{"id":224,"date":"2022-03-03T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/review-chocobo-gp-a-surprising-mario-kart-8-alternative-for-final-fantasy-fans\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T10:07:40","slug":"review-chocobo-gp-a-surprising-mario-kart-8-alternative-for-final-fantasy-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/review-chocobo-gp-a-surprising-mario-kart-8-alternative-for-final-fantasy-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Chocobo GP &#8211; A Surprising Mario Kart 8 Alternative For Final Fantasy Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tweet Racer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Square Enix first boosted onto the kart racing scene all the way back in 1999 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/final_fantasy\">Final Fantasy<\/a>-themed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/chocobo_racing\">Chocobo Racing<\/a><\/strong> on the original PlayStation. A rather average effort all things told, the game featured a few unique ideas of its own \u2014 such as a selection of special moves to choose from pre-race and a cute pop-up book style story mode to introduce its cast of characters \u2014 but, when it came to the all-important racing action, it was let down by a combination of underwhelming tracks and a lack of precision in its controls.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 23 years and you could perhaps forgive us, then, for being slightly underwhelmed by the prospect of returning to the world of Final Fantasy-inspired karting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/chocobo_gp\">Chocobo GP<\/a>, a direct sequel to the forgettable original that&#8217;s seen a rocky road to development. Having been announced way back in 2010 for the 3DS before being canned entirely in 2013 and then resurrected \u2014 if only in name and spirit \u2014 in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/chocobo-gp\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Chocobo GP &#8211; A Surprising Mario Kart 8 Alternative For Final Fantasy Fans<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tweet Racer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Square Enix first boosted onto the kart racing scene all the way back in 1999 with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/final_fantasy\">Final Fantasy<\/a>-themed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/chocobo_racing\">Chocobo Racing<\/a><\/strong> on the original PlayStation. A rather average effort all things told, the game featured a few unique ideas of its own \u2014 such as a selection of special moves to choose from pre-race and a cute pop-up book style story mode to introduce its cast of characters \u2014 but, when it came to the all-important racing action, it was let down by a combination of underwhelming tracks and a lack of precision in its controls.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 23 years and you could perhaps forgive us, then, for being slightly underwhelmed by the prospect of returning to the world of Final Fantasy-inspired karting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/chocobo_gp\">Chocobo GP<\/a>, a direct sequel to the forgettable original that&#8217;s seen a rocky road to development. Having been announced way back in 2010 for the 3DS before being canned entirely in 2013 and then resurrected \u2014 if only in name and spirit \u2014 in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/chocobo-gp\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}