After buying Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 for dirt cheap, I didn't know what to expect. I'm the kind of guy who likes very good games, but I also enjoy mediocre stuff. Back in my day, you could have licensed shovelware for days. These days, the mobile market pretty much had completely absorbed all of this market, and we don't have a lot of budget licensed console games no more.

That said, I had kind of a blast with the second game. I played all the cups and most of the challenges. I thought about getting NKR3 too. It wasn't too expensive on Steam Sale. I got it.

NKR2 felt like Mario Kart 8 on the antonym of steroids. It was a very OKAY game. The driving is kind of fire, though. It isn't amazing, but I would have to lie to say that I was not entertained.

NKR3 feels a lot like Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed. They figured out how to make water, and they went all out on it. Every track has a water part in which your kart becomes a boat. The boat parts play a lot like the normal parts, though, so it isn't a big nuisance, just an annoyingly reocurring aspect of the courses. It is most glaring when the course itself doesn't mesh well with the idea of a water part. You have water parts on the FARM course, and I bet I won't finish this game without seeing water on the DESERT courses too.

The game looks super good... Besides the fact that they cranked the bloom up to the moon. I recommend you to play this game with sunglasses on. What I mean is, the courses look good in a technical level, and the character models are great.

You get coins for racing, and you can grind for new characters, karts and motorcycles. Yes, they put bikes on NKR 3. Bikes are so light and fast that I feel stupid for racing with my karts sometimes. I still do it, though, because some characters look like they are more of car-persons.

This game have you choosing an ultimate skill + a pair of passive skills that guarantee advantages under certain conditions. All these skills have cooldowns. The ultimate must be charged by getting "slimed" in the races. You can do this by racing over slime puddles, picking up slime coins, or if you get in front of slime pipes that spit a lot of slime on you. The passive skills recharge over a short time.

NKR 3 also implements shortcuts, usually in the form of slime slides... Those are fast grinding sections in which you go really fast down a slime slide. There are little walls here and there to hinder you velocity. If you time your jumps to skip those, you can go really fast.

The shortcuts aren't well hidden, though, and it's so hard to miss them that they feel like the canon course.

I'm saying all this mediocre details, but NKR 3 is kinda fire ngl. I'm having fun with it, and I recommend it on sale. (I paid like $5,00 for it and found the purchase to be totally worth it.)

while not the best Kart Racer I've played I have to admit I got some kicks out of this game, much like I did it's predecessor NKR2, but the game itself does have some snags, mainly the stuff you might imagine with it being a licensed kids game.

with there just being a slight lack of polish, while not a horrible buggy mess there is stuff I've noticed, like collision being very buggy, and when falling out of bounds (like out of the track for example) it clips through the floor exposing buggy textures and geometry, granted it's gone a second later and your back in the race but I still feel it's necessary to mention.

but me being a Nick Fan I had a lot of fun playing this game, being able to race as characters that I like, like SpongeBob, Danny Phantom and Lincoln Loud, but yeah if you're a Nickelodeon fan and don't mind a slightly downgraded Mario Kart I'd say you should pick this up, but at the same time if you don't care for Nickelodeon, like at all I'd say don't even bother, for would be fans it has characters from far and wide, like Ang, Jimmy Neutron, Zim, the TMNT, among others! also Jojo Siwa (I don't know I thought that was funny).

but all things aside the game itself is a fine/fun romp for what it is but nothing more, and for the love of Jesus if you want this game don't spend $40 on it, either wait for a price drop or just buy it second hand, cause let me tell you, it's a fine game but it is nowhere NEAR worth $40 fucking dollars.

but yeah Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway is a fun if just ok racing game, while being able to have a good time with it comes nowhere to the likes of Mario Kart or Sonic Racing, I'd only recommend this to diehard Nickelodeon Fans and nothing more,

This game fucking breaks every single time my sister and I play it. We both experienced stuff like falling through the map (it can continuously repeat, if it so wants to), jump pads straight up not working at times on the NYC Rooftops track, driving in mid-air as if we were still on the track on the San Lorenzo Cruise track, boost pads deflecting your vehicle on the Ba Sing Se track, being stuck in the floor with the ability to continue driving on but slowly, and more. I don't understand why some tracks have their own individual glitchy quirks. The game had the audacity to completely crash at one point, and then (on another occasion) blast screechy, ear-raping audio at us.

Turtle Lair is the most unenjoyable track in the game. I can't tell you how many times we've been turned around 180° in that track, not by the AI, but by the walls... somehow. You're pretty much buggered if that happens to you. At times, the AI can be absolute cunts and ram themselves into you, which leads to you being spun around 180° or get pushed about. A heavier-weighted character would help, sure, but walls and objects shouldn't be as stupidly deflective as they are. And characters bashing you about doesn't help. Everything I mentioned is ridiculous; you might as well make a "what will fuck up?" bingo card and use it for every playthrough.

I feel like parts of the game were either not tested or even thought about before putting things into place, like the characters voice lines during the winning screens. You'd expect the voice lines to be short, because the characters only have a very limited time on the screen, but some of them are way too long and end up being overlapped by the next character's voice line. It becomes a mess. CatDog is an example of that. Irrelevant to the voice lines, my noticed that Dog glitches out when he's on the podium. That happened whenever she came 3rd place with CatDog. I don't know if that happens at 1st or 2nd place. Also, the camera is a bit too close to the characters, so tall characters, like Danny, end up having parts of their faces or heads cut off.

Personal nit-picky bit: I find it rather odd that you have SpongeBob, Danny, and Jimmy as part of the cast... but no Timmy? I'm not aware of any reason why he wasn't included, if one exists that is. It would be interesting if characters, like Tak (from Tak and the Power of Juju), El Tigre, or maybe even some Rocket Power characters were to be seen in the next Nickelodeon Kart Racers game, but I would imagine that those characters aren't up for consideration. I say all of this as someone that played Nicktoons Movin', Attack of the Toybots, and Battle for Volcano Island (my favourite Nicktoons game) as a kid.

Regardless, it's fun to play it with someone, I guess... It's an okay game, but I wouldn't recommend paying full price for it.