This is the best looking Mario Kart game I've ever seen (as well as it should be, with it being Nintendo's first HD console). My jaw dropped the first time I rounded that last corner and caught a full glimpse of Bowser's castle looming and growing bigger.
Including the downloadable content, this game has 12 cups. You can race the cups in five categories: 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, mirror, and 200cc. That makes for 60 gold trophies to get on single player. That is a lot of content. I'm currently doing Mirror.
Of course, Mario Kart is not about the single player experience, but better with multiplayer. I've had little experience with that, but I've played online a few times. Online feels a lot like it did for Mario Kart Wii, except when it comes time to select a track your choice is more limited.
As for the gameplay itself, this game misses the gold standard that was Mario Kart 64. Drifting is fun, but miniturbos just don't feel right to me. Miniturbos do take some amount of skill to pull off, but they follow the Mario Kart Wii school where the miniturbo just happens if you keep drifting long enough. This was the same way of doing miniturbos in Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS (in fact, Mario Kart 8 feels A LOT like Mario Kart 7). I miss the miniturbos you could do on Mario Kart 64, and even to a degree on Mario Kart Double Dash.
Also, vehicle choices are confusing and there's too many of them. Give me a player based on weight class and keep it simple. Mario Kart shouldn't try to be Gran Turismo.
The did some interesting things with the remakes of classic tracks, and the DLC contains some tracks that are completely new but feel retro like the Excite Bike track. They even brought in some F-Zero tracks which reminded me of Rainbow Road being included in F-Zero X.
All in all, a good game, though feels repetitive. I need to play this with a crowd.
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