Info
- Title:: Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers
- Platform:: PC
- Developer:: Kart Krew
- Year:: 2024
- URL:: https://www.kartkrew.org/
Log
2024-04-29
srb2kart 2 is finally out… i’m excited to see how much of my life it sucks up. seeing as how i put many hundreds of hours into the original srb2kart, my feelings are complicated. like, there are the ones i have about the game itself, but those shouldn’t matter right now since i’m still going through the five stages of grief over subtle mechanical changes. but there are also the thoughts i have about the fate of srb2kart itself… will ring racers completely supplant it and everyone will be moving over to the new game before too long? or will there be a dedicated sub-sub-subculture that sticks around, devoted to the original kart? after all, we’ve seen that happen with other online games… though maybe not when there were only ever 150–200 active players at the height of its popularity.
2024-05-16
right now it’s ring racers, and it’ll probably be ring racers for quite some time.
currently i’m 36 hours into the game and still have one emerald left to go until i’ve got them all… on normal speed. i’ve spend the past hour or so just practicing that special stage while backgrounding the summoning salt nes tetris docu and i finally got it once. so now i just need to do it for real!
and then i get to do it all on fast speed, and then do all the time trials, and then start playing online and see if i can make a few friends this time too.
(hopefully i don’t end up attracting a colombian boyfriend this time, though i dunno, he was kinda sweet…)
i made it through my grief stage and hit a point where suddenly everything clicked for me and… i might even like it more than srb2kart?
but i don’t deny that it takes a certain kind of freak to get into this game. it almost feels like it’s ideally made for people who are already familiar with the modded srb2kart experience and it keeps piling features on from there. but that also makes it fun for a certain sort of neurodivergent (me) who notices all the callbacks to those community mods and gets a thrill out of seeing them “officially” recognized.
Notes
Sequel to Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart (2018)
Currently at 130 hours into the game, with all items on the Challenges board unlocked, all cups cleared and emeralds obtained on Vicious mode with either a rank of A or S, and a few hours dumped into the online mode before I realized that online mode just isn’t for me.