I actually really dig everything about this game - I love the aesthetic, the music is rad, the sound design is spot on. It's all great... except I have absolutely no idea how to really play it and every time I try it totally kicks my ass. It's really easy to irrecoverably oversteer, or, understeer - the controls feel almost numb. Re the theme use, the 60 seconds of slowmo? If you only use it in small doses, you don't really notice that it has a limit until it's all gone - and it could as easily be 40 seconds, or 75, it doesn't seem like it makes any big statement. Plus it's a limited resource so, a lot of people are at first going to avoid leaning on it, and you're going to rely on the rest of the game to feel fun to hook those people.
And, unfortunately, although it genuinely seems like there's some deeper & enjoyable gameplay to be found here, it pushes a new player away reaaaal hard, almost right away. I really do feel like everything that's here is solid, but, it only has the weird 'expert' mode that you're supposed to get after beating the regular game 5 times or something.