I imagine I am way late on this, but I finally got to play Mario Kart 8 at my friend's place. The good is we had an absolute blast racing for hours. I was rusty, but got the hang of it after a while. So a bright crisp fun racing game I can actually sit on the couch and play with a friend? Seems perfect.
Sadly the big drawback was when we went into battle mode. What is this? This is not battle mode, this is boring g and just a lazy after thought. Very disappointed as this mode was my favorite part of old Mario Kart games. We played this a few times, had no fun and went back to racing.
So the racing gets a 9 for me with solid selection of characters and tracks.
Battle mode gets a 2 for being a joke as feels like little thought or energy went into it.
Overall a strong 7 that easily could be a 9 if battle mode was half as fun as racing.
