Former Mario Kart Devs Launch The Spell-Slinging Tag-Team Racer Gensou SkyDrift This December

...I don't know why but the title's logo reminded me of Strike Witches...lol

I mean, I don't know about taking down MK8D, but... this looks like one way to create a spiritual successor to Double Dash...😄

Can it take down Garfield Kart though?

@CoastersPaul

All other kart games should beware !

So...anime Mario Kart? Sounds good to me.

They left Nintendo for...this.

This is horrifying.

Looks fine, might get it. I usually don't care for anything unofficial or official "unofficial" Touhou since most stuff is mediocre to really bad, but I like kart racers good or bad so.

‘Mari Circuit’ 😂😂😂

I mean, could be neat. But there's a reason all of the most successful kart racing games use established, very well known IP and not original or little known IP.

Touhou stuff is a mixed bag. Sometimes you get cool stuff with it. Sometimes you wish you never opened that bag though...

No offense, but that just looks like crap. And I don't think that Mario Kart, or even Garfield Kart has anything to fear from it, seeing as this is not even a kart racer at all.

This should be compared to the likes of Sonic Riders or Kirby's Airride, or any other similar "floating" racer without an actually motorized vehicle.

Either way, all that crosses my mind is "oh, how the mighty have fallen", if you were lucky enough to have worked on the best kart series ever made, and now came up with this cheap looking crap.

And what's with the crappy "Engrish" names of these companies?
IlluCalab sounds like a really bad spelling of mixing 'illuminate' and 'collaboration', and Unties, seriously? A verb for a company name? Or maybe, it was actually supposed to be a 'd' instead of a 't', seeing as it's a game with anime-like characters...

EDIT:
Come to think of it, the phrase "now get off my back" also comes to mind...

WHY IS EVERYONE ACTING LIKE THIS IS NORMAL?! You play as a pre-pubescent girl that rides another girl like a surfboard!

The racer that asks the question, "Do you prefer to be on top or bottom?"

I'd play this if it came stateside. Music is awesome.

Former Mario Kart devs, eh?

Alright. I'll see how this goes.

I’m just wondering what happens when you crash. I couldn’t really tell if the video showed one before showing other footage. Probably some serious head injuries...

Kart racer? There is no kart, as it has you surfing on another witch. Just No. This is dumb.

There’s a lot of cringe, but also some redeeming features? Some of the course designs look interesting (not so much aesthetically, but... structurally), and it looks like the act of whizzing around on your floating surfboard... person might be fun to control. But I have to admit I find the whole vibe a bit too off-putting and to want to sink much time into the world.

Former Mario Kart Devs: We'll make our own Racing Game!

With lolis riding other lolis!

Looks like a spirtual successor to Kirby's Air Ride.

Though the name is making me wish SkyDrift would get a port if not a full on sequel.

@Branovices

Cause Japan

This isn't even the weirdest stuff that comes out of Japan.
Ever heard of Cho Aniki ?

@XCWarrior Coincidentally, that very question pops up whenever I go on a date 🤔

Ha even Sony doesn't want their name slapped on this. They change it to Unties instead meaning they untie themselves away from anything that is related to this game in the case if it sucks.

@retro_player_22 Unties is a publisher. They've published other popular games like Deemo and Tiny Metal.

It looks good for a budget racer, and former MK devs has my interest piqued enough. That and the general existence of a Super Loli Kart makes me laugh

@Branovices Japan, Never change.

Oh, so much wrong. So... When they crash, do they get a face full of concrete or does the road get a concrete emblazoned with flesh? Also, the blatant attempt of borrowing in the Mari(o)Circuit looks hilarious. I'm still repping CTR, here. Mario Kart is great, but I've very nearly clocked the same hours out of CTR that I had in DX and 8 (wii u) combined.

@Branovices Cause for Japan, like this is basically par for the course.

Just goes to show that matter how good of a Dev you may be, clean products come down to financial power.

@nessisonett yes it’s the first race before Yosh circuit and Luig raceway! 😂

All of these Touhou games are utter rubbish, horrendously cheap production, awful gameplay and the graphial fidelity of of a box photo.

@PBandSmelly Did you actually read the article or you just saw "tag team racer" and decided it must be a team sonic racing clone?

Looks good, will pick up if it gets a retail release

Looks decent. Not top-quality (I mean look at those mushrooms in the screenshot), but worth 20 dollars? I'm always down for some new tracks to race on.

The quality of the graphics is really low, but I can't deny the concept is dumb enough to have my full attention XD

Definitely want to hear more about this kart.. pardon, friend racer~

Extremely weird 🤔

@Bobb Exactly - "Mari Circuit", mushrooms, eek. When the plumber outfit DLC lands there'll be trouble

This looks awful. I don't know anything about touhou, but the last game I saw that looked like this is Wanderer and looked just as bad.

Games can look bad and still play good, of course. Though I don't have much hope for this one....

@Branovices You're acting like a middle-aged plumber with a toddler's vocabulary go-karting with a fire-breathing turtle who frequently tries to kidnap his girlfriend, a British gorilla who hoards bananas and an evil version of himself who doesn't shower through a shopping mall while throwing banana peels and winged turtle shells isn't weird

@Noid Tiny bespectacled creature sitting on a cloud, in a pram, driving up a waterfall? Skeletal dragon on a wooden rocking horse, in outer space, lobbing squid at rival racers? Not weird at all. Standard

@BustedUpBiker But loli magical girls riding on each other like hoverboards out of Back to the future? 2weird4normie! Call the FBI everyone, we got a bunch of freaks up in here.

@KitsuneNight Don't remind me of that nightmarish look into the human psycho.

I don't know. The riding on someone else's back mechanism looks so odd to me.

@Handsomistic15 Same.

This makes Garfield Kart look good. Can you specify that the developers worked on Mario Kart Double Dash. The way the article is written makes it seem like this was created by ex employees of the original Mario Kart

I was hoping there'd be some sort of shmup elements to it, but looks more like a gate racer than anything. The aesthetic is hilarious, though!

@Branovices It's Japan and it's Touhou, so basically an every day occurrence.

Yeah no... CTR is superior in everyday to Mario Kart. The bias is strong with this one.

I really disliked Double Dash.

@Seacliff They are Sony Music Entertainment, they just rename themselves to Untie to published this game. My point is as Sony, they didn't put Sony's name on this game and for Tiny Metal as well cause those are likely crap titles. Deemo deserve Sony's name on it cause it is a good game.

@Malones2792 100% agree, especially with new, quality content coming each month. Ring Rally is the greatest addition, better than all the new tracks combined and I enjoy them all (Koala Circus is just okay).

Now if only they'd add dedicated servers or at least host migration so lobbies don't get killed when the host leaves.