![]() ![]() If you get coins, pick up items that can seriously affect the game in different ways. The very best of “dig up a patch of dirt and open that gate when it shuts.” A complex marvel.Īs far as the board game strategy of it goes, Garfield Lasagna Party is fairly simple: roll as much as you can as often as you can. You have one board, there’s a bunch of random spaces (some with lasagna!) and that’s pretty much it. Sorry, I didn’t even know Jon had a backyard: I was just marveling that he had a house with a big enough crawl space to hide all the bodies of runaways he’s collected throughout the decades. You get one board, which I guess is set in Garfield’s backyard, the quintessential place you think of when you think of Garfield. In theory, this should mean that attention to detail that should have gone to the characters instead goes to the board, but that’s also a hopeless opium dream that I chase like the ghost of my dead Victorian wife (I miss you, Lady Arestra Villanesto). Want to play as Jon, the veterinarian, or some kind of Garfield variant? Too bad, you get those four and that’s all! You can choose from Garfield, Odie, Nermal, or Arlene, whose name I had to look up three times because I kept forgetting it. Many people don’t think of the expanded Garfield universe when it comes to characters, and neither did the developers of Garfield Lasagna Party. Even if they're looking outside of Mario, stuff like Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed exists.This dog will take two of your spaces and otherwise not affect the game at all. Why would you invest much time in this thing outside of playing all the tracks, then go about your way? I'm not sure, because if someone's in the market for a go-to kart racer, most people aren't going to keep coming back to this one. There's no story mode, no bonus modes, no incentive to snag all the collectibles other than the bragging rights of having weird collectible photos of the cast and all the hats. What's here is fine, but it's not enough. That's one of the main problems with Furious Racing. Oh, and for the DOTA 2 fans out there, you can collect hats for each character! That's. There's an online component that works well enough. There are different ways to mess around with cars in the garage. You race around sixteen tracks, pick up the optional collectibles, and that's about it. The thing is, that Faygo-tinged kart racer is just about all you'll be getting with this game. There's something unmistakably inspired by its bigger, better competition in here, yet it feels less like a carbon copy and more adjacent to a sketchy 3 AM gas station Xerox. You can throw projectiles, but they never aim quite the way you want, and some of them are just buck wild with what they can do (such as a magic wand that swaps your place with another racer). You can drift, but karts lean into it just a little too much. That isn't to say that it's broken, per se, but everything feels just a little off-kilter - like thinking too hard about what Jon did to Lyman.įor example, you can do tricks, but the inputs for them are a bit unclear. ![]() The focus on constant boosting, drifting, and stunting is hewed very closely from Mario Kart 8, but without that game's lively physics or, y'know, any sort of mechanical soundness. RELATED: Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled Heads To The Circus This Weekįurious Racing definitely takes more than a few cues from Nintendo's latest kart racer, speaking of which. ![]()
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