Every car in this game has an anime girl paintjob, what's not to love?
Well, the fact that you have to play for hours to unlock difficulties that won't put you to sleep is a big flaw, but easily avoided nowadays when saved games are easily available online.
Now, GTI Club's review scores were extremely negative back when it came out, this does make sense since it came out at the time where arcade racers without dozens of hours of content where seen as disposable trash. I of course think that that approach to game analysis is extremely flawed, especially so in such a unique title.
Like the arcade games that preceded it Supermini Festa's course design is extremely open, and the care that went into making the courses resemble their real counterparts while still feeling like cutesy miniatures is evident. Both of these factors coupled with the very distinctive handling model that mixes accesibility with some respectable depth and a roster of playable cars composed entirely of compacts make Supermini Festa stand out from most others in its genre, a big feat considering how vast the arcade racing genre is.