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Anyway, with that out of the way, let’s take a look at the racers and tracks in Chocobo GP. The game is only digitally in the US, which I also don’t like, so I imported the European physical version and it works just fine. Play control can feel sluggish and broken at times, and while I like cutesy games, the Story Mode borderlines on being annoyingly childish.

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I don’t like how the game is full price but you can still use real money to buy things in the shop. But then, I guess there’s no accounting for my tastes. In fact, I can understand why people have given Chocobo GP bad reviews, too. Is the game as good as the original Chocobo Racing? Oh heck no. There’s also single player modes like cup races, time trials, and a Story Mode. There’s an emphasis on online play, with coins you can earn to buy special things in the shop (more on that later).

Look it up sometime, the song is called “Diamonds in my Heart.”Īnyway, the new Chocobo GP has your typical modes.

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Kind of reflects how I feel about the Final Fantasy series as a whole.

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Plus the ending song is one of my favorite vocal tunes in a video game.

Some included Cloud on a bike, 8 bit versions of a Chocobo and Airship (which went super fast like in the old game), and a Cactrot! One of the most super obscure secret racers in the game was Jumping Jack from 3-D WorldRunner, which was a super early NES game from Square. The game also had a TON of secret characters. Sure you could make an overpowered racer this way, but I never said the game was perfect. You had to pick a regular character, but you could edit the color scheme and parameters like speed, cornering, etc. One neat thing you could do in it that I haven’t seen in other kart racers is that you could edit your own racer with points you earned from beating Story Mode a bunch of times. While it was certainly a typical kart racer, I did like how they implemented Final Fantasy staples into the weapons and tracks, like remixed music from classic games and whatnot. So let’s get started!īut before I do that, I wanted to elaborate more on some things I liked about the original Chocobo Racing, mainly some surprises. So now I finally have it and I wanted to talk about it and all the characters and tracks found therein. So when Square-Enix showed a sequel of sorts last year coming to the Switch called Chocobo GP, I was really excited and wanted to get it. But I really liked how they implemented Final Fantasy themes and tropes into the gameplay and presentation. And you know what? Despite it having such bad reviews, I really liked it! Sure it was no where near as good as Mario Kart or other mascot racers at the time such as Diddy Kong Racing and Crash Team Racing. And since I had a bit more disposable income by then, I decided to get it. Shortly after I graduated college, I found a new copy of Chocobo Racing at a flea market and it was only 20 bucks. Plus I heard it was getting a lot of bad reviews, so I decided to wait for a while. I wanted to get this game when it came out, but I was poor college student at the time and couldn’t afford to get it at full price.

You know, chocobo, moogle, white and black mages, etc. Back during the PSOne days, Square released a mascot kart racing game featuring cute versions of their Final Fantasy staple characters.

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