This is almost the same game that you may or may not have played on the Nintendo 64, but portable. Being able to play this wherever and whenever you wanted was very smart, and working with Rare again to get this released was surprising to see.
With all that said, this is a somewhat lesser version of the original, and it is thanks to the controls. The Nintendo DS does not have any analogue stick, which makes controlling 3D games much harder than before. Now, if this game was like Mario Kart where you only drive a kart around a course it wouldn't be an issue, but flying the plane, and looking around the hub world felt much more cumbersome to do here than in the original.
Other than that, some of the characters and voices were changed for various reasons which always felt off to me since I was so used to the original, but I can understand why the changes were made. This is still a good game throughout, and I almost always have fun with it.
With all that said, this is a somewhat lesser version of the original, and it is thanks to the controls. The Nintendo DS does not have any analogue stick, which makes controlling 3D games much harder than before. Now, if this game was like Mario Kart where you only drive a kart around a course it wouldn't be an issue, but flying the plane, and looking around the hub world felt much more cumbersome to do here than in the original.
Other than that, some of the characters and voices were changed for various reasons which always felt off to me since I was so used to the original, but I can understand why the changes were made. This is still a good game throughout, and I almost always have fun with it.