Denshattack!, Undercoders’ mash-up of practice monitor shifting and Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater-style stunts and sick kickflips, is way extra exact and difficult than it’d seem in trailers. The sport’s over-the-top, campy, anime-inspired premise of driving trains round dilapidated cities the place you’ll soar, grind, and twirl on the practice tracks at excessive speeds might make it appear to be one thing you possibly can merely bludgeon your approach by way of with velocity and reckless abandon, however actually, a lot of its ranges require you to soak up the atmosphere and all its hazards whereas additionally shifting sooner than your common high-speed transit.
I’ve put a few hours into the sport, and have been having a blast. Denshattack’s frenetic mix of score-chasing stunts and roller-coaster monitor navigation feels nice once you’re within the zone, swerving by way of totally different tracks and doing flips within the air, after which it seems like getting clotheslined once you’re carelessly bobbing and weaving by way of the atmosphere and mistakenly ship your practice automotive flying off a monitor and into the facet of a constructing.
Denshattack offers you velocity and elegance, however isn’t so liberating that it seems like a sandbox to bulldoze your approach by way of whereas doing cool methods. If you mess up, the aftermath seems like these quick few seconds after you make a mistake whereas driving a automotive; the sudden lack of management and the conclusion that your car is just not going the place you thought it was going to go.
Fortunately, the sport doesn’t let these errors utterly cease the momentum, because it sends you again to the place you had been in seconds, however even then, when you’re not instantly locked in chances are you’ll make the identical mistake once more and must go a 3rd time. By that time, you’ve most likely misplaced time and factors. You would possibly as nicely simply begin the entire degree over, proper? The fantastic thing about scorechasing video games is that there’s a little parasite behind my mind that claims I need to begin a degree over if I screw up as a result of I decide my self-worth by how massive my quantity is on the finish. Denshattack scratches the itch that little monster places inside my head and lets me do it by using round in anime trains. That’s fairly dope, when you ask me.
