I don't really feel like the engine swap should count for the Spooky Grand Prix since not every Grand Prix added something substantial like a new feature or mode like Ring Rally, so it's more fair to just judge based on what all Grand Prix did the same.
One of the things I appreciated the most was the mini game catching ghosts during spooky grand prix. It was such a small thing, but a nice change of pace. Was kind of hoping they would keep it at least on that track, or release something else to catch during races after that grand prix! Amazing year for ctr none the less!
@@kidsIIIII009 For a single grand prix I would pick Winter Festival like I said above. Overall I would say Yaya, Rilla Roo, Hasty, Nina, Moe, and Spyro
My top would be: 1. Neon Circus 2. Winter Festival 3. Spooky 4. Nitro Tour 5. Back N Time 6. Spyro & Friends Koala Carnival's layout might be simple, but it's fine, not every track needs to be complicated, also the track is way too much fun to play either way and has the best soundtrack.
Nitro Tour might be my favorite Beenox track. I hated it for 2 months but now that ive had time to appreciate it, its amazing. Top tier track. One of my favorites overall
@@i-ranium810 Apparently COPPA said publicly that as long as your content is properly labeled, then doing stuff like mature based cartoons, can get the okay. Just hope they keep their word.
Loading times are terrible in this game. That is the single reason I put MK8D over this game on overall score. I like CTR racing better, but those load times.
I liked the later grand prixs for making the act of grinding for Nitro points a bit more easier to go through, to the point where you can finish it in a week or two .
I know this is an old video, but I just realized something with the Spyro Grand Prix skins, Joe's Wizard skin isnt a generic wizard skin like I previously thought. It is actually a Spyro reference, its just not a reference to Wizard's Peak wizards, its instead a reference to the Wizard Gnomes in Crystal Islands from Year of the Dragon. What stood out was the purple robe, at first I thought "Oh well they just chose purple cause Joe wears purple", then i compared and none of the other characters legendary skins stook to the same color scheme for outfits. Then after comparing the pointy beard and gold trimming, all similar to these Gnomes. Really the only difference is Joe's is more extravagant, which yeah, thats different, but so is Zem's Devil Dog skin and Im sure no one disputes the fact its a Dark Passage Devil Dog. In closing, I am correct and anyone who disagrees can fight me in my backyard.
@@eastcumbriancollector983 Ain't you talkin' 'bout the second portal? The 1st one doesn't have shortcut. It's just quits from the library to the wizards.
I don’t mind the simpler tracks I had a few family members try out CTR for the first time over the holidays and the simpler tracks allow new players to get used to the basics they also look great.
Very nice breakdown! I just recently got the game in november and so I only caught the tail end of the circus grand prize, but am fully emersed in the winter festival grand prize now! Was curious as to what I had missed in the others, besides the tracks. Thanks for the video 💚
Favorite track: Gingerbread Joyride, the only track that feels like old CTR tracks in terms of fun, difficulty and skill level Favorite new character: none, I really didn't care for the new characters, only used them when I need to get points Favorite skins:space Coco Favorite wheels: prehistoric playground ones Favorite karts: stock cart from the original CTR
My order (including the two in 2020)with reasons 1:Winter festival. Overall great track,characters and customizashion items. I don't mind Rilla Roo even though Yaya is my fav! 2:Neon circus. People say it's not good but really it made ring rally one of the most fun modes ever! Even though the track is a circle it's a very fun circle 3:Gazmoxia. It's not my fav but it's not my least fav lol. People say the track is the best in the game but I'm not that fused on it. The gem in this is emporer velo the 27! 4:Spooky: ..well..the track is ok and the items are good. The characters don't have the same impact on me because I'm young and befor this I didn't know how Nina was! 5:Rustland. Where to start. I mean the customization items are ok the track is really good the skins are some of the best in the game and benox made a good design of megamix! 6:Nitro tour. I have some mixed feelings about this one. The characters were *VERY* overrated and the track is fine but on the simple side. Also I'm learning about Egypt now! 7:Back N time. Umm. Well again I have some mixed feelings about this one. Good track ok skins and meh karts. The thing keeping this from 8 is my old man's was baby crash he's so cute! 8:Spyro and friends. Characters our bad track is ok customization ok and overall my least favourite grand Prix.
completely agree, it's the only grand prix i didn't finish because i didn't like any of the content it brought, plus the nitro challenges were broken pretty much every day
My Top for the Grand Prix : Favorite track : Prehistoric Playground Favorite character : Nina Favorite kart : The Daredevil Favorite wheels : The Spyro mobile Favorite skin : Biker Crash Favorite paint job : The Spectral
Most of your favourite karts are from Crash Tag Team Racing by the way not just the ones you noted, and there are still a few more that I can definitely see coming to Nitro Fueled, that game really deserves some appreciation.
I say in my opinion the best overall Grand prix has to be The neon circus Especially the koala carnival Plus it Gave new skins to already amazing trophy girl characters Plus mixing in a little tag team racing feel with Pasadena and von clutch too me that was my favorite Grandprix prix
Now IF they add more Spyro characters for future updates, please add: Elora, The professor, Ripto, Sheila & company, Bianca, Moneybags and the Sorceress
Best Track: Prehistoric playground(back in time) Worst track: koala carnival (neon circus) Best Karts: neon circus Worst karts: winter festival Best Paint job: Winter festival Worst paint job: spooky Best wheels:winter festival Worst wheels: spyro and friends Best characters: winter festival Worst characters: back in time Best soundtrack: winter festival Worst soundtrack: back in time
Aww, I love koala carnival. It’s one the plays to one of CTR standout features that no one talks about... verticality. Seriously, whenever anyone talks about Ctr, they talk about the drift boosts. No one talks about the jump boosts. I know the course is simple, but the number of jumps while sipping along at high speed make it a blast to play on!
@Canadian Guy Eh Classic Karts still remaining: 20 1 from Crash Nitro Kart: - Team Velo (CNK Boss Kart) 17 from Crash Tag Team Racing: - Yellow Horde - Fairy Mobile - The Guzzler - Overcompensator - Cuhalftr (Crunch PSP Car) - Extreme Surplus - Junkulon Prime - Angsterator - Nina PSP Car - Slave Driver - Harm Aid / Hard Aid - Bad Girl - Zwergauto - Der Pickle - Blue Test Car - Green Test Car - Crster (Beta Trikee / Original Trikee) And 2 from Crash Nitro Kart 2 (2008 - Java): - Formula (Kart for Crash, Coco, & Yaya Panda) - Speed Buggy (Kart for Cortex, Nina, Tiny Tiger, Ripper Roo, & Nitros Oxide)
My is similar to Carlos fav top 6 GP of 2019: 1. Neon Circus (Nitro squad receiving the best skins of all the GP - Koala Circuit is very detailed but simple) 2. Winter Festival (heaps of skins & good-challenging circuit) 3. Spooky (vastly improved from the Spyro GP & Nitro + the circuit is a step up from the Spyro & Nitro tour) 4. Nitro Tour (Great start of the GP + Twilight Tour circuit is my fav) 5. Back N. Time (Great original circuit + the 3 new characters are okay - No baby Cortex & N. Trophy skin) 6. Spyro & Friends (worst one yet - lacking more characters from the Spyro universe + the circuit is okay)
This is a really awesome list ranking and I really like the way you listed them at the end. The spooky Grand Prix is definitely my favourite for sure but if I’m being really honest, the new characters are the only things that interest me at all. So in terms of that my least favourite Grand Prix is the back n time one just cause of the new baby characters. Particularly baby coco. Baby crash I honestly didn’t mind, but the high pitching of baby coco was very iterating I thought. Also the way you gotta get the eggs in adventure mode to unlock king chicken was kind of really annoying too...
There was definitely things to like about all of them, but I think my favorite overall is the spooky grand prix. I do so wish the flag stickers would come back.... I was buying other stuff at the time and missed them.
Thank you for bringing up Spyro Grand Prix's short comings with it skins. It felt like alot of other reviewers over looked that for the sake of wanting to believe Spyro can do no wrong.
I do hope that they put more spyro Grand Prix that's based 2 and 3 for spyro 2 elora,moneybags,professor,ripto for three Bianca,sorceress agent 9 sgt byrd Bentley and maybe Sheila
I all eight CTR Grand Prix seasons in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled like:... Nitro Tour Grand Prix,... Back N. Time Grand Prix,... Spyro & Friends Grand Prix,... Spooky Grand Prix,... Neon Circus Grand Prix,... Winter Festival Grand Prix,... Rustland Grand Prix,... and Gasmoxia Grand Prix. 🙂
I love most of the content we got with every Grand Prix, but I do feel a constant issue is the lack of connection from the skins/paintjobs/ etc with the actual theme of the Grand Prix. The Spooky paints, though look great, I think they're too colorful and neon-ish for what they were supposed to represent. I'd expect darker colors, or more purple, gray, orange, black combinations. Also, when you use it in combination with other karts and decals, sometines it just looks like a huge flashing splat and the ghosts are barely visible. With the winter GP, I think the track is fine, and again, I do like the wheels and paintjobs, but it looks like the GP's theme was Candyland instead of Christmas or even Winter. I love Christmas so much, and just like Halloween, it's mostly because of the decorations and colors that are usually related to those festivities so it was kind of a bummer to not see that more exploited. But yeah, I agree Spyro GP was definitely the most wasted one. There are so many characters from Spyro that could've been represented on the skins, and while I do love the paint jobs and wheels, it didn't feel quite Spyro-ish either. My favorite one in terms of appearance is the Carnival one. I love the paintjobs and wheels and the track is amazing, even if it's simple. Not to mention the Ring Rally mode is really fun. I still believe Rilla Roo should've been introduced in this GP and not the Winter one.
While I agree that the skins for the Spyro GP fell flat, CGE, I love the track because of its simplicity... that’s what Spyro’s first game was known for... being simple enough for anyone to be able to play it! For content, I would have preferred a Yeti Polar skin over his Viking one (as a reference to Bentley or Bartholomew) an Elora, Bianca, or Zoe / other fairy(s) skin for a Nitro Squad girl, if not having the Professor, Shelia, Sgt. Byrd, Bentley, Bartholomew, Agent 9, Elora, Bianca, Zoe / other fairy(s) or one of the dragons (egg or adult) you rescued in place of Gnasty... maybe have cortex’s lab assistant replaced by the professor working on putting orbs into pillars on the track as a nod to the super portal? Or maybe replace the missiles on Spyro Circuit with Zoe as a nod to how she attacked Ripto in the opening of Ripto’s Rage? And definitely saving the Evil Crunch and Evil Coco skins for the Spooky GP... because ,let’s be real, those skins clashed with the Spyro aesthetic... Viking Polar could have been a Gnorc reference if his fur was green so that skin could have been saved... or just saved for a mythology / fantasy GP later down the line...
The theme of the Spyro Grand Prix isn't really just only supposed to be a spyro themed, it's a fantasy theme too. In my opinion, I think they did a good job with that fantasy content (skins basically). It makes sense for the theme to be a fantasy theme because the Spyro games were technically based on fantasy.
My ranking: 1. Back N. Time (10/10) 2. Neon Circus (9.5/10) 3. Winter Festival (8.5/10) 4. Spooky (8/10) 5. Nitro Tour (6.5/10) 6. Spyro and Friends (6/10)
Tracks From Best to Worst: 1. Nina's Nightmare (I won this race the FIRST TIME I TRIED IT. Love the theme, love the track, I love this GP) 2. Koala Carnival (This track, despite being a huge oval, is just so much fun. The theme is chaotic, and it made my November.) 3. Twilight Tour (I didn't get the game until the end of the Back N. Time. GP. I wasnt a fan of this track at first but after a while I was hooked. LOVED THE THEME.) 3. Prehistoric Playground (OK. I HATED this track at first, not because its not good, no. But because of that shitty item spam you'd get at the beginning of the race. And if someone kept blue fire and avoided that item spam? They were almost set to win the entire race just from the first few seconds. Theme is fun tho.) 5-6: Gingerbread Joyride & Spyro Circuit (Its a tie because I equally fucking hate both tracks. Hate their themes, hate their skins, hate the carts. Can't. Stand. These. GPs.)
Viking Polar is a reference to the prototype predecessor of Spyro's Balloonist: the 'Boatman', a Viking who would take you to the next world by boat. At least two in-game screenshots of him exist online.
I really liked Neon Circus track. Yea, it was simple, but it changed the game. High speed, easy to keep blue fire all the way and rockets. You just can't hide from them behind the turn. I really liked this gamechanging track. Favorite skins: Winter; karts: Spyro; colors/whells: circus.
I feel like Komodo Moe and Yaya Panda would have been better off in their own grand prix. Maybe they could have made a track based on Coco's Orient Express or Midnight Run. Would have been perfect for Janurary, basing it on the Chinese New Year. You could have replaced Komodo Moe with Evil Crash or Madam Amberly and Yaya with Bearminator or Gurin. Koala Kong should have also been put into another grand prix. Possibly a Grand Prix representing Crash 1. You could have characters like Wild Hog and the tribesman. And cut characters like Iguana, Gator, Hyena, and Monkey. I feel like the November Grand Prix should have had only Tag Team Racing characters. If anything Willie Wumpa Cheeks should have been there...along with Chic and Stu.
Favorite DLC Track: Twilight Tour Favorite New Character: Liz Favorite New Skins: Black Spyro Favorite New Kart: Lamborghini Favorite Wheels: Magma Wheels Favorite Paint Jobs: Spooky Favorite Stickers: Crown
I agreed with everything you said, apart from during the spooky grand prix... feels like some bias came in as you had the same track issues as me, couldn't appreciate the wheels, didn't reference the pumpkin king properly yet still gave it a 9...? Back in time won 2 of your categories too so I'd argue that this is the true winner. You also opened up many questions for me, especially with the spyro & friends skins, we got nitro circus skins for half the nitro squad but why not the other half? Hopefully with the new years gps there will actually be alot more consistency without the pressure to add certain characters etc.
My favorite track was the Spyro Circuit simply because it was simple and captured the essence of the original Spyro the Dragon game. Also, not really a fan of every new level having blue fire as a standard. Favorite character would be King Chicken for sure.
The Spyro grand prix was my favorite. I just wish Elora and Cynder were playable characters. I also think it would've been cool to have the option to turn off shortcuts so that the racing can be closer.
My Rankings: Best Grand Prix: 1. Spooky 2. Nitro Tour 3. Winter Festival 4. Back N Time 5. Neon Circus 6. Spyro Best Karts: 1. Spyro 2. Spooky 3. Back N Time 4. Neon Circus 5. Nitro Tour 6. Winter Festival Best Characters: 1. Nitro Tour 2. Winter Festival 3. Neon Circus 4. Spooky 5. Spyro 6. Back N Time Best Character Skins: 1. Neon Circus 2. Spooky 3. Nitro Tour 4. Winter Festival 5. Back N Time 6. Spyro Best Wheels: 1. Neon Circus 2. Winter Festival 3. Nitro Tour 4. Back N Time 5. Spooky 6. Spyro Best Paint Jobs: 1. Spooky 2. Neon Circus 3. Winter Festival 4. Nitro Tour 5. Back N Time 6. Spyro Best Content: 1. Spooky (plus points for adding Engine Swap) 2. Neon Circus (plus points for adding Ring Rally) 3. Nitro Tour 4. Winter Festival 5. Spyro (minus points for missed potential on characters) 6. Back N Time (minus points for adding Microtransactions) Best Track: 1. Prehistoric Playground 2. Twilight Tour 3. Gingerbread Joyride 4. Ninas Nightmare 5. Koala Carnival 6. Spyro Circuit Best Track Music: 1. Prehistoric Playground 2. Ninas Nightmare 3. Twilight Tour 4. Gingerbread Joyride 5. Spyro Circuit 6. Koala Carnival
I feel like the spyro and friends was a test run to see the reactions to what we liked and didnt like and if there is another spyro GP they can use the feedback to further make it good and also take in what went wrong and figure a way to make it better but that's just me. I wonder what the next GP will bring and i hope to see alot more twists and turns and some callbacks to previous eras in crash. Plus the skins are doing better now we had setbacks but thats okay :) and i can see further improvement in the wheels and the kart skins. Overall i love the grand prix it brings more variety and i hope we get more game mode
@@Tatolus That doesn't make sense XD. That's the same like you said Pasadena was in Neon Circus but she barely had any reference so it is not fair. While spyro got his own track, paint job, kart, which is similar to other characters. ALSO mby because it was a crossover they were limited with the amount of content they could add from spyro
@@kawaiimika7974 I highly doubt it considering Activision owns both of them and Beenox, TFB, and Vicarious have always worked very closely with eachother. Neon Circus was advertised as "Neon Circus," not "Pasadena O'Possum Circuit." Youre argument makes no sense. The "Spyro and Friends" Grand Prix should have been Spyro and friends. Or at least more Spyro based rewards, not just some random half thought out skins.
To me, all the grad prix were awesome, loved all they brought to the game and cant eait to see what they do for the next grad prix they do in the new year
This is kind of a stretch, but maybe Evil Coco and Evil Crunch are a reference to Spyro's appearance in CNK (GBA version), as he was a member of Team Trance, which was themed around brainwashing.
8:21 "Not every track has to be extremely complex or try to be the next Electron Avenue" I wish there would be a track that lives up to EA's reputation and glory. Neon Circus got my hopes up then blew it. Hope 2020's Grand Prixs will be fun.
I happen to like the Winter Festival GP but I guess that’s because of my bias towards winter and snow related stuff. Which the base game itself already has a few snow tracks.
You forgot the mention of how they added the Engine Swap. That would bring the Nightmare GP's score a bit higher.
Matteo Kyselý or a ring rally mood
I is only 19
I don't really feel like the engine swap should count for the Spooky Grand Prix since not every Grand Prix added something substantial like a new feature or mode like Ring Rally, so it's more fair to just judge based on what all Grand Prix did the same.
@@wootmasterzorsx Yeah, if additions unrelated to the GP were included in the discussion then Back N Time would have been last.
One of the things I appreciated the most was the mini game catching ghosts during spooky grand prix. It was such a small thing, but a nice change of pace. Was kind of hoping they would keep it at least on that track, or release something else to catch during races after that grand prix! Amazing year for ctr none the less!
Yeah they could do a arcade score attack mode for CTR at some point with the ghosts in question.
Yea it feels kinda bare without them on the track.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I didn't really like it. Besides collecting them for challenges they were pretty pointless
@@Wahi011 I feel like they are necessary in nina's nightmare.
Oh yeah! True, it was a nice touch
Favorite Track: Prehistoric Playground
Favorite Character Additions: Winter Festival
Favorite New Skins: Spyro
Favorite Karts: Spooky
Favorite Wheels: Winter Festival
Favorite Paint Jobs: Koala Carnival
Favorite Stickers: Spooky
Favorite decal?
Favorite characters in GP?
@@Dante_Sparda_DMC Favorite Decals: Spooky
@@kidsIIIII009 For a single grand prix I would pick Winter Festival like I said above. Overall I would say Yaya, Rilla Roo, Hasty, Nina, Moe, and Spyro
I really hate the wheels and paint of the winter paint job.. they litterly look like barf and shit
12:29
The Canadian Guy eh: The track is Simple
Koala Carnival: SIMPLE?!?
If you get the reference from Spyro
You deserve a like
My top would be:
1. Neon Circus
2. Winter Festival
3. Spooky
4. Nitro Tour
5. Back N Time
6. Spyro & Friends
Koala Carnival's layout might be simple, but it's fine, not every track needs to be complicated, also the track is way too much fun to play either way and has the best soundtrack.
I think the same, Koala Carnival was not my favorite, but it is a fine track, simple and fun. 5 seems harsh to me
Glad I’m not the only one who hated the Spyro grand prix
What Carlos said is also my top 6 Grand Prix favs hehe!
100% I agree. The atmosphere of Koala Carnival elevated it for me. And THE MUSIC!!!!!!!
Yes the koala carnival track has the best music!
Gnome Velo was in the Spyro Grand Prix
Shmebulock!
@@nifinland i see your a Man of culture as well
i want to do a gravity falls reference with the gnomes in but i can’t think of anything
Nitro Tour might be my favorite Beenox track. I hated it for 2 months but now that ive had time to appreciate it, its amazing. Top tier track. One of my favorites overall
Happy 2020 everyone, hopefully it'll be a good one~!
Lets cross our fingers COPPA doesn’t ruin anything
@@i-ranium810 Apparently COPPA said publicly that as long as your content is properly labeled, then doing stuff like mature based cartoons, can get the okay. Just hope they keep their word.
I hope so too!
Boba Fett okay,and yeah I hope so as well
Bring out the jazz music, it's the roaring 20's
Me: **throws the Spooky and Back in Time Grand Prixs in the trash**
Also Me: F*ck off and never show up to my door ever again.
There is an important issue that if not addressed will get worse. The loading times for both offline and online have been increasing every grand prix.
Have they? I haven't noticed at all.
Loading times are terrible in this game. That is the single reason I put MK8D over this game on overall score. I like CTR racing better, but those load times.
@@jackburton6239 yeah, it gets very awkward when you play local multiplayer with friends, those darn long loading times....
Have some small talk queued up I guess.
I liked the later grand prixs for making the act of grinding for Nitro points a bit more easier to go through, to the point where you can finish it in a week or two .
My favorite tracks:
1. Twilight Tour
2. Nina's Nightmare
3. Gingerbread Joyride
4. Prehistoric Playground
5. Spyro Circuit
6. Koala Carnival
I know this is an old video, but I just realized something with the Spyro Grand Prix skins, Joe's Wizard skin isnt a generic wizard skin like I previously thought. It is actually a Spyro reference, its just not a reference to Wizard's Peak wizards, its instead a reference to the Wizard Gnomes in Crystal Islands from Year of the Dragon.
What stood out was the purple robe, at first I thought "Oh well they just chose purple cause Joe wears purple", then i compared and none of the other characters legendary skins stook to the same color scheme for outfits. Then after comparing the pointy beard and gold trimming, all similar to these Gnomes. Really the only difference is Joe's is more extravagant, which yeah, thats different, but so is Zem's Devil Dog skin and Im sure no one disputes the fact its a Dark Passage Devil Dog.
In closing, I am correct and anyone who disagrees can fight me in my backyard.
How is that Spyro & Friends was like the most anticipated GP and at the end resulted to be the "worst" GP of all?
*Sad dragon noises*
And that turn before 1st portal looks like a shortcut. !
@@eastcumbriancollector983 Ain't you talkin' 'bout the second portal? The 1st one doesn't have shortcut. It's just quits from the library to the wizards.
IllusionMaster17 Dilan Lopez in my opinion the Back in Time Grand Prix is the worst
I've come to make an announcement @@kalivlogs341 is a %!&/_ @$$ ^_/;=,:'_"=/
I don’t mind the simpler tracks I had a few family members try out CTR for the first time over the holidays and the simpler tracks allow new players to get used to the basics they also look great.
Here's my personal take on the GPs:
*Characters*
1. Spooky (Komodo Moe, N. Brio, Nina Cortex)
2. Neon Circus (Pasadena O'Possum, Ebenezer Von Clutch, Koala Kong)
3. Winter Festival (Rilla Roo, Yaya Panda, Hasty, Chick, Stew)
4. Nitro Tour (Tawna Bandicoot, Ami, Megumi, Liz, Isabella)
5. Spyro N. Friends (Spyro, Hunter, Gnasty Gnorc)
6. Back N. Time (Baby Crash, Baby Coco, Baby T)
*Tracks*
1. Prehistoric Playground
2. Gingerbread Joyride
3. Spyro Circut
4. Twilight Tour
5. Koala Carnival
6. Nina's Nightmare
*Overall*
1. Winter Festival
2. Spooky
3. Neon Circus
4. Back N. Time
5. Spyro N. Friends
6. Nitro Tour
Very nice breakdown! I just recently got the game in november and so I only caught the tail end of the circus grand prize, but am fully emersed in the winter festival grand prize now! Was curious as to what I had missed in the others, besides the tracks. Thanks for the video 💚
@Canadian Guy Eh Characters I'd love to see playable in CTR in 2020.
- Cynder (Legend of Spyro
- Elora
- Bianca
- Emperor Velo XXVII (Fake Velo)
- Ripto
- Sorceresss
- Rusty Walrus
- Evil Twins
- Evil Crash
- Mr. Crumb
Invincibility: Zoe the Fairy (for Elora & Bianca)
If they do a other Spyro Grand Prix, I want Bianca added. She is my favorite Spyro character (mainly due to her character arc)
It should be a third spyro grand prix the Spyro and Friends is mainly Spyro 1 with the exception of Hunter and the Ice breath and Dark skin for Spyro
Favorite track: Gingerbread Joyride, the only track that feels like old CTR tracks in terms of fun, difficulty and skill level
Favorite new character: none, I really didn't care for the new characters, only used them when I need to get points
Favorite skins:space Coco
Favorite wheels: prehistoric playground ones
Favorite karts: stock cart from the original CTR
Spooky Grand Prix is my favorite Grand Prix in the game!! I bet we're ready for the 7th Grand Prix!
The Viking Polar is from an early version of spyro.
My order (including the two in 2020)with reasons
1:Winter festival. Overall great track,characters and customizashion items. I don't mind Rilla Roo even though Yaya is my fav!
2:Neon circus. People say it's not good but really it made ring rally one of the most fun modes ever! Even though the track is a circle it's a very fun circle
3:Gazmoxia. It's not my fav but it's not my least fav lol. People say the track is the best in the game but I'm not that fused on it. The gem in this is emporer velo the 27!
4:Spooky: ..well..the track is ok and the items are good. The characters don't have the same impact on me because I'm young and befor this I didn't know how Nina was!
5:Rustland. Where to start. I mean the customization items are ok the track is really good the skins are some of the best in the game and benox made a good design of megamix!
6:Nitro tour. I have some mixed feelings about this one. The characters were *VERY* overrated and the track is fine but on the simple side. Also I'm learning about Egypt now!
7:Back N time. Umm. Well again I have some mixed feelings about this one. Good track ok skins and meh karts. The thing keeping this from 8 is my old man's was baby crash he's so cute!
8:Spyro and friends. Characters our bad track is ok customization ok and overall my least favourite grand Prix.
You know I'm glad the MIND OVER MUTANTS was reference
I felt he was too harsh on those skins released during Spyro GP. I think the orc Norms are very good and like Wizard Komodo Joe a lot.
Would have made more sense to have them on a Mind Over Mutant GP
I thought it was a refrence to the incredibles 2
Honestly I really hated the back in time grand prix
Why?
@@TheUnitedMarshmallowFederation because most of them hate the baby characters.
I also hate the course and the karts and the wheels. Just everything pretty much
completely agree, it's the only grand prix i didn't finish because i didn't like any of the content it brought, plus the nitro challenges were broken pretty much every day
The worst track and characters for sure
My favorite Grand Prix is the Twilight Tour, the Back N. Time, and Spyro the Dragon.
Best Grand Prix Ever!
I feel like there should have been an award for best paint jobs, which would go to the Spooky Grand Prix.
Don't worry Canadian guy dads are allowed to make those kinds of jokes
My Top for the Grand Prix :
Favorite track : Prehistoric Playground
Favorite character : Nina
Favorite kart : The Daredevil
Favorite wheels : The Spyro mobile
Favorite skin : Biker Crash
Favorite paint job : The Spectral
Nina is great. I entered mid Carnival, so I don't have her. Got Nina envy.
Most of your favourite karts are from Crash Tag Team Racing by the way not just the ones you noted, and there are still a few more that I can definitely see coming to Nitro Fueled, that game really deserves some appreciation.
I say in my opinion the best overall Grand prix has to be The neon circus Especially the koala carnival
Plus it Gave new skins to already amazing trophy girl characters
Plus mixing in a little tag team racing feel with Pasadena and von clutch too me that was my favorite Grandprix prix
it also added Ring Rally
Now IF they add more Spyro characters for future updates, please add:
Elora, The professor, Ripto, Sheila & company, Bianca, Moneybags and the Sorceress
Best Track: Prehistoric playground(back in time)
Worst track: koala carnival (neon circus)
Best Karts: neon circus
Worst karts: winter festival
Best Paint job: Winter festival
Worst paint job: spooky
Best wheels:winter festival
Worst wheels: spyro and friends
Best characters: winter festival
Worst characters: back in time
Best soundtrack: winter festival
Worst soundtrack: back in time
How about the Rustland and Gasmoxia grand prix?
Aww, I love koala carnival. It’s one the plays to one of CTR standout features that no one talks about... verticality. Seriously, whenever anyone talks about Ctr, they talk about the drift boosts. No one talks about the jump boosts. I know the course is simple, but the number of jumps while sipping along at high speed make it a blast to play on!
Fair assessment. Nitro Tour can have a 6.5/10, but I’ll give it +3.5 in extra credit for Liz.
@Canadian Guy Eh Classic Karts still remaining: 20
1 from Crash Nitro Kart:
- Team Velo (CNK Boss Kart)
17 from Crash Tag Team Racing:
- Yellow Horde
- Fairy Mobile
- The Guzzler
- Overcompensator
- Cuhalftr (Crunch PSP Car)
- Extreme Surplus
- Junkulon Prime
- Angsterator
- Nina PSP Car
- Slave Driver
- Harm Aid / Hard Aid
- Bad Girl
- Zwergauto
- Der Pickle
- Blue Test Car
- Green Test Car
- Crster (Beta Trikee / Original Trikee)
And 2 from Crash Nitro Kart 2 (2008 - Java):
- Formula (Kart for Crash, Coco, & Yaya Panda)
- Speed Buggy (Kart for Cortex, Nina, Tiny Tiger, Ripper Roo, & Nitros Oxide)
My is similar to Carlos fav top 6 GP of 2019:
1. Neon Circus
(Nitro squad receiving the best skins of all the GP - Koala Circuit is very detailed but simple)
2. Winter Festival
(heaps of skins & good-challenging circuit)
3. Spooky
(vastly improved from the Spyro GP & Nitro + the circuit is a step up from the Spyro & Nitro tour)
4. Nitro Tour
(Great start of the GP + Twilight Tour circuit is my fav)
5. Back N. Time
(Great original circuit + the 3 new characters are okay - No baby Cortex & N. Trophy skin)
6. Spyro & Friends (worst one yet - lacking more characters from the Spyro universe + the circuit is okay)
This is a really awesome list ranking and I really like the way you listed them at the end. The spooky Grand Prix is definitely my favourite for sure but if I’m being really honest, the new characters are the only things that interest me at all. So in terms of that my least favourite Grand Prix is the back n time one just cause of the new baby characters. Particularly baby coco. Baby crash I honestly didn’t mind, but the high pitching of baby coco was very iterating I thought. Also the way you gotta get the eggs in adventure mode to unlock king chicken was kind of really annoying too...
I like how much characters from original and bad games make their way to Nitro Fueled with updated model designs!
There was definitely things to like about all of them, but I think my favorite overall is the spooky grand prix. I do so wish the flag stickers would come back.... I was buying other stuff at the time and missed them.
All of them deserve 10/10
Thank you for bringing up Spyro Grand Prix's short comings with it skins. It felt like alot of other reviewers over looked that for the sake of wanting to believe Spyro can do no wrong.
The Phantom? Bah! True Crash fans know that it's called the Organ Grinder.
I do hope that they put more spyro Grand Prix that's based 2 and 3 for spyro 2 elora,moneybags,professor,ripto for three Bianca,sorceress agent 9 sgt byrd Bentley and maybe Sheila
My favourite is the neon circus Grand Prix
My second favourite would be winter or spyro
You should've put the reward "best characters added in the GP"
Happy new year to all from Croatia 🇭🇷
happy new year to you too, pozdrav iz Srbija
The characters of Nitro Tour have really resonated with the fans and have been quite popular. Particularly on Rule 34.
Spyro Circuit does have a mini shortcut that you can take by jumping over the grass, before the second portal.
I all eight CTR Grand Prix seasons in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled like:... Nitro Tour Grand Prix,... Back N. Time Grand Prix,... Spyro & Friends Grand Prix,... Spooky Grand Prix,... Neon Circus Grand Prix,... Winter Festival Grand Prix,... Rustland Grand Prix,... and Gasmoxia Grand Prix. 🙂
Are you going to review the Rustland & Gasmoxia Grand Prixs?
I love most of the content we got with every Grand Prix, but I do feel a constant issue is the lack of connection from the skins/paintjobs/ etc with the actual theme of the Grand Prix. The Spooky paints, though look great, I think they're too colorful and neon-ish for what they were supposed to represent. I'd expect darker colors, or more purple, gray, orange, black combinations. Also, when you use it in combination with other karts and decals, sometines it just looks like a huge flashing splat and the ghosts are barely visible.
With the winter GP, I think the track is fine, and again, I do like the wheels and paintjobs, but it looks like the GP's theme was Candyland instead of Christmas or even Winter. I love Christmas so much, and just like Halloween, it's mostly because of the decorations and colors that are usually related to those festivities so it was kind of a bummer to not see that more exploited.
But yeah, I agree Spyro GP was definitely the most wasted one. There are so many characters from Spyro that could've been represented on the skins, and while I do love the paint jobs and wheels, it didn't feel quite Spyro-ish either.
My favorite one in terms of appearance is the Carnival one. I love the paintjobs and wheels and the track is amazing, even if it's simple. Not to mention the Ring Rally mode is really fun. I still believe Rilla Roo should've been introduced in this GP and not the Winter one.
Your review is perfect, amazing job 👌🏽 my personal favourite gran prix is Back N. Time, like de circuit, the addition of Baby T. and all de skins
My fave is definitely the Spooky one, as we got Komodo Moe and I love that guy
Nice guy enjoyed the video plus happy new year to your family and friends that know u
While I agree that the skins for the Spyro GP fell flat, CGE, I love the track because of its simplicity... that’s what Spyro’s first game was known for... being simple enough for anyone to be able to play it! For content, I would have preferred a Yeti Polar skin over his Viking one (as a reference to Bentley or Bartholomew) an Elora, Bianca, or Zoe / other fairy(s) skin for a Nitro Squad girl, if not having the Professor, Shelia, Sgt. Byrd, Bentley, Bartholomew, Agent 9, Elora, Bianca, Zoe / other fairy(s) or one of the dragons (egg or adult) you rescued in place of Gnasty... maybe have cortex’s lab assistant replaced by the professor working on putting orbs into pillars on the track as a nod to the super portal? Or maybe replace the missiles on Spyro Circuit with Zoe as a nod to how she attacked Ripto in the opening of Ripto’s Rage? And definitely saving the Evil Crunch and Evil Coco skins for the Spooky GP... because ,let’s be real, those skins clashed with the Spyro aesthetic... Viking Polar could have been a Gnorc reference if his fur was green so that skin could have been saved... or just saved for a mythology / fantasy GP later down the line...
The theme of the Spyro Grand Prix isn't really just only supposed to be a spyro themed, it's a fantasy theme too. In my opinion, I think they did a good job with that fantasy content (skins basically). It makes sense for the theme to be a fantasy theme because the Spyro games were technically based on fantasy.
My favorite was winter festival. Amazing characters, an amazing track, amazing everything.
I don't have CTR, so I'm curious; is there no other way to get the grand prix characters at this point?
Track: Koala Carnival
Skins: Neon Circus
Soundtrack: Spyro N. Friends
Characters: Winter Festival
Rides: Winter Festival
Wheels: Winter Festival
Paint Jobs: Neon Circus
My top favorite gps so far are Back N Time, Spooky, and Circus.
Back N time is my favorite grand prix so far 10/10
My favorite character: Spyro (Runner-up: Yaya Panda)
My favorite track: Prehistoric Playground (Runner-up: Gingerbread Joyride)
My favorite paintjob: Wood
My ranking:
1. Back N. Time (10/10)
2. Neon Circus (9.5/10)
3. Winter Festival (8.5/10)
4. Spooky (8/10)
5. Nitro Tour (6.5/10)
6. Spyro and Friends (6/10)
The Probulot 2000 was also from Tag Team Racing; Cortex's battle kart.
The spectral paints are elite on the champion car as well as orange and red iridescent.
I want to say that I agree with your track description of Koala Carnival, but the music in that track is the best in the game.
This game is a content monster.
CGE: The wheels are lit! *crickets* Literally, their literally on fire. LOL. XD.
YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!! I KNEW THAT YOU WOULD PICK SPOOKY GRAND PRIX!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE N.BRIO IS MY MAIN!!!!
Tracks From Best to Worst:
1. Nina's Nightmare (I won this race the FIRST TIME I TRIED IT. Love the theme, love the track, I love this GP)
2. Koala Carnival (This track, despite being a huge oval, is just so much fun. The theme is chaotic, and it made my November.)
3. Twilight Tour (I didn't get the game until the end of the Back N. Time. GP. I wasnt a fan of this track at first but after a while I was hooked. LOVED THE THEME.)
3. Prehistoric Playground (OK. I HATED this track at first, not because its not good, no. But because of that shitty item spam you'd get at the beginning of the race. And if someone kept blue fire and avoided that item spam? They were almost set to win the entire race just from the first few seconds. Theme is fun tho.)
5-6: Gingerbread Joyride & Spyro Circuit (Its a tie because I equally fucking hate both tracks. Hate their themes, hate their skins, hate the carts. Can't. Stand. These. GPs.)
My Personal list.
1. Neon Circus.
2. Spooky.
3. Winter Festival.
4. Nitro Tour.
5. Spyro.
6. Back N. Time.
Happy New Year to everyone!
the probulat or however you spell it from ack in time was also from tag team.
Viking Polar is a reference to the prototype predecessor of Spyro's Balloonist: the 'Boatman', a Viking who would take you to the next world by boat. At least two in-game screenshots of him exist online.
:o
They still did nothing to explain that if true
I really liked Neon Circus track. Yea, it was simple, but it changed the game. High speed, easy to keep blue fire all the way and rockets. You just can't hide from them behind the turn. I really liked this gamechanging track. Favorite skins: Winter; karts: Spyro; colors/whells: circus.
I actually miss chasing the ghosts during the Spooky Grand Prix. It wasn't anything special, but added something fun to do while racing
Is the Content added with the Grand Prixs still available
Yeah but you gotta buy it from the store with wumpa coins
Hey!
What do you think about a ranked system in ctr?
Maybe you could unlock a new paint job for every rank up?
I feel like Komodo Moe and Yaya Panda would have been better off in their own grand prix. Maybe they could have made a track based on Coco's Orient Express or Midnight Run. Would have been perfect for Janurary, basing it on the Chinese New Year. You could have replaced Komodo Moe with Evil Crash or Madam Amberly and Yaya with Bearminator or Gurin. Koala Kong should have also been put into another grand prix. Possibly a Grand Prix representing Crash 1. You could have characters like Wild Hog and the tribesman. And cut characters like Iguana, Gator, Hyena, and Monkey. I feel like the November Grand Prix should have had only Tag Team Racing characters. If anything Willie Wumpa Cheeks should have been there...along with Chic and Stu.
Favorite DLC Track: Twilight Tour
Favorite New Character: Liz
Favorite New Skins: Black Spyro
Favorite New Kart: Lamborghini
Favorite Wheels: Magma Wheels
Favorite Paint Jobs: Spooky
Favorite Stickers: Crown
I agreed with everything you said, apart from during the spooky grand prix... feels like some bias came in as you had the same track issues as me, couldn't appreciate the wheels, didn't reference the pumpkin king properly yet still gave it a 9...? Back in time won 2 of your categories too so I'd argue that this is the true winner.
You also opened up many questions for me, especially with the spyro & friends skins, we got nitro circus skins for half the nitro squad but why not the other half? Hopefully with the new years gps there will actually be alot more consistency without the pressure to add certain characters etc.
Spooky was my favorite by far. I took a break from the game and rejoined mid-way through this one and it made the game feel refreshing.
My favorite track was the Spyro Circuit simply because it was simple and captured the essence of the original Spyro the Dragon game. Also, not really a fan of every new level having blue fire as a standard. Favorite character would be King Chicken for sure.
Wasn't a huge fan of Back N. Time GP cuz of the Nonstop Frenzy Time clock item. Can Beenox make MORE Ripper Legendary Skins?
I just bought the game, will i have access to previous Grand Prixs? will I be able to race on those tracks and unlock those characters?
8:51 how do you round up and end with a .5
Lmao
The Spyro grand prix was my favorite. I just wish Elora and Cynder were playable characters. I also think it would've been cool to have the option to turn off shortcuts so that the racing can be closer.
Cynder isnt cannon. Theres a reason shes not here.
@@Brucifer2 Yeah I figured, I just wasn't impressed when I saw hunter in the grand prix.
My Rankings:
Best Grand Prix:
1. Spooky
2. Nitro Tour
3. Winter Festival
4. Back N Time
5. Neon Circus
6. Spyro
Best Karts:
1. Spyro
2. Spooky
3. Back N Time
4. Neon Circus
5. Nitro Tour
6. Winter Festival
Best Characters:
1. Nitro Tour
2. Winter Festival
3. Neon Circus
4. Spooky
5. Spyro
6. Back N Time
Best Character Skins:
1. Neon Circus
2. Spooky
3. Nitro Tour
4. Winter Festival
5. Back N Time
6. Spyro
Best Wheels:
1. Neon Circus
2. Winter Festival
3. Nitro Tour
4. Back N Time
5. Spooky
6. Spyro
Best Paint Jobs:
1. Spooky
2. Neon Circus
3. Winter Festival
4. Nitro Tour
5. Back N Time
6. Spyro
Best Content:
1. Spooky (plus points for adding Engine Swap)
2. Neon Circus (plus points for adding Ring Rally)
3. Nitro Tour
4. Winter Festival
5. Spyro (minus points for missed potential on characters)
6. Back N Time (minus points for adding Microtransactions)
Best Track:
1. Prehistoric Playground
2. Twilight Tour
3. Gingerbread Joyride
4. Ninas Nightmare
5. Koala Carnival
6. Spyro Circuit
Best Track Music:
1. Prehistoric Playground
2. Ninas Nightmare
3. Twilight Tour
4. Gingerbread Joyride
5. Spyro Circuit
6. Koala Carnival
so, can we get any of this content outside of the GP? Like in the pit stop after the GP is over?
To be honest my favorite was with our great purple dragon
I feel like the spyro and friends was a test run to see the reactions to what we liked and didnt like and if there is another spyro GP they can use the feedback to further make it good and also take in what went wrong and figure a way to make it better but that's just me.
I wonder what the next GP will bring and i hope to see alot more twists and turns and some callbacks to previous eras in crash. Plus the skins are doing better now we had setbacks but thats okay :) and i can see further improvement in the wheels and the kart skins.
Overall i love the grand prix it brings more variety and i hope we get more game mode
Sumarized my exact feelings on The Spyro Grand Prix. Huge missed opportunities with skins, felt more like just more Crash than Spyro.
Well it is a cross over and they still need to add crash content
@@kawaiimika7974 but it was advertised as the spyro circuit... the entire rest of the game is crash. Dont say its going to Spyro if its barley Spyro.
Hopefully that means we'll get another Spyro GP
@@Tatolus That doesn't make sense XD. That's the same like you said Pasadena was in Neon Circus but she barely had any reference so it is not fair. While spyro got his own track, paint job, kart, which is similar to other characters. ALSO mby because it was a crossover they were limited with the amount of content they could add from spyro
@@kawaiimika7974 I highly doubt it considering Activision owns both of them and Beenox, TFB, and Vicarious have always worked very closely with eachother. Neon Circus was advertised as "Neon Circus," not "Pasadena O'Possum Circuit." Youre argument makes no sense. The "Spyro and Friends" Grand Prix should have been Spyro and friends. Or at least more Spyro based rewards, not just some random half thought out skins.
To me, all the grad prix were awesome, loved all they brought to the game and cant eait to see what they do for the next grad prix they do in the new year
Ohhh. Spooky was when I got so bored I couldn't carry on for a couple months.. I missed the carnival all together
This is kind of a stretch, but maybe Evil Coco and Evil Crunch are a reference to Spyro's appearance in CNK (GBA version), as he was a member of Team Trance, which was themed around brainwashing.
Great video man. And I agree with almost everything.
There is a shortcut in neon circus though 😅😅 its underneath the blue fire ramp
8:21 "Not every track has to be extremely complex or try to be the next Electron Avenue"
I wish there would be a track that lives up to EA's reputation and glory. Neon Circus got my hopes up then blew it. Hope 2020's Grand Prixs will be fun.
The game wasnt made by EA
@@thaifoodreal EA is short for Electron Avenue.
Haven't played this game since one of the updates made it incredibly grind e. Is it still bad or did they let off a bit?
I happen to like the Winter Festival GP but I guess that’s because of my bias towards winter and snow related stuff. Which the base game itself already has a few snow tracks.