GENSOU SkyDrift

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8.8

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  1. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 15, 2021
    7
    Gensou Skydrift
    A nice firt attempt.
    Gensou skydrift has potential as a series, right now it feels like a what could be teaser.. featured is a 1 and a half hour long campaign of witches vs farriers, and a free roam as well as verses mode that can be played online or offline.. featured here are 18 characters and 14 tracks.. this is a very challenging yet addictive racer… the team behind    Gensou Skydrift
    A nice firt attempt.
    Gensou skydrift has potential as a series, right now it feels like a what could be teaser.. featured is a 1 and a half hour long campaign of witches vs farriers, and a free roam as well as verses mode that can be played online or offline.. featured here are 18 characters and 14 tracks.. this is a very challenging yet addictive racer… the team behind this have worked on Mario kart games, and I definitely felt a bit of Nintendo magic here… skydrift wont blow you away with itsvisuals, but its track design still manages to be done well enough to be memorable.. here you choose a teamof two charcters,all with unique stats and race up to5 other teams… going through hoops, drifting around corners to fill up your magic meter, you can then cast a random spell to help you get ahead in the race.. and this is where gensou skydrift comes up short … its character building.. techincally stats are different, but no two characters felt different playing with for me.. not only that, the spellsbeing the same no matter who I am didnthelp either… gensou skydrift is such a baree bones game that I feel like this is an area it could have shined in with its spell crafting , each character having a unique set of spells, something to make matchmaking actually matter, do I want this more defensive or a more offensive withcor fairy? Rather than do I want the better magic or speed cause I feel like these stats don’t really matter… other than what id like for the future, skydrift is a really good racing game, one that you wont just hop in and be good at=, you have to master the drifting and timing your spells correctly, the track design is great and memorable, and I love the music here…
    Gensou Skydrift wont blow you away or probably keep you hooked for more than a couple of hours, but those couple of hours will feel like a nostalgic drift and for the right price feel is a good experimental kind of racing game with potential as a series for you to give a chance to
    I give Gensou Skydrift
    a 7/10    … Expand

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  1. Nintendo Life
    Dec 19, 2019
    60
    Gensou Skydrift is one of the few karting games on Switch to come even slightly close to Mario Kart in terms of its racing mechanics, and when it all comes together it's a fun time. Unfortunately, the lack of meaningful single-player content and the fact that the online is dead on arrival means this should be strictly considered a local multiplayer game if you want to get your money's worth.
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  2. NintendoWorldReport
    Dec 17, 2019
    60
    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.
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  3. Video Chums
    Dec 17, 2019
    80
    Gensou Skydrift is one of the best kart racers released in recent years. From its hilarious premise to its tight and challenging gameplay, I absolutely recommend this to any kart racing fan whether you know what Touhou is or not.
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