{"id":23060,"date":"2023-04-05T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23060"},"modified":"2023-02-23T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:50:10","slug":"emoji-kart-racer-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/05\/emoji-kart-racer-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"emoji Kart Racer (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Because of the widespread use of mobile phones and texting, we see and use those little yellow happy face emoji icons all the time.\u00a0 They even made a movie about them, and when I saw it on Netflix I watched the first five minutes of it and then stopped!\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a kart racing game with those icons (available on all current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 Does it fare better than the movie?\u00a0 Well, you\u2019ll just have to read on to find out.<\/p>\n

There are two main modes of play.\u00a0 Tournament lets you play cup races with four tracks each, or you can do each track separately.\u00a0 Up to four can play locally, and the CPU will control the other racers.\u00a0 You can select your difficulty as well.\u00a0 When you are ready to race, you\u2019ll pick your face, hat, car, and color, and you can unlock more as you go along.\u00a0 As you drive, you can pick up weapons via boxes, which are typical kart racing fare.\u00a0 Speed boosts, rockets, bombs, etc.\u00a0 I was disappointed you can\u2019t play as the poop emoji icon, but at least that\u2019s a weapon in the game.<\/p>\n

The problem with this game is that it uses a physics based game engine, so it makes your kart easy to flip over on its side.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a respawn button if this happens and you get stuck, but that\u2019s really just a band aid for bad game design.\u00a0 This also makes it easy for racers to bunch up and make pileups on the track, making it easier for other racers to get too far ahead.\u00a0 The tracks either go on far too long, are just nothing but oval variations where you only turn one direction, or just downright ripoffs of other kart tracks.\u00a0 There\u2019s even one where you race on a rainbow!\u00a0 And I swear I\u2019ve heard the same stock music in my training videos at work!\u00a0 All this makes emoji Kart Racer one of the worst kart games I\u2019ve ever played!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emoji Kart Racer is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can use the poop emoji as a weapon and it makes a farting sound, and karts can crash and spin around, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menu text, but not necessary just to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because of the widespread use of mobile phones and texting, we see and use those little yellow happy face emoji icons all the time.\u00a0 They even made a movie about them, and when I saw it on Netflix I watched the first five minutes of it and then stopped!\u00a0 And now there\u2019s a kart racing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23102,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23060\/revisions\/23102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}