Recent reviews by z3nki

Oh, yes.
TXR has, unexpectedly, come back to life after 18 years since its last mainline title, with what's a true return to form, updated for modern systems but still retaining its soul and everything that made me fall in love with PS2 TXR games.

Approaching this review objectively is a challenge, since I'm so attached to the TXR series as a whole and have been dreaming of this moment, but I'll try my best.


It plays like a true TXR game.
It's challenging, every reward and upgrade to your car feels earned and is satisfying to unlock, which in an era of racing games that gift you 100 different hypercars, is a godsend.

The cars handle okay, it's not too arcadey and it's pleasant to drive even on controller or keyboard.

The environment, characters and vibe is unmatched. It adds some more story and character interactions to the classic TXR racing rivals formula, giving it even more depth and involvement.

The rivals are challenging, the boss races feel like boss races, the game will kick you in the legs if you fail but it will reward you for intelligently approaching every race. It may be counter intuitive in a game about racing on mostly straight highways, but intelligence and thought will win races, not your horsepower numbers.

WARNING, this is an early access title and it's going to get worked on a LOT, so most of these will get tweaked. This is more "feedback for Genki" rather than "don't buy this game" no because, seriously, buy it.


The progression system is stale at best and disheartening at worst. Once you unlock the few cars and upgrades you can get before defeating that one final boss, you'll be stuck having to race dozens of rivals without any goal besides getting to the final boss, without being able to buy upgrades, buy interesting cars, or even keep that money since the game has an absurd cash limit which can be extended through the "perk tree", but only to a small amount until you beat the game. However, there's no point in unlocking all the cars after you've finished the game, so at the end of the day there's like 10 actually playable cars, and a few endgame garage queens that you'll end up buying only because you like the car, not to actually ever race it because you're done with everything.


My suggestion is to remove the unlock tree altogether for cars and money limits, and rework it into something that's more fun and allows the player to own more cars. old TXR games didn't have any of this and they were challenging regardless.


The graphics: they're good, but there's a few things that need to be addressed.


First, the highest setting reflections don't work, they're noisy and unclear. Play on medium reflections and global illumination for a much crisper experience.

Second, the wheel blur is horrible, and needs to be redone. it's really unrealistic, it's not nice to look at and it jams the whole fender area.

Third, for some reason the car's handling is linked to the FPS, and if you're running below 60 constant, your car will not turn. When I initially booted the game i set everything to ultra for the eye candy, i was getting avg 40/45 fps but the car was understeering like crazy, i lowered the graphics to get stable 60 and it suddenly started to handle right.


TXR 2025 is, in order: a true TXR game, a good TXR game, and a really good game in general.

If you're into Japanese cars, or racing games in general, i think this is a must have.
It has soul, it has challenge, it's rewarding and fun, and once again it has soul, which most modern racing games lack.
It also has many flaws, but it's expected for an early access game, and I'm confident Genki will address the issues and release a much more developed game.

In conclusion, TXR25 is not without flaws, or frustration, or difficulty to understand the extremely Japanese reasoning of the game. But it's an amazing game, it's a grand return to form of an amazing series of games, and it's a game every car guy should play.

Play this game.
Suport Genki, they're doing amazing work.
to Genki, thank you. From the deep of my heart. Keep this up, I'm rooting for you.

incredibly fun, hella cinematic, and plenty of laughs. guns feel great, enemies feel great, environment is amazing. movement system sucks, but whatever. amazing attention to detail too, the world building is wild. 10/10

bizon :)

crash fun good :)

Ancora nel 2015 rimane il gioco FPS con la storyline più bella... un evergreen del genere