Forza Horizon 6

The laziest iteration of the Horizon formula. I bought the Premium edition as i always have. Was excited when Japan was announced because the FH5 map was so empty and stale with the longest life cycle of any FH, which could've been saved by improving the map with permanent updates with the evolving world feature, still blows my mind how they had that since the beginning and did nothing with it except add some things and deleting them the next month, and they're continuing to do the same in FH6. I simply do not understand. You have the tool and you don't use it to make your world richer and inject new life into your game every month and build upon it. I am completely .. i can't find the right word. just baffled, dumbfounded, unable to compute. The festival is a shadow of a festival, there's no character, the themed updates feel like FH5 updates in its last year of life, recycling content harder than ever before, with cars from last series or two series ago. I understand they want to give players another change, get rid of the FOMO somewhat, but content from last two months, straight from first right after release? Car pass is a scam mostly, paid cars that are cloned cars that differ 2-3% from cars already in the game. gtfo Car meets = hype with nothing of substance. Eliminator again, doesn't use the whole map. Gets boring really fast. Festival playlist, everyone knows it, a stale and boring formula, feels like a chore with story level difficulty. Most of the map looks the same except for the city area and mountain area. Roads and trees, the only thing saving it a little are the elevation changes. FH3/FH4 much smaller maps but more interesting. Can't compare to FH5 yet, because i have a deep dislike still, but it had it's unique areas that i find are missing from FH6. But i feel it's mostly because there's nothing really to do in the game so everything becomes uninsteresting. Progression was a joke, after they said "oh yeah, we have better progression system", you get like 100 free cars in like first 3 days of playing, hypercars and everything. Accolades are gone, which gave you something to do for a good while in FH5 as end-game content. Brought back snow, which i was happy about, but compromised with no snow on the roads, which was the most fun thing in FH4 about winter. Night time is still not proper night time, but at least it lasts longer than in FH5. Only positive I have is the online spec-racing, but barely, because there are no stats for online racing. How do you have stats for every silly thing in the game, but not for online racing? This has become a car collection and photo simulator. I'm sad more than anything because i have thousands of hours in this franchise. And the only thing more Japan about this game than FH5 or any other game for that matter, are the map and some badges and mascots. Was a good sandbox, but the sand is now kitty litter that hasn't been changed in years. A mere reskin of FH5, after 4 years. just no.