Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

It has so many courses, characters, combo costumization and five modes of battle mode. That's why this is the goat of mario kart.

I have put so many hours into this game but after a while becomes very stale but good fun with friends

Okay, but not a patch on MKW. Courses, characters and modes lack variety and not enough items to cope with higher CCs. Last laps in 150 and above are just NPCs being told how to prevent you from getting golds. Nintendo did better with S2 game.

The more I play it, the more I hate it. The game is not compelling to play whatsoever since there's elements from older games that were either neutered or removed altogether, and the controls are tight and not interesting. Tricks are lame, gliding feels bad, half-pipes are broken, wheelies were removed, inside-drift bikes were massacred, etc. The character roster, while it's stacked and could be considered the best for what it has, it neglected so many for so long. Like, why did we have to wait until the Booster Course Pass to get Diddy Kong, Birdo, Petey Piranha, etc.? And not to mention the terrible additions to it. Baby Rosalina, Pink Gold Peach, and the non-Mario characters (Link, Isabelle, Villager & Inkling), just to name a few. The track selection is mediocre. 96 tracks, yet after doing a tier list of all of them, 55 are C-tier or lower, with 12 F-tier tracks. Truly the definition of quantity > quality. More than half the game's tracks being ranked low/average is embarrassing. What's even worse is that a lot of the game's tracks are demakes of fan-favorites. Koopa Cape, Coconut Mall, DK Mountain, etc. Items are also a mixed bag. Red shells were buffed, triple bananas and triple mushrooms orbit around you, the blooper makes the controls slippery, and the coin replaces the fake item box as a non-defensive item, but it's far worse. The new items are fine, though. What isn't fine however is item distribution. Distance-based item balancing is stupid. I shouldn't be getting bob-omb's in first. Other things I don't like are: - Lakitu is way to stingy, making ultra shortcuts non-existent and driving backwards on the track impossible - Assists (smart-steering & auto-accelerate) - Way too streamlined for casuals - Anti-gravity is purely a gimmick that barely changes anything - No unlockables The only positive I have is 200cc. ONE positive in a game people will praise as the best Mario Kart, kart racer, or racing game in general. I never want to come back to it. It's my least favorite Mario Kart and I'll die on that hill. What a disgustingly overrated game.

I like the game for its visuals and controls. However, it's a waste of time because the player isn't really needed. The blue shell and really bad AI leads to random win. The last kart is slower than a snail. And one kart stands out as your rival, faster than the player can ever be. So the CPU isn't playing fair. I think it's a game only for babies who have no idea what's going on around them. The next Mario Kart (World) seems to be similar, as they didn't know what the player wanted. Yes, Mario Kart is successfully. But only because it's the very first game released on console and seems to be a nice party game. But it makes no fun as singleplayer. There is no story mode and your skill is punished with the blue shell.