#Bomberman fantasy race guide pro

Maybe I’m alone here, but I believe that the best-designed Kart Racers make the controls invisible. They’re both jarring with their implementation and I skipped through them as fast as I could every time they popped up. The only two tracks that grew to annoy me are the intrusive menu vocal theme and the jarring racetrack introduction theme. Also worth mentioning are the racing remixes of classic Final Fantasy tracks - they all sound great, with Battle on the Big Bridge sticking out the most. There just feels like there aren’t enough, and I’llgo into the caveat with that shortly. There are some duds mixed in with the course pool, but most offer a unique gimmick and look great. Every character has different stats and abilities, the drifting feels nice, and the courses are fun.

Thankfully, Chocobo GP’s gameplay is tight and is one of the best Kart racers available on Switch without our favorite plumber in it. When you lock progress behind specific goals in a game where you quite often fall from first place to fifth right before the finish line, you don’t really feel like you’re earning the characters you’re unlocking. The genre prides itself on utter chaos, with wacky items to keep engagement from all players regardless of their place. I’ve never been too much of a fan of locking characters behind kart racing story modes. It won’t take you more than a couple of hours, and I think the characters are fun even if their jokes are repeated more often than I’d like. This means that you’ll be going through the story mode first thing, which could be off-putting for some. Further customization is also in this shop, and, from my experience, can be mostly unlocked without needing to pay any real money. Once you’ve done this you’ll have a good roster to play with a few lingering ones available to buy with in-game currency won from winning races. The rest need to be unlocked by playing the story. I’m okay with having to unlock some characters by playing the game as long as there’s a decent pool to pick from. Once we finally got the game going, we were then met with an incredibly small starting roster.

#Bomberman fantasy race guide pro

If I wanted to use a Pro Controller and my roommate wanted to use two Joycons combined to be one controller, he can’t do that.

You cannot mix and match them in my experience. You can either use two individual Joycons or two Pro Controllers. The only kind of splitscreen on offer is for two players, and you’re limited in the kinds of controllers you can use. So the part of GP I cared the most about was the local gameplay, and it was the first blunder the game made. Four-player splitscreen on Mario Kart 8 at a party? Four people with their own consoles playing local races? Both are heavenly chaos. I don’t play these games online as I’m far too bad, so I prefer local races with friends. When you boot up a Kart Racer, in my limited experience with the genre, you expect to be able to just dive right in and have fun. Monetization and a lack of content keep it from shining as much as I’d like though. When it shines, Chocobo GP gets to be just that. I just saw an avenue for simple-minded Final Fantasy fanservice and naturally got excited for some fun in the vein of Mario Kart.

I didn’t know until recently that a Final Fantasy kart racer came out before Chocobo GP, so I’m wasn't sure if that meant this was an anticipated modern revival of a classic game.