Cruis'n Blast - Fully Brewed
Have you ever seen an arcade game cabinet: with all its fancy lights, sounds and buttons, you cannot help but walk towards it and plant yourself right in front of it. Whether holding a light gun, turning the steering wheel or gripping the joystick, there is a catharsis in physically being present to play it. You pop in a few coins, hit start and lock in for the next 2 to 5 minutes. As soon as the game over screen comes up, you load in a few more coins and keep playing. Your experience inevitably ends when you run of coins and realise you probably wasted both your time and money. This pretty much sums up my feelings towards Cruis’n Blast for the Nintendo Switch. Chrome and Neon I will admit I have always had an appreciation for arcade cabinet racers converted into console games. They owe their charm to how flashy and eye-catching they are designed to be. All the neon lights and coloured smoke effects are so over the top, that sometimes instead of playing a racing game I feel like I am...
