Racing Lagoon
Genre: Racing RPG
Summary :
Racing Lagoon is a racing RPG. Your earn experience for your various car parts and racing points by challenging other cars on streets modeled after the actual roadmaps of Yokohama, Japan. After winning a race, youâll get a certain amount of âReward Pointsâ which you can then use to take a part from your opponentâs car, anything from the engine to the paint scheme. The game is broken up into 10 nights of racing, with main character Sho Akasaki trying to become the king of the underground racing scene.
Availability: Playstation 1
Time to Beat: 33 hours
Personal Opinion: Since people are putting up multiple nominations I wanted to give myself one weirdo pick. This is another cult classic type, once again a game that never left Japan (though did receive a semi-recent fan translation). It blends Squareâs usual RPG development talents with a racing game of all things, giving us an overworld to drive on where random âbattlesâ are street races, which sounds very funny. Itâs incredibly stylish with neon night cityscapes and some incredible music. Seems pretty story heavy which will help us here, but again itâll be a new experience for me.
Pros
- Very unique concept
- Stylish aesthetics
- I believe all text waits for you to advance
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RAhV9UZ1cc
Cons
- Once again import or emulate
- Itâs apparently quite difficult?
- There are common complaints about frequent long load times
- Racing may be a little stiff?
- No voices
