Feet of Clay

HIGH Killing Jiang Shi by attaching spells to their heads.
LOW Losing five hours of progress to a glitchy save file.
WTF There's an achievement for beating someone up with a fish.
HIGH Killing Jiang Shi by attaching spells to their heads.
LOW Losing five hours of progress to a glitchy save file.
WTF There's an achievement for beating someone up with a fish.
HIGH Being allowed to try drifting a hairpin turn over and over again until I get it just right.
LOW Gosh, that photography mode couldn't load slower, could it?
WTF Apparently people leave extremely valuable cars to rot in barns all the time.
HIGH Rainbow Road, which is so beautiful and awe -inspiring that epic songs should be penned about it right now and passed down from generation to generation.
LOW The AI has undoubtedly improved, but it's still immensely irritating at times.
WTF It's a toss up between Luigi's death stare and the blue shell still being a thing. Gyah!
HIGH Nearly everything unpleasant about The Third is fixed here.
LOW Steelport is still hella gross to look at.
WTF The ending features a scene so hideous I thought I'd gotten the bad ending.
HIGH Lovely track environments, delicious vehicle handling, intriguing event variety.
LOW Occasionally aggressive AI behavior, unconscionable amount of grind in single-and multi-player.
WTF The single-player campaign's half-hearted mixture of social media bandwagoning and corporate celebration is truly bizarre.
HIGH Narrowly escaping a pursuing squad of police cars and power drifting into the safety of my hideout with hundreds of sounds of speed points under my belt.
LOW For an open world driving game, there are not nearly enough alternative paths and emergent gameplay moments that use the geography.
WTF The non-ironic gritty and serious tone of the "story."
HIGH More Trials!
LOW The second-to-last Extreme track broke my spirit.
WTF Why does the whole thing skew towards a higher difficulty?
HIGH Crossing the vast, sprawling rooftops of Terra Verte.
LOW Limping through a boss battle while painfully low on ammo.
WTF Potted meat factories… For the sick and elderly?
HIGH That first time Fernando Alonso enthusiastically shouted "Alonso!," like an F1 Mario.
LOW When Fernando Alonso kept enthusiastically shouting his name, like an F1 Mario.
WTF "Release and then hold RT to charge KERS!"
HIGH Blistering down a sunset highway at almost 200mph.
LOW Hurtling straight into a divider at almost 200mph.
WTF Where is the start menu?!
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