Initial D Battle Stage 3

The song choices were fresh and new to listen to like the rest of what the previous battle stages offered us. Although, I will say that they weren't too exciting to listen to this time around, most of them sounded the same, dare I say even, that some of them didn't suit the races they were played on?
personally I can only listen to three of them on repeat after watching.

The only thing that really brought this down for everyone was the massive elephant in the room. No voice acting. But it wasn't really a massive deal in my opinion though, I still enjoyed it to ... it's fullest.

Little rant btw: The people who are remaking races from this on youtube and are using songs that aren't used in the original piece are pretty shameful to watch, because by not using the original, new songs, it loses all meaning of the concept of battle stage.

What a disappointment, in previous battle stages characters had dialogue, but in this battle stage it reminds me of an AMV that would be uploaded on youtube, just cars driving and eurobeat playing.

On the topic of eurobeat the music is top notch, my eurobeat playlist is pleased. The sounds are also good from what I've experienced.

Back to the fact there is no voice acting, it really confuses alot of races and yes you are expected to have atleast watched fifth and final stage to watch battle stage 3 but it still leaves me confused on a few things that I have to now recap, luckily ... I can use the Initial D wikipedia.

Not worth watching unless you want to watch 1 hour and 33 minutes of pure racing (which if you do I don't blame you, that's why I did it in the first place) or find some new eurobeat.

Initial D is now dead other than the arcade cab series, but it was since 2013.

Battle Stage 3 was really really bad actually...

I cannot believe such an atrocity ended the beloved Initial D series, though it is probably for the best.

Any Initial D outside of the main Stages are quite bad in my opinion.
Non-Canon events generally have no weightage to them.

People waited 7 years from Final Stage to Battle Stage... and for them to get this is frankly disappointing.

I am not even going to talk about the story, since some others talk about it. Why the story does not work? Well...
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it was just so goddamn boring. Usually when you have a race between two people, it has some emotional baggage or weightage. Here? Nothing.

Doesnt help the fact that both of them are racing Corollas haha, so for the non-avid watcher it was hard to differentiate the cars.

All in all not a good time and you can skip this one for sure
3/10
Thanks!
-CyanCheetah