I get what people don’t love about Free Roam because I wasn’t crazy about it initially either, but I think the charm of it reveals itself the more you take it as a chill out experience.
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I'm hoping Nintendo has Big Plans for open world, but who knows with Nintendo.
aug 30, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
As with all things Nintendo, I just hope whatever they’re doing is built from its own weird playbook and not someone else’s.
aug 30, 2025, 12:23 am • 2 0 • view
my point of view is def coloured by roughly 50% of my forza horizon 5 playtime being just drivin' around, so I personally am primed for just drivin'. and it makes sense that that's not for everyone! it's the expectations->disappointment part that stands out in critiques. it's the just drivin' mode!
aug 30, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
I kind of theorize that part of it on the review side was that codes didn’t go out early for it, so everyone was kind of inhaling it in a week and that mode just isn’t at its best in that context. I liked it more when I could just play for 20 minutes and do a few things while watching Netflix.
aug 30, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
yeah, that's a fair read. I'm looking forward to checking it out later myself, but I've been assuming there will be a two-years-later "actually that was pretty chill" redemption/reassessment, even barring additional content
aug 30, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view