I bought it, and WOW! I'm seriously impressed with this game. I played through the first 3 cups on the Novice difficulty, and I was giggling like a schoolgirl the whole time at how fun it is. The colour-shifting trope works really well in this game, adds a lot of strategy. You can also takedown other racers, Burnout-style, by boosting into them. The final cup is a bit too tough for me right now, the first track goes full F-Zero with broken floating pieces of track that you have to almost FLY your ship toward in the air just to land. One issue I had with the game when I saw the first footage was that the tracks would be too simple, but that is definitely not the case, the courses are crazy and I cannot imagine how hard it is on the faster difficulties.
A lot of reviews have complained about the AI, but I actually love it. They are fully competitive, you can't just hold the lead like in Mario Kart, you have to fight for it for the entire race. There's more than enough boost on the track to catch up if you fall behind too, provided you are also driving well.
$20 is asking a lot considering there really isn't much content outside of a few unlockable vehicles and the racing, but the gameplay is stellar, and probably the closest thing to F-Zero that any of us will get for a while. I went back and played the Joker cup in F-Zero X after putting down NEO, and it warmed my heart to know that Shin'en did such a great job replicating that gameplay while adding their own spin to it.
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