August 20, 2023 - Day 232 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 252

Game: Hotshot Racing

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Sep 11, 2020
Library Date: May 13, 2023
Unplayed: 99d (3m7d)
Playtime: 18m

Hotshot Racing is a intensely colourful polygon-based retro arcade racing game.

In May a couple of games I wanted came up in a Fanatical Bundle, where the more games you bought, the cheaper each game was; buying three games was the minimum bundle level. Hotshot Racing was the filler game I added to the bundle to hit that level.

I love a good arcade racer. Hotshot Racing is not a good arcade racer.

Again, I have no love for retro-style graphics, but if the driving was good, I could get past the graphics.

The driving is not great either. The AI-driven cars are incredibly aggressive for a game that's meant to be a racer, and not something like Wreckfest.

Getting out in front of the other cars is always temporary, because they magically catch up every time... then immediately try and run you off the road.

The same two AI drivers in each race would box me in and bounce me, no matter if I got ahead of them or not.

It was just a frustrating 18 minutes of racing that I would have preferred to have spent in Forza Horizon or Wreckfest.

Hotshot Racing is:

2: Meh

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I have many fond memories about many #N64 titles.. but I do have a big sweetspot for the #sanfranciscorush series, which forst appeared in the arcades in 1996, but quickly made its was to the N64 in 1997.

I had a blast speeding through the city courses, which featured ridiculously high and long jumps and that were hiding many secrets and shortcuts.

Finding all the hidden keys and secret areas was a lot of fun. I deeply miss those types of games.

#arcaderacing #atari #midway #Nintendo