish quicker, but you can check the solutions for those methods), this can take a long time of playing the songs repeatedly. It's all about earning points for completing songs. Achievements: Achievements are mostly rewarded for purchasing the different tracks and cars. These aren't so much positive or negative, but just parts of the game. As much as I changed the settings, I could still see it being a setup that wouldn't work for many people.īefore closing out, I do want to talk about some other elements of the game. And unfortunately, while there are options to mitigate it slightly, it still doesn't do a ton. But this game really takes it to an extreme. I don't have issues with epilepsy or have suffered from bright flashing lights in games. This is going to be a bit mixed opinion for people. This feels like a standard feature that's just missing. There's also no leaderboard to compare with other players. Every time at the end, you'll see your score, but there isn't a mention of whether it was better or worse. There is no tracking in game of your scores. When you play music games, what is a major part of the fun? For many it's the ability to replay the songs and improve your score. The Retro track luckily has the smoothest lanes and thus is 'reasonable' in that sense, but what I saw during other tracks was making it nearly impossible to keep up with what was coming up next. After selection your car and song, you can select a location for your play. Luckily, one of the track settings can mitigate it somewhat. And while AVICII had it occasionally, Music Racer amplifies this problem. The twists and turns obscure your view of the upcoming obstacles/notes constantly. Unfortunately, these tracks become an enemy. The tracks you play on have bumps and hills that you traverse. I saw this slightly during another recent game from the 'music genre' - AVICII Invector. I'm going to go through what hurt this game from what I saw and turned it from a neat concept to more just an average title. I'm going to be getting a lot more negative after this though sadly. Now just going off this description, the game doesn't sound bad, right? Just something different from the impression you might get based on the title. So one of the big pieces of Music games, timing, becomes almost completely irrelevant. While you have to hit the bars, when you move to their lane only matters if you're there. Plus, there isn't a skill to hitting the notes like you'd expect. I could pick out some sections that seemed to do so, but found that it felt more random than anything else. Music games usually have an element where the notes you hit match some rhythm or patterns in the song. But the truth is, I didn't get that impression either. So based on all this, you'd think this makes it a music game. How quickly you reach the end of the track is dictated solely by the song being played over the experience.

So does this sound like racing? Definitely not. At the end of the track, your combo and notes hit are summed to give a final score.

If you hit a pillar, your combo meter is reset to 0. Every bar you hit adds to your score and a combo meter. There are bars you are supposed to hit and pillars to avoid. Music Racer puts you on a track going down the road. I'm a fan of both genres too, but Music Racer doesn't seem to fit. To be honest though, it doesn't seem to fit either. Going with the name I thought of two possibilities - either a music game or a racing game. So let me dive into it and see what comes out of it. Being able to enjoy games the same way as others see it would be amazing, but in this case I just can't. It kind of sucks when you think about it though. Of the scores currently on TA and the opinions I've seen for this pre-release title, I'm just not finding what everyone else did. I've tried to think about what I'm missing about Music Racer. I find myself in an odd position writing this review. The thoughts contained within this review are my own. NOTE: I received a copy of this game for promotional/streaming purposes.

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