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Mog’s character is very much a “I WILL BE THE HERO OF THIS GAME!” level of annoying but at least he doesn’t speak in constant streams of ‘kupo’ like his usual brethren in-game. So in Story Mode, you’re quickly introduced to the game’s pop-up style of story-telling, which is quaint but actually quite disappointingly done, and you meet Cid and Mog pretty much right from the word go. They’re not going to have a jolly in this game, are they? You want the Cait Siths and Gaus and Setzers to join in… The comedy relief characters who you can imagine getting involved in racing mute chocobos. I mean, you can unlock Cloud and Squall after story mode is completed – as well as Bahamut and Cactuar… but really? – but those two aren’t fun characters. If you’d given us the slightly more likeable characters from across the series’ history, fine. Instead, what we get is what Diddy Kong Racing does and shove in seven characters alongside Chocobo who don’t really have any business being there. Mario had enough characters to pluck out of their games that it was sorta acceptable to fill it with a couple of slightly less well-known ones.

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So Chaka Khan Racing starts off with a neat little intro that does the usual set-up-every-character beginning shot and from the off, it is monumentally disappointing to note that in a gaming series which by this one was into it’s EIGHTH game, we are treated to a hodgepodge of characters none of whom have any personality at all, save for Mog’s in Story Mode but we’ll get there. Let’s go back to the start because I’m already getting myself in a state. White Mage, Black Mage, Mog, Chubby Chocobo, Golem, Goblin and Behemoth are all present but most certainly not correct because WHO THE FUCK ARE THEY? Look… I get the mages and mog but… the rest of them just… The eponymous Chocobo from the series is joined along the way by a series of characters that nobody could genuinely give a flying shit about. So despite being a racing game, you must remember that this IS a Squaresoft game and they’re most known for their RPGs, particularly Final Fantasy and HOLY SHIT how could we possibly forget that this is based off of Final Fantasy. You will not be shocked to learn that Chancey Chancey Racing does not continue to refer to the player as ‘yo’ so therefore I’m already worried that something’s going to go slightly awry. Unless the developers are trying to be cool and replacing ‘you’ with ‘yo’ throughout this thing, I think I demand an apology straight off the bat. Time to enter the game’s story mode and see what we’re being…

Fast forward nine years, technology has hit the 3D-is-compulsory stage and any semblance that Square knew what they were doing with racing games was squarely (GAMING PUN AHOY!) thrown out of the window with the rest of the company’s logic behind this game. How? Loaded question but… deep breath… WELL:ĬhachaSlide Racing is pretty much one of the first racing games that Squaresoft ever produced but strangely enough, their previous attempts were the NES pair of Rad Racer games from 1987 – NINETEEN EIGHTY SEVEN – and 1990 respectively. It is a pretty major skill to be able to do that but Squaresoft, before they married Enix, managed to right royally bumble it to the rafters and back. Choo-Choo Racing is an example of how you can take every part of Mario Kart, split it into its major components, trace over it in almost every way and yet STILL create a shitfest entry into the kart racing genre.

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But stick with me here because there are plenty of reasons as to why everything you’re about to witness is an example of how to create a Mario Kart clone and yet not do ANYTHING right in any way, shape or form and should therefore be burned in a bonfire of sads.īONFIRES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPY. Suffice to say some of them were just as successful and are still remembered fondly to this day.Īnd suffice to say that you won’t be too shocked to learn that this is NOT one of them.

Single-handedly creating the SUCCESSFUL Karting game genre (I say that because there were games before it but nothing in the vein of Mario Kart’s huge success), suddenly EVERYONE wanted to hop on the bandwagon and create their own version using pretty much the same formula of RACE, PICK UP POWER-UPS, WIN, REPEAT AD NAUSEUM.