There's a lot of good ideas in this one, but execution is quite poor. Gameplay wise it should be similar to Mario Kart but it is severely lacking the level of polish and fine-tuning Nintendo puts into their kart racing mechanics. There's a lot to be said about Nintendo's use of rubber banding AI and terrible balancing, but the driving always feels tight. This game, on the other hand, feels quite sloppy with a lot of very weird slowdowns in speed, like before approaching a ramp, that breaks what could have been an otherwise fluid experience. The game also seems buggy, with changes to control mapping either not applying at all or becoming randomized.
Doesn't help that things like the obviously cheapo impersonation or AI-powered voice acting ruins the game's atmosphere. Old fans aren't going to be enthused with how they sound, and kids are not as stupid as the developers/publisher seem to think they are. Also, the forced tutorial race is HORRIBLY done. For one thing, if your kart racer has so many mechanics that need to be communicated in a tutorial rather than being learnable through gameplay, it's a failure. Second, the abrupt slow down that happens when explaining a mechanic destroys the flow of gameplay and makes it VERY easy to mess up whatever it is they're trying to teach.

There's a lot of good ideas in this one, but execution is quite poor. Gameplay wise it should be similar to Mario Kart but it is severely lacking the level of polish and fine-tuning Nintendo puts into their kart racing mechanics. There's a lot to be said about Nintendo's use of rubber banding AI and terrible balancing, but the driving always feels tight. This game, on the other hand, feels quite sloppy with a lot of very weird slowdowns in speed, like before approaching a ramp, that breaks what could have been an otherwise fluid experience. The game also seems buggy, with changes to control mapping either not applying at all or becoming randomized. Doesn't help that things like the obviously cheapo impersonation or AI-powered voice acting ruins the game's atmosphere. Old fans aren't going to be enthused with how they sound, and kids are not as stupid as the developers/publisher seem to think they are. Also, the forced tutorial race is HORRIBLY done. For one thing, if your kart racer has so many mechanics that need to be communicated in a tutorial rather than being learnable through gameplay, it's a failure. Second, the abrupt slow down that happens when explaining a mechanic destroys the flow of gameplay and makes it VERY easy to mess up whatever it is they're trying to teach.