I played the Jet Car Stunts demo on the , it was a part of the Xbox Live Arcade. I decided one day to see if the game was ever ported onto Steam and it was on Steam.

So I bought it on sale one day for around 50 cents. I think it was definitely worth the price. So Jet Car Stunts is a platformer which is kind of a weird direction for a game about a car with a jet engine.

Basically you drive and platform around weird minimalist and surrealist areas consisting of blocks and platforms. I really like how the game looks because the levels are a mix of dreamcore and frutiger aero to me. It also probably helps that the game was developed in 2009 a few years before frutiger aero fell out of popularity. There isn't really a setting the game takes place in, the most you'll get is "your in the sky lul" which is fine I GUESS for a mobile game remaster.

The lighting engine seems to have some pretty technical stuff going on with it, where a blocks color gets bouned on to other blocks, this probably isnt a real time effect and is most likely baked into the game so it didn't cause phones from 2009 to explode.

The version of Jet Car I’m playing is a remake of the mobile game from 2009 and heh if you were around those times phones weren't very powerful then, which explains the visual style of the game. (It's kind of weird how mobile games have gotten less interesting as phones have gotten more powerful though [not really its been happening to literally fucking everything over the last 10+ years cough movies, cough triple a video games, cough the internet, cough fast food, cough etc. but hey at least theres still diamonds in the dust amiright lul {ultrakill}]).

The platforming levels start out pretty good with some simple jumps and short flights which are always super fun but the platforming gets more precise and technical as you get through each level. The game encourages you to beat your records with a ghost of your previous run and sometimes other players ghost appearing on the course, as well as a ranking depending on how fast you beat the level and a couple of achievements.

The later levels don’t really encourage speed because they are often on super thin platforms with very precise jumps that do not allow for any mistakes and honestly they get really frustrating on the last couple of levels because you have to be near perfect with your jumps and the only way your going to land them is with a mix of help from copying other player’s ghost and luck (it probably doesnt help that I play the game like ultrakill).

I actually made a video on it where I’m crashing out because of the final level (its not very fun).

They want you to do precision platforming with a jet propelled vehicle that doesnt give you a great range of motion after you stop touching the ground, so you cant correct your jumps after you make them and on top of all that you do not get unlimited uses at checkpoints. You get 10 tries. Not 10 tries at each checkpoint, no. You get 10 tries before restarting the level...

The platforming in the game is fun but I feel like there could be a ton of polish done to the levels to encourage speed better or make the plaforming less frustrating by making the platforming less demanding in precision. The car doesn't need any adjustments it feels great to drive around in and its a lot of fun to drift and fly around in.

There are a couple extra gamemodes, there is time trial (peak) and collector (not peak).

So lets start with time trial, this gamemode easily blows the main mode out of the water. There are unique maps and a unique car just for this mode that has slightly adjusted boost and air control to make the car feel amazing for going as fast as you can and the levels are all super fun to play on the tracks are nice and wide and the jumps are usually small and low risk so you don't have to spend a bunch of . You can take corners nice and tight using a mix of the air brake and jet boosters to keep you from falling off the platforms and keeping your speed up. I do wish this mode had a few more maps but you can always just beat your record I guess. But yeah this is the mode you should get this game for, its genuinely a great time (I wish I had more to say about this mode but its pretty simple).

The other mode though… its not so good. I don't think this mode came with the original game. You also get a modified car in the collector gamemode. It gives you way better air control than the other 2 cars allowing you to fly relatively freely which is pretty cool and also drifting got massively buffed you can turn 90 degrees in under a second lul. It makes me wish we got some of the platforming levels with that car because it would allow the map designers to have more free and open map design and just let you goof around in the sky.

The maps used in this mode are reused from the platforming levels with the collectables scattered across the map. The spots they chose to place the collectibles at feel kind of random and are often really hard to get to. The problem with the mode is that it's not challenging in a way that test your skills that have been taught or built upon by the game, you have to pull off wacky tricks that arent used anywhere else in the game and this happens pretty often. The tricks you have to do to get to the stars is something a normal player would attempt to do (im not a normal player so i beat the mode).

This mode isnt very fun or that good, I would even say its pretty boring other than the modified car which is a highlight in this mode for the crazy shit you can pull off with it.

But ya you should play the game. It's only 3 dollars on steam and if you are patient you could get it on sale for even less and its a relatively short game. It only took me about 13 hours to MOSTLY beat the game also that like enough money to buy 2 mcdonalds sodas and it probably takes up one one millionth of a COD game file size. So uh yeah you dont have a good excuse to not get it. I will say this again the game is absolutely worth the price they are asking for, also make sure to have a controller cuz this game sucks to play without one.

I wish the sequel got ported to steam but for whatever reason they didnt. But you were able to it on Xbox Live Arcade you can at least get it on mobile still. Plz port the second game to steam (they arent gonna see this :((( ). Also a third game could be awesome maybe they try doing more open ended levels like in mario 64 that could be a good way to implement the collectables in a fun way or maybe the second game already did that I wouldn't know cuz I haven't played it. Ok, I don’t think I have any more dumb bullshit to add now. buh bye.