This game has impacted me on a deep 4th dimensional level. It has a very deep representation of the battle between feminism and the lost masculinity of men in our society. The playable character, a blond, well endowed, and tanned skinned woman represents the ideal vision of a woman in American culture. Because this woman is the one you are in control of, she can be used as an analogy that feminist women are the ones in control.

The other characters you will encounter in the game are white men wearing business attire that can only walk back and forth in a linear path. At first, I thought these men were just obstacles in my way preventing me from achieving my goals. I soon realised, however, that they were more than that. They were in my way because they opposed feminism. Their movement patterns were used as a way to convey their resistance towards the feminist movement. The biggest hint to this is what happens when they touch your character. Your character doesn't just figuratively die, no, rather the men are reclaiming their masculinity and finally regaining their prescience in this feminist dominant world.

All of these hidden meanings to the actions performed in this game amazed me. Never before have I seen a game in this industry that tries to philosophically teach these meanings to me in such a masterful way that it is incorporated into the actual gameplay without being distracting. If you are on the fence about this game, I cannot recommend it enough. It made me feel things that no other game on the market has done before. It taught me that videogames are more than just entertainment, but that they can also be forms of art. I thank the developers of Hentai 3018 for opening my eyes and giving me one of the deepest experiences I have ever had in my 15+ years of gaming.

After completing all the single player content on offer and reaching Legend rank online, I think it's fair for me to give a review of the game. If you want the short version: I think the game is great and it's been super fun to play for all of my playtime despite a few minor issues that I have with it. If you're a fan of kart racers and/or Sonic, this game is well worth checking out. I think it's personally worth the $70 price tag, but I totally understand waiting for a sale if you're not 100% sure.

Now for the long version: To start, the controls are very solid and I never had an issue with being able to control my kart. They include a variety of options to make the game more accessible too, such as auto-steering and auto-accelerate which is always a plus. I really like how satisfying they make doing different things in this game feel too. The particles, special effects, and sound effects make even a simple drift feel satisfying to perform and I can't get enough of it.

The roster of characters they have here is pretty good. They have fan favorites like Sonic and Shadow of course, but they also includes more obscure picks such as Charmy Bee and... an Egg Pawn? The craziest part are probably the crossover characters that will be added at a later date. How many games do you know that will let you play as Spongebob, Joker from Persona 5, and Hatsune Miku in the same game just to name a few? I'm very much looking forward to seeing who gets added later on.

The race tracks are also great and are a mix of tracks based on previous Sonic games and some original tracks thrown in. Being a huge Sonic fan, it was really fun figuring out which game each track came from and I was surprised to see some more obscure Sonic games being used as inspiration. I think they did a great job making every track feel unique and fun to play on. You have simple tracks like E-Stadium that are just your basic stadium level you see in pretty much every kart racer, to more wacky tracks such as White Space that drastically change between laps and will require you to also drive on water and fly through the air. The music for all the tracks are great too and they fit with the vibes of each track. They even give you the option to select your own music for each lap through a jukebox accessible through the main menu and that's a pretty awesome feature.

Another thing the game excels at is the customization. There are 5 different categories of vehicles that are particularly good at different stats and each of those categories have lots of vehicles to choose from. This is already pretty nice, but the game includes a feature that allows you to create a custom vehicle by combining the front end, back end, and wheels from different existing vehicles. Once you have a set of parts you're happy with, you can change the colors to your liking and add some decals to it to truly make it your own. It's a pretty simple thing, but I appreciate having the freedom to make the vehicles look how I want them to.

If that wasn't enough for you, the game has a system known as gadgets that allow you to effectively create builds that can provide various benefits during a race. Want to make a build that is all about making drifting more effective or maybe a build that's all about ramming into other racers to get a speed boost and steal their rings? You can do both of those things. There are a mix of serious gadgets to make you go faster on the track and more silly options like being able to start a race with a monster truck item or making your drift spin your kart around rapidly and knock other racers away from you. Combine gadgets with being able to make custom vehicles and you have a lot of options for how you want to approach races.

Despite the many positives I've listed, there are a few issues that I have with the game. The first issue I want to talk about are some balance issues that I've noticed with the game. Despite my praise for the vehicles of the game, the best ones by far are the extreme gear. These vehicles have a high boost stat that can quickly fill the boost meter when they drift. This is fine on its own, but when you add gadgets into the mix, these vehicles are able to snake and spam boosts for the entire race, making them speed demons that either require you to do the same thing if you want to keep up or use items to slow them down. Other vehicle types can technically do this too, but the mix of high boost and handling stats of the extreme gears makes them by far the easiest to abuse this with and is a big part of why you see them so often in online play.

I believe part of the problem is that the stats in this game are... actually pretty underwhelming. There's a speed stat that you would think most people would want to have at least decently high, but the difference between between a low speed build vs one that invests into maxing speed is only 4 MPH and no, I did not make a typo, the difference really is that small. Acceleration also ends up being kind of underwhelming as a stat. It sounds nice to be able to get to max speed faster after an item or hazard hits you, but you can effectively get back to max speed with any vehicle just by drifting and doing a level 1 boost. Power as a stat is... okay I guess. It helps with not losing rings when people ram you or when you touch walls, but you lose so few rings even on vehicles with low power that it doesn't feel impactful just for that. Power also helps with pushing other vehicles out of the way, but this also usually doesn't do much unless you're able to push people into off road areas or a pit. Is it any wonder why people in higher ranks focus on boost and handling stats and not really care about the other stats?

Another gameplay issue you might encounter is item bagging. This is nothing new for these types of games, but it can be pretty bad in this one for a few reasons. The gadget system has gadgets that make this tactic more effective. You can make a build that allows you to have 3 items instead of 2 and also make it so that you can't drop items if you're hit by items that would normally force you to drop them. If somebody is able to get three really strong comeback items and then save them for near the end of lap 3, they can use all three items back to back and have a pretty good chance of getting at least top 3 in a race. It's a very cheesy strategy that I thankfully haven't seen too much of, but this really should not be something people can do even in a game as chaotic as this.

Finally, this is a minor nitpick, but the rate that you earn tickets is very slow. For unlocking stuff with tickets such as vehicle parts it works fine because the prices are reasonable and it's realistic to be able afford them after a couple of races. Once you get into stuff like buying all the decals and horns for their respective achievements, you really notice how slowly you earn tickets in this game. Acquiring all the decals and horns will take you over 20,000 tickets, in a game where doing good in a race can get you maybe 20 tickets. This is already absurd, but there's something that takes even more tickets and that's the friendship system. By investing enough tickets into a character of your choice, you can earn different cosmetics rewards related to that character. Want to know how many tickets you need to invest in a character to unlock everything for them? 50,000 tickets... for ONE character. I get that they want to give people a reason to keep playing the game, but the fact that you could play this game for 100+ hours and still not have enough tickets to unlock all the things for your favorite character is mind blowing.

So for my overall opinion of the game after all that? It's the best kart racer I have ever played even with the issues I mentioned. Everything just oozes with so much attention to detail and the gameplay manages to feel very fun for me 40 hours later. I can't recommend this game enough if you think it looks interesting.