While the Horizon Festival provides a progression-driven structure, Japan is also an incredible place to be explored at your own pace. That’s where Discover Japan comes in. While the Horizon Festival focuses on earning Wristbands, Discover Japan is all about obtaining Stamps – a system inspired by Japan’s rich stamp collecting history.
Whether you’re taking photos while cruising the roads of Japan, delivering food as a side hustle, collecting new cars, or playing through Horizon Stories, you will always be earning progress towards your next Stamp. As part of Discover Japan, you can also compete in Touge Battles and thrilling night-time Street Races, which are the perfect place to race the cars you might not be able to use in Festival Events just yet.
With the structured restrictions of the Horizon Festival, Hypercars can’t be used in Festival races until you’ve obtained at least the Purple Wristband, which is quite late into the game. This means players who want to stay engaged in the stricter progression system can do that in the official Horizon Festival events, while others who want to immediately jump into the fastest cars will have unofficial events as part of Discover Japan open to them.
I love that there's both more open races and standard progression system. May 19th feels so far away.
Posted by despitegirls