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Absolute Drift: Zen Edition (PS4) Status: Finished playing I started playing this game on Friday 23 November, 2018 // I stopped playing this game on: Sunday 17 February, 2019
Current opinion of this game
No comment, yet.
February 17, 2019 11:33:45 PM
Thankfully I could get to the end just my racing around the overworld/map.
November 30, 2018 10:47:53 PM
Videos of this game looked really cool. That's the only reason I bought this game. Having played it for (only?) a few hours, I'm surprised by a few things: a. It's really hard. I just don't seem to get it - in terms of how to best control the car, control my turns and acceleration and what I think are the basic game controls. I bombed the tutorial. My score was in the bottom 5% of all scores! (I eventually got it up to the 45% percentile but that was many attempts later). It's just hard. For me. Which I'm interested in - personally - because I feel like I'm really in the dark as to what I should do to get better at the game. b. There's an "overworld" which is how you get into levels and also how you progress in the game. Zones are gated and in order to lower the drawbridge to the next zone you need to complete a bunch of objectives in a zone. THESE I CAN DO! And, I enjoy just driving around each zone and trying to get the objectives complete - the objectives are generally gameplay related (drift in circles around this thing, drift under this other thing) - but since there's no time pressure I can take my time, plan my route, try again and so on with a lot less pressure and, I must say, a bit of fun. c. So, the overworld/zones I enjoy playing in, but the levels themselves are a disaster for me. It's very sweet/sour sort of experience and I wonder how better players feel about the overworld. For me it's not easy, but I have enjoyed it - will better players find it a cakewalk and a boring grind?

Absolute Drift: Zen Edition (PS4)