Less of a game, then, and more of a gamete - at least for that moment. To think now, that all the genius, all the singular agony of the work, was condensed into just a few million lines of alphanumeric shorthand, is as hard to comprehend as the information required to build a human being archived in the chemical broth at the heart of a cell. Only when this art was sullied with our own digital hands, could it be real. Only when that box was opened, could we know if the cat was Garfield. A sealed box, if you will, containing a cat. In the early hours of last Tuesday, as I and a thousand others waited for the 3am activation of our review copies, GKFR existed entirely in potentia: a few million lines of code, disembodied on some server in Northern California, waiting to be defined through our shared experience. According to the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics, by observing a phenomenon, we cannot help but change it - and never has this been more true than in the case of Garfield Kart Furious Racing. Could we call it a text, perhaps? Possibly - but one that can only be considered complete in the act of its being engaged with. It’s heartbreaking, really, to resort to a term so crude as “game” to describe Garfield Kart Furious Racing. And indeed, in writing as a critic, I expand the work yet further. In a sense, then, I am reviewing my own work - for in engaging with GKFR, I became one of its authors. Because GKFR, you see, is a collaborative effort - directed, certainly, by its developers at Artefacts Studio, but only comprehensible as an ever-changing consensus between the game itself, its players, and its critics. In the plainest terms, I would say I participated in it: I offered my own myopic contribution, alongside millions of others, to form the baroque gestalt of the work as a whole. Even if they're looking outside of Mario, stuff like Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed exists.I cannot say, in truth, that I played Garfield Kart Furious Racing. Why would you invest much time in this thing outside of playing all the tracks, then go about your way? I'm not sure, because if someone's in the market for a go-to kart racer, most people aren't going to keep coming back to this one. There's no story mode, no bonus modes, no incentive to snag all the collectibles other than the bragging rights of having weird collectible photos of the cast and all the hats. What's here is fine, but it's not enough. That's one of the main problems with Furious Racing. Oh, and for the DOTA 2 fans out there, you can collect hats for each character! That's. There's an online component that works well enough. There are different ways to mess around with cars in the garage. You race around sixteen tracks, pick up the optional collectibles, and that's about it. The thing is, that Faygo-tinged kart racer is just about all you'll be getting with this game. And that job entails saying that despite surefire improvements over the last entry, Garfield Kart: Furious Racing is nothing more than a basically serviceable kart racer with clear budgetary restraints, lack of content, and some glaring flaws. But I, a simple critic, have a job to do. In a way, it doesn't matter what the establishment says about this game - the people have accepted it as art, and so art it is. Now, five years later, Garfield Kart: Furious Racing arrives at a time when Jon Arbuckle drinking canine ejaculate is a bonafide classic meme and Garfield has been reborn into a postmodern icon.
One glance at the 2013 title's Steam page reveals a "Very Positive" consensus out of over 4,000 reviews.
But in 2013, millennial irony began to pick up in popularity, and so it was that Garfield Kart became the subject of widespread sarcastic, ironic admiration.
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Europe got a series of dreadful 3D platformers, the Wii saw some miserable party games, and there was probably some DS shovelware, too. Games about Garfield went unrecognized for years, and the world was a better place.
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