SERVERLY EDITED: I'm rewriting this review to do this game justice because I fucking love this game so much.

Crash Tag Team Racing is a dumb, stupid, mindless game where jump around to collect random stuff, talk to characters that spout out the most nonsense shit ever, blow up everyone in your path to claim victory, and I fucking love it.

Yes I am well aware this game is heavily flawed. The racing itself not very polished and it's somewhat unbalanced. The concept of fusing with other cars is really interesting because if you want to win, you're kind of forced to fuse with other people, however, you or your partner can decide to not fuse whenever you want and take the win for yourself, BUT if you're playing alone and this is the case for a lot people, when fusing with an AI, they would never let go of you unless you decide to let go or you run out ammo for your turret. It is so rare to have an AI let go of you out of sheer will lmao. Other than that, the combat is very simple and mindless fun.

The platforming side of the game is really fun too and probably might be more fun the race itself, but honestly it's about the same in terms of fun for me. Actually, you don't have to race all that much if you wanna beat the game. All of the worlds you visit give a good amount of power crystals to move on to the next world besides the last one because you will need a lot of power crystals so you have to participate in races whether you like it or not. Other than that, you collect park tokens, power crystals, do side quests, unlock shortcuts for one race track, and even collect chickens for that extra challenge. Oh yeah another thing, you can also earn park tokens in races too, but you can reset park tokens in each world after you find a power gem or complete the chicken challenge. Every time you complete the chicken challenges, your park tokens will always reset so that means you can collect them in that same world pretty much forever and not participate in a race at all. Although the faster way of getting park tokens is participating in races, but it is up to the player. Each worlds are small and condensed that it's fun to revisit them on each playthrough.

Lastly, I gotta say the music is really really good and dare I say one of the soundtracks for a Crash game. Spiral Mouth are at their best when composing for each hub worlds. The music is atmospheric, fit the theme, and very catchy. The race tracks... er tracks are really awesome too. Marc Baril co-composed along side Spiral Mouth to give the tracks some extra flavor.

Overall, I adore this game. It's pure dumb fun at its finest.

Reviewed on Sep 28, 2021


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