Road 96: Mile 0 – Review

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Road 96: Mile 0 is the prequel to the popular Road 96 released back in 2021.

The story of Mile 0 follows Zoe and Kaito shortly before the events of the original game “Road 96”. You’ll be familiar with Trombone loving Zoe from the previous game, but Kaito is a new central character who’s best friends with Zoe. Kaito has a few troubles, after recently moving to White Sands, and losing his old friend Aya to cancer due to the pollution in his former home town of Colton City.

After seeing Kaito meeting with John (anti-government protestor from Road 96) early in the game, you start off controlling Zoe as you try to find out what’s up with your bestie Kaito. Another thing you’re Introduced to early on is the skating mini games known as “Rides”, whether it’s Kaito on his skateboard or Zoe on roller-skates, this plays a little similar to the popular mobile game Subway Surfers, where you weave left and right to collect coins, and then jump or dodge over obstacles.

If you hit something you simply respawn and continue, so there’s no real skill required, on the rare occasion you do mess up a section a few times, you even get the option to skip it completely. but with a large percentage of Achievements based around these minigames, you’ll probably want to get an A rating (which honestly shouldn’t take you more than a few attempts) Beside the skating there’s also a variety of other small games you can enjoy, such as a few basic arcade machines, a pretty fun paper-delivery minigame that plays a little like an on-rails shooter, and then there’s the chance to graffiti a wall on your homebase, and collect extra coloured spray cans on your travels.

None of these extras are greatly detailed (with a slight exception for the Paper mini-game