I'm playing a game on my 360 (it decided to work today!) called PURE, because it was inexplicably in the same case as a double-pack with LEGO Batman.
I have never heard of this game, ever. It was released in 2008 by Disney, back when they made games. And it is, inexplicably, an ATV racing / ATV stunt tricks / ATV customization game.
And it like REALLY assumes you fucking love ATV racing / tricks, and absolutely care about ATV part brands, and understand what the hell every weird little part of an ATV does. A bold assumption.
I'm sure the 7 people who fit that demographic back in 2008 were into this game. As I am not that guy, I initially found it overwhelming and confusing and way too hard, since the controls are immediately a complex mess of using all of the buttons in very specific sequences to get a really loud little car to properly flop around mud tracks.
...But, you know, after like an hour of me yelling, I'm kind of getting into it? Once the controls become something you don't have to think about too much, pulling off tricks on the jumps to power your boost meter isn't that hard. It ends up being like the Skate games. Just instead of a skateboard, you're using a really loud, really fast golf cart that destroys the environment and has zero effective safety features.
Also, I randomly keep just winning races, and I have no idea how. So either I'm innately the best at video game ATVs, or this game is a big pile of mess and you can win it by just fucking around. I'm assuming the second one is true, because I'd rather not live in a universe where my one genetic skill is being really good at an ATV racing game from 17 years ago.
It's not a bad game. It's pretty for the era, good framerate, licensed soundtrack, and it lets you customize the shit out of every stupid part of what is effectively a lawn mower that had sex with a jetski. I don't give a shit about any of this, but it's actually vaguely fun. So...eh?
It's like watching an anime based on a manga about people being really dramatic about a niche thing you don't care about. It quietly lures you in with vibes, and now you suddenly care about some stupid expensive hobby that a good government would probably stop people from doing.
So kinda like how I got into model train videos on YouTube.