oh those are some good titles. for the arcade games, are you looking to get the 1cc? or just make it through them?
i'm curious how you end up feeling about 1944. as someone who adores raizing, i tend to forget about their later 8ing-branded work and wonder if it's actually worth investing time into.
i'm still out here racing rings, though i've just started to play online. it's strange… despite putting over 100 hours into the single-player game, i still feel unsure about how to actually play competitively. with srb2kart, i felt like offline practice translated pretty effectively to good online performance, but here i think there's a whole lot more going on that's hard to learn except by being thrown into the fray.
it's also a bit sad to see that, for as much effort was put into the game, the online servers are pretty vacant. usually there are only like 25 to 50 players online during peak hours, which is a fraction of what srb2kart used to pull, and that itself was already extremely niche as online games go. maybe the skill floor was really that offputting to people…
but still, every so often i see names that i remember back from when i was playing in 2020 and 2021, and it kinda makes me glad that they're still around. even if they likely don't remember me by now, i still remember them fondly…
