I need King Julian to stfu

Set Stats

Total achievements: 46

Missable achievements: 0!!!

Challenge achievements: 12

Progression achievements: 16

100% save file achievements: 18

Time to reach mastery: 7h 50m

The Game

This is Dreamwork's attempt to jump on the Mario Kart success wagon, and while I don't have the data from when this game was released in 2011, I highly doubt it reached the same status.

It has what you can expect from a multi-IP kart racer - playable characters from various franchises, tracks based on those same franchises, and recognisable(?) items re-purposed into weaponry. Shrek, Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens, How To Train Your Dragon, this game has it all!
... Except an enjoyable gameplay experience

There is absolutely no way the people behind this game came up with the movie Turbo (y'know, the racing snail movie?) because a regular snail could outrun these karts. I thought I was going to have to spend WEEKS getting through this because simply holding the A button to go forward seemingly barely works, even on 150cc.

It may sound like I'm overexaggerating, but it really is that frustrating. To top it off, the game has 9 tracks + 3 of them played in reverse, totaling 12 tracks, though I find it hard to justify calling it a reversed track separate.

To beat the game, you must complete all 4 cups on every difficulty, as well as the games challenges modes, which we'll get to.

Cups

How are there 4 cups per difficulty with only 12 tracks? Because each cup only has 3 tracks silly! Meaning you have to slowly drag your way through the same bits of scenery 16 times against CPU players who straight up cheat more and more as you increase the difficulty level. Seriously, these guys are reaching speeds I could only dream of on straights. Race around each track for 3 laps to win. There's not much more to it. It's just plain boring.

Challenge modes

Not gonna lie, I was kind of curious to see what other modes this game had to offer, but it turns out it's just more of the same. Yeah, the challenge modes are just the same races again, but this time with a limited item pool! Such as only turbo items, only homing rockets and shields, etc. Very cool and very fun stuff! help me

The Set

The set is fairly bland as it is with most kart racers, forcing you to experience all the game's super fun modes to their fullest..!

Progression - 16 cheevos

Is what it says on the tin. Win every cup on every cc for 16 achievements. get grindin'.

100% save file - 18 cheevos

While you get a DreamWorks Icon for each cup you win, every track also has 2 hidden ones for you to find and collect. Collecting both icons in a track awards you with an achievement, making up 12 of the set's achievements.

I used this beautiful guide from 14 years ago to track them down. They can be quite out of the way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5taO36PSY

The remaining 6 achievements are for beating every track in every challenge mode. These seem to unlock in some sort of order as you collect more DreamWorks Icons, but the game doesn't tell you how many icons to unlock any specific race. Or cup. Or cc.

Challenge achievements - 12 cheevos

Guinea did also add time trial cheevos for each of the 12 tracks, but they can easily be beaten with a good 20 seconds to spare for the most part. Not to say that's bad. I think it's good to have speedrun cheevos with generous leeway every now and again. While it may not be such a huge achievement to me, cheevos like these could be the gateway for someone to pick up a new hobby.

The Verdict

A lot of people seem very nostalgic to play this game, and I don't get it. I'm honestly stuck between deeming this or M&M's Kart Racing as the worst kart racer I personally have played.

Can't deny that it's piss easy Wii Launch Event points tho.

Links 'n stuff

Thanks to RA user Guinea, i guess. I wouldn't have gotten to experience this mediocre kart racer if it wasn't for you!

Explore the set yourself!: https://retroachievements.org/game/34609

Read my previous mastery here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroAchievements/comments/1smen81/mastery_68_lego_star_wars_the_complete_saga_wii/

So could you guess it? :]

Full list of words (I couldn't include all of them TT)

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