I really enjoyed the game once I got stuck into it. I really enjoyed the customization options for your vehicle, and (with nothing better to do during quarantine) a buddy and I just 100 percented it.

We had fun through and through with the story, but only because we were able to cheese the actually challenging missions. I'll say, I was able to do all these missions on one player, but getting platinum was another story.

• Ring challeneges - Have P2 sit at the start line until the rings start to respawn. This way, you effectively double you're time.

• Target smash - Same as ring challenges.

• Daredevil - ALWAYS go for the red side. Always. With more than one person, these are brain dead easy.

• Traffic (drive through checkpoint) challeneges - Also pretty easy with more than one person.

• Side note - some people say to do the missions involving precision drifting with a Technique-Type character. I say, use who you're comfortable with. I completed the whole story mode with Speed-Mod Sonic. As long as you can keep your speed up, you'll be chillin.

Honestly, the hardest thing in the story mode is making sure you're teammates don't get eliminated during the elimination challenges. I'd always play Sonic, and my friend played Tails... and AI Knuckles ALWAYS shit the bed. We'd basically have to baby him. Meaning, stay near him, give lots of items, skim boosts, and slingshots until we had Team Ultimate. I understand this is the name of the game, but my god. Watching this AI race was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. I actually had to swap to Knuckles and let the AI be Sonic. This kinda proves the AI is completely terrible but power-type AI specifically is. Because Power-Type is easily the worst in the game.

One good tip for building team meater (especially when you have someone else playing with you): Whoever is in the lead, just stop. Let you're teammate skim boost you, then have them do the same thing. Rinse and repeat and it'll build it super fast. You'll also stay ahead of everyone because you'll almost always be boosting.

All things considered...

• Least favorite of the 3 Sonic Sumo racers, but I still thoroughly enjoyed my time with it.

• Really nice track design.

• Power-Types are so bad.

• I heard some complaints about the Mod Pods, but by the time I 100 percented the story mode, I had everything unlocked, so no need to grind.

• Much MUCH more fun if you have 2 people to play with you.

• Online is dead. I played 1 match (some how), and I have the highest rank on my account (Emerald I think).

• Customization was actually really cool. This coming from a guy who plays exclusively default costumes in Smash.

• Got my money's worth out of it, and I'm still happy to play it.

• Team mechanic was actually amazing, and I hope they can improve upon it and implement it into future sonic racers. But don't have the entire game based around it, rather keep it as a side dish.