Trials Rising are well designed in both layout and visuals

The Trials games have never been about realism. They’re physics-based motorcycle platformers where I’m trying to get a motorcycle across a pit of fire while fireworks explode around me. Trials Evolution, from 2012, has a track where I ride my motorcycle across Normandy Beach during World War 2. It’s ridiculous.

Speeding through a course for the very first time is a tense game of quickly reading the terrain in front of you and adjusting your speed and balance on the fly to smoothly roll through it as fast as possible. Doing so takes far more than just holding down the accelerator because there are lots of little tricks you need to learn in order to master Trials’ physics-based movement. Earning a gold medal on my first try was always a proud moment, but I was just happy to have made it to the finish line at all on some of the more technical courses. Going back and improving on those levels was a different game altogether, one that’s more about solving a momentum-based puzzle and then perfecting my route.

As any other right-thinking person who uses the internet would, I took this bait-and-switch as a personal attack and elected to uninstall the game there and then. I even briefly, and entirely rationally, considered boycotting all Ubisoft games going forward. But I’m pleased to say that, after a short period of self reflection, I instead calmed down and continued playing. I’m glad that I did: in the dozens of hours I’ve sunk into the game so far, the unfortunate song incident is just about the only time I haven’t been grinning wildly. Come to mmocs.com now, you can Buy Trials Rising Acorns Packs with fast delivery and 100% safety.

Essentially, that’s what has boosted Trials Rising more than anything else. Aesthetically, it’s the best looking Trials title yet. Sure, it’s still a side-scrolling game where you speed along on a trials bike, but it’s vivid, colourful and genuinely just looks great. This is particularly true when the more spectacular parts of the game happen. Maybe you’re crashing through a glass window and plummeting down, maybe you’re being propelled forward by a huge explosion. Maybe, just maybe, you’re riding along falling debris, containers and more after jumping from a plane in the middle of the Atlantic ocean.

On PS4, Xbox and PC, Trials Rising looks breathtaking, but on Switch it is unfortunately unimpressive – fog and dust disguise the vistas, and drops in frame rate make precise racing difficult. The vertiginous views are a significant component of Trials’ thrill, so Switch players are missing out.