In regards to the track option, there’s a pretty charitable offering of 24 tracks, though this feels like a circumstances of amount over quality. Some of the places you’ll race on are instantaneously recognisable, though a lot of them seem like generic places that are influenced by the properties they’re based upon. Plaything Store Flash Sale, for example, doesn’t feel like any kind of particular location from Rugrats but it appears to be from that world. College Hijinks is apparently the college Arnold and Helga attend from Hey Arnold! also. They’re okay degrees in itself, they just really feel lacking the fun and also character you ‘d anticipate to see in a game based upon Nickelodeon properties.Without a question the most significant error is the rather restricted roster of personalities you’ll need to play around with. There’s twelve playable characters in the game. Four of them are Teen Mutant Ninja Turtles, three are from Rugrats, 3 are from Spongebob and also two are from Hey Arnold. Having a third of the lineup be turtles is a little frustrating and also having no reps from most of Nickelodeon’s legacy franchise business from the 90s and early 2000s appears like a significant missed out on chance. To make issues worse, these characters that are consisted of are peaceful and also cruel – there’s no voice work and also only motions for one.
This all dovetails to a significant issue– I have trouble reconciling simply which audience Nickelodeon Kart Racers is suggested to be appealing to. Rugrats and Hey Arnold were both basically completed so I would certainly suggest more youthful target markets wouldn’t respect these buildings as a lot. Adolescent Mutant Ninja Turtles is a new addition to the Nickelodeon line-up, and also seemingly for younger followers. Spongebob Squarepants is nearly universally loved, or at least has ended up being sufficient of a meme resource today to be quickly recognisable by anyone that uses social media.But where are all the various other residential properties? Aaahh!!! Actual Beasts, Catdog, Rocko’s Modern Life, Angry Beavers, Bush Thornberries; also Avatar, Dora, Diego or Jimmy Neutron. It simply seems like an extremely bare bones party of a brand name that has so many franchises under its belt. This can be a video game that appeals to every person, particularly for those on a system where Mario Kart does not exist, yet instead clearly appeals to no one with its half-baked depictions.
The icing on this currently bitter cake is the fact that the game exists so badly. The video game itself is average looking, which is unsatisfactory provided the simplified art design. Personality models look genuine sufficient yet the actual tracks themselves are empty as well as doing not have life, lacking visibility. As pointed out previously, the personalities additionally never ever talk, which results in some peaceful races, however the songs is in a similar way as uninteresting and hollow. It’s practically as if Nickelodeon didn’t intend to go all-in with a licensing dedication and also supply any kind of recognisable tracks to race to. The outcome is something plain and level, that lacks personality and also any type of air of authenticity.
