Alright, it's not great, but to be perfectly honest, I think this game isn't half as bad as it's made out to be either.
Is it cheesy as hell? O absoluty. No doubt about that. The phoned in voice acting of celebraties long past their relavance and/or expiry date is more than enough to put a cringe worthy smile on my face. But dispite this being a cringy and cheap blend of genres and not complety cooked all the way through gameplay mechanics, CB:RC does has it's own charm, both in it's over the top collorful style and in it's core gameplay loop that has quite some neat ideas. And to me the game and what it wants to be doesn't feel at all soulless. What I do think however is that the young developing team behind this, though having some really interesting ideas, simply lacked the experience and ultimately weren't very cohesive in their ambitions to make it a streamlined and coherent end experience.
But that being said, I also believe that the game has been in much worse a shape then it is in nowadays. At least, my understanding is that a lot has been changed and finetuned since it's launch 2 years ago, having read the update history and comparing it to older reviews and playthroughs i've seen of it, for the better I might add, so that might have something to do with it as well. But I wouldn't know, because I only just picked it up yesterday and having played it for a little over 6 hours now I can honestly say that I'm still having a decent amount of fun with it. No masterpiece or anything close to that, but just something cheap and greasy good in between, like streetfood Pizza or a fun night with someone you met at a club after having a few to many. Not very meaningful, though you don't really regret it either, 'cos it was fun in the moment.
And for €1,99 (on sale!) you do get quite a lot to play around with.

Alright, it's not great, but to be perfectly honest, I think this game isn't half as bad as it's made out to be either. Is it cheesy as hell? O absoluty. No doubt about that. The phoned in voice acting of celebraties long past their relavance and/or expiry date is more than enough to put a cringe worthy smile on my face. But dispite this being a cringy and cheap blend of genres and not complety cooked all the way through gameplay mechanics, CB:RC does has it's own charm, both in it's over the top collorful style and in it's core gameplay loop that has quite some neat ideas. And to me the game and what it wants to be doesn't feel at all soulless. What I do think however is that the young developing team behind this, though having some really interesting ideas, simply lacked the experience and ultimately weren't very cohesive in their ambitions to make it a streamlined and coherent end experience. But that being said, I also believe that the game has been in much worse a shape then it is in nowadays. At least, my understanding is that a lot has been changed and finetuned since it's launch 2 years ago, having read the update history and comparing it to older reviews and playthroughs i've seen of it, for the better I might add, so that might have something to do with it as well. But I wouldn't know, because I only just picked it up yesterday and having played it for a little over 6 hours now I can honestly say that I'm still having a decent amount of fun with it. No masterpiece or anything close to that, but just something cheap and greasy good in between, like streetfood Pizza or a fun night with someone you met at a club after having a few to many. Not very meaningful, though you don't really regret it either, 'cos it was fun in the moment. And for €1,99 (on sale!) you do get quite a lot to play around with.