My first thought in the first hour was in the game "and this is now the new Mario Kart?" Expectations were high: more variety on the routes, good races, more features, just ne shovel it on Mario Kart Wii ... to my expectations, I'll go right again one in detail, but they are somehow all not really met. The second hour was then followed by, "I want more Kart parts, I want more unlock, I will also times online and battle mode to try ...", the third hour: "I invite the same time NEN friend a". So it goes then. However, the longer one is engaged in the game, the more arbitrary it is.
I do it now as a fan of the show very sorry, but I really have to complain about, and thus for the first time a pro and contra list, because the game cuts with me unfortunately from very average.
Pro:
+ It is still the best and most fun kart racing game on the market, garkeine question.
+ The graphics are beautiful and sweet details make the game very much alive. In addition, graphics are very fluid at any time, you can see very far in the game world.
+ You can customize and tune his kart diverse
+ Many characters from Nintendo and Mario universe selectable
+ Amusing reinterpretation excellent routes past console generation / -MK games
+ Great new route ideas in which one may marvel (eg airport, mario racing tracks, waterfalls, giant Feuerbowser, ski) but there are also negative, the change, see below.
+ Easily unlock new tracks and kart parts
+ Cool Retro Feature: coin collecting to increase the maximum speed of the karts as the first Mario Kart.
Contraindications:
-BATLLE Mode BATLLE mode BATLLE MODE - Why Nintendo, why you are doing us to the. Then omit prefer zero long-term motivation, long distances, ever you get from the "? Check box" same Pulled ... in my opinion, the worst battle mode the whole series ...
-general Missing the game at the moment (for now about 2 played evenings) long-term motivation, somehow does not want to skip the spark of past Mario karts and online modes. Fast one is certain routes tired, I think is still missing as alternate feature just the battle mode, ...
-Nervige Itemvergabe. One often gets only tanks, banana peels, now and then NEN boomerang and mushrooms, the rest can be seen as good as not at all. Even in battle mode, but I have already been completely written off ...
-spartanische control, the "Wii Remote" is not used as in MK Wii to jump or for the Motorcycle Wheelie
-Lack of control setting, you can take the control that you press after the game start by chose to "A", without displaying the menu area.
-Lack Map browser. Why can not this switch as in previous MK's ??? Total annoying in battle mode (yes he is again) and the multiplayer. Like driving with the steering wheel, the card will only be displayed on the Wii U screen remote control.
-Spartanisches Menu without abundance and love (for example, in Mario Kart on the SNES: lovingly painted and moving backgrounds of the menus and driver choice, Mario Kart N64: colorful backgrounds, moving images of the routes ..etc.), Here it was just sat clapping, you choose what you see and prefer to enjoy the quick without you at the menu.
-not great award ceremony with revelers figures (or your revelers figure), at the end you sit there, it seems a best-of-flashback of your race and a hinge klatschter Cup rotates. Wooow! But you drove 4 races in the Grand Prix of your favorite character.
-Some Curves are not timely initiated maneuvers to create little, taking the game to Speed. There are limits in the steering, and the costs heck of a lot time.
-Wenig Variety in track design, unfortunately, a lot of value on Steilkurven-, turbo-driving and driving-on-the-wall-zones was laid, instead of generating exciting races on the plains, SNES and N64 were the best example of what to the levels anything is possible. The game is broken up too often comes across this and abgespaced.
-Online Mode: power still problems, all too often there are crashes the server, you will be thrown out of the game in the middle, sometimes earlier if you have been waiting for a game already 1-2 minutes, which is currently running. I think that is, however, still hinbekommen Nintendo ...
-Battle MODE ... I can not help it! ;-)
You notice already, I'm ambivalent. It seems almost as if the game would have to appear soon, or it was a team at work, which had only certain facets of the game in mind. One could breathe the Mario Kart universe of life, a great whole was not it.
The game will keep me busy the next few weeks, but if it does the long, like all other predecessors, I doubt even now. Children are initially quite get problems with the controller, which is at the beginning not completely conclusive, but who knows the predecessor, will thus be quickly warm.
Well, the game is out, Nintendo wanted to. It is anticipated so that fans of the series almost crave it whenever the console is out. A few years lead time had Nintendo certainly, I do not know the cost of a players position or -production, but it's not just since yesterday so that everyone is waiting for a new Mario Kart.
The fans see what I here so read by others, unfortunately, much like me. Some buy the console until the new Mario Kart, too bad some wasted potential. Whether joy is sufficient it will become clear (at least after the first update). I wonder how it comes about, to bring such an important game so half-heartedly to the market? Graphics, new features and track design is not everything, perhaps the market in Japan is different, but as a European racing game fan and Mario Kart Offline multiplayer player puts me to shame the current piece of software.
Nevertheless, it is one of the better Wii U games, especially for the eye and a game in between.
Please Nintendo, brings a fix for a few extra lines (must be calm Classic), and Itemvergabe Battle mode, otherwise I am to you eternally evil. The upgrade path of the Wii U thank. Or maybe after MK8 a Mario Kart 8.1 or 9 for the Wii U?
