Pixels or Death's Tim Hsu takes a look at SkyDrift for the PC. An excerpt:
SkyDrift takes care of all that mundanity. It leaves you with only the best of avian sensations: flying through the air. Controls are divided neatly between two hands, simplifying, but not distilling, the experience of flight. It is still as hard as flying may be, considering the space through which one flies. Maps are often varied enough to provide this diversity of experience as well: shallow desert plains that give way to an expansive oasis. Sheer canyon walls punctuated by valleys filled with weathered rock-pillars and grand archways. Active volcanoes encircling bellowing factories piked with unrepentant smokestacks.
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Fans of the Mario Kart series are no doubt excited about the latest installment. But for those wanting more, here's a collection of indie alternatives.
A track editor would have been awesome in MK8, I'd have also settled for procedurally generated tracks that could be saved for future races.
Nice to see some alternatives for other platforms, but I've never played a Kart game that can match the feel of MK!
The nearest I've got is the recent Sonic titles, but they are not quite there (but fun) - and I'd love to see a Mario / Sonic Kart cross-over - if they could do it for the Olympics games, why not MK! As lonmg as it was made by the team responsible for MK8! :)
I know what you mean. MK will always remain the basis for comparison. I did really enjoy Diddy Kong Racing back in the day, though.
Developer Tyson Kubota took to Reddit to both announce, and gauge the demand for a port of his independently developed and free iOS title; Skydrift. Kubota is currently involved with Digital Development and Design at renowned film-distribution company, The Criterion Collection, but also released the self-crafted the recently released title in his spare-time.
This seems like it captures the unadulterated fun that I had when playing F-Zero X or Wipeout as a kid. I'm glad to see a racer that's not trying to just be another driving sim and instead focuses on crazy fun.