Initial D

Japanese Racing/Drifting game or maybe it should be called Tyre Screeching : The Game as thats all you will hear all the way through. I am sure the game had music...

The story is completely in Japanese so I have no idea what is going on. Something about a gay relationship and racing to get in with the cool guys, then one day you see a girl for the first time, and your group cant believe it. So you race for the girl, but ultimately it wasn't important as you just want the even cooler guys. Eventually you race against the best, the best there ever was who turns out to be your father,

Throughout the longplay there is a very annoying ping sound which I am not sure about. I think it is telling me i am going too fast to manoeuvre properly as it comes on when i am in third gear. It is still annoying though. Another issue is the really long loading times. The game pretty much takes place on one point to point course with 2 other tracks for boss battles.

I open the longplay with practice mode in all 3 difficulties. This unlocks some extra tracks which I show at the end of the game as well as some specific races in story mode needed to unlock all the cars. To unlock all cars I needed to complete story mode 3 times which isnt as bad as it sounds as it does not take too long. I have however trimmed them significantly in this video. I do show replays in the first story run, but not usually fr the entire track. Just as far as leaving the opponent behind although the 3rd story run is all replay mode and slightly more interesting as the opponents keep up.

After the first run of story mode I go into D-Comp mode which I guess is a time attack with checkpoints. In order to unlock the car I have to get at least A rank at each checkpoint and one S-rank. The 3 story mode runs have a different credits ending. After the 3 runs all the cars are unlocked. Following this I go into freerun mode and show off the 3 extra tracks and then the 3 main tracks in daytime. Finally I have another go at D-comp mode to s-rank every checkpoint. Nothing extra is unlocked.

00:00:00 Intro and Practice mode

00:17:38 Story Mode first run.

01:51:20 D-Comp mode to unlock Type Z car

01:58:55 Story Mode 2nd run (I just show who i raced against and the ending as there was nothing new to see although it was slightly more difficult.

02:05:30 Story mode 3rd run unlocks papas Type190 car. This is just story and race replays only. A bit more challenging like 3rd run is expert mode.

03:14:07 Free Running mode. A run through 3 Extra tracks, then 3 main tracks in Daytime.

03:40:48 D-Comp mode, just to show All sections S-Ranked.