Game Chronicles give a 4.2 for MK wii

[ilovetogame]

that was the most absurd review ever. first the title of this thread says 4.2 so i'm expecting the review to tear the game up. but instead he basically says the game is awesome except its too hard. hard is good!! it seems like the big complaint about most nintendo games these days is that they are too easy. if anything greater difficulty should boost the score. its just sad that he gave mario kart a ridiculous score of 42% simply because he's not good enough at the game to dominate it after only playing it for a few hours. shouldn't it be the other way around, if he can easily get first on 150cc after just a few hours that would be lame. i agree it can be unbalanced (just like DD) but thats mostly because theres 11 other karts out there, making it harder.

i just got the game yesterday and played through the 16 new tracks on 50cc. i'll have to play it some more and play on 150cc to get a better feel for it. but so far i'm not a fan of the items, i feel like that aspect of the game took a step back from DD, mostly because they took out the specials for the characters which was one of the best additions about DD. besides that the graphics are great, a decent improvement over double dash. all the stuff they added seems great: the online, 12 racers, 32 tracks, motorcycles, etc.

but my main gripe is while they added tons of stuff they took out some very important things. i already stated the special items, but also what the heck happened to 2player grand prix? thats a HUGE mistake on nintendo's part. thats gonna take out a ton of replay value for me and that alone will keep this game from being my favorite mario kart.

i hoping some good stuff opens from the unlockables, hopefully there is allcup in there again, if not that will also be a bit disappointing. finally for the battle mode, why is it only in teams? that doesn't make any sense at all. and also they took out the shine battle mode and the bomb one too, both of those were awesome. they took those two fun modes and just added in a coin collect battle mode. i haven't played it yet but even if its great thats taking out two great modes just to add in one.

so far the game was pretty fun but i'm sure it'll get way better once i unlock stuff and especially once i start playing on 150cc. the wheel was decent, but i'll have to give it some more practice to see how good it gets. but taking out crucial things like specials, two player grandprix, and a couple other things stated above really make nintendo's goal for this game confusing. they add in lots of new great stuff but then take out lots of already established things that make the franchise great and they do so for no reason at all.