CTR Nitro-Fueled - Oxide Time Trials (Gasmoxian Slug)

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a great remaster of a classic arcade racer. The game is incredibly fun, and mechanically much deeper than its presentation might suggest. Before tackling the Time Trials, I got 100% in Adventure Mode (Easy). What I did to learn the more advanced techniques is play through the Time Trials in ascending order of difficulty, rather than by the in-game order. That resulted in a much smoother learning curve, and allowed me to learn the mechanics well enough to clear the hardest maps without too many issues. These are my first wins against Oxide's Ghost, and as you can see, I still made many mistakes. However, so does Oxide! His times are not that difficult to beat once you internalize the "fast" way to drive around a track, utilizing boost pads and drift-boosting to constantly drive at high speed. Hardest maps for me personally: Oxide Station Tiny Temple I used the "Drift" class except for a handful of tracks where I used "Speed" instead. Those instances are labeled below. 00:00 - Crash Cove 01:34 - Mystery Caves (Speed) 03:52 - Sewer Speedway 05:54 - Roo’s Tubes (Speed) 07:24 - Slide Colusium 09:31 - Turbo Track 11:30 - Coco Park (Speed) 13:05 - Tiger Temple (Speed) 15:06 - Papu’s Pyramid 16:58 - Dingo Canyon (Speed) 18:48 - Polar Pass 21:42 - Tiny Arena 25:30 - Dragon Mines 27:11 - Blizzard Bluff 28:45 - Hot Air Skyway 31:57 - Cortex Castle 34:38 - N. Gin Labs 37:24 - Oxide Station 40:58 - Inferno Island (Speed) 42:52 - Jungle Boogie 44:23 - Clockwork Wumpa 46:53 - Android Alley 49:53 - Electron Avenue 53:48 - Deep Sea Driving 55:56 - Thunder Struck 59:00 - Tiny Temple 01:00:53 - Meteor Gorge 01:02:39 - Barin Ruins 01:04:39 - Out of Time 01:07:20 - Assembly Lane 01:10:24 - Hyper Spaceway _____ Explore VideoGameLizard for more indie game reviews and challenges! www.videogamelizard.com Join our community Discord!   / discord