Night Runners: Prologue In Under 2 Minutes

An extremely fast review of an interesting, recent, Japanese inspired game. I actually had the footage laying around on my hard drive since around May but decided I didn't have enough to say about it to warrant a full length video.

Music Used: Colin Mcrea Rally 2.0 OST - Selection 2

[DaxanDaxter]

the atmosphere is great and its not "edgy" for no reason, i think its fitting

[rotr_]

Its pretty fun.
Considering that this was originally done by 1 guy for about 6-7 years, he's done a good job of making the atmosphere and gameplay fun.
By no means is it perfect as many people complained about the issues it had prior but other than that, for a demo it served its purpose of showcasing what Jem's planning to release and see what criticism are there towards the gameplay and how can he improve it moving forward.

[toecurlersupreme]

honestly the dialogue is great imo, its so dryly humorous to have a guy u just dusted call u to go "you f*cking suck"

[weelyst]

I mean, a game coming from an indie dev, the prologue itself definitely served huge.
Had fun playing it. Especially the music and sound effects. Oh man *emotion engine* won't let go.

[nightshadepuree]

personally i think itd be nice if some of your opponents were just chill folk who enjoyed their hobby

[dyaanahmad]

Tips
1-Try more on cooling the engine first. Keep cooling above 100%
2-Upgrade brakes and handling, because you need to swerve in traffic.
3-Remove the unnecessary parts from the car.
4-Avoid using NOS. Use that as a last resort.
5-Milk Daisuke and Keisuke. Then go after Haturo and Akira. The boss race needs 10 Million.
6-PA is where the races are held
7-Use Bumper or Hood camera more often when driving fast in races.
8-When driving fast, avoid traffic by keeping a safe distance. Because if you hit them, you stop suddenly. There is no collision box or something, just stopped to 0. It is responsible for my 6 losses out of 40 races.

[nova]

The oncoming races are there for challenge factor, it's not realistic as it's not aiming to be a sim.
It's an arcade racer based on a bunch from the early 00's, fits the game perfectly.

Same with the edgy atmosphere, it's fitting. Most people in this game aren't friends, nor seem to like each other, add money into the mix, and you have the perfect combination for constant trash talk. I'd rather take exagerated edge than some buddy buddy atmosphere where street racers act like they're going to kindergarten like the newer Need for Speeds.

[wycko]

i was looking at steam free games and i found this one and to be honest its so chill and relaxing, cars are understeering sometimes, graphics fit in perfectly with that 90's japanese racing style. its a pretty great game

[GoibniuNihiliste]

i really really really hope this game ends up one of the coolest racing games ever and not die in kickstarter purgatory

[raulins]

Yeah I don't get the oncoming traffic races either

[justinl]

I'm glad most of the criticisms here are nothing massive. Good show for a demo, could shape up to be one of my favourite racing games as of late for sure.

[Seltsamisierend]

tbh night runners is one of the best racing games I've played in a while

[jacobrzeszewski]

I'm just really happy we have a simple racing game again. All I can say is that it's just fun. And not all racing games do that anymore.

[SpiralOther]

I like that i can bind the gear up and down to my right joystick

[illuminictech]

i don't think it's edgy because in japan, money is taken very seriously, so is street racing and car culture.

[elios]

I mean.... it's ok

at least it made some noise, many underground fans (me) and midnight club fans (also me) were waiting for something like this for a long tho this time I'll wait a couple months after release, I've learned my lesson with Cyberpunk2077 (which now absolutely rocks ofc.... the 1.0 tho, not so much)

[senorlechuga]

My only criticisms with this is that the characters don't have character to them. Maybe it's because I come from TXR but it'd be nice to have some of them stand out a bit for being different in a way.

The other one that I don't hear anyone saying is that the buildings surrounding the highway are pretty much all the same. Again, TXR bias, but I'd like to see different places showing different vistas. A cityscape, long drawn out bridges, mountains, you call it

[SandwichGamer]

I'm not a fan of driving in the wrong direction of traffic. It kinda breaks the immersion of the game. It's too unrealistic, even for underground racers, to drive like this.
Now if they would make a rival whose gimmick is that he is so damn crazy he likes to drive like that, then that would be another story.

[ccoloured]

would also help if you learned the car customization system better

[theonewhoknockd]

Eureka? I thought Ur voice sounded familiar