{"id":1425549,"date":"2025-12-13T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3uVjbK2iv5J7sCD3WRuoaS"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:00:00","slug":"race-a-kei-truck-through-a-collapsing-japan-in-drivecrazy-which-is-like-burnout-if-you-could-drive-on-walls-and-fight-towering-kaiju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/race-a-kei-truck-through-a-collapsing-japan-in-drivecrazy-which-is-like-burnout-if-you-could-drive-on-walls-and-fight-towering-kaiju\/","title":{"rendered":"Race a Kei truck through a collapsing Japan in DriveCrazy, which is like Burnout if you could drive on walls and fight towering kaiju"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If there was an award for videogame vehicle of the year (get on that, Game Awards) then the 2025 award would surely go to the Kei truck. The world’s cutest lorry delivered a brilliant comedic performance in April’s open-world driving sim Promise Mascot Agency<\/a>, before offering a stranger, more haunting turn in September’s Easy Deliver co. Now, it’s targeting a mainstream audience in the indie action blockbuster DriveCrazy<\/a>, a racing game in which you use a Kei Truck to outrun the apocalypse.<\/p>\n

The demo<\/a> of DriveCrazy, which I took for a quick whirl, starts off with you participating in an annual Kei Truck rally. Even in this comparatively normal mode, things are pretty wild. Literally anything you do while driving earns you points. Drive cleanly? Points. Knock down a lamppost? Points! Smash through a hedge, spin your truck 360, and bin it off the road into a rice paddy? Points, points, points.<\/p>\n

No sooner have you completed the rally when oh no, aliens invade! Suddenly you’re trying to outrun missiles and laser strikes while buildings collapse around you. Fortunately, your Kei Truck is a vehicular superhero, able to doughnut on demand, wall-ride, drive on two wheels, and accelerate to near-supersonic speeds thanks to a sizzling blue afterburner.<\/p>\n

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