It’s really funny to me that both times Naughty Dog ended a trilogy by making a racer they made a game that I enjoyed more than most Mario Karts. I really enjoyed this game a lot. The driving feels really great and I love the variety in mission types in the adventure mode, it kept things feeling fun all the way to the end. I loved the effort they put into the story mode too, they made a story that fit right into the series and felt like a proper end, even if it technically wasn’t. The music is really great too, very 00s. Despite loving this series a lot I never finished this as a kid because my copy got ruined, so playing a game in a series I love for the first time felt surreal.