{"id":23836,"date":"2023-11-03T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=23836"},"modified":"2023-09-18T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:44:16","slug":"f-zero-99-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/03\/f-zero-99-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"F-Zero 99 (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nintendo\u2019s futuristic high speed racing series: F-Zero, hasn\u2019t had a new game in nearly two decades!\u00a0 Until now.\u00a0 F-Zero 99 is a 99 player battle royale racing game modelled after the original SNES launch title.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s exactly what F-Zero fans wanted, but for a Nintendo Switch Online freebie, it\u2019s not too bad.<\/p>\n

Play control is like the original game.\u00a0 Press B to accelerate and A to boost.\u00a0 If you hit the sides of the road or other cars, you lose energy.\u00a0 Lose it all and you\u2019ll explode and are out of the race.\u00a0 You can also explode immediately if you go off the track.\u00a0 Your energy meter is also the same as your boost meter, so you\u2019ll have to be careful when you boost.\u00a0 You can refill your boost meter at certain points on the tracks.\u00a0 Press the L and R shoulder buttons to lean into turns, and the L and R trigger buttons make you do a spin attack on other players.\u00a0 When players in front of you hit each other, they\u2019ll leave behind little yellow dots called \u2018sparks.\u2019\u00a0 Pick these up to fill a second meter, and when it\u2019s full, press the boost button to race on a separate track high above the first one, with lots of boosts and shortcuts to help you place higher.\u00a0 There are other ways to get more sparks, too, like hitting special golden cars.<\/p>\n

On the menu screen you can play the main F-Zero 99 mode on a single track.\u00a0 The next mode you unlock after the tutorial.\u00a0 This mode changes every so often and will let you do team battles, hard tracks, and mini grand prix races.\u00a0 At certain times of the day, you can compete in grand prix races if you have enough tickets.\u00a0 You get tickets by playing every day and levelling up.\u00a0 You can also practice tracks by yourself, and edit your car and player badge in the workshop.\u00a0 By levelling up and getting achievements, you can edit your car\u2019s color, decals, and more.\u00a0 The four cars you can pick are the same ones from the original F-Zero game.\u00a0 My favorite has always been the Fire Stingray.<\/p>\n

My only problems with this game is that there\u2019s not much to it and I\u2019m horrible at it.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never gotten past 50th<\/sup> place and I can\u2019t get past the second track in a grand prix race.\u00a0 But it\u2019s still fun and since the SNES is my favorite console, I like seeing games like this in a new light.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know why Nintendo didn\u2019t just remake F-Zero GX and put the 99 player battle royale on that, but oh well.\u00a0 Can you imagine what a SNES Super Mario Kart 99 player battle royale would be like?\u00a0 At any rate, F-Zero 99 is a fun and frantic Nintendo Switch Online freebie.\u00a0 I wonder how long it\u2019ll last since both Super Mario Bros. 35 and Pac-Man 99 are no longer available.<\/p>\n

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

F-Zero 99 is rated E for Everyone with an ESRB descriptor of Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Futuristic cars can explode on the track, and that\u2019s it.\u00a0 I grew up with games like this and I turned out OK.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the menus and tutorials, and younger gamers may find the races too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo\u2019s futuristic high speed racing series: F-Zero, hasn\u2019t had a new game in nearly two decades!\u00a0 Until now.\u00a0 F-Zero 99 is a 99 player battle royale racing game modelled after the original SNES launch title.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s exactly what F-Zero fans wanted, but for a Nintendo Switch Online freebie, it\u2019s not too bad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836","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=23836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23838,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23836\/revisions\/23838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}