Drift Legacy

Genre: Driving Game

Players: 1

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Review:

Drift Legacy is a Driving Game released on Nintendo Switch in 2024. In this game, players race around in areas trying not to get the best race times, but trying to spend the most time drifting.

While the game’s title and loading screens all depict some fairly nice vehicle artwork, the gameplay itself features some unimpressive 3D for its locales and cars. Surprisingly, these unimpressive vehicles are backed by a really catchy electronica/dance soundtrack that honestly really deserves to be in a better game than this.

Yeah, I suppose I gave it away early, but this is just not a very good game. You’re loaded into a wordless menu screen where nothing is explained and you have to guess what everything does. It appears you can gradually earn in-game resources to unlock vehicles and upgrades but you’ll be getting them at such a slow rate that this hardly matters.

Once you’ve loaded up one of the game’s four locations (a military yard, a shipyard, and two race tracks), you’re given a finite amount of time and must simply spend as much of that time as you can drifting. There’s a multiplier, but I wasn’t ever able to get that thing up to more than x1, so I suppose it’s just down to drifting as much as you can.

The first problem with this is that the controls are absolutely terrible. There’s no gas or brake button, and instead you move forward and back by pressing up and down on the analog stick, with the B button used to drift and the X button used to reset you if you get stuck. This is simply not conducive to a game where you’re supposed to be doing precision steering.

Not that it matters much anyway, though. The vehicles here control terribly, and even brief drifting often just causes you to gradually slow down to a stop. It’s a mercy to the player that they’re not actually required to race in this game, because I feel like you’d likely slow to a crawl at every corner simple because drifting in this game is so bad. In a game about drifting. With “drifting” literally in the title.

Yeah, don’t buy Drift Legacy. The controls are terrible, the gameplay is bad, the graphics are unimpressive, the menus are terrible, and the music… well, the music is good, but that’s no reason to play this terrible Driving game.

tl;dr – Drift Legacy is a Driving Game where players must drift as much as possible in the game’s four tracks. Unfortunately, the gameplay is bad, the controls are even worse, the menus are terrible and the graphics are unimpressive. Just about the only thing this game does right is its soundtrack, and that one positive is not enough reason to play this terrible game.

Grade: D-

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