Heavy characters no longer steer like drunken camels, so you can play as DK or Bowser without unintentionally activating hard mode. Powerslide-boosting (blue sparking, in the vernacular) is now dependent on the degree of the slide instead of d-pad gymnastics, meaning that boosting down straightaways is a thing of the past. Mario Kart is almost exactly how you remember it, but what tweaks have been made are generally positive.
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I rarely placed poorly because of random chance rather than driver error – tough though that may be to admit.
The occasional total screw job (for example, getting blue shelled, then lightning bolted during a jump right before the end of the race) is frustrating, but skill wins 90 percent of the races. Races naturally stay close as players in worse positions get better items. The hatin’ half of the game-playing population can make as much fun of me as they want, but I can’t help but fall in love all over again with Mario Kart when Nintendo executes the classic gameplay this well.Īs always, players are encouraged to find a rally-like rhythm of powerslides through the zaniest courses Nintendo could dream up while dodging gonzo power-ups and environmental hazards. The mechanics are almost identical, though the formula benefits from a few decades of balance tweaks and subtle improvements. If you’ve played one Mario Kart, you haven’t played them all – but you could go directly from the SNES original to this brand-new 3DS version without missing a beat.
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