>>713552779
the current demo has some jankiness to it and the ai is waaaaay too easy even on the highest difficulty, but it has a rather deep drift boost mechanic and a point system that rewards stylish driving. there are nu-wipeout-style spin tricks that i'm not really a fan of doing but they also work into this drift boost trick combo system that keeps your f-zero style health/boost recharged. at the same time the game is encouraging you to constantly spend ALL your boost to go as fast as possible and risk having low health and blowing up for that sort of xgra "mach speed" momentum, which also further increases the trick combo multiplier.
it's actually unironically a very good game

>>713201983
the trick with the ae86 appears to be that it is not only extremely fast while drifting but it can also drift in a perfectly straight line, its relatively low top speed gives it better control on technical parts of the course and it has good acceleration to make up for it