Mount Akina SUCKS; Here's Why...
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Mount akina is the most well known touge in existence. Popularised by the street racing manga initial d, this touge is adored by racers of all types. In real life, arcades, and simulators - mount akina is synonymous with Japanese street racing. If you’ve ever tried touge racing,there’s a decent chance your first experience took place on this infamous stretch of road. But, Mount Akina is swear words im not allowed to put in the description
Whenever we drive fast on a road, we intuitively treat it as a racetrack. From finding the racing line,the apexes of each corner, locations for potential overtakes and of course all of the frigging pot holes . Therefore, for us to understand why mount akina is a terrible touge, we need to look at it like it is a racetrack - and discuss what makes a racetrack great, or in this case, not so great.
Race Track Design Rule #1 - Technical difficulty. When designing a race track, the most crucial design element is it’s difficulty. This can be a fine balancing act between making a bland track, or one that is simply too difficult.
Mount akina isn’t particularly difficult, in fact, id go so far as to say it’s boring - no matter how loud you blast eurobeat. In essence, it’s just a bunch of long, bland straights connected via hairpins. Sure, there are a few off kilter corners that can be challenging the first few times you attack them, but, that’s as far as it goes. No, literally, that is as far as the roads of akina go. There’s nothing else to it. As a driver, your biggest challenge with akina is the ability to get a good launch from hairpins. You will gain the most time on straights, as we found out in my racing lines video.
For me personally, Akina simply isn’t stimulating enough to even keep me interested enough to finish the run. I often find myself becoming bored about halfway down, incidentally when Im driving on one of those massive long straights. The worst part is that this is actually true. In my opinion, it doesn’t offer enough of a challenge to be secured as a great touge. There are way more engaging touges, which offer more smiles per hour than akina.
If you want a touge that is properly technically difficult, I can wholly recommend Nagao & Usui. Usui is easily in my top 3 touges, purely because it flows so well. Usui feels like it was purpose built as a road to race on. You can pretty much drive the entire thing on instinct. Not only does it have flow, but it has a huge variety of corners too. From right angles, to double apexes and even some acute hairpins. Just look at those little fellas.
Nagao is cut from the same cloth, but in my opinion, it’s just that little bit more exciting. This is due to the cambered or banked corners. They make Nagao a pleasure to drive on, as the car settles into these corners and allows you to really push it to the limit without worrying too much about losing the rear end. It almost feels like a rollercoaster, with each corner cradling you through. It feels incredible in the least weird way possible.
Race Track Design Rule #2 - Low margin for error. Needless to say, the most exhilerating races and battles occur when drivers are pushed to their limit and are punished when mistakes are made. No, not with speeding tickets - by crashing, or at the very least spinning out.
Seperating drivers at a high level is tough, and turning up the head by allowing a low margin for error is important.
Again, mount akina falls short here. Akina is a relatively wide road. It only really tightens up on the slow corners, which is almsot the exact opposite of what you want if you’re looking for a really engaging touge. The road doesn’t tighten and constrict like many great do, in fact, it only gets wider.
While some may enjoy this - and it may be better for bigger, more chad cars, ultimately it does make things feel again, quite bland. If you lose grip on akina
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2017 version of akina was better
try fruits lane by far my number 1
I can understand that for an experienced and dedicated player Akina might seem boring; particularly solo. I feel this would be "Akin" to calling the AE86 a boring car. Sure you might in time outgrow it but I think that's more of a comment on your skill as a driver than the run itself.
As someone who flat out isn't any good and trying to be better I love Akina online with other people. There's enough margin of error to push a little harder without every corner being death, I can much easier let people by who are way faster, the straights vs hairpins lets me see handling vs power in a very obvious way.
Even the long straights are engaging for someone like me still trying to understand the right line, time and pressure with which to brake.In the same way the AE86 is a car that teaches the driver, I feel the same about Akina as a run. But I guess you are the one who teaches around here, so I'd like to hear your opinion on Akina as a method for learning.
This is the best news I heard today :DDDDDDD
I get that you are commenting on the sim version, but you might want to look at the map for the real mountain pass. It looks like the scales for the sim are off. The real one(Mt. Haruna) is two lanes most of the way top to bottom and those lanes are only slightly wider than an FC. In your video they appear to be much wider than they are in reality. This would mean the straights are longer than real life and the hairpins looser.
You understand why takumi didn't like driving when the story started, he had to drive this road for 5 years straight.
Rare smartness so true
oh no now it all makes sense 😂😂😂
This comment needs to be near the top.
Reminds of this race with Seiji, right before Takumi overtook him. He had that disgusted look on his face because racing on akina was too easy for him.
This mans got 1000+ iq
i think one of my friends who plays both AC and various F1 games put it beautifully into words: "mt. akina is comparable to shanghai international, meh to drive on, but excellent for racing. you'll find practice or qualifying boring, but in a race, with an equally skilled opponent? then, the track comes alive."
That could be said about most tracks though it's not the track at that point let's be real it's your opponent
I gotta agree with the other reply here, the track could suck but of course it’s engaging when you have opponents
Takumi from initial d : no, not really
I swear to god I will never forget trying to drift on akina with some friends and the moment we get super close some dude with a grip car knocks us off the mountain and keeps going
if ur blocking his run then of course he wants you out the way, but if he just came out of nowhere or you gave space then fair play
@@supawonk Nah bro we made a room called ' Touge Drifting ' me and my friends are drifting (4 of us) and this dude comes in like crazy shifting gears like a maniac and speeds up when he sees us and rams us off
A clean driver would've slowed down and passed at a different time, maybe on a straight. But he definitely did that on purpose.
dickass. set a password that says “fuck dirty racers” should keep them out
@@swagmessiah17 yea since then me and the bois only practice on priv servers
I love Tsuchisaka, its flow doesn't break the tempo till the very end, especially the old version with start near the tunnel, makes you you wanna keep going for hours!
not my favorite touge but its by far the best touge for racing others
u make awesome videos
@@alsa4real thanks! 😅
tshucisaka is a great touge, battling on it is just so fun and competitive
Sadamine and Tsuchisaka are my favorites
Tsubaki is probably my favorite touge. I don't think it's the best for overtakes, but it's really satisfying to get right. Especially the first section where if you get it perfectly you don't even need to use the brakes.
Myogi downhill can be done without ever touching the brakes.
I love driving Tsubaki in the MR2 on Initial Unity, probably my favorite touge+car combo in that game.
Yeah tsubaki is sick uphill version to!
"Beginners can drive fast on a straight line, that's cake. Intermediate drivers start to work a little better by mastering the corners, but the truly advanced drivers find their own course."
- Ryosuke Takahashi.
Put bluntly, if you find the track boring you just aren't going fast enough, push the knife's edge my man.
wrong
@@TSRB Am I?
There is no principle of what makes a touge good or bad, every touge is unique and that's what set them apart. Now Akina is very unique because the layout is not similar to any other touge, whereas "narrow touges" are all about s-turns and consecutive corners, hence sharing a similarity. There is really nothing that can decide whether a track is bad or not, it's one own's intuition and how far you can take that course to the limit. It's not the track that's boring, you're boring yourself out.
@@TSRB Low margin for error is a joke right? What times are you pulling in kunos touge cars? (2017 and ek ver)
As other good touges I'd also add Happogahara and Shomaru.
Akagi is also quite pog
Shomaru is a joke if you make public lobby
@@ktkv419 I don't play online so I wouldn't know
Happogahara feels so tight in comparison to Akina with corner upon corner back to back (and of course the quite literal narrow road).
@@ktkv419 XDDD shomaru is good only if you're alone or racing a good driver. People even suck on Akina (Touge Life 1). I'm going ultimate speed harding the 4.40 and this random dude with r34 wallriding and cutting me. Can't even think what would happen on Shomaru tbh.
pretty funny that in initial D they talk about akina perfectly matching the 86 and how keisuke could hardly use his 350 horsepower but after the second hairpin you're pretty much flat out 80% of the course
I think in Initial D land Akina is curvier
@@ralexcraft990 and steeper, you're correct to be fair, but you'd think they'd have chosen a course that matches it better
@@KatarinaWasTaken someone pointed out the straights in this version of Akina pass are longer than the real one so it might’ve gotten edited for the non-drifters the Competitive racers are
@@ralexcraft990 oh i see
@@ralexcraft990 such a shame, though
I don't even have favorite Touge I guess.. but I like to think that Nagao is like my home course cuz it's the first Touge map I ever played at when I first started.. I learned all the basics there, made few friends there and had a ton of fun and races with random players.
Nagao isn’t my home touge but honestly might be my favorite, it has SUCH good flow on the corners. It’s nice cuz you really don’t have to brake super hard it’s more about just connecting consecutive corners
This video underpins exactly why I still prefer 2017 Akina to the newer ek_Akina. The margin for error is too large on the newer track, and the wide sweeping banked roadway hand-holds most of the lower power cars through each corner. I still find the narrower roadways of 2017 Akina to be plenty engaging, especially when battling.
EK tracks are so flat they are only good for show drifting
@@Doubledunk bro the akina 2017 map is flatter than the ek map lol
Akina 2017 doesn’t even have proper gutters lmao
@@NerfMaster000 That’s a good thing lmao the gutters on ek are cancer
I had a talk with the creator of the early version of Akina, and he did tell me the map wasn't exactly on scale with the real life version. After looking it up on google maps, I had to agree with him. I'm still waiting for a version that will stand up to the real thing.
Exactly the real life Akina is smaller with shorter straights
I wonder if they modeled the track after the version from the Arcade Stage games
@@therock238360 more than likely which would make sense on why it's so wide
There's a guy working on it now
I'm pretty sure this is literally running the track from arcade stage. theres the PK2022 akina which is much better
To me, Akina is the Dust 2 of the togue world. It's a classic. The 4 sections are like 4 movements of a concerto, each with a different tempo/approach (at least in TA)
It's kind of like Suzuka, in that regard.
Iroha, then, would be like Laguna Seca.
Tsubaki Line is kind of like the Nordschleife. Plenty of flow, but also extremely technically demanding as well as being demanding on consistency, not to mention countless blind corners that can only be mastered through repetitious experimentation.
My personal favorite though (though Akina comes close due to some stupid sentimental attatchment I have), is gonna have to be Happo - it's the most intense rally course on asphalt.
Akina looks like one of the road course for newbies to me.
Irohazaka, Happogahara, and Akagi are my favorites so far.
Akina is only fun if you're battling. Driving alone on Akina is pretty boring.
true.. I use Akina mostly as a warmup when I don't play for a week or longer or when I'm switching cars to warm up in a new car again lol
Eh, akina might be easy to drive but it’s pretty hard to get genuinely fast on. Not necessarily because of how hard the track is, but because people have put the most hours into that map by far. People have pushed the limits of akina further than any other touge imo
@@d3admaub938 yeah i have seen guys doing 4.30 with the 86 when my best is 4.40. I drive with controller so i’m not very smooth but still. They are scary dudes.
@@d3admaub938 true
Usui's rythm is amazing. It feels like a never ending weight-transfer dance.
One of the few tracks where you don't have to memorize every turn, but adjust to the frequency and swim along it, because it doesn't give you a break. Simply hypnotizing.
4:43 never did i think i would be excited to hear the words "realistic wet leaf physics"
for me there is no bad tracks in touge as long as you can physically drive it to the end ofc. Because unlike race tracks they were not meant for this and this means you have to addapt to the track you'r on and have to abuse it's mechanics, it's all about learning what is the track about. That's why i like touge, it's more of your relationship with the track rather than learning patterns you can apply to almost every track ...
I just had to double check if the mudslide is still there so I went on google maps. As of 2014 when they last took the photos, so 10 years ago now almost mind you, it was still there. Incredible lol. The same 2 yellow gates too.
I guess I might be the only person who finds Akina to be the hardest touge out of all others. For me my reality is completely the opposite touges that you said was more technical I feel are simple and easy to drive but going fast or me trying my best to be fast on Akina is a real challenge just 1 run on Akina drains me. For me its like the Nurburgring of touges.
I respect your opinion, but you also have the skills of Keiichi Tsuchiya mixed with Ricky Bobby. Akina may be too easy for a professional like you, but for new players, it’s actually challenging and a fun learning experience.
Usui Pass. My favorite touge by far for the mix of drift and grip lines, and the complex corners.
I really enjoy tsubaki line, it just has the right mix of tightness, and mixture of corners, and it flows well too
It's cool to see everyone's favorite track. Ranges from iroha, happ, akagi, tsuchi, tsubaki. I'd definitely have to say momiji is my absolute favorite.
Straights connected to hairpins is how you build a mountain road.
If you dont want to drive all the way around the mountain in loops you need to do this.
My favorites are easily Irohazaka and Hakone Imbound. Irohazaka for fast paced zig zagging, and Hakone for wide open sweeping turns that you fly down at 180mph
The road through Zion canyon in Utah would be awesome. I doubt it's in any game, but having driven it at night when there's not anyone else out there, it's an awesome drive. The road widens and tightens at different points, even on the steep section at the bottom with lots of big hairpins (that would be a lot of fun to drift) there's some chicane-like twists that make for interesting corner entrances and exits. Toward the top of the run, a lot of meandering twists and turns cambered to help you around. In the middle is a long, very tight tunnel with several turns ranging from a fast kink to some surprisingly sharp but still sweeping corners. I wouldn't want to push it in real life with my own car but if, between the close rock and tunnel walls and cliff edges, pushing it and getting it right on a video game (or even a car I didn't need to use daily) would feel amazing.
Also, besides seeing a couple of these videos recently, I know almost nothing about touge. I just love driving a fun road
Blue Ridge Parkway is another awesome American road. Deals Gap/The Tail is modded in AC and it's awesome too. After doing it in real life w my uncle, it's very close to the real deal. It's in Beam.NG too now that I think of it
Akina is a good touge for beginners. It has wide and long straights and high margin of error. But it becomes bland after you get experience
Akina is a "home track " for test and tune and master technique, according to the Initial D manga
I'm glad to see most people agree here, I thought I was crazy when I didn't enjoy Akina that much
I don't agree
This is kinda like saying Monza is bad
@@christiantaylor1495 but Monza is sick
Ngl but the Volcano in Forza Horizon 5 is such a fun Touge map, the downhill flows so well that if you coast & drift each corner you never really need to break which makes it feel so satisfying when you nail it
Bro, how good your content can be, keep it up!
That touge with back to back hairpins is my fucking favorite. I can’t define the thrill of goin through those. I play it all the time on Initial D 8 at my local arcade !
What do you think of other touge such as Akagi, Irohazaka, Tsubaki Line or Happogahara?
usui is still my favorite bc of that c-121 corner and how tight the roads are
Great video! big respect for using intelligent drum n bass too ;)
Thank god you said this and launched a server on Nagao, I always played other touges by myself cus I never liked Akina. Hopefully more people will try to launch a server on a different touge
How do you zoom in/out smoothly during a cinematic, it looks so good 🤤
Whats your opinion on Akagi? It's been my favorite and the one that I always drive.
Nice vid as always, but please consider adding links to the mods used in the description.
Pretty good video, I agree with it. You demonstrated each of your points and views nicely, and it's all neatly put together.
With that said-- try Project Kaido's Mt. Akina (Haruna), it just recently released. I think you'll find it's a lot more interesting to drive.
i don't know if this is the game's limitation or poor set up, but you should try using 16x anisotropic filtering on your GPU settings, it's literally free, 0 performance cost, and will make the further asphalt textures look sharp, right now they are blurry
I play a range of sim racing and other games, sometimes I need to brush up on the basics/feel when I come back to AC. And Akina is perfect for that, and testing new cars too. Usui is probably my fav touge though
what filter do u use in those first scenes? makes it look old and unsaturated i like it, pls tell me asap
Great Video. Can I ask what music you use for this? :)
The thing about Akina is that it works great as an INTRODUCTORY course for touge racing, as it is relatively wide and easy by touge standards, but still teaches the skills needed to master the touge (slip angle, 4-wheel drifting, engine braking, inertia drifting, gutter techniques...). Obviously once a driver learns these skills, it becomes possible to apply them to more demanding courses like Irohazaka, Momiji, Happogahara, Shomaru, Sadamine, Tsuchisaka, Tsukuba, Yabitsu, Nagao, Nanamagari, Tsubaki, etc...
I’m sure everyone would prefer a tight I mean narrow touge road lol great vid
If you ever get bored of a touge road try doing a single lane run. It will bring you a whole new experience, in fact on some touges (Otarumi) I prefer it...
or/and
add traffic.
For me, Akina is like a home track, I have ridden it a lot, after long races on it, I agree, it is not the most interesting track(but with opponent it fun, when you drive in solo, real boring), I prefer Tsuchisaka or Irohazaka, Myogi, Akagi, Tsubaki Line, Maze Pass
can touges be on other countries?
i came back to this video to say that im both happy and horrified that based on these "jl selayo padang" or more known as sitinjau-lauik is possibly a decent touge course(outside of the traffic)
it had a somewhat suprising variety of corners due to elevation change? (note:see street view). quite the flow probably and 2 signature features
its the bridge corner before "that" corner and said corner.
im still unsure about flow and overtaking opportunities. and idk how long it is but after panorama 2 i guess it could be boring. sadly it is kinda short(?) at 8km and it probably felt short too.
width is about 6 metres since its probably designed to be a truck two way. so i guess thats a minus.
i just need to find a mod for this. to test it out.
Of course! They're just called mountain roads or hillclimbs elsewhere lmao
Have you tried Tsubaki Line? I think it’s a really fun touge
whats your time on kunos ae86 tuned (any setup) on vanilla akina?
idky but akina is always hard for me but whenever im on iroha,happogahara, hakone and fruits line i do great so its really weird whenever i switch to akina and do complete ass
Hey TSRB, can you make a video explaining what a good Touge map would be and why?
Haruna is alright to me, it's one of the 3 mountains of Jomo in Gunma. Takigahara and Irohazaka are places to push one's limit, nearly perfect for 3 pedals and a stick driving.
Ah I see.... No wonder I felt weird why does Initial D characters from 1st and 2nd stage can speak all the time during racing. They're clearly bored AF
Could you make a Video about Tsuchisaka? It's my favorite Touge!
If you want Akina to be less boring, try out driving a supercar (my personal favourite is DB9)
also what is the background music?
is there a initial d skin for the ae86 or can i only have the yellow?
Oh man nice to see one of my favorites touge being featured its nagao time 👌
I always crash on the hairpins, so it's plenty challenging to me
do you have a link to the playlist you use in your videos?
great video btw whats the name of the music?
Please please please tell me what music are you using in your videos
I think akina a signature feature is the gutters not the hairpins
where did you get the takumi driver model?
wait how were you using him in the first few clips ?!
So to iterate on what you are saying, Akina is a perfect touge to learn the ropes? Great! Can't wait till I get all my sim stuff around March. I want something both easy and iconic to start me off, so your criticism elevates this track for me.
I grew and built my technical skills on Akina and I will never stop running it, but I agree. I honestly prefer Sadamine over any other touge, just because of how beautiful it is. Driving wise and looks wise. The low speed winding corners at the start let you prepare for the high speed section ahead, which then goes back to low speed corners. It's the most fun I've had on a touge and I highly recommend you drive and practice it.
Honestly, Sadamine is the track I practiced drifting it. I can't even count the number of runs I've done on that track.
Good review. Im not a big fan of touges with long straights and key corners where you have to know exactly the optimal speed and breaking points to exit as faster as possible to another long straight section.
Maybe as a "fictional" road in the anime, they imagined it like that to give some advantage to racers who knows the path inch by inch, like Takumi. That's how his underpowered car comes up in the mirror like a unnatural freak.
But yeah, I also prefer narrow tracks with a bunch of corners, even if the average speed be much smaller and have less overtake opportunities.
I know this is an old video, but I love this channel, I've always had this opinion and damn near never heard it seconded. Love the videos
Man... lookin at these comments, some people are legit nuts. Talking about Akina like it's some sort of deity. "It's a holy ground that trains the senses" "It teaches techniques" "Push the knife's edge" "It's about the relationship with the road"... People be taking Initial D too seriously for real.
I really enjoy lane drifting tsukuba fruits line online when the server has competent drivers, been doing it at least a couple times every week for over a year now
Irohazaka is my favourite course to run on the downhill especially, I don't have a chance to relax especially when I'm pushing to break my records on it, it holds my focus more than any other course
how did you get takumi as your driver
I don't know if you've tried Akina 2017 but it is much better than EK Akina.
If you trying to talk about togue and compera to some track don't forget that all those roads first of all wasn't designed for racing on it. It is all about public roads in mountains. Complaining about long srtaights and hairpins, lack of overtaking opportunities on tracks that based on real road is quite bad. In AC lots of tracks that was design for racing and just have scenary to look alike japanese public road.
I'm pretty sure I said that
Does the gutters not count as a signature feature?
tsubaki line feels harder to drive on than akina because the section where there is no guardrail entierly. if you mess up on that part thats it your gone and also it has many blind corners unlike akina
If TSRB's reasoning about Usui is to be believed, then it would totally explain Takumi's insane performance at Usui despite the lack of any real practice. (especially the drift at C-121)
Personally, for me, Touge has a different approach to the race track, a race track is exactly what you mentioned in the video, but Touge is a "chilling street" where you swing from side to side with the car, feeling the curves and listening to some music at the same time, eventually drifting/sliding or going fast in some parts
5:59 *Rage Your Dream starts playing*
Well... Pretty much everything you said about Akina are reasons why I love it.
I don't like claustrophobic tracks like Shomaru or Takigahara I don't want to be stuck in second gear and having to hit the brake pedal more often than the accelerator.
I absolutely DESPISE Irohazaka. I was sick of this touge in Initial D Arcade Stage 8, an arcade game made to be FUN. I can't imagine driving there in real life 🤢
The signature features of Akina? Well, what about the high speed sections? If my car has 300HP, I don't want to be stuck in sub 80km/h speed. I (and the car itself) want to hit 4th and 5th gear. After all the drifting, It is so satisfying to just floor it and let the engine roar. Like a wise man said, I paid for the speedometer, I'm gonna use the whole speedometer.
And about the overtaking opportunities, well, that alone makes it great. You can have proper racing without turning the race into bumper cars
Agreed
iroha is my best map on every initial d game lmfao, though I suck at it super hard in assetto
haruna, ek usui, gunsai, and happogahara are my favs rn
When i first started playing AC, nagao was my 4th map and was my favorite and it still is.
Anyone know the background music
I used to love Akina but grew to love Irohazaka downhill because how sharp its hairpins are and the next one I love is Initial D (PSP) Myogi ring touge.
When I started sim drifting I was originally drawn to touge maps than flat drift tracks so I tried Akina since it was all any server was running so I thought it must be good.. Even as an inexperienced driver with much to learn I found Akina really boring after the first few runs. I never really thought about why but this video perfectly sums up how I feel about Akina, I couldn't agree more.
im moving over other more underground touge tracks, and now i realize after driving 1000km in Akina that indeed sucks..
TSRB: "Akina is wide, too easy and boring"
Me (who's just started) trying to get a proper racing line or drift through the hairping and ending up in the guardrail: Excuse me?
Challenge: Do irohazaka jumps on 3 laps downhill
Tsukuba Fruits Line is probably my favorite. If I can describe it, it's really similar to Usui. It's technical but the flow is really great.
Also remember it's not MAZE it's like mah zay! Great videos by the way!! I love all your content so don't wanna make it seem like I'm flaming you. Just want to point out that japanese is bi syllabic so the pronnunciation is different.
I don't like akina either, my favourite touge is Tsukuba fruits line because it has two sections, a slow one with a lot of hairpins ideal for drifting and a faster one with more technical turns. Dousojin 1990 and Otarumi are very fun as well. I also like Simtraxx's Peyregrosse-mandagout even if it's not in japan
I actually only drove Akina twice and honestly didn't like it that much. I favor EK Tsukuba, Hakone Ohiradai, Dousojin, Shobudani, Shomaru and Nagao. Usui is a bit, idk, too tight? Not narrow, but just odd for me. It's hard to drive when doing grip, Usui is really more of a drift Touge in my experience. Maze is nice.
Yeah I really like usui more for drifting with like the Wdts cars or something too. Make this distinction for a lot of tracks. Some are for drifting with the wdts cars others are for grip racing with the kunos cars.
@@zwenkwiel816 actually a lot of tracks can do both. EK Tsukuba, Nagao and Dousojin are good for both drift and grip.
@@Dominik189 oh ofcourse. It's just more of a personal preference. Also whatever the server happens to run. Like if I learn a track drifting I just pick up habits and it becomes a drift track in my mind.
I would be mad if I wasnt kind of bored myself. But Akina does act like some kind of holy land for weebs coming into sim racing, gotta pay respect to the OG course(in Initial D's context)
Bro,you should try shomaru tougue id love a review of it
You should probably play the scanned versions of passes from Kaido battle 3 instead of the wide ass tracks from arcade stage.
Try shiga kusatsu pass
also the irl akina (Mount Haruna) has speedbumps before every corner lol
My favorites, based on my limited Arcade Stage 5 experience, would have to be Happogahara and Nagao. I also think Yabitsu is really cool based on the gameplay from the new Initial D game.
Wouldnt akina's feature be the gutters?? 🤔