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Forums - Nintendo - Mario Kart 8 GameStop Demo Impressions

Hey, guys! I got to go to GameStop today and try out Mario Kart 8! I didn't get TOO much time, but enough for general impressions.

Here's the courses I played:

Sunshine Airport

Electrodrome

Water Park

Sweet Sweet Canyon

 

Here are the positive impressions:

+ Lots of options for the vehicle parts, and they all make a HUGE difference

+WiiU gamepad controls are intuitive and easy to jump into

+Courses are as fun and amazing as I anticipated

+CPU's are at a reasonable difficulty, and item balance is much better than reviewers are stating

+Mario Kart TV is also super cool as expected

Here are the negative impressions:

- The control of your kart can take some getting used to. The style is akin to Mario Kart 7, but feels completely different. Will take getting used to

- It seems like overall stat balances favor bigger characters and they'll be overused for their higher speed AND acceleration at only cost of slight amount of control stat

-I was the oldest person there, the next one being 13. Maybe Nintendo IS for kids... :/

 

Anyway, if you got to try it out, comment below your impressions, or if you have any other questions, I'll do my best to answer them



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Mario Kart looks to be aimed more towards kids, I wouldn't say it's a con.



I'd suggest copy/paste'ing this over here:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=183313&page=1#

But yeah, game's super fun so far. Can't wait. ^_^