Seeing Red.
One of Nintendo’s most popular (and amusingly, least supported) franchises is the F-Zero series, which popularized the concept of high-intensity, low-gravity racing. In the void created due to Nintendo’s reluctance to release more games in the series, plenty of other ‘me-too’ titles have released, such as Wipeout and FAST, and many of these other releases have done an excellent job of capturing the spirit of F-Zero while introducing some interesting new ideas of their own. The latest in this long lineage of futuristic racers (and the first in a while to come to Switch) is Redout: Lightspeed Edition, a new release from 34BigThings that promises to live up to the legacy of its inspiration. Redout does a solid job of making good on that promise, but it doesn’t do so flawlessly, resulting in an arcade racing experience that’s quite enjoyable but still very rough around the edges.
Upon booting up, you’ll likely spend the majority of your time in Redout’s extensive career mode, which acts in some way as the ‘story’ for you to progress. There are no characters or plotlines here, rather a collection of missions and events spanning a surprisingly diverse and interesting set of courses that are gradually unlocked as you become a better racer. Excellent performance and high placements will reward you with medals and, more importantly, cash prizes that can then be spent on unlocking better vehicles or for upgrades to bring your weaker vehicles up to snuff. As far as this overall career structure is concerned, it’s nothing surprising or strictly new, but a game such as Redout doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the wheel (there's a clever pun in there somewhere) to provide a compelling feedback loop. Getting caught up in learning course layouts, buying upgrades to give you a better shot at higher performance, and using the fruits of those better performances to advance onto harder tracks and new events proves to be an addictive and fun experience, even if the punishing AI and track design ensures that your victories won’t come easily.
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