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With some interesting track layout and large selection of vehicles, Super Toy Cars is an entertaining arcade racer and a welcome addition to the Nintendo Switch console. There is plenty enough content to keep you entertained during your initial playthrough though the lack of a solid and well developed multiplayer mode is sadly a missed the opportunity and one that hampers the desire to return to the title after you have bested the games main career mode. 

The game looks and plays great on the Switch’s handheld mode. The style of the game lends itself to playing on the go, so handheld is definitely the recommended way of playing. However, the graphics don’t really lose anything when translated to a big screen, so there’s no wrong answer.

Budget racer Super Toy Cars delivers some rad drifting moments with a sidecar helping of combat thrown in. It’s also one of the better looking budget racing games on the Nintendo eStore. Fun, short and with ever so shiny graphics, this broom broom racer is an appealing purchase. Just don’t expect a table top classic.

Super Toy Cars could be seen as a modest and cost-effective alternative to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe but to be fair, you really can’t compare the two. Fun can be had, especially with other players and it can be entertaining for a while but you won’t be sitting around for hours on end playing this game. A few rounds between playing other games will surely be its lot and at $9.99 you will still have a good time and a few laughs at each others expense.

Super Toy Cars ha llegado a Nintendo Switch, para traer un título de coches pequeños con muchos escenarios, pero que arrastra algún problema de precisión de control, además de no disponer del modo de editor de escenarios de su versión de PC y de ofrecer una sensación que hace que se sienta algo genérico. Tiene mucho potencial, pero le faltan algunos detalles que bien pulidos le harían destacar más. Si tienes la versión de Wii U, no hay ninguna novedad, pero si no la probaste, échale un ojo si los arcades de carreras son lo tuyo.

However, what good will Super Toy Cars builds with these standout features is lost in the overall package due to the poor performance of the game. While performance issues in handheld mode are less prevalent, I found the performance in docked mode to be quite frustrating. At times I found the framerate inconsistency to be so jarring it would cause me to have difficulty controlling the car and sometimes even crash.

“Super Toy Cars” es una decepción total; un juego de carreras con mucho potencial y un concepto que podría haber sido explotado de mil maneras, que gracias a un gameplay mediocre, controles ridículamente sensibles, y un diseño de pistas paupérrimo, terminó siendo más frustrante que entretenido, más aburrido y soso que verdaderamente placentero. Sí, soy un fanático de los juegos de carreras, y siempre lo seré, pero eso no quiere decir que todos vayan a gustarme; no hay forma, lamentablemente, de que pueda recomendarle “Super Toy Cars” a mis lectores.

Super Toy Cars is a decent enough tabletop racer that will have fans of the classics like Micro Machines taking a quick nostalgic trip down memory lane, but it never manages to live up to the games from which it clearly takes its inspiration. You’ll get some fun out of throwing your car around the cute tracks, but the temperamental physics and inaccurate contact between your car and its surroundings has the potential to frustrate players before that happens. Not a bad game, then, but one that is a few grid positions behind its competitors.

Far from an offensively bad title, but also far from a passable game, Super Toy Cars is just a little mediocre title. It’s a game that can be mildly entertaining for a few minutes, but not engaging enough to grab your attention for a long time. It’s pretty hard to recommend Super Toy Cars to Switch owners when Mario Kart is already available for it.

Even if Mario Kart weren’t an available option on the system (though, no doubt, a much more expensive one) I’d find it difficult to give Super Toys cars more than a very tepid recommendation. Even among some of the other flawed racing titles on Switch its struggles with the fundamentals of a quality racing experience make it tough to love even if you have some nostalgia for its overall looks. All things considered it struggles to keep pace with the pack and is forgettable unless you’re really jonesing for that Micro Machines feel.

Malheureusement, c’est la douche froide pour Super Toy Cars qui rate presque tout. Contenu pauvre, gameplay daté, il n’y a pas grand chose pour sauver le jeu. Au lieu de nous ressortir un titre qui date de 2014, il aurait été préférable de proposer quelque chose de nouveau. Si vous recherchez un jeu dans l’esprit Micro Machines sur Nintendo Switch, on vous invite plutôt à vous intéresser à Mantis Burn Racing. Si votre truc c’est Mario Kart, inutile de vous faire un dessin.