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Johnw1104 on 20 April 2017
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Zekkyou said:
Johnw1104 said:

I think maybe a different perspective might help via four questions:

1. How could it be improved? (the main problem in the original that generally lost it 1/10 or 1/5 depending on the scale was fixed)
2. Are there better kart racers available?
3. Are there any technical problems?
4. Are there any kart racers even remotely close that are also portable?

The main thing reading the reviews is that, unlike the previous ones, reviewers are having trouble finding anything to criticize. At this point the only thing people seem to point to is the comparatively simple online multiplayer system, but even that saw some improvement from the original.

With all that in mind, it's not that hard to imagine it rose ~5 points on metacritic.

I never said it wasn't deserved, my interest in the Mario Kart series has always been somewhat limited so i can't comment on that front. I'm just somewhat surprised that all it takes to push a game from a unremarkable score (relative to metacritic's general curve) to the all-time top list is some linear improvements. I'm not aware of any other comparable upgrade resulting in such a dramatic change, which makes me think a lot of it is down to portability. That's perfectly fine in general, but it's going to make me more subjectively critical of the scores Switch's games in general get. Knowing that should help me keep my expectations in check.

I think the main difference is that, being part of a franchise, everyone expected to have the Battle feature that previous installments had, so it lost a lot of points there. Really, it was already an excellent game that should have scored higher than 88, but for whatever reason didn't just take the existing gameplay and engine and provide a few maps for people to fight one another on lol

As far as most remasters go, this one is rather unique... it had room for improvement and most others are rather linear and sport one style of gameplay.