Heath先生

Man, loving some Game Boy Advance. Digimon (デジモン) Racing is what we call, in English a "ripoff." Somone obviously saw the success of Mario Kart and said "...Me too." People have done some similar things books, music, and movies. Perhaps Cypress Hill described it best when the band said, "There's gonna be another cat coming around looking like me (and) sounding like me next year. I know this. It'll be a flipside to what you did. Somebody trying to spin off like, something serious."



But fortunately and surprisingly...this game isn't bad. There are a lot of aspects to it that are juuuust a hair inferior to Mario Kart Super Circuit, but there are also several things juuuuust a bit superior. I find the Digimon characters a nice vacation from the Mario cast that populates seemingly every good Kart racer, but the cast is by comparison, small, and so is the track selection. I like the idea of each character having a specific "special" power (Mario Kart did this in the GameCube version), but they seem imbalanced in this game, to the point some of them are almost useless.

Nonetheless, the visuals and music are good, and the gameplay itself is decent enough fun. It rips off Mario Kart but does an actual good job of it. Not bad.


3/5