
There’s obstacles layered throughout, as well as various ramps and boost-pads to keep the speed from slowing down. Shortcuts are minimal and don’t reward the player too much for taking them. Tracks are thematically appropriate to the featured shows’ worlds, though I’ll admit I’m quite disappointed by the linearity of the layouts. The Queen Jellyfish works as Mario Kart’s Blue Shell, Appa from Avatar is the Bullet Bill. These re-skins are quite inventive, I must admit. Items are identical in function to those of Mario Kart you have the Lawn Gnome which serves as this game’s Banana item, the Toy Ball as the Green Shell, the Yahoo Soda as the Mushroom powerup, just to name a few. As far as similarities in gameplay, you can drift and get up to three boost levels, perform jump stunts on ramps to get more boost and get some speed at the start of the race by timing the traffic lights’ start prompt. Tracks are all stylized around a certain show in the Nickelodeon catalog, with up to eight racers running three laps around the track to the finish line. Pretty much a by-the-book copy I might add.


Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 Grand Prix (referred to simply as Racers 2 for the rest of this review) is… well, a Mario Kart clone. I’ll address the elephant in the room right away. The Character list is made up of representatives from hit cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rocko’s Modern Life, The Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, and Hey Arnold! Like the other games of this genre, it is a culmination of Nickelodeon fan favorites that have come together for a racingly good time.

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 doesn’t have a story to it, much like most Kart Racing Games. Releasing on all major platforms in October of 2020, is this new entry in the franchise the enhancement the original so desperately needed? Or will Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 Grand Prix fall again to the issues of underdeveloped ideas? Two years later, Nickelodeon has treated players with a sequel that is set to expand and improve on the first title’s failures. Nickelodeon Kart Racers released in 2018 to less than favorable reviews, being criticized for its lack of content and lackluster gameplay. By Lucas Sierra Bamtang Games, Game Mill, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Kart Racers, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 Grand Prix, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2 Review, Nintendo, Nintendo SwitchĬategory: Racing, Action, Arcade, Multiplayer
