This review contains spoilers
This shit sucks ass! Just as much a Mario Kart clone as you'd expect it to be, except it looks way worse, plays way worse, is way less satisfying, has way more generic and fewer characters and tracks, and is based on a violently consumerist children's YouTube channel. To sum it up in a sentence, it's just "Mario Kart but worse and a .png of Ryan Kaji pops up occasionally."
Don't really know what else to say. I feel like races are way too long, or maybe it's just the lack of variety that makes them feel that way. For whatever reason I decided I was gonna try to 100% this game, and to do so requires you to beat the final cup (Which has 6 tracks, ALL of which you've played before in the previous cups) on all three difficulties, which is insane how boring it is. Although I guess to be fair it probably wasn't designed to be 100%ed. I did learn a good strategy that seems to work for pretty much every level - Get out into 1st place (Not hard to do just by drifting at every turn), and then turn on both Smart Steering and Auto-Acceleration. Your character then just automatically drives through the course on their own, and the only input you need to give is if you feel like using an item - actually, sorry, they're called "The magic skill" in this game.
Not much else to say here. The achievement names are really funny, they all feel both mistranslated and in the wrong order. Like there's a cup called the "Hook Prize Cup" that has a hook hand as its icon, and the achievement for beating it on Hard is called "Fly me to the moon." But then the achievement for beating the "Royal Race Cup" on Medium is called "I wanna be a Pirate!" Trying to decipher what the achievement names are actually supposed to be is probably significantly more fun than playing Race With Ryan.
Final thoughts after 100%ing it: There are actually some stupid but fun little exploits in here you can do, like coming out of a drift immediately as you get hit to avoid the spin out animation entirely and just keep going. Also some questions: Why are his parents not playable when they're 2 of the three actual people involved with the channel? Why is there paid DLC that unlocks skins based on some but not all US states? Weird game. Ryan told me I was a champion though so that was nice.
Don't really know what else to say. I feel like races are way too long, or maybe it's just the lack of variety that makes them feel that way. For whatever reason I decided I was gonna try to 100% this game, and to do so requires you to beat the final cup (Which has 6 tracks, ALL of which you've played before in the previous cups) on all three difficulties, which is insane how boring it is. Although I guess to be fair it probably wasn't designed to be 100%ed. I did learn a good strategy that seems to work for pretty much every level - Get out into 1st place (Not hard to do just by drifting at every turn), and then turn on both Smart Steering and Auto-Acceleration. Your character then just automatically drives through the course on their own, and the only input you need to give is if you feel like using an item - actually, sorry, they're called "The magic skill" in this game.
Not much else to say here. The achievement names are really funny, they all feel both mistranslated and in the wrong order. Like there's a cup called the "Hook Prize Cup" that has a hook hand as its icon, and the achievement for beating it on Hard is called "Fly me to the moon." But then the achievement for beating the "Royal Race Cup" on Medium is called "I wanna be a Pirate!" Trying to decipher what the achievement names are actually supposed to be is probably significantly more fun than playing Race With Ryan.
Final thoughts after 100%ing it: There are actually some stupid but fun little exploits in here you can do, like coming out of a drift immediately as you get hit to avoid the spin out animation entirely and just keep going. Also some questions: Why are his parents not playable when they're 2 of the three actual people involved with the channel? Why is there paid DLC that unlocks skins based on some but not all US states? Weird game. Ryan told me I was a champion though so that was nice.