So, guys, what score would you give Mario Kart 8 on a scale of 1 to 10 - 1 being the worst, 10 being the best?
I'd have to give the game a 7.
I thought the track designs were really good this time around. Anti-gravity added a lot of variety to tracks cause it adds alternate routes to take, and sometimes it's the required route, but yeah. Nonetheless, there are a few tracks with multiple routes, and I like that. I like how some races are in sections now instead of just laps. Also, it's a beautiful game. The online is good, but I wish you could still choose whatever tracks you wanted when you're not playing with friends. I wish there was voice chat in regular races, but it's Nintendo. There's voice chat with friends, but only before races and that's so dumb. Battle mode SUCKS. But my biggest gripe is with the character roster. This has to be the worst character roster ever. 5 baby characters and 8 Koopa characters no one really cares about? People want iconic characters. I am glad that they're adding Link into the mix though, that's cool. But Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach? They're okay, I guess, but now there's 4 Marios and 4 Peachs. See what I mean? Nintendo could have easily came up with better ideas for characters. I thought R.O.B. was an awesome character from MKDS, why not add him? Why not Funky Kong or Diddy Kong? Why no Birdo? No Boo? Petey? How about Pac-man as a 3rd party character like Nintendo put in the arcade games in Japan? But nope, babies and Koopas. Boring.
Though, I am looking forward to seeing new karts and tracks. I'm glad Nintendo is putting out DLC. I usually hate the idea of DLC, but Nintendo doesn't make their DLC terribly expensive, and still makes complete games without DLC, so their DLC is truly expansions instead of completing the game.
7/10. How about you guys?
