A handheld port of the first Sonic & SEGA racing game, and a really good one at that. The track designs have been altered to fit the DS more, ensuring it runs smoothly, but it still has the full array of tracks and characters. Even though there’s no analogue stick, the handling feels extremely solid, particularly drifting, perhaps even feeling tighter than Mario Kart DS.
It’s much harder to defend yourself from items, so you’ll be hit a lot. The best defensive weapon is a Mega Horn, which sends out a shockwave of sounds that hits opponents and destroys incoming weapons (wait, that sounds familiar…).
The DS version of the game features a completely different mission mode to the home console versions. Instead of getting rankings, you gain stars for how well you perform, and stars unlock more missions. These can be races, elimination races, shooting or avoiding obstacles, drifting or driving through rings (some of which I found difficult due to colour choices). It won’t take too long to complete them all, but getting 10 stars on all of them is definitely a big challenge.
It’s much harder to defend yourself from items, so you’ll be hit a lot. The best defensive weapon is a Mega Horn, which sends out a shockwave of sounds that hits opponents and destroys incoming weapons (wait, that sounds familiar…).
The DS version of the game features a completely different mission mode to the home console versions. Instead of getting rankings, you gain stars for how well you perform, and stars unlock more missions. These can be races, elimination races, shooting or avoiding obstacles, drifting or driving through rings (some of which I found difficult due to colour choices). It won’t take too long to complete them all, but getting 10 stars on all of them is definitely a big challenge.
I've never played the main console version (although I should rectify that soon) which means this DS port was my introduction to this big crossover of some of SEGA's beloved franchises and you know what? For a DS version of the game it's pretty dang good.
The racing feels good, there's a nice selection of characters to choose from and some fun levels as well.
The Monkey Ball levels are not very good though, shame cause I like that franchise a lot (or at least the first few games anyway) but these are just too twisty and turny for my liking with Monkey Target being the worst of the lot.
Still three rough levels can't bring down a game that's so much fun to play.
The racing feels good, there's a nice selection of characters to choose from and some fun levels as well.
The Monkey Ball levels are not very good though, shame cause I like that franchise a lot (or at least the first few games anyway) but these are just too twisty and turny for my liking with Monkey Target being the worst of the lot.
Still three rough levels can't bring down a game that's so much fun to play.