A biased review: Mario Kart 7

[Lonely_Dolphin]

RolStoppable said:

Einsam_Delphin said:
Solid review as always, but you knock the game for receiving a patch? If the game were broke right out of the box then I'd understand, but MK7's issue was a randomly discovered exploit that only mattered if you played online. The patch was for balance and making sure the game was played as intended, basically it was a good thing.

Um, the online was essentially broken right out of the box. Lots of people picked the Wuhu mountain track and that was already the worst track in the game before the exploit was discovered. This had a serious negative impact on online races with strangers. People became fed up at that time and didn't even want to play online anymore. I know I wasn't the only one.

Yes, the patch fixed what was broken, so in that way it was a good thing. But such a patch shouldn't be necessary in the first place. It's not the job of paying customers to act as beta-testers, so I docked 0.1 points from the score to move it out of the glorious 9 range. There are still the issues of no single player vs. mode, the unnecessary blue shell bounce and the takedowns while hanggliding, so it was a low 9 at best.

I guess I'm just such a nice guy that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt! That Maka Wuhu glitch was far from obvious, it's a wonder how someone even found it. Must of been someone on a random suiciding spree! xD

Thankfully MK8 changed the way Lakitu functions now, so such glitches will be a thing of the past!