Forza Horizon 6

Game title: Forza Horizon 6 Plaform: pc Rating: 4.5/5 I am not the biggest racing game fan. That's my dad, with the racing sim gear he explicitly built to play Gran Turismo. In general, I am not a car buff. I drive an EV, and I see cars more as tech on wheels than objects of desire. Still, for the past couple of weeks, I have spent many evenings racing around Japan in Forza Horizon 6. Or, rather: driving around. Forza Horizon 6 is a racing game, and I do occasionally remember that I am supposed to win events, unlock wristbands, and prove myself to whatever the Horizon Festival thinks I should be proving. But most of the time I am just following a road because it looks nice. This is Japan, after all, and despite still never having visited the country, I'm kind of a weeb. A game about aimless driving lives or dies by whether the place is worth being aimless in. And this one is. Tokyo at night, wet roads, neon, mountain roads, the distant shape of Fuji: it all looks gorgeous. I still do…