Kandagawa Jet Girls Review (PlayStation 4)

Welcome to near-future Tokyo, where the hottest new athletes race high-tech jet machines through urban waterways for thrills and glory! From the creators of SENRAN KAGURA, experience a fresh, colorful racing extravaganza with Kandagawa Jet Girls.

Pros:

• Anime graphics.
• 6.64gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Japanese voice.
• Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
• Clubhouse-customise your characters (costume/hairstyle/colour/accessories), customise your ride (parts/colour/skins/decals/effects), purchase items in the shop or play mini games for points.
• Can change songs when in the menus.
• Three modes- Story mode, free mode, and online mode.
• Anime cutscenes.
• J-pop soundtrack.
• Optional tutorial section with 14 lessons.
• Racing gameplay.
• Eight weapons to pick up and use.
• Your ride is a modified Jetski-you can do boosts, drift, drift boosts, shoot from it (your partner on the back), do tricks.
• Shooter node-press Square to go into a more focused view and the gun will auto fire. You can fire both forwards and behind. It will lock on.
• Shields-these take damage and eventually break. You can pick up an item to help repair or the shield will do it itself if no damage is taken for a time.
• Nine types of special attack, one for each gun and one nonweapon special.
• EPD gauge-fills up by doing tricks, drifts, position and is used to unleash special attacks and use a boost.
• Starting dash-press accelerate on the second countdown to get a speed start.
• The main story-each school has its own arc. You unlock them one by one as you complete them.
• Free mode-setup your own race or time trial by setting the course, route, Ai difficulty, and lap count.
• Online leaderboards.
• Online mode-ranked and casual. Can create public/private rooms in casual.
• Bright color palette.
• Fast loading times.
• Can fast forward/skip/pause cutscenes and dialogue.
• Before a race, you can edit your characters and ride.
• End of level rank and mission stars based on 1 to 3 stars.
• Unlock new characters/rides/accessories by playing.
• Jet machine cleaning mini game-press buttons displayed as fast you can to fill your fever bar to which you then mash a button all the while building your combo and score. 3 difficulties-easy/normal and hard and it determines how many buttons can show up.
• Mopping mini game-basically a racing game whereby you mop puddles and avoid cones, hit fever mode and cones become points.
• Treadmill run mini game-you are on a treadmill surprisingly and you press a button to slow down and mash the button to speed up, you must collect hearts for a score.
• Aerials mini game-race a lap of a track and do tricks and pass through rings to score.
• Over 100 missions in the story mode.
• Easy Platinum if a bit time-consuming.
• Uploading your race times are optional each time.
• Time attack gives you infinite ammo but a cool down for reloading and a handy 500 yards left notification.
• Minimap to show other racer positions.

Cons:

• Voice is Japanese only.
• Cannot skip the opening cutscene.
• Chesticles a plenty so NSFW for many.
• Forgettable story.
• The slowdown happens a lot.
• Only one driving view.
• Bouncing off the walls is instant slowness.
• Initial learning curve especially with learning how to land jumps.
• Slow starter.
• Can’t look behind.
• Have to play the first level of the story in order to unlock the free and online modes.
• Aiming behind is really tricky.
• No difficult settings for the story mode.
• Racing can feel unenergetic from the music to the way the Ai plays.
• Have to unlock difficulties in the mini-games.