The Abandoned Touge Racing Genre 

I wish this was a thing in more games, it was always my favorite feature as a kid Made me feel like I was actually there with other racers and got me really immersed lmao

Yeah, its a simple way of giving a racing game a story. It was sick seeing people talking about you on the message boards.

You definitely should man. I started my playthrough on my potato of a laptop a while ago, but got lazy and have been just screwing around with the other modes of the game.

definitely, emulating it on a phone is a bit of pain tho

If you love cars, please check it out. You won't regret it. It's such a unique and quirky game.

@@idkwhattoputhereformerlyserial I manage to play it on my phone, and did challenge beating all boss racers with AE86

​@@idkwhattoputhereformerlyserialhow were you able to get it on your phone?

Same i just wish more games like this had some muscle mostly a foxbody

@brotherkiller1746 That's the one missing ingredient. So many great muscle cars they could have added. They tried to add a few in TXR3, but it REALLY was a FEW. Like 2 or 3 maybe.

You should try battle gear 3

A good trick to farm money is the gymkhana events, especially in the later stages. Doing the second event in stage 3 with all sponsors available at that point nets you like 800 000 per run and it takes less than 15 secs to do one

the initial d references and easter eggs I thought most would pick up on their own since the game is focused on touge and as for the opponent behaviors I didn't notice since I didn't look back too much during the battles, thanks for pointing these extra things out 👍

During the rivals profile compilation on the first cut, there was the fake Hakone Takumi added but it made the section too long and wasn't really fitting with the rest of the selection being the maidenless peeps

@@Sharicite The real Takumi, well some people said wannabe Takumi was "Lightning Shift" And her name is Takuya, plus he appeared in previous game (Appear in Street Supremacy, aka TXR for PSP)

@@Sharicite the Hakone takumi (second takumi) is named as lightning shift (don't remember what his real in game was but it spells like the anime one)

the soundtrack also absolutely SLAPS

​@@iAstr_0Respectfully, I disagree on some parts. Proof: The Paddock theme.

I disagree on this being a rip-off of Initial D. The reason being most of the co-founder behind the GRP started out as the crew behind Ikaten which was what influenced Shigeno jumping ship from shakotan to hashiriya drift culture. The devs routinely features Max Orido's Ridox, Nob Taniguchi's Kei Office S15 and alot more IRL private owned cars throughout the titles.

@@justinl2009 *Harmonica starts* Sorry, I think it deserves some kind of good talked about it

@@iAstr_0 hard disagree for TXRD2. The actual second game of the series, Kaido Battle 2(NTSC-J)/Kaido Racer 1(PAL) is the GOAT when it comes to soundtrack in the Kaido series, it even have a built-in music editor which was insane.

This game had unique car list definetly, it's completely wet dream for JDM lovers

​@@Mx64MaxyImpressDefinitely, though missing a few notable vehicles like the Z30 Soarer.

Check out Car X Drift, they have a racing community on there and it's starting to slowly evolving through actual car culture, Static/slammed Car Meets There is an entire universe of culture starting over here They have no name brands but alot of the quirky japanese car stuff is there and you can push the limits, there's alot of options to play around with customization is top tier, it makes GT6 look dated

@@bFOURdwZEROlf i'm not sure if youre joking or not, but my whole youtube account is centered around CarX content.

I am not joking :V I didn't know @@Britt4ny Awesome

I can already picture a video of you pushing the Honda City to its limits in this game haha

@@DoVe_7 Also you gave me ptsd when talking about CAT events

@@purwantiallan5089Does Honoka Kousaka, Umi Sonoda and Eli Ayase love this series?

Same also for me, I've been waiting for this video, also really enjoying Dove's experience playing this hidden gem Plus, telling my hidden appeal in his stream~

We do try our best to be as accurate as possible but some things I do get wrong thanks for the kind criticism 👍 As for other games I still want to try TXR 0 and 3 at some point

Yea I've gotten quite a few comments mentioning Racing Battle C1 so I might try it out at some point

There's one simple obstacle for you The game is Full in Japanese

C1GP could've been a more enjoyable game had it not been for the garage limit of 3 cars and that bizarre "sub-garage" which soured the whole experience.

@@cordyzank3625 well that's subjective based on where you're from. The devs intended it to be a "carlife" sim, just like how car enthusiast would partake in the car culture with limited resource well after the japanese economic bubble burst. Parking is charged according to three classes as the dimensions of your car increase the rates will follow too. To curb the emmision outputs, if you own a car within the 23 Tokyo metropolitan wards, you will get charged double the parking, "Shaken"and insurance if you own more than one car, Your average japanese usually could not survive owning more then one car let alone being forced to revert their car back to street-legal spec every two years for the inspection. So what many enthusiast would do was to front a storage/warehouse rental somewhere near the circuit itself with their fellow car guy friends and store their parts and track cars( without registration/or registered under the R/"tuned" category if you have the license to run a tuning workshop) there, while themselves dailying some kei/compact car or Creative Movers within the city limits. I think Understanding the implication of this aspect behind the culture will greatly increase the immersion for your playthrough. Because unlike the 90's where the youth didn't realize the grim reality of the state of Japanese economy was in, They kept spending without consideration throughout the 90's, they view car culture as a social activity back then where as in the 2000's the signs of recession has finally set in, the participation of car culture is a luxury itself. marking the decline of JDM car culture.

I was going to recommend this too.

yea me and my editor are working on that aswell

Txr0 and 3 are on my list aswell of games to try out👍

the game tells you this

I'm yet to play TXR3, have that and TXR0 to play

@@DoVe_7 please do I love your content btw keep it and thanks for replying your one of my favorite RU-vidrs

You ever try 2 & 3? They’re amazing.

@@tokiomiller9896 2 and 3, yes. And then 3 Tuned. I was also able to play 4 and 4 Tuned as well... 4 had the H-gated gear shift and a clutch pedal. Heel and toe downshifts were fun!

I actually enjoyed the predecessor (Side by Side) rather than Battle Gear. But BG2 obviously the best one( in terms of physics) and the Initial D reference are strong(BG2 Bonus Cars are based on Initial D characters spec like 11K RPM Takumi's Trueno AE86, Mazdaspeed A-Spec Keisuke's RX-7 FD3S and Turbocharged Sakai's DC2 Integra)

Yea I plan on visiting TXR3 in the future 100%

actualy if you have original Japanese release of this game " Kaido Battle 3 Touge no Densetsu " there is way more content , then american and eu release.