Musicracer troubleshooting6/3/2023 This means it’s often hard to tell where the nodes lead ahead of you, which doesn’t sound like a huge deal as Music Racer: Ultimate is a rhythm based game, but as the nodes are so offbeat, you rely on your sight and quick reactions to know where to turn. The tracks that your racer moves on are winding, and they twist and turn and loop. I will say that whatever comes later in the review, this game is visually stunning, and that I’ll occasionally boot it up just to look at the equaliser backgrounds of each level, as they really are gorgeous. This is all well and good, but actually comes back to hurt the game as we’ll discuss later when we move on to gameplay. There is a lot to unlock, and it all comes at a decent pace too, so you’re never having to grind levels to unlock a new track or racer. This amounts to a fair whack of gameplay, if you include the decently long list of music available, as well as the ability to add your own songs and play songs from the Audius player in-game. The hard mode is essentially classic mode, but when you hit a pylon, the game ends the zen mode completely removes those pylons and the cinematic mode adds a rotating camera and removes all nodes and pylons, essentially becoming an equalizer. There are several game modes on offer a classic mode, a hard mode, a zen mode and finally a cinematic mode. You chain nodes together as combos that give you bonus nodes at the end, and if you hit any of the pylons on the track, you lose the combo. The more nodes you collect, the more stars you get and these nodes are used to unlock other courses and racers. There’s also a Cinematic Mode that allows you to move the camera around as your vehicle of choice just drives itself to the music.To explain what Music Racer: Ultimate is, it’s mostly a timing based rhythm game that focuses on collecting nodes. Although, there IS a Hard Mode that ends the song as soon as you hit a pillar. Pillars do no more than break your combo and distort the song for a second and Zen Mode completely removes them, so there’s absolutely no challenge at all to the game. I actually put my controller down and didn’t touch it for an entire track and still finished the stage. Not that it really matters because there’s really no way to lose this game. While the dips, rises, and curves may look cool, they obstruct your vision of the notes, so more often than not you miss the beat before you even notice it. The layout of the tracks is where the problem lies. While nothing changes aside from the look of the stage, it does change the look up a bit and keeps the game fresh. You start with 2 and can unlock 12 more for a total of 14. You also have a rainbow of colours to customise your vehicle’s body and rims with. Ranging from a police car to the TRON light cycle to even a souped-up version of Santa’s sleigh, there is a huge variety of vehicles to choose from. There are 25 cars total with 4 being unlocked from the start. Your notes hit is used as a sort of currency in the game that’s used to unlock cars and levels and there is plenty to unlock in this game. Once you finish the song, you’re judged on how many notes you hit, your highest combo, and overall score. As the song plays, you steer your car between three lanes to collect the notes and avoid pillars. There are 23 different songs to race to, all falling into the electronic dance music ( or EDM) category. This game screams new wave and growing up in the golden age of new wave, I couldn’t be happier with the presentation. Music Racer is a racing rhythm game with an almost 80’s aesthetic, which touches this grumpy old punkers nostalgic heart. Music Racer has definitely done that, but how well was it executed? Read on, gamers, and find out. There are some developers that seek to freshen it up a little bit, though, by adding unique twists to their games. As I stated in my review for Super Dodgeball Beats, the rhythm game genre has gotten pretty stale over the years.
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