![]() All of your favorite (Garfield-centric) racers are here!Īs far as everything else goes, Garfield Kart drives firmly down the middle of the road. ![]() The 3D experience isn’t the best that the system’s provided, but it’s present and works to a satisfying degree, even if that isn’t hard to pull off for a racing title. Garfield Kart looks and sounds perfectly delightful, with plucky, playful music complimenting a friendly presentation to the graphics. While on the cartoonish aspect of the game, the aesthetics are one of the areas that the game performs the most adequately in. Even if all of this looks pretty enough with a nice cartoonish edge to it all, these still feel like they could be courses from any racing game. Hey, we’re in a desert! Now we’re in a snow world! Woah, a jungle! Believe it or not, there’s a deep lore to Garfield’s history with a myriad of comics, TV shows, specials, and movies that they could have pulled locations from. These courses contain the generic visual, scenic differences that you’d expect from a racing game. You’ll spend your time in Garfield Kart navigating through four different cups, each containing four courses apiece with the standard 50cc/100cc/150cc options. It doesn’t even offer anything beyond local multiplayer (not that I’d expect an online community for Garfield Kart to be the most thriving one). The game was unremarkable as a mobile game priced at $1.99, and so allegedly upgrading all of that and charging fifteen times as much inherently becomes problematic. There’s no explanation for any of this, leaving the decision to be even more confusing, and the product essentially being a mobile port that feels like one. You would think that perhaps some Garfield time sensitive event was happening now to explain why this game was being ported now, but no. The thing is, if this game manages to sound vaguely familiar to you, it’s that it was released two years ago as an iOS/mobile game. Instead you’re left with just another racing game that fails to justify its existence. Granted, I wasn’t expecting this game to reinvent the steering wheel-the only reason I checked it out in the first place was out of morbid curiosity-but that doesn’t mean that the title still couldn’t have been a sleeper hit and surprised me. In that sense, there’s a solid foundation in which Garfield Kart is built upon, but there’s not much else going on here. Now, that isn’t necessarily the worst diagnosis- Mario Kart has a very solid, simple structure to it that has been cloned endlessly before ( Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is even a recent example of a clone improving upon their predecessor in a lot of ways). Garfield Kart is basically a $30.00 re-packaged Mario Kart clone with vastly less interesting characters. Who knows, maybe it’d even be refreshing fun.īut we’ll get to that. ![]() Play this game to its limit to perhaps understand the “whyness” of it all. ![]() So perhaps it was the natural masochist within me (I did just play through Superman The New Adventures to completion not long ago), but I decided that my purpose here was to play this game. I could insert it into my 3DS, signs that confirmed that–yes, this game was real by all accounts and measures. There’s no reason for it to be a real thing no event, or pop culture phenomena to justify why the (alleged) time, money, and manpower was funneled into this game.Īnd yet, I could pick up the game. ![]() I thought it was a mistake when I saw this game. ![]()
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