Super Impossible Road

UPDATE: Bugs. There are many bugs in the Daily Challenge Mode. The New Kovia track has “ghost” supports that appear solid, but you can’t bounce off of (unlike every other track). Use the Escape 100? Regardless of the track if you post a score you’ll get booted out and won’t be able to play again. I know reviews aren’t meant for support issues, but I’ve reported all of these multiple times. Crickets. No response. Today is the New Kovia track. The game has decided I can’t play and try to improve my score. I’ve reduced the game a star. Maybe someone will notice. There might be niggling little bugs yet to be discovered (it’s been flawless for me in the first hour), but those can be dealt with as they come. The REAL story here is that the idea that we can attack the same track and see how we’re doing against everyone else. It’s fantastic. I’m already an obsessive player and this is straight-up the best thing that could have happened. Or — considering I’m a self-employed developer — the worst. The latter is my problem. Kudos fort he update.

Super Impossible Road has a simple concept: race a high-tech marble down a winding track full of jumps and tight turns. Throw races with ruthless opponents, time trials, a Virtua Racer-type time gate mode, and various other challenges into the mix, and you have a deceptively simple and fun racer. It seems the developers took a heavy inspiration from the WipEout series, which is never a bad thing. Instead of mastering airbraking and weapons, you’re jumping off the track and hoping you make it back on before you’re knocked back to the last checkpoint you hit. The visuals are stunning; the tracks themselves look simple, but the backgrounds are amazing. You’ll probably want to plug in some headphones, too; techno and drum and bass fill the soundtrack and add to the feeing of pure speed. Unfortunately, it seems the tracks are randomly generated, so you don’t have the careful track design a more traditional racing game would have. If you like WipEout as much as I do, I think Super Impossible Road would be right up your alley.

This is a very fun and addictive game. So far on all of the maps I have figured out how to get all three stars before I move on to the next race. Does it take effort to find that perfect shortcut route...sure!! But isn’t that the point?? This game has kept me engrossed while playing and you can get three stars on all the races, it is not impossible. The 10 second reset makes sense because you have to pick and choose your shortcuts wisely instead of just jumping off the track and straight into space to the end of the track. What fun would that be!?! Everybody wants such instant gratification these days. Work for it people!! It makes it way more gratifying when you get all 3 stats to complete the course. Don’t listen to all the haters who can’t figure it out on these reviews. Just download it, practice and get better and have fun people!!!!!

It’s jarring to think about how the game that had preceded this one was only two contrasting colors; white background, white ball, and blue track & text. The endless, generated road was the only content but was still fun to play. Smash cut to this game. The tracks are rendered in beautiful 3D with texture-rich detail you can almost feel what metal was made with them in your head. The ball is now a phosphorescent sphere with fully-customizable, cyberpunk-esque armor with their own buffs & colors. The fact that each track has their own name, lore and backstory??? I can’t remember the last time a sequel took each positive of the first entry and pushed it to its absolute breaking point this well since Empire Strikes Back. This was the first game I played on Apple Arcade and to this day, I still see it as one of the essentials for any new subscriber. Easy to pick up and play yet difficult to compete in. The amount of love and dedication poured into a simple concept is worn on this game’s sleeve and that’s what makes it one of the best games on here. Job well done, developers.

My niece recently introduced me to this type of game, where one races madly on a twisting downhill course. Super Impossible Road is easily the best of this genre. The space themed artwork is incredibly beautiful, and the sound effects are high quality. There are some nice tutorial features that teach you the controls and also show how to take shortcuts. You can customize the racing ball for colors and handling capabilities. The controls are responsive, and the difficulty level is just right in that so far I haven’t been frustrated or bored. I can’t wait to show this well done game to my niece.