Kaiser on 25 April 2008
| ChronotriggerJM said: Meh, it's Mario Kart :/ I'm honestly not sure what you guys are looking for in a review. My friends and I used to play MK64 and I'll tell you one thing it was NEVER about, RACING. It was always about finding shortcuts, snaking, and blasting the crap out of my friend with whatever I happened to have (which would suck because he'd fall back in position and get obviously better items than me xD ). 8.4 seems like a good score, besides it's game trailers, these are the guys that couldn't melee in Uncharted, y'know, mash the square button? |
I agree with this. Just as Smash Brothers isn't directly abouth fighting your opponent(s), Mario Kart isn't entirely about racing. Even with the original back then (although it was more balanced) you had all these powerful items to help you get from 8th place to 1st in a flash. That's what Mario Kart is all about. The randomness of the races.
'Snaking' was just introduced in Mario Kart DS, though I know you meant Mini-Turbo when you mentioned it. And regarding GameTrailers' reviews, they're generally very good and cover all importants aspects of the games they're reviewing it's just that sometimes they skip some parts of it (In this case the Mario Kart Channel, Item appearence, Friend Codes not being used, etc).
