Homie Rollerz

Homie Rollerz is a kart racing game developed by Webfoot Technologies and published by Destineer for the mh:awesomegames:Nintendo DS in 2008. It was only released in North America.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It's one of the many obvious rip-offs of Mario Kart, like M&M's Kart Racing. The gameplay tries to be exactly like said game, but since it's actually a bad game in the first place, it already failed horribly at replicating Mario Kart.
 * 2) The graphics are so bad that they even give London Cab Challenge a run for its money, with models that look extremely blocky and textures of very bad quality, which is reminiscent to a Sega 32X game, which that platform came out 13 years before the game even came out.
 * 3) Low framerate that does not go above 30 FPS, which is unacceptable for the Nintendo DS, since it's already capable of running a lot of games in 60 FPS. Never mind the fact that this was on a game of the seventh generation, which is 2 generations ahead of the fifth one which caused the great transition from 2D to 3D gaming, but most of the games only ran at 30 FPS due to hardware limitations.
 * 4) Fourth-generation-quality sounds and soundtrack, including a horrendous kart engine noise that sounds exactly like that on Hard Drivin'.
 * 5) The game portrays Latinos in a very offensive way. It contains frequent racial slurs on an  E-rated  game, which is outrageous since it is completely unethical to children to play a game with outright offensive material. This even proved that video game regulation organizations often don't rate games properly and probably do not even play games before rating them, which had recently been exposed in the gaming community and caused major backlash to the companies responsible for wrong age ratings in video games.
 * 6) The control is pretty much uncontrollable, because the kart easily loses its control when it keeps bouncing when driving on slopes or colliding with certain walls because of how unrealistic the physics are. The kart also turns super tight that it might cause the camera to move very fast, more about it right below.
 * 7) A crazy camera that jerks around whenever you turn, which also turns so fast that you can barely notice that a wall might be approaching to you and cause you to crash into it because it requires so fast reaction times. It doesn't help that the maniability is strange and you can turn so tight that you might cause the camera to turn around very fast. Sometimes, it especially messes up when you crash into certain obstacles, completely disorienting you thereafter.
 * 8) If you crash into an obstacle, which happens very often because of how bad the controls are, it is very hard to turn the kart around to continue driving, so you might pretty much lose the race.
 * 9) Putrid track design, which is made with the least amount of effort possible. There are many impossible sections that can lead to frequent crashes like mentioned above and they are full of soulless linear design.
 * 10) While it's usual to have several characters and vehicles in a racing game, almost all characters play in the same way, with barely noticeable differences with their statistics and controls. Yes, the key part of racing games, which are racer statistics, are absent, which means that no matter which character and kart you select, you will always have the same statistics and therefore play the same way as all the other players.
 * 11) Pathetic number of characters, karts and tracks, even for a DS game. Only 10 characters are available including 2 unlockables, and while it's the same number of starter characters as in Mario Kart DS and 7, there are much less unlockable characters in Homie Rollerz than both games.
 * 12) The game costs $9 on retail, and even then, it still feels like a rip-off due to lack of content.
 * 13) Bad animated trailer (shown below), only using budget figurines with terrible stop-motion animation and no facial animation whatsoever, and it barely even talks about the gameplay at all. The only vehicles shown in the trailer is a police car, a red one and a white one (displayed on the background door's mirrors), which does not make sense for a trailer of a racing game.

Reception
The game was critically panned by critics, specially because of its xenophobic and offensive depiction of Latin people, poor controls and graphics, shallow gameplay and terrible camera. It received a score of 23/100 on Metacritic, based on 10 reviews. IGN rated the game as "Painful" by giving it a score of 2/10.

In his review, TodoNintendoS went as far as to claim that it's the environement that is moving instead of the karts because of the bad camera, which is what made the controls insanely difficult. He ranked the game #7 in his YouTube video titled Top 10 Worst Nintendo DS Games.

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