How far did you make it?

If I remember correctly, sethnintendo made it to chapter 6 which seems to be inspired by the movie Speed. You have to drive at a minimum speed, otherwise a bomb explodes. It's a long track with barely anything exciting and that's why the one or two critical turns often hit you by surprise. You crash into the wall, lose too much speed and boom! The final jump also sucks, because getting the bomb off the Blue Falcon doesn't always work as it should. Man, there were so many little things wrong with this game. The more you played it, the more obvious it became how flawed it is. The complete opposite of the EAD F-Zero games where you learn to appreciate how well designed everything is, the more you play it.

I guess you mean Maximum Velocity, the first of three GBA F-Zero titles. MV is quite a good game which features ten all-new vehicles and 21 tracks in all-new locations, so if you don't like it, you can at least write it off as some spinoff, unlike GX.

It's very similar to the SNES game in its set of rules. Finish among the first three to proceed to the next track, but no points system. Five laps, one boost earned per completed lap. And the game's graphics are all Mode 7, so no somersaults and other fancy stuff, just flat tracks with tricky corners and obstacles like the SNES game. Oh yeah, dumb drivers you have to lap over and again are also in MV. But really, it's a very solid game with the one major point that speaks against it being that the hardware is too weak to process 3D graphics.

The second GBA game, GP Legend, orientates itself at the Nintendo 64 game, but is also limited to Mode 7 graphics. Now you race against the 29 established opponents from F-Zero X for three laps with the known boost system activated from second lap onwards (although you don't see more than three opponents at once, so it really isn't any more intense than Maximum Velocity). There's also a forgettable story mode which, I guess, has something to do with the F-Zero anime that ran in Japan around that time. Without the anime this game wouldn't exist and it really wasn't needed. Despite its decent quality it's redundant, because the GBA already had an F-Zero game and Mode 7 in that day and age was outdated for racing games.

The third GBA game, Climax, was only released in Japan, again based on the anime and it bombed spectacularly. I haven't played it, but I assume it really is just GP Legend with new tracks and story mode, gameplay being absolutely identical. GP Legend was already redundant and the sales of this game pretty much proved that it should have never been made.

I guess you mean Maximum Velocity, the first of three GBA F-Zero titles. MV is quite a good game which features ten all-new vehicles and 21 tracks in all-new locations, so if you don't like it, you can at least write it off as some spinoff, unlike GX.

It's very similar to the SNES game in its set of rules. Finish among the first three to proceed to the next track, but no points system. Five laps, one boost earned per completed lap. And the game's graphics are all Mode 7, so no somersaults and other fancy stuff, just flat tracks with tricky corners and obstacles like the SNES game. Oh yeah, dumb drivers you have to lap over and again are also in MV. But really, it's a very solid game with the one major point that speaks against it being that the hardware is too weak to process 3D graphics.

The second GBA game, GP Legend, orientates itself at the Nintendo 64 game, but is also limited to Mode 7 graphics. Now you race against the 29 established opponents from F-Zero X for three laps with the known boost system activated from second lap onwards (although you don't see more than three opponents at once, so it really isn't any more intense than Maximum Velocity). There's also a forgettable story mode which, I guess, has something to do with the F-Zero anime that ran in Japan around that time. Without the anime this game wouldn't exist and it really wasn't needed. Despite its decent quality it's redundant, because the GBA already had an F-Zero game and Mode 7 in that day and age was outdated for racing games.

The third GBA game, Climax, was only released in Japan, again based on the anime and it bombed spectacularly. I haven't played it, but I assume it really is just GP Legend with new tracks and story mode, gameplay being absolutely identical. GP Legend was already redundant and the sales of this game pretty much proved that it should have never been made.

That would be depressing, just like it is with Starfox. Apparently the best game in the series is poised to remain the best one forever with no serious attempts being made to change that.

You really suck if you couldn't even complete GX's story mode on normal difficulty. The whole thing was either learning the track by heart or using the AI against itself. The most ridiculous part was that the final mission was by far the easiest one, because it was just a race against a ghost.

How far did you make it?

If I remember correctly, sethnintendo made it to chapter 6 which seems to be inspired by the movie Speed. You have to drive at a minimum speed, otherwise a bomb explodes. It's a long track with barely anything exciting and that's why the one or two critical turns often hit you by surprise. You crash into the wall, lose too much speed and boom! The final jump also sucks, because getting the bomb off the Blue Falcon doesn't always work as it should. Man, there were so many little things wrong with this game. The more you played it, the more obvious it became how flawed it is. The complete opposite of the EAD F-Zero games where you learn to appreciate how well designed everything is, the more you play it.

You know. Waking up just before...