![]() The trophies you unlock from beating the easy default ghost times are a nice incentive though. In either mode, completing a race gives you credits to spend towards upgrades. As far as we can tell, the very best times in the world are set by those with all the upgades. Similarly, time trials are a chance to try your racing setup against the clock in a single lap of an already unlocked event. The free races are just that, an opportunity to race on those events outside of career mode. It’s a welcome respite, put it that way.īesides Story Mode for each of the seven schools, you can take part in free races and time attacks. Rather than one of the girls you get a depiction of one of the jetskis you race with. In an adjacent menu you can equip useful machine parts that affect your jetski’s performance as well as cosmetic upgrades ranging from colours to decals and the effect your wake leaves behind. For a game that seeks to focus on their attributes so much, it’s an odd oversight. One daft thing we noticed is if you choose a mad anime style haircut, the more outlandish hairstyles clip sometimes clip right through the bodies of the characters. ![]() Fine if you’re a weeb who wants to get overly familiar with your new waifu, but just a bit much for anyone else. You can even toggle whether they’re looking you in the eye or not. Here you can select all manner of unlocked costumes and dress up your choice of the young ladies. This depiction is cemented further by the dressing room mode. Just as Kandagawa Jet Girls is more likely to gain attention on the basis of its depiction of young ladies rather than the actually quite good racing on offer. The flame is more colloquially known as The Golden Turd due to its shape. It’s objectively beautiful, but ultimately a bit of an embarrassment. Kandagawa Jet Girls has parallels to this well-meaning object. The Asahi Flame in Sumida is visible for example. There are several noticeable landmarks scattered among the tracks on offer, taking in several Tokyo locales like Akhibara, Ochanomizu & Ichigaya to name a few. ![]() They’re all variations on a super soaker but fun all the same. There’s also eight distinct weapon types on offer which makes your interaction with the other racers a little more than just cute soundbites. It’s no bad thing as it gives you a fair grounding in the handling and tricks available. We recall a Gran Turismo game in the distant past insisting on similar error-free stipulations. The racing is top-notch, though it’s a rare racing game where a tutorial is a mandatory step to progressing with the campaign. Sure, there’s occasionally useful upgrades unlocked but these feel very secondary to the fact you’re unlocking swimsuits for young girls. This is compounded by the fact that fulfilling objectives within races unlocks new swimsuits. Thankfully you can skip past these visual novel sections, but the fact remains how overt they are. But the absurdity of the animation concentrating entirely on breast bounce is a bit much. It’s all fairly typical talking heads for people used to the standard visual novel delivery of a cute girl delivering disposable dialogue. As you progress you’ll unlock the ability to play the storylines of the six rival schools you’ll race against. The ultimate goal being to win the titular Kandagawa Championship. The main story focuses on the lead characters from the anime who attend Asakusa Girls’ Municipal High School and cultivate dreams of being a racer just like their respective parents. It’s faithful to the anime at least, but given this game was developed alongside it, we’d be surprised if it weren’t. ![]() But the jiggling underage depictions of schoolgirls are a bit much. Not because of the racing elements, those are fine. Perhaps that quote is lost in translation a little, but it’s a rare game that this reviewer is embarrassed to play with my wife in the room. ![]() He’s got previous form in the Senran Kagura series and is on record as saying “that games with sexual content add variety, and that’s good for the industry.” The jet girls themselves, are Japanese school girls with overblown chest attributes. However, the game producer is Kenichiro Takaki, or as in the case of this introductory video, “Righteous Boobage Producer”. Production values are all very high with graphical flourishes aplenty. The quick elevator pitch is Wave Race X Mario Kart: Double Dash with visual novel elements. This is a licenced game of the anime of the same name in which the jetter is the pilot of the jetski and the shooter is, well, you work it out. Septemin PS4 / Reviews tagged japan / kandagawa / schoolgirls / sketchy / weeb by Ianįrom Honey ∞ Parade Games, Shade Game Development and publisher Marvelous! comes the extremely Japanese Kandagawa Jet Girls. ![]()
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