JDM: Japanese Drift Master

10/10 because not only this game is good, but its forza 6 on budget and it's good

Sadly, it's a bit difficult to rate this one. The core gameplay is fine. Drift and grip handling is fun, road variety is great, the world is charming, music is fitting and you got a neat single player experience with a proper sense of progression. The game mostly knows what it wants to be and succeeds in doing so. There are some nice risk-reward events and the idea to play the past of each rival as sidequests is great. But: - Performance is not good. And the game doesn't even look that great either. The draw distance is way too short and everything is unsharp (playing 4K, DLSS Quality, 2x FG - which is required to be able that game in a good framerate on highest settings on my machine). At least there is no stuttering. - Collision is sometimes random (including when a drift combo breaks) which can result in some frustrating situations. There are also inconsistencies what obstacles are destroyable or not - AI is straight up bad (which is especially annoying when doing a drift convoy) - There are some obvious QoL things that aren't implemented (e.g. being able to switch cars when entering a event; having the GPS target still active after fast travel) - There are too many loading screens for my taste. And sometimes the manga are loading aswell while trying to skip through the pages - Difficulty is normally too easy (even on hard), but for some single missions which are insanely hard (you can set difficulty to easy to "skip" those) - Drag races feel sluggish - Story isn't presented in a exiting way (and it isn't that interesting either. Mostly Initial D tropes without any engagement) All in all it is a fun game, but it has many flaws you need to be able to tolerate. I give this a light recommendation for genre fans, better wait for a sale.

Devs keep introducing new DLC cars despite the main content of the game being really repetitive and eventually boring. All missions are the same, the open world isn't fun to explore, and the game feels quite tedious at times. The driving model is really fun and drifting can get super technical and satisfying, but releasing so much DLC after DLC in a game desperate for content makes me give a negative review

Играл на клаве без помощников. Первое впечатление: физика кривая. Она буквально требует меня перестраиваться под более позднюю инициацию поворота, чем оно должно быть из-за моментальной реакции на ввод рулевого управления, которая по итогу перетекает в классический андерстир в дуге. От этого вся езда выглядит рваной и неестественной. Потом меня встречает баг в автосалоне, где мне по нажатию энтера (который я нажал чтобы закрыть диалоговое окно, ибо как клавиша покупки указан пробел) вручили зачем-то два труена. Ну и конечно же поверслайды везде, инерционный дрифт карается т.к. инерция у машин присутствует только во время дождя, остальное время эти валенки на колесах уплывают внутрь из-за перезацепа, гасить скорость в поворот вообще противопоказано, а тормоза относительно общего сцепления настроены так, будто ты локомотивом управляешь, а при отключении абс задняя ось не участвует в процессе торможения абсолютно на стартовой, якобы подготовленной машине. Лицензионные машины вперемешку с нелицензионным: вы или крестик снимите, или трусы наденьте, ну стыдоба же! Не знаю, может перетерплю чтобы расширить в полной мере кругозор по гоночным аркадам, но очень хочется рефанд

感觉车上有魂环在抢我方向盘，拟真哥求饶

Spent a good hour customising my car and a good minute immediately losing control of it into infinite donuts right in front of the garage door. Runs like ass on steam deck, but drifting is fun! Went in for racing, walked out with a fresh new passion in drifting on Japanese Rock.

Great game. Great story. Poor performance without DLSS (+FG). Must deliver more Sushi.

(100% complete with all achievements unlocked) JDM: Japanese Drift Master is a solid game, but it does have some flaws and can be fully completed in under 20 hours. The game is set in a fictional Japanese city, but don't go in expecting a massive Forza-tier map. The highway that loops around the outer edges is roughly 16km long. Faster cars like the R35 GT-R, which can exceed 300km/h, can lap this loop in just 3 or 4 minutes. That said, the theme is excellent; there is a full day/night cycle and dynamic weather. There are three vehicle types: Drift, Drag, and Grip. Personally, I found only the drifting aspect to be fun—the physics for drag and grip cars felt a bit strange. The game is entirely single-player and features a Manga-style story with both main and side missions. You can also make extra money on the side by delivering sushi for the local shop. While brands like Honda, Nissan, Mazda, and Subaru are officially licensed, it seems the developers didn't get the rights to Mitsubishi or Toyota. Some of their cars are present but use fake names and logos. I wasn't a fan of the in-game radio stations, so I turned them off in favour of my own Spotify playlist. However, the developers really knocked it out of the park with the car audio. The Mazda rotaries actually have a porting modification, and the team nailed that specific "ported rotary" sound. So many racing games get this wrong, and it always bugs me, so it was great to see it handled correctly here. Overall: 8/10 Note: The game starts quite slowly. The first car you receive is an unmodified Toyota (under a fake name) that is surprisingly difficult to drift. You will likely struggle until you can invest in modifications; once you do, drifting feels much more natural for the rest of the game.

Just great. It's scratching that itch that modern NFS doesn't. The handling is arcadey but with weight. The story beats are entertaining and very cheesey (in a good way) and don't get in the way of gameplay. PS. Steam Deck not powerful enough to run it.