WTMG’s Leo Faria: “Hotshot Racing is a nice throwback to the heyday of stimulating and cheerful arcade racers of the early 90’s. It’s as challenging as your average Ridge Racer or Virtua Racing, but sadly, nowhere near as charming. Although I appreciate what Curve Digital and Sumo Digital have come up with, all that Hotshot Racing really manage to achieve was make me angry that Sega still hasn’t decided to port 2017’s Daytona Championship USA to current-gen consoles.”
