Move over Mario, clear the crowd Crash - there's a new karting kid in town. The seven-year-old star of the incredibly popular Youtube series Ryan ToysReview has his very own kart racer coming to Switch on November 1st.
Ryan has over 27 million subscribers and his channels pull in a combined one billion views every month. Yes, a billion. With an audience that large, it's little wonder that he's making the move into games. Race With Ryan, developed by 3DClouds, will give you the chance to race as Ryan and friends through various colourful worlds. It'll also feature four-player split screen multiplayer, and as you can see from the trailer above and the box art below, there's absolutely no shortage of colour and energy.
Here are some of the highlighted features from the official blurb:
- Race for victory across the colorful world of YouTube sensation, Ryan
- Challenge yourself in Career mode or race with friends in split-screen play
- Simple racing controls, auto-acceleration, auto-steering and tutorial mean everyone can play
- Unlock more than 20 Ryan’s World toy characters and vehicles including Moe, Gus, Alpha Lexa, Peck and Ryan himself!
- Speed around 6 magical locations including The Toy Shop, Fantasy Park, Wild West and Spooky Land
Whether this will have the chops to pull up alongside the likes of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the recently released Crash Team Racing or the other racers on Switch is another question, but the game's certainly aiming for a similar family-friendly audience and Switch would seem to be a good fit for Ryan and his legion of fans.
Most notably here at Nintendo Life, the announcement has given us the chance to put our incredible photoshop skills to use and paste our very own Ryan Craddock onto the box:
Are you familiar with this pint-sized YouTube phenomenon? Do you think he's got what it takes to compete with the Marios and Crashes of the karting world? Let us know below.
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This kid is living the dream.
Boy, that sure is a lot of bank going to his parents.
...Nah really though, I would've killed to star in my own game and have popular videos and all that at that age.
At last the successor to Mario Kart 8 deluxe is here. Definitive. Day one.
How the **** is he so popular?!?!
nobody tell my son that this exists...
Game of the year 2019
this game is going to make Mario kart 8 deluxe look like hello kitty racers
It looks like 7 million unsubscribed since you put the article up. In any case good for him but he I bet he plays Mario Kart 8 instead
Screw pokemon, I know what I want this november.
@carlos82 27 million across all his channels, I believe. Kid's got an empire!
Baby Kart ! 😆
Btw, looked lovely cute.
Gotta keep my eyes peeled on it.
I can't let my 4-year-old son see this. I'll never get my Switch back.
I cannot stand Ryan's Toy Review.
Um ok... I think I'll stick with Mario Kart.
Well, at least this is better than that Annoying Orange. But why isn't TellTale Games giving us a remaster of Strong Bad's Cool Game 4 Attractive People? My youngest nephew (also named Ryan) loves Ryan's Toy Review. But he doesn't have a Switch, just an XBox One.
@YoshiAngemon TellTale are out of business, that’d be the main reason I think.
@dartmonkey many will be the same people though surely
BABY’S GOT BANK
"Are you ready to witness the next best racing game?"
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gulped...
Team Sonic Racing shuddered...
Crash Team Racing nodded...
"Yes Race with Ryan" they said in unison
@RadGravity Ohhh, I should... eat a pony.
What awful parents that child must have. Doesn’t anybody enforce child labor laws anymore?
Good lord that looks AWFUL! His parents are getting all the money for his toy reviews, and now he gets a Mario kart ripoff 😒🤢
Jesus who greenlit this trash?
I don't understand the negativies here. 🤨
It was looked good for 3rd party kiddie racing games.
The way parents take advantage of kids on youtube, the stupid sprise egg crap, it all feels a little dirty, and I don't like how many children are watching these videos supporting the practice
Step aside, Sonic?
At least if we got an Annoying Orange game, it wouldn't be as shameful as this. Maybe annoying, but that's the idea of AO cackling after making a bad pun.
I'm familiar with Ryan and my kids and nephew are gonna, at the least, be intrigued by this
This is just aimed at gullible parents, not kids. No doubt it will be awful while all the kids with any sense carry on playing MK (or Crash or Sonic). Thankfully mine won’t be playing it as they don’t get to watch his channel either.
@electrolite77 Yep definitely aimed at gullible parents and their wallets.
Parents are milking it out.
But besides that kid living the dream
@Anti-Matter Probably because it looks like an awful generic kart racing game that is an obvious cash grab.
Poor kid. Even adults struggle mightily against the corrupting influences of fame and fortune. Hopefully he doesn't turn rotten or live in the shadow of his childhood fame his entire life.
I know nothing about how things are run in that family. It's easy to jump to speculating this is the stereotypical showbiz parent/child star situation. And it very well could be. However, it may be a case in which the parents are very well in-tune with his limits and what is best for him and this is what he wants to do. As a parent myself, I hesitate to make judgments on anyone else's parenting or situation unless any wrongdoing is blatant or obvious or I have some personal insight into it
Haven't heard of him til now
Looks like a load of rubbish your see on a mobile game.
I'll stick to the real Racers, Mario,Sonic,Crash Kart
I'd buy the Nintendo Life photoshopped version. Hopefully @ryancraddock is a secret playable character.
...Never heard of this guy...meh.
Welp, I guess I know what christmas present request #1 is going to be around here
This is the developers of Xenon Racer? Dear god. I really do hope this kids parents are keeping perspective and above all his education in mind.
This kid sucks. And is making your kids dumber by the minute.
GOTY RIGHT HERE
@Tedikuma I'm right there with you. I can't stand it either. Ryan's living a manufactured life messed up by popularity. I kind of feel sorry for him. Imagine what he thinks of all this when he's a teenager.
This is a certified bruh moment
@Scrummer
No....Game Of The Generation
Where will we have a blippi game for kids
Never heard of him nor do i care and won't be buying the game thanks
Looks up Right... Back to crash... Looks down
Gamers will love this game, all aboard the hype train choo choo
Switch is 95% shovelware now
Where's my Scott the Woz/RelaxAlax crossover game
With cameos from the Persona 5 confidants and Vince Young
@KnightWolf GAME OF THE CENTURY!
Never heard of this kid but I love that photoshopped cover
@BlueBlur101 "Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series"
Who?!
Joking aside, Good for him. But I think people who bought a Switch to play Kart Racing are covered.
Maybe a celebrity can bring an actual racing game to the Switch 🙄
Sorry, kid, but I'm just fine with Mario.
@Matthew010 We cannot confirm or deny my existence as DLC at this stage. Stay tuned!
@UmbreonsPapa
You can make judgements and estimates based off history which shows a strong pattern for child stars being exploited by parents who treat them as money machines which will lead to them going up ill adjusted, child stars don’t get to have a childhood that prepares them for an adult life they simply get used by both their parents and corporations and get thrown out when they’re too old and will struggle having an adult career as they’ll be typecasted for their child one which leads to isolation, self hatred, depression and fear of rejection which are all contributing factors to substance abuse and other dangerous habits.
@Anti-Matter why would you pick this over Mario,Sonic and Crash?
Nintendo: "We have cancelled F-Zero Switch and will be supporting Race with Ryan on Switch, instead. Please enjoy exclusive Captain Falcon racer coming to Race with Ryan on Nintendo Switch."
@HammerKirby
I already have Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
I might consider another 3rd party racing games.
Racing with Ryan kinda quite interesting, very kiddie and colorful. And i have interest with some underrated / not so popular things but hidden gems for me.
@Agramonte
Duh!
This is a racing game for kids.
Of course it looked so kiddie and whimsical like Mario Kart.
This kid is a nightmare. My boy spent too much time on YouTube on this crap until I realized how crappy this is and stopped it. LOL. Now he watches Transformers, Pokemon etc like he should. I wonder what will happen if I download it. I still forbid buying his own brand of toys when we visit stores (yes, he has that too, ugh...)
@LuciferOnReddit
Why do you think Racing with Ryan is a mediocre racing game ?
Maybe it looked similar with Mario Kart but it doesn't mean it will completely crappy just because it has different popularity as Mario Kart or CTR.
I don't know about Ryan on Youtube (first time i heard too) but i don't think his popularity so controversial.
I'm gonna keep my eyes on this racing game because i saw something interesting from Racing with Ryan despite of all the controversy.
Wow. Wasn't expecting much but those screenshots look kind of promising.
@carmudgeon
I didn't understand why did you call him idiot ?
What's wrong with him ?
@SalvorHardin Won't deny there's a history of those kinds of situations. Just that we don't know what this family's situation and dynamic is and making assumptions based on other situations is just absurd. For all the child actor/stage parent horror stories we've heard, there's probably just as many or more that don't end up that way. And yet, you probably won't hear those stories ad nauseam because they don't sell gossip rags.
So its fine to be not okay with children in Hollywood or with children Youtube stars. You can be annoyed with the whole scene. My daughter watches a ton of these channels that makes me want to gouge my eardrums out after 5 minutes. I would just hold off on the baseless assuming when there is nothing out there (yet) to suggest anything nefarious is going on with this family. For all we know, they can stop tomorrow and Ryan would go on about his life and have a perfectly normal childhood
So, exactly how does a seven year old (or their parents) get past the following in the terms of service:
" In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as the Service is not intended for children under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the Service. There are lots of other great web sites for you. Talk to your parents about what sites are appropriate for you."
It seems like Youtube is just turning a blind eye because it benefits them.
@DakkaDakka
"Probably because it looks like an awful generic kart racing game that is an obvious cash grab."
But it doesn't mean other 3rd party racing games are crappy just because it looks like Mario Kart.
And what do you mean by obvious cash grab ?
Just because Mario Kart or CTR have very huge income from their huge popularity, it doesn't mean we merely bashing other 3rd party racing games that looks similar with Mario Kart / CTR which don't even try to compete with Mario Kart / CTR. They are exist for gap filler, for peoples who have different interest. Will they turn into huge popular someday ? Maybe yes maybe no, but at least we can show a little bit appreciation for those little 3rd party games and hopefully they can be loved and accepted by public.
This kid is going places. The game is generic at worst.
@Tedikuma just be assertive and say no, its a four year old after all
well this game is def not needed to make a complete collection on switch lol. just ignore it
That boxart is going to go down as one of the greats.
@DarkLloyd Easier said than done. Depends on how many tantrums you want to deal with. Either way, we don't allow him to watch YouTube.
Unfortunately Ryan's made his way to other platforms like Hulu and Amazon. He even has a Nick Jr show now. He's near inescapable. I'm just hoping he never reaches Netflix.
@Anti-Matter Well, that is what I said.
If this is what someone is looking for, there are 4 of them. Time to make some for the people who not looking for "whimsical".
You know, that whole thing Nintendo keeps saying "Something for Everyone"
I think they just reskinned their prior product All Star Fruit Racing.
My question is what will happen to this kid's YouTube channel when he grows up? Will he try to reclaim it as a teen and do something different? Or will his parents continue to target it as a kid toy review channel?
RYAN FOR SMASH YOU COWARDS 😂
but but were is dan tdm's game and ninjas fortnight skin?
Game looks absolutely amazing. Super hyped.
@yuwarite - You. Hurt. Me.
Now appologize.
There's actually no possible way for this game to age well.
@Not-Geno his most popular video has 1.8 BILLION viewers, I'm so confused.
This would be better than most Switch kart racers if that 60FPS makes it into the port...
Edit: Why does the tab order on this website go to rules before reply? Gets me every time!
@derty no kidding. My son loves that show soooo much...
You have GOT to be kidding me
@Anti-Matter just stop
@Aaronnnnn
Stop what? 🤨
@Anti-Matter this Ryan game is a cash grab, end of story
@Aaronnnnn
So what?
If someone have interest about, you cannot ask them to not buy it.
Cash grab or not, i will judge first the gameplay quality.
If the game is decent enough, i might consider it. So far, i'm quite interested with this game.
@Anti-Matter Lmao
so much for curated content
@LuciferOnReddit
You mean 3-7, no 10 year old wouldn't realise this is hot garbage
@TheSpeedyMouse
I would consider watching a rebellious teen forced to do you reviews by his parents lol
@Darknyht You can as long as you get parents concent, I believe. Anyways, it's probably not the kid that does the uploading and management of the channel anyway. Most likely the channel is made and owned by the parents, and they are over the age of 13.
This kid gonna off himself before adulthood
Wait, so who is this kid?
@NorseGamerTommy Yeah, they are very specific that anyone under 18 needs parental consent, but then they follow it up with what I quoted. The reason is mostly likely because of US restrictions on advertising to minors.
It's the reason that Google's Family Link doesn't even allow youtube.com to be opened by my under 13 children. They are required to use Youtube Kids which ironically they forgot to make even accessible from the web (and our Chromebook cannot install Android apps). So who exactly is the target audience of this kid again?
Looking forward to the hilariously (and justifiably) harsh reviews
@Anti-Matter At its best, it's no more than a bland-looking kart clone - one that is obviously counting on the majority of its sales being generated by the popularity of a little kid, who (apparently) has a strong YouTube presence. And as such it is quite deserving of the cash grab status that it has (very quickly) earned.
I never claimed that it looked like a subpar game just because of the Mario Kart influence... the footage in the trailer itself is more than enough to get an idea of exactly how low the quality of the game is. And overall, it simply comes across as being no more than an uninspired attempt to cash in on the demand for this category of game - from the younger generation of gamers and their parents.
Furthermore, I was not actually bashing on 3rd party racing games by reason of them not being as popular as the heavy hitters like MK8. There are obviously some brilliant gems from the kart/racing game genre scattered around out there from various era's. e.g. Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, Diddy Kong Racing, Daytona USA, Wacky Racers etc. are just a few great racers off the top of my head.
Sure, it's worth giving new games a chance sometimes... but for a game like "Racing with Ryan"? Nah, never going to happen... they won't get my cash. I don't want the dev team responsible for this garbage to feel encouraged, or be inspired to go ahead and release more completely garbage games in the future.
@DakkaDakka
But i have some interest about Racing with Ryan. Am i not allowed to like that game ? 🤨
@Anti-Matter Well yeah go ahead and buy it if that's your thing I guess lol...
@Anti-Matter So, a racing game with auto-acceleration and auto-steering still seems interesting and enough of a challenge for you? I'm genuinely curious 😕
@DakkaDakka
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe also have Auto Steering and Auto Drift options.
A game that a trash for someone, is a hidden gem for other people.
@Anti-Matter Yeah, I know that Smart Steering is an optional setting in MK8D for young children... but with this game and how they advertise it as one of the main features is a bit off-putting. That plus the massive "6 locations" to actually race on lol. Oh well I guess when the target audience for the game is about 5 years old they don't expect too much feedback or complaints about the content lol.
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