This games ability to turn every day settings into race courses is charming. Things like the race track lines changing depending on the location, such as using cereal in a kitchen, is creative. And you even get different vehicles for each of these settings, with their own speed and handling. Though that's not always a good thing...

The main problem I have with the game is that the camera makes it nearly impossible to play a lot of the courses without memorising them ahead of time. You have split seconds to react to turns and obstacles. In some vehicles this isn't too bad, but some of the faster ones can be a nightmare. The worst of these by FAR are the sports cars in the classroom stages. They're super fast and their handling is pure shit. Plus they decided to make these the courses with the most obstacles and falling points?? While I could at least say all the other vehicles and courses could be played well if you know their layout, the sports car stages are pure frustration. Trying to line your car up to a tiny ruler bridge after a turn is near impossible. They are single-handedly the reason I couldn't do the 25-track-straight single player mode.

Basically the game does a great job at making use of the theming of the tracks to create unique track elements, but the camera angle makes it very unforgiving to anyone not intimately familiar with the courses already. And classroom tracks can go to hell.

Reviewed on Apr 07, 2022


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