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7.0 hrs last two weeks / 1,059.1 hrs on record (223.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 25 Nov, 2021 @ 2:28pm
Updated: 29 Oct, 2023 @ 12:36pm

I have a theory that the culmination of Garfield Kart: Furious Racing is a world made by a bored god, Garfield, while fueled by pasta sauce.

For starters, the tracks in this game are all based in a grounded reality. All of the maps in this game only have references to Garfield in general, and never do anything wacky like going to space or being really small or anything. They are all places that someone could simply exist within. However, this poses the question of the tracks themselves. Many of the tracks have an exit that has been barred off, like Palerock Lake, Play Misty For Me, Country Bumpkin, and every single desert map. If this truly is a world, why is it laid out like this? Why are there no walkable or driveable exits? Why are these specifically made for racing, Misty having ramps and Pastacosi having a driving section through a conveyor belt? That's because the entire world was made for racing.

In the character select menu, the background is a cloudy sky. This explains how the racers enter these maps, as there are no walkable entrances that aren't blocked. However, the sky itself is not blocked. These races are allowed to happen through divine intervention by Garfield. Half of the characters are literal animals, there is no way in hell they can actually drive, but Garfield allows it. An example of this is Squeak, a mouse, being half the size of Jon in order to reach the steering wheel.

How do we know that Garfield himself is the God of this world? The answer is in almost every single desert map. These maps are believed to take place in Egypt due to the pyramids within many of them and other vague props. Back in Ancient Egypt, cats were believed to be gods and were highly praised. Not very coincidentally, Valley Of The Kings, Mysterious Temple, and Blazing Oasis all have statues of Garfield. Also I don't know how to segway into this, but in multiplayer Garfield voices all enemy players becuase Garfield is all racers. Garfield made the world and he is the world.

Pasta sauce is a very strong substance in Garfield Kart. While it may be in Lasanga, which boosts the car, I have other reasons to believe this. In the track Pastacosi, there are several pasta puddles around the track. Driving into these puddles damages the racer, similarly to a pie, except for the detail that it damages you while perfumed as well. This item, the perfume, supposedly makes you invincible to everything except pasta sauce. With it boosting the car as well, pasta sauce being a strong substance holds ground, which also happens to be Garfield's choice food on almost everything.

Puzzle Pieces are a collectible item that shows an image when all pieces are collected. These pieces are found in random areas in each map. Why would we need to go to these places to see these images? That is because Garfield has forgotten the past. He has been stuck in this karting hell for eons and will be for more. This is all he has left. The memories of places he has gone, his friends he once had, that one dog continuously barking on that one corner of catz, all nothing but memories of a past area. This world was made to cope with the loss of his morality, and has instead turned into a prison of which to confine him.

Lasangen.
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2 Comments
David Odie 27 Jul, 2024 @ 12:14am 
beautiful work, comrade
Reapzer 29 Oct, 2023 @ 12:42pm 
i dont remember typing this