After 4 months of casual playing, I just finished obtaining every single platinum medal in downhill sections, and one in downhill full route, with 23 first places on leaderboards (SWAT has impossible scores), so I thought it'd be good to describe one more time my experience at this point.
The roads winter-second and desert-second were easily the hardest to me : The winter one, because of high speed and precise control requirements, and the desert one... because it's a hecking truck lmao
The truck seems way too hard at first, but by playing with other types still help getting familiar with the physics, giving an easier time on truck once mastered.
About all the platinums I got at this point... it honestly didn't feel extremely hard, the most important being to analyze each road and spot where to drift, and where not to. The rest is just optimisation.
I remember I started the game by hardly getting bronze on most maps, then silver when I controlled the cars a bit better. I began hitting golds when I started studying the best strategies to handle my cars, then since recently, got most of my platinums by really optimizing my races.
I think the platinum full route I got (1-1-3) didn't require as much perfection as sections... but it's a solid 5 minutes during which I have to stay focused on each incoming turn.
Even after 4 months, I still enjoy the game as much as day 1. It's definitely a great source of challenge and fun, and it's really sad for it to be quite hidden in the depths of itch.io (especially since leaderboards are quite empty).
I hope many other players will experience the happiness to get their first platinum medal, and maybe their first top 1 on leaderboards :D
