Style over substance, quantity over quality, while the game is gorgeous to look at and has tons of content, it feels like ass to play.
This is legitimately some of the worst-feeling drifting I've experienced due to it somehow feeling too stiff and too sensitive at the same time which leads to the weakest speed-boost imaginable making the whole act of drifting unsatisfying, not to mention how drifting slows you down considerably and how long it takes to even build a speed-boost making the whole thing feel pointless and you just have to accept that 50% of the time you'll be off-road.
The rubber-banding AI is worse than Mario Kart Wii and results in a frustrating single player experience.
Some of the track design is completely baffling, there's tracks which will sometimes just tell you turn around 180 degrees after an automated section, there's tracks that slow you down to break walls, there's tracks that just have you stop to ride an elevator and then there's tracks full of 90 degree turns back-to-back which with the awful drifting is just incredibly annoying to play.
Oh they also managed to fuck up shortcuts by making them only accessible via speed boost items rather than rewarding people familiar with the tracks and who are able to reach them.
The game feels like a clusterfuck of mechanics that feel situational at best aside from the ring mechanic which feels like a band-aid for the awful drifting and the amount of time spent off-road, the only time you'll use the spin-dash is at the start of the race and when you're stuck on a slope because they made it so that if you're going too slow, you just can't get up slopes, amazing.
Overall, just play SRB2 Kart, I really don't know how they screwed it up this badly.
This is legitimately some of the worst-feeling drifting I've experienced due to it somehow feeling too stiff and too sensitive at the same time which leads to the weakest speed-boost imaginable making the whole act of drifting unsatisfying, not to mention how drifting slows you down considerably and how long it takes to even build a speed-boost making the whole thing feel pointless and you just have to accept that 50% of the time you'll be off-road.
The rubber-banding AI is worse than Mario Kart Wii and results in a frustrating single player experience.
Some of the track design is completely baffling, there's tracks which will sometimes just tell you turn around 180 degrees after an automated section, there's tracks that slow you down to break walls, there's tracks that just have you stop to ride an elevator and then there's tracks full of 90 degree turns back-to-back which with the awful drifting is just incredibly annoying to play.
Oh they also managed to fuck up shortcuts by making them only accessible via speed boost items rather than rewarding people familiar with the tracks and who are able to reach them.
The game feels like a clusterfuck of mechanics that feel situational at best aside from the ring mechanic which feels like a band-aid for the awful drifting and the amount of time spent off-road, the only time you'll use the spin-dash is at the start of the race and when you're stuck on a slope because they made it so that if you're going too slow, you just can't get up slopes, amazing.
Overall, just play SRB2 Kart, I really don't know how they screwed it up this badly.
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@KyuuMetis I appreciate the advice but no matter what character I play as (trust me, I've tried a lot) drifting just feels way too heavy and unsatisfying, no matter what I do it just doesn't feel good, drift closer to the corner = off road, drift further from the corner = bump in to the corner and when I do eventually drift around a corner properly, it gives me the weakest feeling boost ever and it just doesn't feel like it's worth the effort.
I don't think it gels with the chaotic feel of the game either and I still can't get past how much it slows you down when you drift.
I don't think it gels with the chaotic feel of the game either and I still can't get past how much it slows you down when you drift.
@GenghisConn3 The individual stats actually have a massive effect on the handling of drifting, so trying out different characters before it "clicks" is kind of a bad idea IMO. It's a pretty careful balance of consuming rings to carry speed when you need it, brakedrifting to adjust, and simply knowing the track layout. This isn't really a perfect demonstration, but it does demonstrate some of the micro-adjustments you need to make.
Ultimately though it's not a game for everyone.
Ultimately though it's not a game for everyone.
KyuuMetis
1 month ago