Mario Kart 8 event at Game Stop today and tomorrow

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RCTjunkie said:
Hey, guys! I got to go to GameStop today and try out Mario Kart 8! I didn't get TOO much time, but enough for general impressions.
Here's the courses I played:
Sunshine Airport
Electrodrome
Water Park
Sweet Sweet Canyon

Here are the positive impressions:
+ Lots of options for the vehicle parts, and they all make a HUGE difference
+WiiU gamepad controls are intuitive and easy to jump into
+Courses are as fun and amazing as I anticipated
+CPU's are at a reasonable difficulty, and item balance is much better than reviewers are stating
+Mario Kart TV is also super cool as expected
Here are the negative impressions:
- The control of your kart can take some getting used to. The style is akin to Mario Kart 7, but feels completely different. Will take getting used to
- It seems like overall stat balances favor bigger characters and they'll be overused for their higher speed AND acceleration at only cost of slight amount of control stat
-I was the oldest person there, the next one being 13. Maybe Nintendo IS for kids... :/

Anyway, if you got to try it out, comment below your impressions, or if you have any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them

Glad to hear that the CPU difficulty and items are balanced! The unbalanced nature of MKWii always annoyed me!