Ngl, only bought it for the soundtrack... but
It's fucking good.
So genuinely, I bought it because the soundtrack is a bunch of bangers and I wanted to support the devs for that alone. I have information processing issues so I did not think I'd ever have a chance of actually liking playing the game, too much happens on the screen at once.
But I figured, might as well fucking try it anyway because yeah, I spent the money right?
I'm not good at it, I'm really not. But I am a stubborn thing. Chances of getting golds on every level? 0 (although the fact you don't have to get gold all at once, but can do the consitutent parts one at a time is really fucking generous, even if it makes it look like the scoring rules are fucking brutal on the surface level).
But damn if I won't manage atleast no-crash boss clears on every fucking boss. (The amount of times I died to the fucking rocker during the track changes where there's fire behind the barriers and the fire kills you oh my fucking god)
I will manage that much, and y'know what? I have one gold medal, and that's good enough for me lol.
Also I knew, intellectually, that muti-track drifting was a thing, I heard someone mention it, but I didn't know anything about it other than it's introduced really late in the game.
Then my ass accidentally fumbles into it and I get distracted for like 30 mins on the rockabilly's race track trying to figure out exactly what I did and now I guess I'm just multidrifting for the rest of the game lol (also it's got a funny as fuck graphical bug sometimes where you're still visually mutidrifting when you aren't, so just half the train is sticking off the side for a while).
Basically, fuck, it's good, most games I get annoyed when I suck ass at them, this game I find that isn't happening, despite the hundreds of times I suffer from "drift when jump/jump when drift"-itus and egads my brain cannot process information fast enough to send signals for left or right so sometimes I'll just run right into a stop sign I had a full like two seconds to process and avoid like a deer in headlights.
And I think a lot of us will relate when I say: Yes dan, we godamn know they did!