This is literally just Sonic Forces Speed Battle except they're in cars now.

I managed to get a free trial to Apple Arcade specifically to try out Sonic Dream Team. After finishing it I thought to myself, "Yeah might as well", and played a bit of Sonic Racing before I went and cancelled it. Good thing I decided to do this too, because...woof, this ain't much of a game I'll tell you that much.

I've already said it in the intro statement but Sonic Racing really is just Sonic Forces Speed Battle again. Only this time, you're in a car. You collect and upgrade your weapons through lootcrates or by the tickets you earn, you progress by racing and unlock new characters and tracks by gaining trophies (though for a huge chunk of the game you're facing nothing but bots), and the gameplay is very, VERY simple. It's a weird mishmash of a typical watered-down mobile racing game and trying to cram Team Sonic Racing's teamwork mechanics into an experience that cannot take advantage of it. Slipstreams, Skimboosts, Item Transferring, etc are not universal mechanics anymore; instead, they're single abilities given to individual characters you can add to your team. Even if you wanted to try and effectively support your allies like you could in TSR, you can't, because the AI in this game is genuinely dumb as rocks and the mechanics are too simplistic to be engaged with dynamically. As far as I'm aware, you can't even fire items backward. Not helping things is the track design being so laughably basic to accommodate for the fact that this is a mobile game.

This is better than Mario Kart Tour at least, but that's not exactly saying a whole lot now, is it?

At first I was having fun playing the game but I noticed that you’re playing the same races over and over to grind. I’ve unlocked all the leagues except for the last one. They’re unlocked by collecting enough points. Your weapons are also made stronger by grinding for currency. You can do challenges to earn more currency. You can think of playing with certain characters or weapons. This is basically the game. Only races to earn points/currency, hence the grind. You can’t select the stages and there’s no variety like with other Sonic racing games. It was fun while it lasted.