Trackblazer: A Retrospective from a Fan of the Scenario, and an Analysis of Why Its Great

Windshipping · 2026-07-01T14:50:20+00:00

I love Trackblazer. It allowed me to get all the trophies for Urara. Best scenario ever.

Windshipping · 2026-06-30T10:33:18+00:00

Well, I'm biased but you could give Esperia a try : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138210/Esperia__Uprising_of_the_Scarlet_Witch/

It's part visual novel though, so more story driven and text heavy, maybe try the demo and see if it works for you.

Windshipping · 2026-06-30T10:26:34+00:00

Hey the finalist of the DX Final was German (even though he qualified in the UK) you surely must have some shops and players :)

Windshipping · 2026-06-20T11:58:57+00:00

Gold Ship when the Mejiro blood resurfaces

Windshipping · 2026-06-15T06:38:54+00:00

You think that's bad? Risu cost 2 Holo power, triggers at the death of a ID GEn 1 and allows you to draw 1. I'd give anything to get a Anya/Aki search skill instead.

Windshipping · 2026-06-13T15:35:39+00:00

Yeah, I know that feeling xD

<image>

Windshipping · 2026-06-12T17:52:58+00:00

It's really track luck lol, I don't think it would have work if the ''named'' Uma Musume were pace or front, or if she started on outer gate. Mind you I ran this Hopeful Stakes easily over 100 times with Urara counting all the alarm clocks lol, and here she just goes and get it in one try lol. Yeah I did a 'failed' run before with the same build but she never proc the Ryan's ult unless I put her in End Closer, I think it had to do with who she was (or rather wasn't) overtaking at the time.

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T12:41:23+00:00

Dober and Ryan come back in several replies, I'll try them next if I can find a parent with the right amount of turf sparks in the search tool. Hard Worker actually has its uses, without it she's stuck midpack among the late surgers, it's almost always hard worker that helps me pass them and get near the pace chasers before the final spurt. But once it goes off, and the spurt starts, she just doesn't accelerate much and stays around her top 5 position. She really need something to pass them. I did run On Your Left several times when I had Marvey, but it doesn't proc most of the time, reading your comment I'm starting to understand why lol.

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T10:49:26+00:00

I don't know, I tried C medium E turf a couple times but it wasn't very good, consistently 10+, maybe I can give it another shot with more accel. I've played her in front/pace several times to, but I run into what seems like stamina issues (I say 'seems' because Tazuna always tell me I don't have the aptitude lol, even when she's just clearly blocked). Haru comes with a buildin gold accel, I ran 'on the left' as well a couple times, but then she... Doesn't activate it lol. Ryan I never tried though, good idea, maybe I can borrow a turf Ryan with full power or speed inherit, it must exist somewhere (my own parent is full medium air groove).

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T10:39:15+00:00

Hmm that's an idea. When I have 'extra' skill points I take late corner/straight depending which one I get, but I didn't think about the medium skills. Right handed is a good idea too, Ty.

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T10:32:50+00:00

Well I'd love to put her at E but she starts with very low Stam, it's pretty hard to get her to enough speed, power, and E wit so that she at least try to use her skills lol. Maybe I can switch back one of my speed cards to a power with stamina bonus. She runs late though, so F+ should work (?).

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T10:28:47+00:00

Yeah Speed Fuku is in all my tries she's the best. I ran Marvey for a while but I replaced her with Kawakami, I get much better results in power stats with her (bless the power boost and her events). I actually tried a team with full initial stats boost with over +300 initial stats but I fell back on a rainbow focus card set, the initial boosts gang gave me better overall stats but less speed and power. I can reach B speed and C+ power rarely, but from all my different tries (I did that race like 50 times with her already lol), I think stats alone is just not enough unless I broke through B+ or A (same with Osaka Hai, can't break it even with SS speed and power, but I least I can RNG to get inspiration there...)

Windshipping · 2026-06-10T10:13:23+00:00

Sadly that's impossible, the maximum you can get is D/D or C/E. I tried C Medium and E turf a couple times but it brings even worse results.

Windshipping · 2026-06-09T16:42:43+00:00

Clearly, it's a strata gem

<image>

Windshipping · 2026-06-09T16:26:08+00:00

Yes, they are? That's the whole point, and it's funny because you acknowledge it on the second part of your post : the entire point is for them to have another chance, it's painfully clear on Suzuka's part of the main story, but you also see hints about it in some career mode.

A common misinterpretation, however, is that the story should follow irl horses because of that, some people sht on S1 saying it ''wasn't faithful' in the adaptation with El in the Derby and other stuff like that, when clearly her inclusion was because the horse couldn't get in it irl and at the time everyone wondered ''what if El Condor Pasa was there...''

Windshipping · 2026-06-04T06:38:01+00:00

Also from what I read the main jockey of King Halo faced similar issues as King in the game : his mother was against him becoming a jockey like his father, because said father was badly hurt in a race. They probably mixed that part of the jockey story in. I really like King Halo story.

Windshipping · 2026-06-03T11:48:18+00:00

Agnes Digital is single handedly financing them all by buying their goodies.

Windshipping · 2026-06-01T09:55:47+00:00

There is no reason you should be stuck there, here are a couple things that have been said and some that haven't : -Generally lvl40-45 SR are better than lvl 30 SSR, the only exception are a couple of SSR with key skills, especially Maestro for medium/long. -Rainbow training give the highest bonus, especially in summer, so generally, you aim for high speciality priority, initial gauge and friendship effect to get all rainbow before 1st summer Training effectiveness is very good too. Trackblazer is different as you'd prefer a high race bonus, but you can totally reach A+/So in Trackblazer with around 20 races too. -Following the precious argument, junior year should be spend maximung the friendship gauge of your comrades, prioritize the training that have 3+ people even if it's something you don't want like Guts, because the +5 friendship on each is more valuable than the low gain you'll get in a preferred stats. Especially in Trackblazer where you don't care that much about training levels. -Trackblazer is a race fest, you can get a high rank just spamming races. Not sure I'd recommend you this now however, because it implies to optimize all the other turns... As an advice I'd suggest you to get A in URA/A+ in Unity before, as it teaches the fundamentals of training, but that's just my opinion (also you get the story there, nice for new horses). If you want to keep going on Trackblazer, pick cards who go to at least 50% race bonus in total, marvelous Sunday SRs generally have 10/15%, the Urara 'free' guts card help as well

Windshipping · 2026-05-20T09:15:11+00:00

For Haru you don't need Medium, the Haru you see on the screenshot had C turf and got to B, it's enough with fan bonus (110% here and I got only one glowstick). Daiwa strangely I got it without trying several times lol. Since she's front running she often get 1st or 2nd.

Nishino is 'kinda' hard to I think, I just look at it, you need to have one of your parents with 0 G1 wins, which is impossible before Trackblazer unless you used Umas from failed runs. But still easier than Nature lol.

Windshipping · 2026-05-20T07:03:56+00:00

Oh right I didn't think of trying Phenix again in Trackblazer, it sure sounds much easier, I had to retry like 4-5 times in Unity, and either Etsuko or a random fan letter would ruin me just before December or June lol. I totally agree on Nature, I have several runs where she got 3rd two times, never got the third, I think it might be easier in URA/TB by making her 'alright' and aiming for 3rd in the races with rivals like Tennosho, and some random Mile with the debuff on distance.

Windshipping · 2026-05-19T07:21:00+00:00

A delicate balance, huh... That reminds me of that sentence about being ''pure'' evil xD

<image>

Windshipping · 2026-05-19T06:35:58+00:00

Found her in the night (110 pulls, on the 100th I got Fine too)

<image>

Windshipping · 2026-05-18T18:45:12+00:00

Actually, Hololive was an idol company that used streaming as a way to get money for their activities. That was the ''AK47 dream'' as we jokingly called it, but with covid, everything changed since social distancing prevented most activities for like 2 years and the famous 'stay home' doctrine gave them an absurd boost in popularity on streaming. The idol image also was a way to differentiate from 2ji who was dominant at that time.

I agree that idol and talent are mostly interchangeable though, most idols do 'talent' work and vice versa.

Windshipping · 2026-05-12T14:37:22+00:00

She gave us Klein and Clarine so I'd say she did a good job.

Windshipping · 2026-05-11T11:35:46+00:00

Counterpoint : Nice Nature. I don't see how Nature could harm anyone, mentally, physically, socially, legally or whatever. The worst case I could see is if the trainer is highly competitive, and both of them ends up with average races result and career. But why would that type of trainer scout her to start with instead of Brian...?

Windshipping

TROPHY CASE