Lego Racers 2 (Game Boy Advance) Walkthrough
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Because, you know, the first handheld installment was just soooooo dang good that everyone was begging to try the next one.
Okay, for real, it's the GBA iteration of LR2! ...yay? This is a full play through of the game's single player story mode, which is basically shot-for-shot the same as the PC/PS2 version's storyline, right down to the exact same text boxes. Of course the tracks are all different given that this is a watered down handheld adaptation, but you probably already guessed that. This game also has a new set of powerups and new minigames as well.
And...that's about all there is to say from a general perspective. Is this game any good? Honestly...no. I think the only real positive I have to say about this game is that it's better than the GBC Lego Racers, but that's starting at rock bottom so there wasn't much direction to go except up from there. The game had potential to be decent, but it's wrecked by game mechanics that do not at all complement the track designs. It is way too easy to go crashing into walls, over or under steer, and the drifting system is one of the worst I've ever seen in a kart racer (yes, even worse than the console version of LR1!), where you just do a really quick skid that doesn't really take you in any definite direction. On top of that, this game also transplants the car upgrade system from the main versions, and it's not only just as broken here as it was in the original, it's even LESS refined; upgrading your engine makes it near impossible to avoid falling off the edge or hitting walls. This especially is true for going off jumps, where you will frequently be going so fast that you physically will have no way of avoiding going off the track. Getting a steering upgrade to compensate doesn't fix this either. And on top of that, the tracks are horribly designed, frequently not making it obvious where you're supposed to go, and they're very bland and uninspired. And, beyond that...why does this game even exist? Mario Kart: Super Circuit was announced pretty much around the exact same time the GBA was unveiled, did they really think they stood a chance against such a high profile kart racing name like that?
World-by-world comments
Sandy Bay: You go through the exact same first several races as you do in the original, and by golly are they a walk in the park. There is also a minigame in this world that...well, I won't spoil it. Just watch. It has to be seen to be believed.
Dino Island: A little more difficult, but not much. The minigame in this world (and the next) is garbage; trust me, if you think I'm playing bad, it is so much easier said than done to avoid things in this game, and there's no radar to tell you where the nearest egg is so it's a total guessing game. Either way, not much else to say.
Arctic: So. If you notice that the video suddenly gets way darker and easier to see halfway through this world...no, that's not your imagination. I didn't realize until I reached this world that I turned up the contrast on my capture card just a liiiiiiittle too high and thus the snow in this world was way too bright with none of the detail visible. My apologies about that. I wish I had began recording with it like that from the outset but what is done is done. Anyway, this world is alright, but has some extremely confusing track layouts.
Mars: Not a fun world. Way too many jumps and the lava is way too easy to fall into. In fact, this is probably the worst world in the game. Oh, and you don't even get to face Riegel in his giant mech. Ah well, I guess I can forgive that.
Oh, also fun fact: prior to recording this video, I had not played past the first few tracks in Mars. If you can believe this, I actually got so bored when first playing this that I just gave up, restarted, and began making the walkthrough from there. So, yeah, beginning about halfway through this world, this was done blind, and this recording was in fact my first time finishing this game. Imagine that.
Xalax: Bad track design at its peak. 90 degree turns everywhere, walls way too close to each other, and the fourth track of this world has to be seen to be believed, the utter pinnacle of bad design. It appears they tried to replicate the figure 8 course in the original, but they went about it by making one long road with a circle on each end, and it's extremely not obvious that you're supposed to enter those circles from one direction and exit from the other. Would it have killed them to split the track down the middle? That could have saved so much confusion. At the very least, Rocket Racer is much more of a climactic showdown in this game than he is in the original, though that has more to do with the spaghetti track you race him on than anything.
Hope you enjoy the walkthrough! I certainly hope more so than I did playing this game.
I never had this version of this game simply because I never had a Game Boy Advance. Instead I had the PC version, which I actually liked when I was a kid.
Ahh so many memories with this it's a shame I lost it :( I really miss it.
4.97 on lukie games
I now feel like I'm in middle school again. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!
Nice to know that I wasn’t doing anything wrong as a kid, drifting was just plain nonexistent in this game KEK
This gave me ptsd vietnam war flashbacks of when i played this on a ds lite
I know of another racing video game that had potential to be decent; it's Midtown Madness 1 for the PC (released in 1999), which I played when I was a kid. While it has a fantastic soundtrack, a great selection of vehicles and impressive voice acting, it suffers from some issues with the game itself, like the controls locking for a few seconds, allowing your vehicle to move on its own. Additionally, some of the races are based for too much on trial-and-error because when you choose a fast vehicle (like the Panoz Roadster), you can damage it out too easily due to the way the excessively realistic vehicle physics and handling work. As a result you'll have to select larger, slower vehicles in order to win races, like the City Bus, the Freightliner Century, or the Ford F-350 as during difficult races, they allow you to "cheat" by damaging out all opponents in order to win easily. Unfortunately, for me, there's no better way of completing them besides that technique. It's not an atrocious game by all means, but it could have been more enjoyable to play. That's why I vastly prefer Midtown Madness 2 (released in 2000) as it amazingly fixed all of these problems when it came out in 2000.
Hated the levels on Mars as they were very hard.
Things like gameplay, graphics, track design, were all pretty bargain bin with this release... But that music. I swear to God it's stuck with me for so long and is compositionally so much better than it has any right to be. The ice level and forest levels are bops.
Thanks for sharing. I was looking for Lego Racers and Lego Racers 2 for PC again (played them non stop through middle school) and then saw they had GBA and was curious how it compared to PC.. well definitely glad I played on PC.. this isnt terrible but the PC graphics were before their time for sure.
Why does the music for Xalax on GBA SO FIRE? 1:07:27
Omg. I haven't played this game since I was 11 back in 2002.
Omg.. what a throwback 🙈😂
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YO! I played this GBA game on PC as a kid, I don't think I realised that I played an emulated game at the time, I played both this and MarioKart and it was an absolute blast! (even tho the controls are the CLUNKIEST part and it put me through frustration. XD)
It makes me travel in the past, and Xalax is my favorite track, a shame you have to have a lot of Golden Blocks to get it.
This is some nostalgia right here! Very hard game. Many frustrations while playing it but was good game 😌
I remember this game being FAR less forgiving. And that dang Dino Egg game was the bane of my existence as a child
Hello, I'd like to know the theme music, the one that appears just after selecting the game language.
But I can't find it on the internet
In the GBA version, Scooter from the first Lego Racers game replaces a CPU player named Baron Rosso
God, the music in this game was such a banger. Too bad it can be barely found on the internet anymore, causing the gba soundtrack to be lost in time….
The mars race is burned into my brain and I can still hear it sometimes today
I remember playing it a WHILE back
The Lego Sandy Bay tune gives me Pokémon vibes.
This looks entirely different compared to the PC and PS2 version. I suppose the Game Boy Advance wasn't the best of tech for the time.
This was super common back then. Handhelds didn't even come close to matching the power of consoles, so rather than trying to be a portable version of the console game, they just made a different game entirely.
@@MrEightThreeOne thanks for the info, was interesting to see
Soundtrack sounds like arcade
The music isn't nearly as unhinged as the original, 2/10
I played this in 1st grade along with Lego island 2, great times!
un capolavoro in stile mario kart
The arcitc guy with his eyes closed was real chill
I think the only good thing about the GBA game was the intro because of its good music
Please, stop talking nonsense.
So many good memories playing this