The Time A Honda City Tried To Become The King Of Touge 

I picked this game up at a thrift store a year or two ago with my friend, and I didn’t have high hopes, but this game rips

This game is a little hidden gem

Ah yes, TXRD2. Probably one of those masterpieces which would have been forgotten without YT. The DayNight cycle on this game makes it so fun, given you have both legal and well, other types of racing in the same game. While the physics can be a bit weird at times, specially in the later, secret rally stage. It doesn't mean this game is unplayable, always a good day when people try it out!

_"Having confidence in your own ride is what racing is all about."_ When I really started to take this game seriously, I realized that the car you have is a very secondary concern. When driving, everyone always carries some sort of safety margin. True speed is achieved by minimizing that margin. By driving the way the car wants rather than the driver, and having the boldness to fly into corners at high speed. Do that, and any car can be a formidable fighting machine. I say this as someone who started conquest with an ae85 levin from the used dealer and no parts. This thing can absolutely win on hokkaido, but it will require a different racing style. One which demands foresight and fine steering control.

This is the only game that I will most likely keep playing until the day I die. I swear... I picked it up in 2020 and I have been playing it constantly. Whenever I "beat" the game I just erase my save and start over again, happily. The game is so varied and packed with content that it is practically never ending. Even the AI surprises me to this day.

There was time when you can beat Hamagaki, Jintei, and Emotional King, buy rain doll, and when you race them, use spike tires, because the rivals will use slick wet tires that's tarmac, in that way, you can beat them!

I love this game to death, the only bad part is the fact that it gets super grindy towards the end. Excellent commentary and edit btw, insta-sub!

Back when this game had just come out, I was lucky enough to find it at a local Gamestop in town. I would bounce between this, GT4 and RE4 often at my friends house whenever I would stay over, to the point where he would beg me to play something else 😅 The TXR series has lots of memories with me, absolute sleeper and very underrated

I was waiting for the day till this video would appear on the homepage and I wasn't dissapointed

That Genki S2000 is seriously fast, maybe even the fastest opponent aside from Zero, the last rival

Honestly knew Kaido President was going to be stopping point of this run. But hey, if it takes a Turbo Charged AWD swapped S2000's to take this thing down, that's honestly a complement.

I'm guessing that the new Mike is active 🤔 👀 and the commentary is always entertaining and entertaining driving 🚗 in one awesome little car .well done Jak you are above all when it comes to entertaining your subscribers, as always mate keep wm coming 👍 😂100🎉🎉Appreciate your time and effort you put in to the video's respect 🇦🇺

No joke, the City Turbo is the best starter car. I usually struggle once I reach Stage4. But it destroys everyone else before that haha

Even in "over rev" manga city was one of protagonist(side chara)😂😂

My Renault 5 Turbo 2: FINALLY A WORTHY APPONENT! OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGNDARY!

never have I heard of this game but it definitely looks interesting. basically an entire Initial D game

I appreciate that fact that you let my man in the sunny truck shine, the first time i played this game was the original kaido battle 2, years ago. My first encounter with the sunny truck, i lost. And ill never forget it.

Loves this series - still got my EU copies of Kaido Racer 1 and 2! They’re worth a fair bit now :D

Imagine if somebody made a mod that improves the ai of this game, imagine how hard it would be

Unironically, I think the City Turbo is one of the fastest FWD cars in the game. It's got an amazing power-weight ratio and a short wheelbase to keep it nimble, traits also present in the game breaking/meta defining ASL Garaiya and Opel Speedster (which also have the advantage of the MR layout, which is downright amazing in this game outside of rally).

This is why this game is the absolute best! You don't need much to beat a 350z

Still have my ps2, I own this one but never got far into it, TXR3 was my favorite

how possibly a 240hp/640 kg car be slow? that's well over 370hp per ton... there's a myriad of racecars under that ratio, it's insane that it's even able to steer with that much power to the front wheels.

essence of blocker 😂

Such a gem, plays great on PCSX2 :) Like an idiot I choose an AE85 as my starter car, but since the game is tight with cash and 80HP are too slow I started over and choose the Honda CRX which races much better. Sorry Tofu- Box :)

It's crazy how your name gives out so much credit.

WTF man, I just recently started playing this game and was tempted by the 180SX and even after some tuning wasn't able to pull ahead of that first nighttime 40k CP racer.

What a brilliant video, also such a good game!

may the honda city rest in peace

Nice video. I like your vibes.

Hell yeah

Melon Gripper is wild tho

Nice game, you should finish it ❤

Dope ❤

Love this

ah, a fellow TXRD2 creator

Is there anyway to emulate this? I really need to play these games. They need to make a remake or something because these games are better than what's been released recently.

I love your videos!

Best box !

Lol that car is beast. Hokkaido is the only track on the game that gives me problems driving this car. Other than that almost killed the whole game in that and my Dc2 Imtegra

I think there was a cut when you were upgrading. The points totals don’t align. I know it’s probably for the sake of the video but if you have cuts like that you should probably find a way to hide the number until after the cut. At about 2:53 you were about out of CP and then jump to over 300,000 cp.

Sorry Gran Turismo 4, but this is the real GOAT from the PS2 racing games.

This is how initial d originally planed

racing tires are useless if you're using it for night racing since you're facing unpaved roads

Remember to like and subscribe or the HONDA CITY gets destroyed. Had me so dead

Insane game

The one mod that was missing : A rocket on the back

I will steal someone's PS2 to get this, I swear to god.

Damn I thought this would be about a real City someone turned into a racing monster, I’m an idiot

lighter and more bendy. aka. group b rally

Actualy the original Japanese version of this game wich is called "Kaido Battle : Touge no Densetsu " has way more content , than this shitty american port i have original , i have like 5 000 hours in this game for sure , and for those who think u cant drift , u Can drift same like in asseto corsa , but i takes a bunch of skill . in Japanese version u unlock boss vinlys , and u can make famous Takumi's toyota ae 86 with black hood , and Tofu shop sign on a side , i have it myself , i beat whole game with it :) numerous times . and also Japanese version has New Game + after u beat it :) that lets u carry over numerous stuff from first play . also if anyone is intrested i can provide some drifting videos for all those people who say u cant drift in this game :)

I wonder how you won the high speed drifting at night time

"Honda is better then Ferrari! The City will win"

Ah yes first comment Also goated game

lol i have the first one, i got it shen i was what 10? and i thought it was trash because there was no drifting come to find out its an error in translation. God damn lol

i chose the mitsubishi colt as my car, probably a mistake to start with

Is this car a bug Or it's really good ?

Is there actual factual evidence somewhere that Initial D was meant to start as a Honda City? I can only find rumor mill posts on reddit saying that. And I have seen interviews with Keiichi Tsuchiya saying Initial D was modeled after his career as he was the creator of drifting to go faster in cornering and he raced in Truenos, which Initial D also used in likeness.

Playing this right now and love it, but the AI are horrendously slow. It's not an emulation issue since I'm playing on a real PS2 via hard drive, they're just booty cheeks at corners. Basically Test Drive Unlimited levels of helpless. It's a shame because the character bios give it so much flavour, and the gameplay loop is like crack, but I feel guilty sailing through events with a mere CRX, waving goodbye to RX7s that decided to take turns like my mother.

Now try that with a midget. No, I am serious, that car is a hidden meta car for the rokko stages and short courses in this game.

Anyone know if i could use a wheel for this game on PCSX2? It gets frustrating at times on controller

damn where can I find this game :)

bro is cheating, look at the money from 2:49 ... he would have apparently 433,000 cp at the start...

Your mic sounds worse

it is the best and the worst game. why is that because of the drifting physics....

ah, a fellow TXR creator