If you purchased a Nintendo Switch this weekend, odds are you’ve begun charting a path through The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s beautiful. It’s thoughtful. It’s very, very long. Should you need a break from the bucolic, I recommend Fast RMX, a racing game that borrows shrewdly from Wipeout, F-Zero, and Hydro Thunder.
As the comparison suggests, Fast RMX is familiar. Flashy hovercrafts zip through gravity-defying tracks constructed ever-so-precariously atop cities, in asteroid belts, and through what remains of nature in its chrome-plated future. The game has a ‘90s futurism, as if every locale was originally intended as the cover of a Trapper Keeper. This seems to be a new style of nostalgia, sleek sci-fi games that feel...
