It's Critter Time!

As soon as I made an account here, I wanted to make a thread for my favorite kart racer and one of the most wrongfully-maligned games in recent years: Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers!
It's a game I'd like to go back to when I find the time, and I'm hoping making a forum thread about it will encourage me to do that, and find some other fans, too.

Firstly, here's a playlist of some of my older times from when I got into the game:

I encourage others to post their time trial times here, especially with videos!

Second, for those who don't know about DRRR, the game can be downloaded for free HERE. Fair warning: this is not an easy kart racer like Mario Kart. The game asks a lot of you and demands some basic competency before you can reasonably challenge CPUs. Do the tutorial!

My first experience playing zhis was immediately after its first release: "OK, I'll do zhe tutorial" -> "oh wow, it's amazing! so many mechanics! so much charisma!" -> "oh right, most people just want to accelerate, drift, and use items, making a racing game as mechanically dense as zhis a pretty tough sell" and I set it down to see how it fared in zhe future. "Zhe future" ended up being pretty recently, I did a quick tutorial refresher and cleared ze first Grand Prix. Once you get za hang of it, it's a super fun time -- but it's also very clearly not for everyone, by design. Still admirable, wizhout a doubt.

I unlocked Online Play today, but I'll be putting more time into singleplayer first and probably only pop in alongside a few friends when I'm ready for it. (It'd be neat to make racers for it, zhough...)