Within minutes it becomes obvious that the car’s rating is the only thing that determines success in Asphalt. Rather than challenge players through intricate race lines or smart AI, you just need to have a better-rated car than your opponents (naturally you’re encouraged to spend real money to speed the up the upgrade process), and then speed through using a F-Zero-like spin attack to take out any that you get close to. They’re mostly rollarcoaster events with all kinds of stupid spin-jump ramps and the like thrown in for the hell of it. Asphalt 9’s tracks aren’t well designed or interesting. It’s all hyperkinetic smoke-and-mirrors that tries to fool players into thinking they’re having fun through sheer energy, but like so many other free-to-play games, it’s painfully shallow stuff in practice. The developer works hard to give you the impression that you’re getting a premium experience for those seconds of gameplay. DDNet: We cover Japan 🇯🇵 October 8, 2019 This is some of the worst content I have ever had the displeasure of sitting through. With the way these free-to-play games are monetised, the developer loses their ability to beg, threaten and cajole money out of the player for the entire length of a race, meaning that it’s in the developer’s best interest to limit the length of time that people spend playing, and Asphalt 9 takes this to a ridiculous degree. Once you get to the racing, most of the time it’s over in seconds. The menu interface is bewildering, featuring one of the most cluttered, busy menu experiences I’ve ever seen, with the actual racing being buried away as almost secondary to all the profiles, virtual shop fronts, car garages and other superfluous things that Gameloft have thrown in there. While Asphalt does want you to spend a lot of money on it, it’s also one of those games that doesn’t want you to spend much time actually playing it. Opening your device to stuff like this isn’t the right play, Nintendo.Īsphalt 9: Legends is “free” in the sense that once you download it it will beg, threaten, and cajole you into spending a fortune in premium currency on it, and you’ll be tempted to do that, just to make the endless grind that masquerades as “gameplay” slightly less soul-crushingly inane. Just as Apple is taking steps to mitigate against this kind of delinquent free-to-play nonsense with its Apple Arcade, the Nintendo Switch gets a high profile example of it. Get trash like Asphalt 9 off game consoles.
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