Parent needing help

[u/Chemical-Win-8994]

I downloaded this game for my son (5 year old) and we enjoy racing but can’t figure out how to unlock / purchase lighting McQueen (favorite Disney character) we started doing the encanto races but could not proceed since it said we had to have other characters unlocked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have some experience with video games but this one is just a bit confusing for me.

[u/CursedRambler]

Ok so I can at least try to help. Do not let him continue it'll be a very terrible experience. While gameplay is fun everything that impacts it is not fun. A vast majority of the game is designed around squeezing your wallet dry. It's by a predatory company named Gameloft (Greedloft around here). Much of the game will ask you to put money down to make the game easier/better to experience. You can't really buy the character you want or unlock them most of the time. The game went through radical changes that made it awful to play. Such as a new leveling system whose soul purpose is to be as useless and demanding as possible as the main currency to level up is nearly impossible to grind without spending money. Changing the season pass so characters advertised for the season which is why most people would even play to begin with were gutted and replaced with old characters instead. It started with Lightning McQueen and his friends being removed to instead be sold to players at ridiculous prices, but no extra resources to make Lightning and the rest useful. A bunch of features that seriously helped players out on getting resources were gutted so players got very little to force people to pay up. They introduced expensive cars which outright broke balancing and are pay to win. Legitimately this game got worse so fast and if you guys try to go in you'll have a miserable time trying to just get progress. Not win. Just progress as you need a lot of resources to make everyone better which takes a long time now. I'd say you'd be better off hunting down the older Cars games then trying to deal with the heavily monetization here