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#32 Steep

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The snowboarding and skiing in Steep, feel awesome. I love carving the trails in the snow, and I love going fast and hearing the wind blast past the camera. I love the touches like, how the music gets louder and fuller, the longer you ride without crashing.

My favorite aspect is the open world, because: after each failed attempt at some challenge, I just continue down the mountains *anyway*, because it feels too good, and I don't want to stop. I black out, and find myself at the bottom of the alps, after like 10 minutes of riding, completely not remembering what I was even doing. Total flow state.

The speed challenges are super good: difficult well-designed paths down the mountains, where you wanna go fast to get the gold medal, but going fast makes the controls very sensitive and dangerous, almost like F-Zero sensitivity. Almost impossible to weave through a group of trees at full speed, but fun to try!

There are "points challenges" using a trick system, which is pretty good. It does not have the depth of a Tony Hawk, but it FEELS really juicy to perfectly land some cool flips.

BEST LEVEL: In the Alaska DLC there's a time trial through a sloped cliffside town, that has a LOT of routes through it, and it's fascinating to try to figure out the best route, sometimes over the top of buildings.