Fast & Furious Arcade Edition on the Nintendo Switch is a MESS!

Fast & Furious Arcade Edition on the Nintendo Switch is a MESS! CORRECTION: My Aussie pre-order arrived today, and it's an actual cartridge! I wonder how limited the cartridge release is? Let me know in the comments what form YOUR physical copy takes! Link to PS5 Pro Fast & Furious Arcade Edition Gameplay:    • Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition - PS5 Pro G...   This is NOT a video I wanted to make. When I heard that Raw Thrills Fast & Furious Arcade Edition was coming home to Nintendo Switch, I pre-ordered the Fast & Furious Arcade Edition Switch version immediately. I went for the Nintendo Switch edition because it's the only current-gen console I own. A PC version of Fast & Furious Arcade Edition would have been nice, but I enjoyed Cruis'n Blast on Switch plenty, so what did I have to lose with this arcade racer port? Money - AUD $100+ - that's what. First off, the "Physical Edition" of Fast & Furious Arcade Edition is just a code-in-the-box. Whatever. I figured I'd do a giveaway of my Fast & Furious Arcade Edition code-in-the-box and grab the digital Nintendo Switch version on pre-order too. Two pre-orders and a release date later... boy oh boy. Who'da thunk that ‪@8bvg300‬ was right on the (lost) money? So Fast & Furious Arcade Edition on Nintendo Switch is basically like every other Raw Thrills Fast & Furious arcade game, but with less content. I assume the arcade version sits alongside the Arcade Legacy edition of Cruis'n Blast, which is similarly lean, but that's fine for an arcade racer home port. I had hoped that this Fast & Furious Arcade Edition Switch port would be expanded, just like the Nintendo Switch version of Cruis'n Blast, and I also hoped it'd match that level of quality. Well, I hate to break it to you all, but Fast & Furious Arcade Edition on Switch is a far cry from Cruis'n Blast Switch. Where do I start with this Fast & Furious Arcade Edition review? This port targets 30fps, but it can't even hold that most of the time. It looks nice in stills, but man, does it fall down in motion during Fast & Furious Arcade Edition gameplay. What is the absolute worst, though, is that zero effort has been made to adapt the wheel controls of the Raw Thrills arcade to a gamepad in this Nintendo Switch version. There is a "Wheel Sensitivity Slider", but all it does is change the control from 0-100 - basically digital steering, so ever-so-slightly less twitchy. Seriously, in all of the Fast & Furious Arcade Edition Switch gameplay here, I'm making MICRO MOVEMENTS on the D-pad. It's horrible, and a far cry from what we had in Cruis'n Blast on Nintendo Switch. It's just a bad experience all-round for fans of arcade racing games. The negative stuff doesn't even stop there in this Fast & Furious Arcade Edition Switch review. There's the bugs. In my literal first half hour of play, I've been stuck to walls, got stuck in a wheelie, had boosts go off at the start of a race unprompted, and had the ground clip out and disappear out from under me. This Fast & Furious Arcade Edition port for Nintendo Switch was done by Cradle Games for publisher Game Mill, and while they created the only souls-like I can actually tolerate - Hellpoint - what they have released here, for AUD $50 no less, does an absolute disservice to arcade racers everywhere. What should have been a rare and joyous occasion - a recent coin-op racer like Fast & Furious Arcade Edition brought home for us to purchase and play on Nintendo Switch—has been given zero love. At least on Switch. I cannot speak for the other console versions, but looking at the PS5 and PS5 Pro footage that has surfaced, it at the very least suffers from the same controller sensitivity issues. Until Fast & Furious Arcade Edition is patched, I'm telling you to AVOID the game on Nintendo Switch. There is no excuse here. This isn't a big open-world game. There's no crazy physics under the hood here. What should have been a simple port of a simple Raw Thrills arcade racer home has been botched in a way that beggars belief. If you've ever been burned by a dodgy arcade port like this one, hit that like button right now to join the rebellion against half-baked releases—and drop a comment below: What's the worst Switch racer you've endured? Let's commiserate in the comments and swap war stories! Enjoy some gameplay from the Nintendo Switch port of Fast & Furious Arcade Edition. Or whatever. If this rant saved you from wasting your cash, smash subscribe for more brutal honest takes on arcade racers and Switch ports—next up, we're hunting for the gems that actually deliver. Turn on notifications so you never miss a warning shot, and share this with a mate who's eyeing a risky buy. Your turn: Hit play on the footage and tell me if I'm overreacting... or spot on. #FastAndFuriousArcadeEdition #NintendoSwitch #RawThrills #ArcadeRacer #CruisnBlast #SwitchReview #RacingGames #GameMill #CradleGames #ArcadePort #GamingBugs #NintendoSwitchGames #FastAndFuriousSwitch #RacerReview