generally have a well-earned distaste for video game remakes, especially with how N. Sane Trilogy turned out. unlike that game, this game is pretty and the music isn't butchered. in fact, it's better than the original and one of my favorite games ever.

Beenox was smart. they knew that Naughty Dog already made the greatest kart racer of all time. what can they do? copy the tight controls, except make it faster and add more stuff. Beenox further developed mechanics like u-turning and blue flame, allowing you to use both with less restrictions. it makes the game fast as hell, while still feeling like you have complete control.

the tracks and roster are both great, and do something I wish more remakes would do: use the good from the bad in the good. sorry for the stroke. what I mean is, take characters or tracks from less than good Crash games and put them in a good game. they did this perfectly, reaching across Crash's entire (except Twinsanity) history. finally, I can play Nitro Kart tracks without falling asleep

there are definite issues: Activision are greedy little piggies that added microtransactions to buy inflated cosmetics, 30fps, and long load times being the big ones. playing on Switch emulator is the best option and fixes the former two, but sadly the load times still suck, some textures are N64 level shit, there's minor emulator bugs, and obviously there's no online. one day my endless prayers for a PC port will be answered.

they even added the placeholder line accidentally left in the original by having the character voice it himself!! that’s so cool! this game rules!!

I love this game. It is probably the hardest kart racing game I've ever played, but it is so much more fun than any Mario Kart game I've ever played imo.

You can't fall sleep behind the wheel in this one, it ain't like Mario Kart where most of the modes are easy as hell. Here, you have to stay alert at all times because any wrong move will cause you to lose the race...And that is just against the bots!

I love the drifting and boosting system this game goes for, it's more of a risk vs reward situation. If you want to go fast in this game, you have to master not just the controls, but the tracks as well... And lemme tell you, some of these tracks are a BITCH to race through.

This game is great, because there are so many tracks and characters from Crash's history, and it doesn't really have that many downsides......But the ones it does have...? Oh boy...

Yeah, this game is filled to the brim with content....Content that you have to unlock, either by playing the game a lot...Or macrotransactions. Yes, macro, because most of the good shit you can actually unlock in this game, like ALMOST THE ENTIRE CAST OF CHARACTERS AND SKINS, are all behind a paywall.

This game is one of the scummiest examples of a greedy videogame company charging me money for a game I ALREADY PAID FOR. It really doesn't incentivize to play much, when no matter how much I play, every single alternate costume and character is behind a store rotation, and a price so ridiculously high, that I would have to play like a 100 races or more, just to get enough to purchase just ONE ITEM.

It's not like I could tho. Online servers for this game were pretty much dead since week one on Switch, since everyone else is playing Mario Kart 8 instead. And playing locally with friends is a massive chore, because the loading screens in this game are ETERNAL; it takes a while for anything to happen, at least on Switch.

I just fucking hate Activision/Blizzard for not releasing this shit on PC where it could actually have an active community, and also for killing this game by filling it with shameless macrotransactions. Truly, fuck these companies man, I'm so glad Toys for Bob cut ties with them.

I found this new version very on point! I finished this game in 2019 and I still play it to these day. I had plenty of fun mastering my drift mechanic's for completing the 100%. In term of graphic and gameplay everything was on point in my opinion. I looked some of the speedrun that people made on youtube where's the creator comment on the video, all the team seems very passionate and proud by what they've made. Only downside is the loading situation i have to deal with on Nintendo Switch but regardless of that, I enjoyed this game pretty much! Crash racing 1 / Mariokart 0

Para mí, el mejor juego de carreras de karts que hay, lo disfruto mucho más que Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Su jugabilidad me parece mucho más dinámica y divertida, el roaster de personajes es una oda a toda la franquicia de Crash, no solo a los 3 primeros de Naughty Dog, incluso están de invitados personajes de la franquicia de Spyro. Durante el primer año del lanzamiento de juego hicieron una barbaridad de contenido para mantener a la comunidad viva jugando cada mes con diferentes skins, circuitos, personajes nuevos... Yo por suerte pude vivir ese momento y disfrutarlo junto a un gran amigo mío y os diré que fue único.
Ahora ya tenéis disponible todo el contenido, tendréis que desbloquearlo jugando y jugando y jugando, pero aún así, os lo recomiendo encarecidamente.

Absolutely adored the original and this one is just as good if not better. The mechanics are definitely different which took some getting used to but being able to extend blue flame makes it all worth it. The visual upgrade is nice and they really nailed the feeling of going fast, I'm not sure if you actually move faster in the remake but it sure felt like it. The new graphics do reduce visual clarity on some tracks, like Hot Air Skyway having this fog that make its harder to see the upcoming track, but overall it was a pleasure to look at. Awful microtransactions aside, a great remaster.