Game is fun but flawed and with more time it could be really good.
For a little team it's definitely worth the price imo, but it has some big issues atm.
Graphics are great, runs fine (but I have a 4090), no suttering on my rig (it's an UE game).
Playing with a wheel is very hard, I'm not really good in drifting and I had to practice for like 2hrs before winning the first race (and setting the game on easy)... this shows my main issue with the game and that's the balance : you are thrown in a race with a bad car and no experience at all, it's very frustrating and it keeps happening.
After that you get your own car and you have to do a Drift contest, except your car is stock and almost can't drift while your opponent has an overtuned drift car... you can see the issue.
The AI is also really bad, traffic or opponent it's the same.

Apart from that, map is gorgeous and varied, finally a game with real narrow roads. It might be the best map in any arcade racing game (played most of the others).
Lastly OST is glorious, eurobeats is so good it feels like I'm in intial D. Love it !!

Recommended.

This was a great game until it was updated. The games main story now has segments that are censored. I purchased this game before the update, I am a consenting adult, and i don't appreciate a developer treating its customers like children. Change the rating if you have to, but this is some of the crap from developers that people cant stand. Don't censor, or rewrite your game stand by it. They made something beautiful, something that is fresh, and new. To me its tainted to change the story to satisfy the easily offended, or because they realized they couldn't sell it to a younger audience. The racing is great though, they nailed the driving, the sounds, the music. I want to recommend, but they took a part of the game away after it was already purchased. Now i'm sure a watered down updated version will come.

Just cannot recommend at the moment. Like other have said, there is a good game there but it just doesn't feel ready for launch. All the lack of fun really centers around both the bad AI opponents and that the drift points never seem to make sense. Your opponent goes 45km/r at a 15 degree angle and gets 4k points while for you its 300 points. The point ranges never seem to make sense and getting points seems inconsistent compared to the huge numbers the AI can pull off before the first turn of a match. You just find yourself hitting retry over and over again without any learning.

The drift school is not a school yet either. Just a challenge course. So there is nothing to teach you as to what you are doing "wrong".

The game looks great and sounds great. You really want to have fun, but as you touch the missions and events, the fun just evaporates.

Oh and the Manga seems like it was written and translated by a 5 year old. Its soooooo bad. Not sure what they were thinking there.

A game should have you lose and let you learn how to get better for the next try. There is none of that here. Just a frustration that you can't figure out how to even get close without cheesing the game.