Lucky D:

Played it today as well game was awesome the drifting id say is a lot more challenging which i loved and the heavy carts will require lots of practice

Your profile says you live in the U.S., so there's probably a Gamestop near you!

Ah yes, that's the difference! Simply put the physics in this game are a bit more realistic than arcadey!

Glad you agree game takes a lot more skill i believe hope ill get to play tomorrow as well

How come my thread got locked but this one is okay?

I'll post my impressions a THIRD time....

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

True, I might stop by mine tomorrow!

yeah, it feels different

Really? I went and there was 6 adults and only 2 kids plus a couple more adults came in to play