Take your bike and get ready to descend dangerous trails

Lonely Mountains: Downhill is an arcade-style game in which, driving our cyclist from an aerial perspective, we begin a hiking trail from the top of a mountain to explore each path to the finish line, which is located at the bottom . Once the best shortcuts have been learned, we participate in counter-rejections and try to suffer as few accidents as possible to overcome the challenges they propose. Although this is not easy, since you will have to dodge rocks, trees, narrow stretches, rivers and even dangerous falls among others.

Its mechanics are very simple. Here we have a button that allows us to pedal to advance, another to brake and the possibility of sprinting based on spending a resistance bar that recovers over time, as well as starting again from the last control point if we believe it necessary. Then we have two control systems to handle the cyclist: one that allows us to turn in the direction we want by simply pressing towards it and another in which we move left or right according to the cyclist's perspective. Both work quite well, so the final decision will be the responsibility of the player himself.

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The game is based on descending the paths of several mountains, dividing each of the challenges into different levels of difficulty that are unlocked by completing others. Normally they are divided into three: Explorer, Beginner and Expert, although completing them also achieves free mode. Here you will have to first explore the mountain to discover the best routes and reach the goal, then unlocking challenges that consist of reaching the goal before a certain time or having less than a certain number of accidents.

It may seem like a simple task, but along the routes you will find many shortcuts full of dangers, such as logs, rocks, jumps, very narrow roads, gorges ... they are very varied and, the better the shortcut, the more complicated it is to travel it. Reaching the finish line without suffering an accident is sometimes very complicated, even if we take it easy. The best thing is that there are control points that we must go through and that, if we suffer an accident, the counter restarts until the time we had when we crossed it for the first time, making it easier to overcome marks by taking a greater risk.

For all this to work well it is necessary to have a well worked physics system. Here you will see how the bicycle responds perfectly to our movements, skidding in descending curves at high speed, affecting the terrain to the behavior of the bicycle or suffering accidents if we are not well placed when falling from a certain height, among others. It is true that from time to time we have encountered certain invisible obstacles or some that in principle we thought we could cross, but it is not the most frequent.

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There are six bikes to get: Grasshopper, Pacebreaker, Javelin, Trailblazer, Boar and Geronimo. Each one has a series of characteristics that differentiate them from the rest and that makes them better for certain terrains, having to complete challenges to get their parts until they are unlocked. At the beginning we only have the Grasshopper, being able to customize them all with different aspects. The same goes for our cyclist, since we have the option to change the set, the helmet, his sex, the hairstyle, the color of skin and hair. It is not something that has an impact on the gameplay, but its incursion is appreciated.

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The graphic section uses a pretty colorful minimalist style, with a well-modeled and lively cyclist, great physicals for their movements and scenarios that, despite making use of flat elements, are extremely striking. Also comment that hidden trails include small visual clues that help us locate them. It also works very smoothly so that the gameplay does not suffer. Of course, we have found some tearing and some small load of textures late, but nothing important.

In the sound you will not find many melodies, only to accentuate certain moments, although the achieved atmosphere of the mountains, the sound of our bicycle skidding on the roads and the screams of our character when he suffers an accident. The texts are in full Castilian, so you will not have any problem to understand the operation of the game.

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Lonely Mountains: Downhill, as a conclusion, has been a pleasant surprise for us, offering a title that shines for offering a challenge to the height despite its simplicity. It is a pleasure to travel the different mountain trails to study the best roads and overcome marks, using a control system that simply relies on turning, accelerating, braking and sprinting. Perhaps we would have liked certain physics to be better adjusted and it would be easier to unlock the bicycles, since, by the time we got it, we have overcome all the challenges of an area with the first one they give us.

A title for those looking for something different, exploring mountain routes for simple fun or to see which are the best shortcuts and go beyond the marks of other players.