Burnout Paradise Remastered

I've played Burnout Paradise Remastered for all of 30 minutes, long enough to not-confidently say it maybe possibly might be the best physical cart racing game on the Switch... in 2025-hindsight and accepting the complete lack of novelty involved in old remasters.

Sure there's Mario Kart 8 Deluxe if you like kart racers, or Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled if you're too cool for Nintendo IPs but not for 30 frames-per-second.

The console is a little lacking in in futuristic pod racers. Fast RMX is like if a worse F-Zero required a second mortgage to buy physically, or Redout 2 is an okay backup plan.

Speaking of lacking, this is where I'd put a good AAA racing sim... If I had one!

I'm sure Nascar Rivals is decent if you like stock cars, SnowRunner is a surprisingly fun offroad sim of sorts, and Gear.Club Unlimited and its sequel are very mediocre sim-lites if you must.

A few more quick hitters:

• I have almost 0 experience with retro-style racers Slipstream and Horizon Chase Turbo but I've heard good things;
• Descenders and Trials Rising are more extreme sports than racing, but might inexpensively scratch a similar itch; and
• Art of Rally and Absolute Drift are more physics challenge than racing, and unforgiving ones at that, but they're interesting and very stylish.

But for the Switch, arcade-style is your best bet. Cruis'n Blast is my favorite 4-player-local-multi, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 Remastered is reasonable competition, but Burnout Paradise Remastered is just big, content-packed and fun to control. Outside of some visual issues I consider pretty easy to get over, it's a great cheap physical-cart game and my favorite overall racer on the Switch.

4/5, suitable for any Switch owners interested in owning more than just a handful of physical first-party stuff.