Characters have a “rough draft” puppet look to them, like an art designer stopped in the middle of revisions and just decided they were good enough. Perhaps the least engaging aspect of Beach Buggy Racing is the visual design of it. It’s just… there’s nothing about it either positively or negatively that sticks out about it. Again, the game is completely functional, and runs at a solid frame rate. Similarly, the power-ups are fairly standard, and lack any type of individual identities. It doesn’t happen frequent enough to ever grow annoying or distracting, but it’s enough of an issue to be noticeable. It doesn’t help that if you get too much air, or bump into something hard enough, your character will be ejected from the kart completely, giving you a slight time penalty. Game play is functional, but there are times when controlling the karts- sorry, buggies- can feel light or floaty, like there’s no real weight to them. Beach Buggy Racing has neither of these things. If you don’t have a pre-established world to draw from, you have to rely on compelling new characters, or bringing something different to the table in terms of game play. The reason titles like Mario Cart and Crash Team Racing work as well as they do is because there’s a built-in audience, and recognizable characters that the audience connects with. While this is neither a good nor bad thing depending on how you look at it, it certainly doesn’t help Beach Buggy Racing stand out from the crowd in any meaningful way. The game does absolutely nothing to separate itself from other similar games on the market. If this sounds more than a little boiler plate, that’s because it is. There are power-ups, multiple karts, and unlockable courses. It’s a competent kart racer with cartoon characters who race across multiple environmental tracks. Let’s get into the meat and potatoes of it all.īeach Buggy Racing is all surface level. Regardless, that isn’t enough to tell you to pass on it altogether. While the game has some good things going for it, the biggest issue working against it is that despite some graphical enhancements and a smooth frame rate, Beach Buggy Racing still looks and feels like a mobile game. When your main competition is Mario Kart 8, can you stand up against the competition? Well, in the case of Beach Buggy Racing… kind of. I suppose we should start by addressing the elephant in the room: Beach Buggy Racing is a kart racer on a platform that arguably has THE kart racer.
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