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Damn dude, they’re doing it to channels with less than 200k subs, this is getting ridiculous. RU-vid cares way too much about you cursing and not enough about scammers ripping off their install base.
Outrun, Sonic and... Brazil? The shadow of when you win at 6:17 is from the legend, Ayrton Senna. And the scenary of the stage at 3:40 and 9:48 is based on the historical gold mining city of the 18th century from Minas Gerais state, today called Ouro Preto. The name of this city by the time was Vila Rica, which is indeed the name of the stage in the game. Cool! 🇧🇷
I bought the game last night while my friend was over. I installed it and we played it and I have to say that wow this game is addictive. Thanks for covering Slipstream. I think that I have found my go to racing game.
I buy every game like this; Horizon Chase is the king getting so much of my time, and it's from another Brazilian developer. I've grabbed Slipstream on both Xbox and Switch to support the genre. It looks awesome!
Excellent. I may have to pick this game up. The music in it sounds like stuff you would hear on the NewRetroWave RU-vid channel. They're loaded with music with an 80's synth aesthetic!
Bought right before this video dropped, was between this one and "80s Overdrive" bought this one because it was a Brazilian game. (I am from Brazil) and anyone trying to do any sort of artistic endeavour in this country right now deserves all the compensation they can get. Happy to see it getting some coverage. And you always try to point out both the positives and negatives of any game you cover in a fair way and I am glad you justified my impulse buy. I do disagree partly on the rewind button point. I don't mind those options existing I just always wish that they were disabled when you start the game, and that the player could choose to enable them if he wanted.
Hey not the outrun clones but close enough! I’ll be ranking all the outrun games worst to beat sooner than later for my sega ranking month! Crazy taxi is next!
Slipstreaming is a term I have heard used for when you use the cars momentum in front of you to gain an extra boost. But the term used by actual racers is "Drafting". Either way ... the game looks cool. I just saw an Outrun inspired indie title on the XBox called "Overdrive 80s racer" or something like that. I was thinking about picking it up because the reviews from gamers was 4/5 stars on the XBox.
If you want a more crazy arcade racer then try Cruis n Blast or Rise Race the Future, both worth a race or two. Now if only the developers would try their take on Road Rash. Great review as always.
The shot of the guy holding the trophy is without a doubt a crop of F1 driver Ayrton Senna holding up the Sonic trophy from the 1993 European Grand Prix.
Great review! It looks and sounds awesome especially for a one person team. I will say that when you talked about how people in their 40's would appreciate the music; so would people in their 30's.
@@superbroly64DS I was going to say people in their 20's as well, but I was overthinking it. Yeah, people in their 20's and 30's love music from the 80's.
I like the long no pop in draw distance and smooth 60 fps of the sprite super scaling. I love seeing classic sprite animated style games made for modern hardware.
Bro got hardcore “ we do it right the first time or we don’t deserve it” thing is I’m 55 and my reflexes aren’t what they used to be. So I’m thankful for rewind. =p
Been having a great time with this game. My only minor complaint is some of the tracks don’t really give me driving vibes. A bit too omninous like hotline Miami. Still, overall love it as I grew up in the 80s.
Yeah was looking around if there was anything like outrun tonight and came across this game, I’d never heard of it. It’s super fun. Especially with the CRT+NTSC filter and the VHS effect. Even more fun playing with my son couch co-op style.
Awesome review for sure! I definitely would have missed this otherwise thanks! Slipstream is really good and I'm definitely enjoying it, and at only $9.99! Another game that's dropping soon on July 26 that I think you should definitely check out is 80's Overdrive! It looks just as good as Slipstream and heck it might just look even better! Of course we won't know which one is until this comes out. But it has a light car customization using coins you unlock to upgrade the engine or steering etc. It also has a track editor which is pretty interesting to say the least. It's also only $9.99, hopefully it turns out just as good Slipstream if not even better!
I really love this game. It's my favorite racing games ever. I was so glad when I found out that the game dev is from the same State as l am. Minas Gerais - Brazil. 🇧🇷🔺
You should do more retro review mate found your knowledge out strips most so called reviewers who only see graphics you give a better in depth overview keep up the great work UK loves it 😀
I'm so glad this finally came to switch. i'd been playing this for so long on PC watching as it changed with each update, and hoping others who really enjoyed Outrun 2 (because of the drifting and drafting (called slipstreaming here)) but want the Outrun 1 aesthetic would get to try it. I ended up buying this also on the switch because it's such a cool game.
So great to see someone doing a proper full modern super scalar. It's a retro feel that hasn't been redone much, even though these were some of the most amazing looking games of the era
As someone who sucks at racing games in general i actually love the inclusion of a rewind feature, its not hurting anyone who doesnt want to use it. As you say here its good accesability.
I know what you mean as I also suck at driving games but it's there and will be very hard to resist using. The need to improve and actually learn is taken away. Probably included under the advice of the publisher.
@@lordsofkobol7385 I dunno, I use the feature in emulators all the time. But at that same token I have played all the souls like and have over 300 hours in eldin ring, not adverse to challenge. I don't mind the feature being there, as long as it's optional.
It's pretty good especially for the price! It has that nice pick up and play quality. My complaints are similiar and found the music to be a bit too kitschy but otherwise it's decent. I hope Sega takes notice and finally releases an official arcade port of Outrunners though and maybe add a new new contemporary features besides the dumb rewind button. C'mon Sega you already have an amazing game with lots of potential. My apologies for mentioning Outrunners again I just really really want an official arcade port!
Wow-a stunning homage to a bygone era. While I’m a little more in favor or something like Horizon Chase Turbo, this is an incredible sprite scaler for the modern age. Great find!
Initially the game didn't have the rewind button, but the other drivers used a rubber banding system to keep them around you. The 1.2 patch added the rewind but also got rid of the rubberbanding and made all the other drivers have the same rules as the player, which meant that if you messed up an early turn or something, you were pretty much boned, even a late one might see half the other races pass you by. The 1.21 patch would tune the difficulty so other races were quite so brutal and smoothed out the turns so you could take them at high speed a bit easier.
@@PowderedVoltage It was actually fully removed in 1.2 but that ended up creating a bunch of difficulty issues and the dev added it back in 1.3 but tuned it more so it felt more natural (ai driving a bit better behind and a bit worse ahead) rather then like in most games where the ai will almost stop if its too far ahead.
I played the game on PC. I bought it some time ago and only recently tried it. Disappointed is the word I would use. I hated the way the driving feels. Graphics, sound, they are all fine. The actual driving though was a big huge MEH for me. It just never felt like I was driving a car. At any point. What a shame. And yes I realize that many people like it.
No doubt the producer have spent countless hours playing Outrun 35 years ago, IF he was born at that time that is, LOL Great video SLX, thanks for showing something like this that otherwise wouldn't have gotten my attention. 👍
This was a game I backed on kickstarter, but I wasn't aware that it wasn't that long ago when the game had finished. I guess the version that was available on GOG and Steam for a while, might have been still in early access. Regardless, I'm glad it turn out alright and wasn't left abandoned or silent like some other retro style racing games I've backed in the past. I may not be in my 40s just yet, but I can still appreciate the classics of the 1980s for what they are.
100% agree with your wording about rewind being a cheap fix. That's exactly what it is! Outrunners don't need second chances! And you were hinting to Outrunners before that!
Not sure how I didn't notice this one before; scrolling is nice and fluid; it's mostly Out Run but the roads in motion have a hint of a Ridge Racer look as well. Very agreed about the rapidly repeating scrolling assets; that aspect gives it a cookie-cutter presentation at times but overall this seems to be a good value purchase and playability and music are both satisfactory. Now if Nicalis could just revive and finish 90's Super GP someday in the not too distant future. I'm also interested in Redout 2 but I will have to build a beefed-up gaming PC to accommodate that as mine is now eight years old.
I hope it gets a physical release. I have been enjoying this in my Xbox for a min, but I would buy a physical release for the switch and keep it nice and sealed for the collection
The graphics are great, the gameplay looks spot on but, that music, oh that music. From a gamer who is almost out of his 40s, this music puts me in the mood to play more than anything at all. For a moment there, I was 16 again, or 13, either is fine.
My 17 year old son absolutely loathes "retro anything" because of how hard I tried to show him "the ways of "old school" skill based gaming" during his youth. Giving him some credit: He loves games like Towerfall and Nidhogg which have some old school vibes. He still spends most of his days with "quest icon/compass/gps exact" gameplay. Regarding the video: him and I played slipstream recently and he was more or less hooked. I tried to explain it to him in terms of Outrun or Rad Racer and he told me it was more Sonic Team Racing than anything I was talking about. Lol! Good for him I think (Sonic racing transformed was still a killer game on ps3)? But what the hell on not considering all the scalers I had kept trying to introduce during his whole life (Road rash 2 was his fav game on genesis when he was 8)? Either way, thanks for the weekly content. I'm a 39 year old man who loves your content, entirely wholesale bro. I really appreciate what you're doing here and even though I've been watching your channel for roughly 3 years, I only just now threw down on your patreon (A few min ago). Honestly I wish there was at least a $10 tier for how much time I spend rewatching your old videos with my 10 year old daughter. Also, I saw and bought an ESWAT arcade marque about a year ago because I was like "Damn, nostalgia runs deep on some Eswat for sega lord x" which I later played via emulation with my 10 year old daughter and it is an awesome game. I never thought that (eswat on genesis) would be the game my daughter and I would tear up and eventually beat together through hardship and perseverance...(though most of the boss tactics we learned via watching your channel). I always trust your opinions but sometimes them much later. You've never failed us. You're an awesome guy. Car rides with my daughter (my son is into so much fortnite/call of duty bs) always include some sort of a pick from your youtube channel on the bluetooth. I'm sure you have an arcade marque of Eswat by now, but if you don't, hit me up. I'd hope my email or something is listed, I'm not a youtube messaging person. -Thanks for all the tons of nostalgic hours we've reminisced with your excellent perspective on all the old games of our yesteryears. Your conciseness is the end-all be-all to our family and even though you are ridiculously family friendly, my kids somehow understand your fervor even moreso when you swear, and it's totally allowed by the wife and I. Keep up the badass work. I produce and edit music scores if that can help at all. P.S. J.J. and Jeff was the worst gift I have ever received. It was a birthday gift for my 11th or 12th bday and the 3 sentences you stated about it a year or two back made me laugh so hard I recently ordered a Retropie 4 just to try it again and lose my god damn mind lol It'll be here in 4 days. Rambling Thanks Sega Lord X You rock
P.S. The manual mode seemed like a burden to even try. It pretty well only made it more diffucult to start a slide around any corner. We tried them both at length and it seemed like we could always do better with automatic settings. The light, medium, and heavy "classes" kind of offset everything though. Heavy was insanely difficult, but light was pathetically easy. The rewind never worked with my son during our co-op campaign. I love the visuals, the framerate was at least 60 fps on my ps4. Definitely worth a purchase, like you said SLX. Figure out settings that make it fun for you and the games can be hella fun. Or kinda shitty lol. It's also 4 player splitscreen on ps4.
Tried this game on CRT, and it mimics the pixel scaler aesthetic, but it really is a polygonal game that looks better on a modern screen. Great game, and despite having a retro feeling, the gameplay feels more contemporary, I also agree it plays more like the awesome Outrun 2. 80s Overdrive, another retro inspired racer, feels more like an actual 16bit racer, going for the Lotus/TopDrive style. It's good (and that one do look awesome on a CRT), but I like Slipstream better, it has a much more fun gameplay.
I do love a Sprite Scaler, and Slipstream is really good considering the price. If it was built by one guy, then the few criticisms are totally understandable. Definitely get it if you like that kind of game 👍
I can see this being a real niche game. It definitely hearkens back to the days of 80s racing games, so if you didn't grow up in that era, I don't know if you'd see the appeal. The game looks decent and definitely nailed that 80s nostalgia, but I'm not sure that is enough to draw most people in (especially younger gamers). I'm curious if it has stuff like online leaderboards or even online play. Otherwise, it seems like this one would run out of gas pretty quick.
I did a review of this game for Pure Nintendo. It's an enjoyable little racer, but does have some big problems. One of the bigger ones for myself was that the AI on the harder difficulties was very sporadic. Sometimes I'd just blow past everyone and they never caught up. Other times they'd blow past me, and even at my max speed they'd still be gaining distance. The slipstream mechanic itself is really well done though, you can gain speed forever until you stop slipstreaming allowing you to reach some crazy high speeds
The core game mode, Grand Tour, is the main mode of this game because of its reflection of the Outrun model. The draw is the joy of driving, with the rivals just there as simple benchmarks to overcome. The additional racing modes are all secondary, and while I enjoyed them, they were nowhere near as appealing as Grand Tour. That relegates any AI issues to the backburner for me. The MP is the real competitive racing mode, anyway. The core Outrun experience is there and done exceptionally well. And really, that's all that matters in single player.
It looks like a great game, and the only thing that bothers me is the repetitive-ness of the roadside art. What is here is great and detailed, but there's just something to how Sega placed their assets that was more elegant: the canyons and column tunnels broke up the visual monotony with slightly different sprites, some boulders of different heights, some columns missing segments and slightly off color... Even the shadows of some of the trees and turn/arrow signs(Arcade perfect versions) change depending on where you are and which way the turn goes...(most noticeable on the Autobahn and Cloudy Mountain stages, shadow length to the left or right from base of object )... and even purposeful: you could get cues from roadside art in Outrun pertaining to what was around the next corner, in the opening course right after the third set of Outrun Arcade billboards show up it is time to turn the wheel hard to the left (from previously being locked hard right) to make it through the last S curves at full speed, delay a bit and you have to downshift or brake. This a great effort from a single person.
If there is any motivated developers this could be also run on any dreamcast machine!Glad i‘ve downloaded this Gem a few weeks ago for Switch,never regret it!
Horizon Chase Turbo is another retro but it uses polygonal 3D to mimic look of 2D sprite scaling and was inspired by the likes of OutRun and Top Gear on the SNES right down to getting Barry Leitch to do the music. Its Senna Forever DLC was likely inspired by Super Monaco GP too.
Horizon Chase is good but to me its very cheap. Its very hard to pass the other cars because they dont give you a lot of room. I couldnt complete the game because it got too cheap on the later stages and theres no option to change the difficulty.
I wish these retro style games would support steering wheels. People keep saying arcade racers don't work with wheels, but how does that make any sense? Steering wheels (AND force feedback) originated in the arcades!
Aurora = 3000 GT Type 23 = Nissan 300zx Lynx = Acura NSX Epsilon = Lancia Delta Integrale (at first I thought it was an Audi Quattro) Arashi = I wanna say Nissan 180zx, but it kinda looks like the AE86 Corolla
Hmm... That one was not on my Radar. Thank you Lord! p.s: Rewind is for ... ; ) I hated it but i learned to accept it. See there are People that does not grow up with Hard Arcade Games so... easy Looks like a love letter to Segas early Racing games.
This might sound weird, but I want a Sonic game like OutRun. Seriously, just imagine him looking at the screen, giving you the "clock watch" and then it says "GO!" and you have old school sprite designs in running fashion and have to dodge obstacles. Not like Sonic Runners, like OutRun.
