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When this game released, it was the ultimate kart racer. While the premier kart racer of the time, Mario Kart 64, has shown its age with time, I would argue Crash Team Racing holds up completely. The gameplay supersedes Mario Kart 64's in nearly every way. With its single player campaign, multitudes of content for a kart racer of its day, and engaging gameplay that even nowadays Mario Kart struggles to match, this classic kart-racer demands to be given a play through and it is well worth it.

An almost perfect game. Just needed N. Brio and Koala Kong as playable racers.

CTR boasts the best single player of any kart racer, with so many creative challenges to bring the most out of the stellar selection of tracks. The Relic Races are genius, guiding the player towards shortcuts and alternative routes. Sewer Speedway is an absolute all-timer. Great soundtrack, great graphics, balanced power-ups, memorable quotes and quips. Overall just immaculate vibes.

But what makes CTR absolutely timeless is its absurd skill ceiling. You can go real fast in this game. Like, really really fast. And its achievable and knowable without needing to travel forums for secret techs and tricks. Drift like a lunatic, chain those boosts, hit the the turbo pads and it will all just click. Slight bumps with well timed jumps send you soaring through the air as those glowing red hot cones of fire shoot from the exhausts. Such speed opens the mind, as you can try and succeed at some corner cutting and shortcuts that tow the line between intended and exploitation.

Mario Kart weeps. Wipeout blushes. F-Zero smiles.

The closest to perfection Naughty Dog have ever come...

...just wish you could unlock N. Brio and Koala Kong. Like, put them as rewards for beating the underutilised Grand Prix Cups. Their inclusion would mean literally every Crash character would be playable, except Komodo Moe I guess, and yeah the cast is stellar, not like its lacking or anything, but they're cool dudes and I'm greedy and just want more I know I'm being unreasonable and would just play Fake Crash all the time regardless, but...

The pinnacle of the kart racing genre and the first video game I ever played. The boost mechanic and physics are top-notch and this game is filled to the brim with content in comparison to other racing games at the time. All 16 tracks have wonderful designs and are fun to race on and fit well with the game's story mode. While I think Diddy Kong Racing has the better adventure mode, this game's story mode is still pretty good and it is fun to explore the hub world and race through the 16 tracks it takes to get to Oxide. In terms of unlockables, this game has a ton of them. You can unlock every boss character, Fake Crash, and a track called Turbo Track from playing the story, N-Tropy from beating his time trial ghosts, and Penta Penguin by inserting a cheat code in the main menu. You can also unlock a handful of battle mode stages but I don't remember how you do so. Not only was this game a phenomenal competitor for Mario Kart but also one of the best Crash games in the series.

Arguably, the game that encapsulates my entire childhood. Other than a couple others. I think MediEvil is a very special game that is more than just a cult classic. I don't think there is anything like it. Sure, its controls and camera are heavily dated but its tone, aesthetics, inventory structure, level layouts, progression, and backtracking were something very innovative for its time. At least it was to me, and a lot of games for years didn't match it. There was a sense of independence w/ Medievil and Dan was the perfect vessel for me to immerse myself into the Burton-esc journey it bestows.

Man, why didn't I play this sooner? It's a masterpiece and probably the best tactical game of all time. The story is incredibly well written and manages the balancing act between political backstory and character-driven story. The themes are very mature, dealing a lot with class conflicts and the abuse of religion. Ramza is a great protagonist with a really good character arc and I love Agrias Oaks :D Delita's story is also sooo good...and the gameplay...and the music, oh my god....what a unique and brilliant game.

I don't think I've ever played a game that offers a story as intricate as Planescape. The basic question of the game is really interesting and it makes you think about how you would answer this question yourself. The different characters, both NPC and party members, were the big highlight for me. In general, I loved the dark mood and enjoyed every minute of exploring this crazy world. Combat wasn't necessarily much fun, but it can often be avoided through clever dialog. Definitely a game for my all time favorites list and perhaps the best writing I've ever seen.

Incredibly impressive game. What they got out of the PS1 technically is incredible - lighting, facial animations (!), sound design, this is for me the prettiest PS1 game. Add to that the absolutely superb Shakespearean writing and a super captivating but sill smale-scale plot with an undercover agent twist on top. The presentation is very cinematic and even more impressive, considering that Vagrant Story was the developer's first 3D game.

The combat system is quite slow and very tactical, just the way I like it. Fighting in this game seems quite confusing at first, since you have all kinds of stats, weapon types, enemy types etc. that determine whether or not you'll be successfull in a fight. But once you dive a little deeper into the systems of the game and figure out how everything works and interacts with each other, you'll see that this game has some of the deepest and coolest mechanics of the RPG genre.

Some time-based puzzles are a bit annoying but otherwise this game is close to perfection. Maybe this is my favorite game of all time.

Better than celebrities saying "yeah he's cool bla bla"

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Eat your vegetables and brush after every meal.

i feel like if there is one game that blizz or any other "le diablo 2" cloners cannot replicate, it's this game. the schizoid satanic darkcore atmosphere coupled with survival horror tendencies that give you dopamine hits from getting to safety instead of shiny rare nightmare dungeon drops is something no arpg in this day and age will ever give

what if Silent Hill was your phone????? have u ever thought that social media is bad?? teenage girls wouldn't be bullies online if they just went shopping. maybe if they watched Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on a big tasty plasma TV, that'd work too.

Baroque equals distorted pearls a style of art that once prevailed disharmony excess confusion in once upon another time. Age means change.This is the age of great heat. This is the world in destroyed. Baroque equals distorted delusions. in this devastation hold baroque inside yourself should you hope to survive.