Not to mention Hydro Thunder’s penchant for giant set pieces. It’s the logical progression of N64’s Cruis’n Exotica, only with far greater detail and fluidity, plus a bit of San Francisco Rush 2049’s colour scheme and collectable-hunting thrown in. Gameplay-wise, it’s a fast-paced racing game with events lasting around 90 seconds, all set in larger-than-life versions of real places like London, Rio and Singapore. It’s the most accessible racer since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and kids love it. You can even set it to accelerate for you and just tilt the Switch to turn. It’s superfast, utterly chaotic and yet so simple to control, virtually anyone will be able to play it. The 2017 arcade cabinet is brought home in wonderful detail, with a high frame rate targeting 60fps, excellent texture quality and effects plus some gargantuan, sprawling horizons. Yes, OK, I’m definitely over-stimulated.Īfter a succession of extremely disappointing Switch conversions, Nintendo’s tablet tech is firing on all cylinders here.
As for me, I can’t remember the last time I could wax lyrical over such a stunning home conversion of a true arcade racer. UFOs fly overhead, dinosaurs chomp at smaller dinosaurs with cartoon sound effects, and my ride? My ride is a unicorn that I upgraded to have neon shoes. It’s all ‘everything all of the time’ with no respite.Ĭars are flipping, barrel-rolling and boosting over huge jumps as a yeti pounds the ground below them, shattering the earth which falls away revealing a concealed underground route that just so happens to be angled perfectly to allow all the cars to continue racing at full speed. In Cruis’n Blast, everything’s shinier than everything else.
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