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Gensou Skydrift
Finally, a Touhou Project racing game! Race down courses set in the magical land of Gensokyo! Use the tag system to swap rider and board! Lots of spell cards and Last Words! Features online VS mode and multiplayer. You can check records and win rates after races. Get a move on and get racing!
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Gensou Skydrift Reviews
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We've seen a ton of cool Touhou games in recent years and here's a kart racer where you fly around on the familiar cast of maidens.
Gensou Skydrift is such a completely weird anomaly of game that you know it couldn’t have been created anywhere else other than Japan. A racing title about kawaii anime witches riding on other kawaii anime witches as if they were flying surfboards, all while racing against each other in physics and gravity-defying levels just for the sake of it. It sounds like the worst elevator pitch in history. Although, once you find out that the studio behind this game was founded by former developers o...
Gensou Skydrift feels more like the fan game it actually is than I hoped. The references to Mario Kart: Double Dash are warranted, but it lacks the polish and finesse of that GameCube classic. If anything, Gensou Skydrift shows how far Mario Kart has come, because this might as well be a port of a game from 2003.
Gensou Skydrift isn’t a terrible racing game, but its awkward controls and iffy drifting mechanic heavily reduce the fun that can be had from it. Add into the mix poor visuals and a dire campaign, and unless you’re happy to race online you should probably avoid it. Hopefully the option to remap the controls will be delivered in an update, because that would definitely make it more of an interesting proposition.
But for everyone else? It’s…well, fine. It’s not good but not actively terrible. It’s far too short for the price and not a great kart racer, but it’s not a truly dire one. Unfortunately, that makes it all but impossible to really recommend for anyone other than dedicated franchise fans; there are better kart racers available for the platforms this is available on, and however much you might want to grade it on a curve, the fact of the matter is that it’s…just mediocre. It’s f...