The good: The core gameplay remains fun to this day, all DLC is included in this game, graphics looks good in both dock and undock modes.
The bad: The soundtrack could use an update, no splitscreen play, could use more radio stations than just Crash FM as it is called.
Ok! The history for Nintendo is a no brainer. Back in the Gamecube days, Burnout and Burnout 2 works pretty well for a number of reasons. Besides the crashes, the controls is really tight and there's no story to speak of thankfully. Most of all at the time, there's no online play yet compare to Playstation 2 and Xbox in those days. In about a decade later, after so long (with the exception of Burnout Legends on the Nintendo DS which is sadly not that fun), this is probably the only game where you get to do whatever you want.
To start off, you can drift, boost and most of all, try to dodge traffic and forcing AI's to crash their cars. Also, the controls again is extremely tight so you can weave through traffic easily and the rumble feels good. There's all those racing modes and ridiculous amount of cars and bikes. It would be cool though to add buses and trucks and any other ridiculous vehicles to make it more fun. Multiplayer is fun too but it's like Monopoly in which you have to pass on the controller to see who wins the competition which is not fun. At least have the decency to have splitscreen to allow more than one player, playing on the same screen.
Graphically, it ran really smoothly on Nintendo Switch standards. The art and technical direction is top notch and there's no frame rate issues to speak of in both dock and undock modes. The sound on the other hand is a mixed bag. Sure, the sounds of cars and outside effects, including the use of boost to drain out the music is excellently handled. But the soundtrack is fairly decent but at least it's not just some random music. You can adjust it since it also has classical music and if you missed the songs of the passed games, you can cancel the others and just leave those songs on. It would also be nice not to just have Crash FM with the DJ running the game. Like the GTA games, why not have more radio stations so you don't have to wait for so long, just to listen to your favourite songs.
This game has already have all DLC included from the start, so you don't have to worry about buying it through the eShop. And if your internet is top notch without any lag, you can race with gamers anytime, if it works. There's already enough meat to last long in the game. You're going to need all the skills to dodge traffic and crashing AI cars to unlock as many things as you can. Including crashing new cars when you're in Free Mode when you're not racing at all. So perhaps about 20 hours or more to complete the game and unlock everything. Pretty much like Need for Speed Underground 2 if you remember.
Even though racing games comes and goes by its gameplay, the Burnout series remains the kind of game where you don't need a story to keep players from not engaging at all. If you want a no hold bars brawl racing game without any annoyance what so ever, Burnout Paradise Remastered is the best arcade racing just for you.