I have been plying SRB2Kart near the time it came out and have my own server (Becky House hiii) and have been observing whatever I can of Ring Racers secret Frankenstien’s lab development so I make this review from a place of passion and dissatisfaction I guess
I don’t know my exact hours but i’ve played basically as soon as I got up to now as i’m typing this so it has to be at least near or over 10 hours. Also no stars since I don’t think this is a game that can be rates by stars.
Its interesting to me. The game is so ambitious yet so aimless, so ready to give you accessibility options but also takes away options that were in the first game . This game is so so so so much but so valid at the same time.
There’s so many mechanics. You can drop down in the air now, you collect rings to go fast. if you have a ring item it can overcharge you and make you have a speed boost for awhile AND you use rings to go faster on slopes (I hate this but more on that later), new items like 200+ stages (including the bonus ones), a fucking spindash, and a tail whip that you can use when you have zero rings.
All of this sounds kinda cool right? Well actually the way they are implemented sucks so bad. Firstly, the drop. You think it’d useful because of V1 air time problem but holy fuck it has a bounce (and i tested you can literally bounce forever if you time it right) and the bounce does so much harm than good. Half the time I make the right choice and use it to land I bounce and if the stage has a lit or a part with no rails, I bounce off and have to wait to respawn. and its like LOL whats the point in that mechanic.
Speaking of useless mechanics lets talk about spin dashing and shortcuts because they go in tandem because they invented a new problem for themselves to solve because of the spindash. You hold down the. button and charge a spindash basically you know sonic shit. The only problem is that it halts your momentum and with a game all about that it is hard to justify using it. you typically use it for the starting linefor a start boost, which is now like sonic riders one except bad cause you can completely die during it and it last so long already so if some bullshit happens to you have fun waiting like 10-20 seconds of just not playing the game. because of the start line change, you NOW charge the spindash and let go at the right time for the boost which is kinda ok but the spindash also has no cancel so sometimes I fuck the timing up by a second and try to fix it and remember “oh yeah this propels me forward now” and i’m dead. I think a cancel and a little faster charging time is the true say to make it worse hell you lose rings anyways for holding it too long so lol.
An even more sorta useless mechanic is the tailspin which you can do when you have 0 rings. on paper sounds sick but this game is alll about those fucking rings. if you have less than 20 you just go slower than ofher people, if they hit you when you have 0 or negative rings you tumble and man all i’ll say about the tumbling is that it is the most annoying and boring thing to have to sit througj after seeing bullshit. now that I explained the extra stuff of the ring mechanics you understand why this move kinda sucks. I feeel like you should be able to use it anytime for like a penalty of 2 rings, but because of the ring button making you faster so you can go on slope and they’re both mapped to one button, you have to WASTE. all of your rings, let go of the button, and THEN you can do it and it can like deflect jawz and stuff, but its so must risk for very specific situation it might as well not be in the damn game.
And I haven’t even talked about the stage bloat really or how the stages are kinda either under designed or overly design (play green hills in v1 and then play it in ring racers lol). I haven’t talked about how they lock online and even addons through a kirby air ride smash checklist box, hell they even make you search for colors in the damn game you don’t even get the right to have all the fucking colors. You have to play like so many hours just to be able to play as some of the characters fuck you have to do mystic melody sonic adventure 2 shrines to get some of these characters its just ridiculous I feel it feels like the devs heard people talking shit about the former single player and got so mad they fucking put too much single player i can’t believe i’m saying that man.
I haven’t even mentioned the fucking long patronizing tutorials that does not teach you any cool new mechanics or how the items work but they teach you how to fucking drift and like yeah thats nice for new comers (if this game was actually beginner friendly) but like the fact you have to do a race and shit just to skip it no button is ridiculous.
The game is ridiculous it feels like you have to play it in a specific ways or the devs will spit on you basically in way. It just feels spiteful in a way I don’t know maybe if the game updates and mod support flourishes it will be fine but the stages are overly designed, items feel like they got overly nerfed or they’re way way way too good, you get hit snd tumble so often it just kills your whole momentum for the race, and i’m tired and kinda want to make an actual video for this so i’m gonna end the review here for now but fuck. I’m just decently disappointed because from what I played there is a fun good game in this genuinely I just wish it didn’t come with a overly bloated and daunting bad game.
I don’t know my exact hours but i’ve played basically as soon as I got up to now as i’m typing this so it has to be at least near or over 10 hours. Also no stars since I don’t think this is a game that can be rates by stars.
Its interesting to me. The game is so ambitious yet so aimless, so ready to give you accessibility options but also takes away options that were in the first game . This game is so so so so much but so valid at the same time.
There’s so many mechanics. You can drop down in the air now, you collect rings to go fast. if you have a ring item it can overcharge you and make you have a speed boost for awhile AND you use rings to go faster on slopes (I hate this but more on that later), new items like 200+ stages (including the bonus ones), a fucking spindash, and a tail whip that you can use when you have zero rings.
All of this sounds kinda cool right? Well actually the way they are implemented sucks so bad. Firstly, the drop. You think it’d useful because of V1 air time problem but holy fuck it has a bounce (and i tested you can literally bounce forever if you time it right) and the bounce does so much harm than good. Half the time I make the right choice and use it to land I bounce and if the stage has a lit or a part with no rails, I bounce off and have to wait to respawn. and its like LOL whats the point in that mechanic.
Speaking of useless mechanics lets talk about spin dashing and shortcuts because they go in tandem because they invented a new problem for themselves to solve because of the spindash. You hold down the. button and charge a spindash basically you know sonic shit. The only problem is that it halts your momentum and with a game all about that it is hard to justify using it. you typically use it for the starting linefor a start boost, which is now like sonic riders one except bad cause you can completely die during it and it last so long already so if some bullshit happens to you have fun waiting like 10-20 seconds of just not playing the game. because of the start line change, you NOW charge the spindash and let go at the right time for the boost which is kinda ok but the spindash also has no cancel so sometimes I fuck the timing up by a second and try to fix it and remember “oh yeah this propels me forward now” and i’m dead. I think a cancel and a little faster charging time is the true say to make it worse hell you lose rings anyways for holding it too long so lol.
An even more sorta useless mechanic is the tailspin which you can do when you have 0 rings. on paper sounds sick but this game is alll about those fucking rings. if you have less than 20 you just go slower than ofher people, if they hit you when you have 0 or negative rings you tumble and man all i’ll say about the tumbling is that it is the most annoying and boring thing to have to sit througj after seeing bullshit. now that I explained the extra stuff of the ring mechanics you understand why this move kinda sucks. I feeel like you should be able to use it anytime for like a penalty of 2 rings, but because of the ring button making you faster so you can go on slope and they’re both mapped to one button, you have to WASTE. all of your rings, let go of the button, and THEN you can do it and it can like deflect jawz and stuff, but its so must risk for very specific situation it might as well not be in the damn game.
And I haven’t even talked about the stage bloat really or how the stages are kinda either under designed or overly design (play green hills in v1 and then play it in ring racers lol). I haven’t talked about how they lock online and even addons through a kirby air ride smash checklist box, hell they even make you search for colors in the damn game you don’t even get the right to have all the fucking colors. You have to play like so many hours just to be able to play as some of the characters fuck you have to do mystic melody sonic adventure 2 shrines to get some of these characters its just ridiculous I feel it feels like the devs heard people talking shit about the former single player and got so mad they fucking put too much single player i can’t believe i’m saying that man.
I haven’t even mentioned the fucking long patronizing tutorials that does not teach you any cool new mechanics or how the items work but they teach you how to fucking drift and like yeah thats nice for new comers (if this game was actually beginner friendly) but like the fact you have to do a race and shit just to skip it no button is ridiculous.
The game is ridiculous it feels like you have to play it in a specific ways or the devs will spit on you basically in way. It just feels spiteful in a way I don’t know maybe if the game updates and mod support flourishes it will be fine but the stages are overly designed, items feel like they got overly nerfed or they’re way way way too good, you get hit snd tumble so often it just kills your whole momentum for the race, and i’m tired and kinda want to make an actual video for this so i’m gonna end the review here for now but fuck. I’m just decently disappointed because from what I played there is a fun good game in this genuinely I just wish it didn’t come with a overly bloated and daunting bad game.