#xf drive

[sonicfangamebot]

'XF Drive' (2019) by Feperd Games (Original Demo) What is Sonic’s boost gameplay was… a car? https://sites.google.com/view/xfdrive/home

[alpha-beta-gamer]

XF Drive is an awesome 90s styled arcade racing game that blends the checkpoint racing of Out Run with the gravity defying tracks of Trackmania.

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[blazehedgehog]

So every few years, Lakefeperd resurfaces his “XF” project. I believe it started out as a riff on Stunt Race FX (called “XF Racing Institute”), but has slowly grown in to its own thing. I think it even predates the release of Spark the Electric Jester on Steam, surprisingly enough.

This year, it resurfaced again, now as “XF Drive” looking completely different and very sharp. I couldn’t help but make a short video showing it off. It’s essentially a driving game, but it takes queues from 3D Sonic level design -- so you have booster pads, twisting roads, a drift system, and so on.

I’ve had a weird relationship with Lake’s games. He’s an extremely talented person, but you could feel how quickly Sonic: Before the Sequel and Sonic: After the Sequel were made, or at least I could.

I don’t want to say too much about the Spark the Electric Jester games, since I only played those in demo form and as of yet haven’t found the time to buy or play either of the Steam games. But those demos could be rough, too.

XF Drive, though, is maybe the first game of his where the moment I picked it up, it instantly felt amazing. The video doesn’t show the entire demo, it does leave out the boss fight track, which could use a little more something (maybe boost pads scattered the road around that you have to hit to catch up to the tank faster?)

But the rest of this is very, very, very good. I would play a whole game of this. It’s a shame, then, that on the game’s SAGE booth, Lake says this is not his “next big project.” I get why that might be. I think half the reason this looks as good as it does is because it recycles music and assets from both Spark the Electric Jester games, so it’s not really its own game right now. But, man, I wish it was.

(Also I typo “Feperd Games” as “Fepard Games”, which is something I do a lot, but usually I catch it before it goes out. I didn’t, this time, and I can’t go back and edit the video now to fix it, either.)