RolStoppable said:
The way the video is framed, yes, in comparison to Mario Kart 64. Like morenoingrato correctly noted, that wasn't a high bar. Super Mario Kart in 1992 used coins to improve the performance of the vehicles during the race. Diddy Kong Racing in 1997 had a story mode and upgradable items during the race. If someone wanted a kart racing game that was based entirely on skill, then DKR was the game to go in the fifth generation, because its items were known to the player instead of being randomized. Nowadays Mario Kart is a massive game in terms of roster and tracks, and comes with options to set the amount of items, so the whole argument of CTR being less casual falls flat on its face. Likewise, a remake of a 20 year old game won't stand a chance against Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in any category, not even in "PlayStation has a game that Switch has not." The whole video is a nostalgia-fueled pro-PlayStation opinion. It cherry-picks what's convenient to support the opinion, but most of what is being said isn't even worth refuting. Chances are that the same guy would make a video about DKR to say that it was too much based on skill in order to say that CTR felt just right. |
lol, don't know how I forgot about the coins in Mario Kart SNES. I do remember someone saying that Crash team racing introduced something that Mario Kart later adopted, can't remember what though.
Yeah, the video is awkward indeed.
