Character Kart Racing

Character Kart Racing was a game developed by Ryen Industries and Bandai-Namco Jamaica for the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii U. It was released on the 13th of January, 2013.

**"The most racist game you'll ever play, 11/45"** - IGN

**"It killed my dog"** - Eurogamer

## Synopsis

Character Kart Racing is a kart racing game similar to the Mario Kart series. It features fun multiplayer modes as well as a powerful, thought provoking storyline.

The story mode starts as the Player's chosen character kicking back at a local park and eating a pork skratching cornish pastie. Out of nowhere, Thomas the Tank Engine appears in the sky and blows up the city. The story features the Player's character trying to stop Thomas the Tank Engine from destroying the world, and thus eliminating Feudalism. The Player has to complete many races around the game's world in an attempt to stop the evil forces destroying the world. Along the way the Player will meet many of the game's other characters and they are recruited to help. Eventually, all of the game's characters are collected and they assemble together for the very final fight against Thomas the Tank Engine.

The story mode has an average 82 and 7/56ths hour completion time, including cutscenes.

## Development

Character Kart Racing had a very troubled development. Right from the moment of it's inception it has been pray to attacks from the Soviet Army, the CIA as well as Carabiean pirates. The developers had to be armed with AK-47s to defend the studio from being captured. During the month of June in 2010 the studio was hit by a tactical cluster nuke and was levelled along with the town of Savanna la Mar where the studio was located. Fortunately the game's files was backed up to an artist's son's Google Drive, and the project was able to continue after all new staff were hired. The hiring process was quite lengthy as they kept hiring cartel members who would subsequently die after getting involved in an altercation with the Mexican police.

A few days before launch the developers were victim to a hostile takeover by Kellogs. The company attempted to annex the staff and move them to their cereal factories to fill in the empty roles after a round of Polio swept through the factory and killed more than 4/9ths of the workforce. Fortunately for the developers the Toyota Motor Company completed their hostile takeover of Kellogs first and their workforce was drafted to fight in the Iranian war.

As a result of all of the happenings the game took almost 9 years to develop and required a further 7 years to iron out all the bugs and coding mistakes.

In 2019, the game was ported to the Saga Dreamcast after a lawsuit was filed against Ryen Industries for the unlawful use of a dead man's likeness. This verison of Character Kart Racing is considered to be the best and most complete version.

## Known Issues

When booting the game, pressing the - button during the company logos sequence will corrupt all of your save data. (Wii U)

The charater Marie has a poor collision hitbox and will often be flung straight into the sky upon loading into a race. (PS3)

The Burning Yandere Forst racetrack is poorly optimised and puts a heavy load on the consoles. This has been known to blow up power supples on early model PS3s. (Wii U, PS3, Dreamcast)

The game's AI seems to racially profile people with dark skin coloured Miis and will be more aggessive against them. (Wii U)

Saving the game at exactly 3:00am will cause the console to hard crash and will corrupt the console’s BIOS. (Dreamcast)

Entering the konami code at any point will access the game's developer tools. This is, however, bugged and will stream false incriminating data directly to the local autorities. (Wii U, PS3)