/vr/ - Retro Games

This was a seriously unique game that tried to combine racing games with RPGs. It puts you in the shoes of a Japanese street racer over the course of ten nights in the city. Each night you can drive around challenging other drifters to street races (the game's version of random encounters), and if you win you get to take a part of their car to customize your own. You can end a night by going to an obligatory Climax Encounter and challenging a sort of boss, which you must win against to progress.

The progression is indeed RPG-esque, as there is a very involved storyline which can be explored to a greater or lesser degree if you pay attention to various event markers on the map. Driving up to these locations activates additional scenes which may lead to side-quests or simply character interactions.

Though it's Japan-only, it can be played once you memorize the basic menus and assuming you don't care about the story, as the map markers make progression fairly straightforward.