The Karters 2: Turbo Charged

“I need some art direction, character design and atmosphere (the original Crash Team Racing had atmosphere and vibes, the remake butchered it with the hideous bloom effects and generic graphics; this game appears to be trying to copy the remake instead of the original).”

“Original characters have no charisma, they don't feel bad but they feel out of place together; it is a mismatch of different art styles that collide with each other when put in the same place. Worse still, they don't match the track aesthetics at all!”

“Optimization is bad on some levels. I have 3 PC setups: on low specs I have my Steam Deck LCD version, for mid specs I have a laptop with an RTX 2050 plugged in, and for high specs I have a PC with an RTX 3060 12GB. Considering both minimum and recommended specs marked on the Steam page of the game, it has FPS drops and stutters on my first two setups regardless of graphical settings and resolutions (systems up to date on drivers).”

“The title screen music might get on your nerves after a while.”

“Great game with lots of content on the workshop to play with. The only problem I've got with this game is the original tracks and characters suck. It's only in early access so it could change over time, but the race tracks design especially are horrendous. There's way too much clutter on the tracks; it doesn't make it fun or enjoyable. Whoever designed them needs to be fired. If I'm enjoying playing modded tracks more than the game's original tracks, that's a big problem. The music is hit or miss and pretty mediocre, needs to be revisited and recomposed.”

“Another issue is the music. I know not every soundtrack has to be a banger, but for a racing game I feel like the songs should be a little more thrilling and exciting.”

“If the karters 2: turbo charged wants to be the "casual" "replayable" kart racing experience it dreams to become, it needs to allow new players to compete in the same environment as experienced players and be able to stand a fighting chance.”

“A love letter to crash team racing, this kart racer is designed around user generated content lending it infinite potential for replayability, especially with its focus on local (up to 6 players!) and online multiplayer, and with its currently small but active community there's lots of available characters and tracks to play on, unfortunately online races aren't always available due to the small community but joining the official discord could allow you coordinate games with others.”

“Has the potential to be a kart racer with endless replay value.”

“When CTR Nitro-Fueled released, I was hoping for a PC version later with better performance and some fixes to the terrible collision and invisible objects that constantly ruined the flow for me.”

“Optimization is bad on some levels. I have 3 PC setups: low-spec Steam Deck, mid-spec laptop with RTX 2050, and high-spec PC with RTX 3060 12GB. Despite meeting both minimum and recommended specs, I experience FPS drops and stutters on my first two setups regardless of graphical settings and resolution. Systems are updated with the latest drivers.”

“The gameplay is fun but the game itself is plagued by poor optimization and cosmetic bloat.”

“My only complaint is that there is not a lot of big fluff for this game, the base characters are forgettable, there is no winning ceremony dopamine hit showing your character winning, only a winning menu screen, and challenge mode which is the story mode for now.”

“One day it will exceed CTR, and because of mods it may already, but the lack of a career/story does hold it back.”

“The default tracks are pretty good and there's not many that I dislike (apart from maybe one western track that loops around itself) but I think the game should have some kind of story mode as well, maybe an adventure mode like in CTR.”

“Game is also buggy; I got stuck inside a container which was closed all around, not sure how I got there.”

“There are occasional odd glitches (e.g., one time the race never started even though all racers were lined up; another time I fell off the track and the respawn took about 30 seconds).”

“The game stutters sometimes, especially when loading; it is currently unplayable on Steam Deck due to being very buggy and laggy.”

“My only major complaint with the game so far is that the character designs and overall presentation are incredibly bland to the point that it almost feels deceiving—like you wouldn't expect such freedom of movement and skill from a game with such honestly boring character designs.”

“I need some art direction, character design, and atmosphere. The original Crash Team Racing had atmosphere and vibes; the remake butchered it with hideous bloom effects and generic graphics. This game seems to be trying to copy the remake instead of the original.”

“I don't like how much the character designs clash with each other, the lack of color options for karts, and the preset system actively harms the character selection experience.”

“And grinding the time trials without any bot benchmarks or friends to play against is a bit dull.”

“If not - I hope you enjoy grinding time trials and seeing your leaderboard rank go up as motivation because the learning curve is not suited to people who want to get good quickly.”

“I can't really recommend this to people currently if they don't have a group of friends to play with or don't like grinding challenges or time trials.”

“There are no paid DLCs, no microtransactions, has workshop support, and a lot of passion.”

“+ no microtransactions”

“That means no microtransactions and no 45 second load times!”

“I need some art direction, character design, and atmosphere. The original Crash Team Racing had atmosphere and vibes, but the remake butchered it with hideous bloom effects and generic graphics. This game appears to be trying to copy the remake instead of the original.”