If a "survival racing game" sounds a little weird to you, you'd be forgiven. You'd also be wrong, but forgiven all the same. This game has a thumpin' soundtrack, atmospheric environments, and extremely fast, arcadey racing about dodging obstacles and escaping a malevolent AI. If you're a fan of the old school San Francisco Rush racing games, this will scratch the itch you're feeling. It even has a sick mode of what I can only describe as "car platforming" that calls to mind the free roam trick arena from San Francisco Rush 2049.

And it's free! You've got nothing to lose, check it out!

If you're confused about the rating you've clearly never tried to unlock all of the characters in this game. The AI just straight up unashamedly cheats in the 150cc and onward circuits. You can play each track flawlessly and still only have a 10% chance of securing first place.

I just wanna play as Funky Kong, man

I always get the urge to build a big intricate mega castle but then I remember I have the creativity of an almond

I should probably revisit this now that I've seen Evangelion but I'm never gonna get over the fact that a core aspect of this game's visual design is based on a "cockpit" pun

Look I know there are better Monster Hunter games out there but nothing, and I mean nothing, will top playing a fully HD MonHun using the 80+ hour battery life of that amazing Wii U Pro Controller and without a HUD cluttering the beautiful scenery because all of that information is relegated to the tablet which can be effectively propped up as a second screen and has touch control menu shortcuts so you don't have to make naruto no jutsu hand pretzels just to open the map

Hunting with that setup gave me a satisfaction that felt like running a NASA operation or smth

Search up this game's soundtrack on Spotify or whatever, hit shuffle, and come back to this review after a few minutes.

Do I need to say anything else?

The gameplay is a bit undercooked but the aesthetic and soundtrack carry it well out of the dregs of mediocrity on those merits alone

Endlessly replayable and completely addictive, this is probably the game with the most playtime on my PS3. The feeling of keeping a run going through multiple levels, phases, and boss fights helped get me through college. I can't recommend it enough if you're a fan of arcadey experiences.

A fan recreation that ended up becoming the definitive version. This is the premiere timewaster. Nothing else comes close.

this is every bit as joyless as Sticker Star with all the same flaws and shortcomings. RIP Paper Mario, we hardly knew ye

If you thought Lady Maria was tough, wait til you meet Sister Friede

There's a level in this game based on the 1972 sci-fi film Silent Running

The physics on this are off compared to the original and the environments aren't changed to compensate so you end up with something that's just needlessly and sometimes unfairly more difficult than the already torturous original

I'm absolutely livid that the Switch app and the phone app don't have feature parity. Why can I only manage labels on the phone app, but the labels are displayed and sortable on the Switch app? Why?? What purpose does that serve???