The GREEDY World Of Mario Kart Clones

at this point Mario Kart is so well known and admired that they basically made Rainbow Road a place of worship and I mean can you blame him Nintendo took the idea of racing game and then filled it with enough goofy mechanics to put a Disney car shop out of business making a young and significantly less intelligent scooch jump for Glee while also Landing this formula not one not two but three times on the top 50 most sold games ever meaning that everyone saw Mario and friends having fun at 150 mph and thought man I got to get in that but unfortunately this success also made every single money hungry Dev team go man we got to get in them and thus a damn near unfathomable amount of Mario Kart clones spawned into existence uh thanks clones created by companies that were hoping to make a quick Buck off of unsuspecting customers looking for a good time and I'll have you know that these were quite successful at least in my book because I spent over $150 of my own money to review these awful strange and downright weird Mario Kart clones so without further Ado let's talk about these oh my god dude are you all right my body it just collapsed when was the last time you ate never what I've never eaten it's too much work well have you heard of factor what is that factor is a subscription-based meal service that takes the hard part out of meal prepping and cooking they send you meals completely ready to heat and serve so you can have something delicious in minutes but what about my macros why do you care you you've never eaten I want to get jacked I want to get jacked well there's Fitness and Wellness options so that you could stick to your goals and focus on your gains and there's also keto vegetarian vegan calorie smart and over 27 different meals to choose from every single week I don't think I could eat 27 meals if I tried meal plans come from 4 to 18 meals a week and you can modify your plan or skip a week if you need to so how do I get this Factor use my link or go to go. factor75.com and use code POG scooch o50 for 50 % off your first box or you can click the link in the description or scan the QR code on your phone and most importantly if you sign up using my link I make money do you hear me in there I need this thank you for the tips I'll definitely go to go. factor75.com and use code POG scooch o50 for 50% off of my first box yeah yeah you better first up we got something from Nickelodeon now I loved this channel as a child because SpongeBob was on it I'm sure if SpongeBob was teaching my physics class I'd probably disprove Isaac Newton because I'd care so much now if we could get a quick flashback to when I said this and thus a damn near unfathomable amount of Mario Kart clones spawned into thank you pass scooch hey you look good uh thanks that joke is going to be so funny like a minute ago the reason why I said that is because Nickelodeon themselves have six of them so I'm going to limit myself to one Mario Kart knockoff for franchise so let's start with Nickelodeon cart Racers 3 slime Speedway because I never heard of it and it only has 60 reviews on Steam which is how much this game cost so you probably never heard of it either and at the time of this recording it only came out 9 months ago that's the spawn time of a human baby not knowing what to expect I boot up the game game and initially I'm actually kind of impressed there's actual voice acting which is a lot to ask for these days there's a decent amount of characters customizable carts 40 stages and some pretty solid references there is genuinely how many levels is that like this game looks fun but it wasn't as much as I genuinely want to like this game it it always feels like you're racing on Grease you fall through floors randomly bumping into other cars just make you stop and I'd have an easier time trying to drift in real life I actually just got a check in the mail for being their first quality assurance tester since nobody did it before release and would you look at that it's less than $60 didn't even get my money back they also tried this weird assist gimmick which I didn't really like you basically get a free second item that you could use repeatedly and two passives to go with it but it's just so broken like one of them just turns all all of your drifts into Super drifts one of them makes you boost when you take damage so getting hit by items isn't bad at all and there is a lot more this is the exact opposite of what Mario Kart is supposed to be getting to choose your items and Buffs destroy the random nature of the game because you use these way more than the actual pickups there's also purple slime Speedways and orange slime mechanic that upgrades the item you're holding and green slime that you need to replenish the use of your second Beres all of it is just so complicated and just comes off as litter it feels like a very pretty dish made by a very bad Chef they kind of got overzealous and in turn created a stinky piece of boo boo garbage but the most offensive part of this game isn't the low polish or bad controls it's the absolutely terrible use of the source material you guys got the rights to Nickelodeon yet all of the stages are so lifeless like remember that episode of SpongeBob when Mrs Puff's boating school was located in the middle of a bunch of sand castles and miscellaneous objects yeah I don't either cuz that never happened the stages are so Random as well they got certified Hood Classics like bosin and ghost Zone alongside other historic Nickelodeon locations like the Arbuckle farm and Hawaii I don't remember Hawaii being a big part of Nickelodeon unless there was a foot sniffing convention hosted by Dan the Man himself this game makes me feel like a baby looking at an action figure before being fed spinach but one of those very bootleg action figures anyways the game is ass I give it three Nickelodeon feet out of 10 next up we got Shrek swamp Speedway byee byebye never mind next up we got Garfield cart two furious racing want to know a joke this is the second game so far with Garfield in it want to know another joke after doing a bit of research for this video it turns out that this is Garfield's 27th game like who is asking for these this game was actually made by artifact Studios which is the dev team behind such Classics as the dungeon of nck aathy Christie the ABC murders and of course Brutus and Foody would you believe me if I told you that I made some of those up cuz didn't you what I have very few Choice words about this game for one it's definitely a video game and secondly it is a cart racer and finally Garfield is in it this is the most not game game I've ever played there's no voice acting at all which I guess is a trend for Garfield games and secondly none of it makes sense I don't mean to piss off all the Garfield fans in the audience but if it weren't for Garfield himself being being on the cover of this game it would be impossible to tell that he was in it at all I get that the source material isn't really made for spawning creative Landscapes but these are just random assets you know I'm starting to believe all Garfield games weren't Garfield games at first that makes sense this stage is just a factory there's nothing notable about it but you want to know how they gar fielded It Up by putting a giant tomato logo on the containers get it cuz it's a lasagna Factory he likes lasagna I actually think that Garfield stages in Nickelodeon cart Racers 3 were more loyal to Garfield's representation than Garfield's own game the weirdest thing about this one though is that it has the exact opposite problem as the other game Nickelodeon had so many things going in so many directions that they forgot to make the base game any good Garfield on the other hand and controls somewhat decently it doesn't feel bad to play it's just really empty like the devs remembered that they had to release this game at 5:00 p.m. but already blew all of their budget on strippers the night before don't believe me this game only has 13 songs in it and most of them are under 90 seconds long I went and did the math and there is only 15 minutes and 39 seconds worth of background music yeah I'll take the award for the most calculated hater thank you very much there is just no life in any square inch of this game like if this game did the Dragon Ball Fusion dance with Nickelodeon cart Racers 3 and combined their best parts the game wouldn't actually be bad but no instead of giving us a game with a whole ass they just gave us two half asses leaving us with a pair of left cheeks so I give it uh 2.2 uh Garfield lasagna out of seven look team I I I don't expect a Garfield racing game to be any good it's not cyber Punk on release I'm not getting baited and then disappointed when it sucks I mean it's Garfield he could barely stand on four legs I don't expect him to make a good game come on come some on top of that children's TV has canonically had more racist than Racers so why don't we leave the racing games to the professionals like NASCAR NASCAR cart racing now this title is so strange that the only words I could use to describe it is NASCAR cart racing one of the main reasons why Mario Kart is such a successful formula is because it allows the players to focus on the characters instead of the vehicles themselves because of this Mario Kart games ooze personality because you're playing as Super Mario not a Nissan Skyline this allows the game to basically be an advertising billboard for the Staples of the franchise which is why so many companies try to rep replicate it with zany and wacky characters but what if instead of having hilarious over-the-top cartoon mascots we use real life humans that exist uh yeah why would anyone want that I feel like the Target demographic for this game is anyone who's over the age of 40 who lost a bet to a Time Wizard and then had their Consciousness sent back into the body of a 10-year-old boy but look NASCAR is a pretty big deal I'm sure if they got some of these people to voice act themselves and say some of their famous nascar catchphrases they could at least cash in on the franchise's popularity oh they went with random grunts you see when Mario goes that's Charming that's fun he's a cartoon but when Elliot Saddler goes it makes me want to call an ambulance cuz I think he's having a stroke gameplay-wise this one is more Barren than Chernobyl I think the game has five powerups total you can drift but it's not really worth it because the boosting on it is non-existent and its main gimmick is this weird 2v2 thing basically you choose a partner and you generate boost when you're near them and then you're supposed to take turns boosting to slingshot each other through the race this mechanic is actually pretty fun and satisfying but it's also the only redeeming thing in this game but you want to know the worst part a thing so bad it's irredeemable ads my favorite this game has more ads than gameplay there's ads in the menu ads on the characters ads on the Billboards on the racetrack there's a power up called your ad here and when you use it it just makes a big ad Bounce Around the screen like it's offensive how many ads there are in this grow up NASCAR want to break from the ads maybe the problem isn't the games I'm playing maybe it's the medium not the racing but the way that I race I'm tired of just sitting there and holding a controller I want to swing my arms around and feel insecure if I play it in public so let's play something that nobody really asked for dash dash world a VR cart racer I'm about to puke my guts up just thinking about it I don't think any human being has ever looked at Mario getting pelted by a blue shell and went man I wish I could see what he's seeing but I can't say that I'm not at least a bit excited in the same way that a bomb defusal expert is excited to go to work I'm going to die want to die comfortable as far as looks and overall Vibe go it kind of suffers the same fate that a lot of VR titles do and it comes off as unpolished the characters look like the very generic cartoon maple story chibies that we've seen in 1 billion other games but at least it kind of works here but but now let's talk about the game play itself I'm curious on paper nothing really separates this title from any other cart racer you can drift you can boost you can use items and basically nothing is done better but done well enough to be passable however you can roll my face in dough and make monkey biscuits because my bonobo ass was having a blast playing this in VR having to literally look behind you to see where everyone is and having to phys basically aim your weapons was so fun there are two modes of control the beginner mode which allows you to play this game like a standard Mario Cart steering with the joystick and stuff then there's the immersive mode where you actually have to reach out and hold a steering wheel in order to steer and honestly the immersive mode is kind of bad since you're not physically holding anything your hands just get lost and it bugs out a lot plus I'm a gamer okay I'm frail after playing the immersive mode for longer than 5 minutes my shoulders felt like Linguini the beginner mode was just a lot more fun and felt really good but the part where this game actually shines above every other cart racer is the items this game has a lot of them and using them in VR is awesome having to literally aim your gun swing your arm to hit them with a frying pan throw a grenade in the right spot it all just feels so satisfying there's frying pans to whack people a money gun which obscures the vision of the people you aim at and Uzi which takes me back to my hometown in Los Angeles and they're all used in their own specific way now here's the part where I have to step out of my bias and actually review this game fairly I actually really enjoy this game and it was a very fun time playing it for the video I would really love to play this game with my friends but there's one big major problem I am a VR professional I have thousands of hours in VR played a bunch of different titles and I'm just very used to the format I can't imagine most people being able to play this game for longer than 2 minutes without needing to revisit their breakfast if you catch my draft VR is already nauseating enough as it is but now you have to drive a cart aim your weapons and go through Loops it also only has 14 stages which kind of stinks but the background music and overall Vibe of this game are so fun that my girl friend practically begged me to give it a shot when she heard me playing it in the living room it really does believe in quality over quantity because you can tell that the devs actually cared about every single one of these stages it also has a pretty good single player mode which is great because this game died forever ago like nobody is playing it online anymore which is kind of sad I'll be honest so for VR professionals I give this game a 7.5 headsets out of 10 but for everyone else I give it an avoid at all costs and a caution wet floor sign just in case next up we got Disney speed storm this is by far the newest game on this list in fact the game's not even out yet it's in Early Access I don't want to nitpick the aesthetic too badly here but I find it weird that they went for this muted realistic race car driver feel when Disney has the most colorful characters in the world like Mickey Mouse isn't as magical when he looks like he's about to say something political but Aesthetics to the side I'm actually shocked at how good this game is it is a very pretty game to look at again Disney is basically the owner of childlike Wonder at this point and they do not shy away from it pulling out remixes of famous songs very inspired stages and the characters actually have their own voice lines the drifting with which you can tell I care about at this point is very very well done whenever you hold a drift your Boost charges and once it's full you can use it whenever you want you could also do that weird Double Dash side tackle thing with the right analog stick if you want to knock your opponents off the map and you have a jump to get around the map easier when there's changes in elevation or things to dodge there's also three separate ways to use your power up you have your forward shot your backward shot and your charge shot which opens up the game strategically because it really makes you think about how you want to use your items the game play here is genuinely a 10 out of 10 and it's some of the most inspired cart racing I have ever seen in my life now this all may sound a little too good to be true and that's because it is because for some reason Game Loft decided to make this $30 to $60 game a gotcha game and I don't mean that in the cute way either you're not rolling for a sexy Mickey Mouse skin okay this game is literally pay to win you have to roll for shards that upgrade your characters which boost their stats overall but not just that it also enhances their powerups so if you go against somebody who spent more money than you did their mushroom power up will just last longer than yours like how cool is that I may sound bitter because I am do you know how hard it is to make a good cart racer this game was so close to being a game that I would beg my friends to buy so that we could play it for hours on end but no they went the gambling route I hope this game fails I hope that it bombs so hard that it never makes it out of Early Access and Disney heard me and my home is foreclosed and now I'm homeless well when you shoot for the king you better not miss huh the reason why I'm being such a dick is actually backed by evidence whenever a [ __ ] ass company releases a game that ends up being way too money hungry it can go in two separate ways number one the bad ending the game dies instantly never to be heard from again and only profiting off of the gacha whales who cared and number two the good ending the company realizes that Their audience isn't as stupid as they thought and eventually succumb to releasing the game in its full Glory without bogging it down with a ton of microt transactions so hopefully this game doesn't do well at all it's currently at a 77 player Peak so that's all the evidence I need hopefully they can release Disney speed storm ex with all of the content included because I would genuinely believe that that game would be in the top three cart Racers of all time including the Mario Kart games if this game bombs and re-releases with everything in it I will give it a 9.5 Mickey Mouse heads out of 10 but in its current State I wouldn't even give it one Mouse ear now we've been through the slimes of Nickelodeon the royalty free Hills of Garfield the weird and off-putting racetracks of NASCAR the world of virtual reality and of course the gotcha hell of Disney I've been surprised shocked disappointed and moving so godamn fast that my meat is about to fall off the goddamn bom but there's one more cart racer that I absolutely have to talk about a game that is nearly 11 years old and blew past every single expectation that I had even if it's title is a bit of a mouthful Sega in Sonic Allstars Racing Transformed is exactly how you're supposed to take an idea and improve upon it it controls very well the characters are Charming the vibe is colorful and the stages just ooze personality and care they also didn't try to change their characters at all to fit a Vibe because the reason these games were is because we already love the characters I don't want to see Sonic in a sports Jersey okay I want to see him balls out like he always is but what's really cool is that this game added to the overall Mario Kart formula without making things too muddy there are sections you have to fly sections you turn into a boat and these sections control really well albeit a little bit differently from the normal cart mode you can do flips in the air to give yourself a boost and you could use the right analog stick to decide what kind of CP you want to do all of this paired with the idea that Sega really cares about their IP makes for a lot of stages that are just an exciting homage to the source material like all of the stages are very wellmade I lost my the first time the map turned into Super Monkey Ball in the SAA Studios level the buildings are literally dancing to fit the aesthetic of the SBA game and there are 25 tracks and five separate modes to play like I'm just shocked at how good this game is and I wanted to talk about it cuz it's easily in my top three cart Racers ever made it's that good I give this game a 9 out of 10 well done there's a reason why cart Racers are so respected in the world of gaming because they are nonserious colorful high-speed fun that's enjoyable for all walks of life it's crazy that this genre is 31 years old and even now companies struggle to get a fraction of it right but when they do that is a masterpiece that I could see myself playing with my friends over a beer for years to come you think that this video was weird here's a video where I did the exact same thing except I played Mario Party clones instead and the craziest thing is there's a lot of characters in this video that were in that video so we got a lot of repeat offenders in the knockoff category thank you guys for watching and you guys hear something is that a blue show [Music]

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Published: Sun Oct 29 2023