Mario Kart 8

10/20/2016 7:17 PM ·Spoilers

Not gonna flip the hype Switch just yet. The NS is nice and all, but I kinda have mixed feelings about the ported games. It's cool that you can use two items in MK8.5, but I cant help but to wonder why the WiiU version cant. Is it really that underpowered? Who knows?… They may update this version & give us a 3rd DLC, but if not, it's cool. But MK8.5 shouldnt cost that much to be fair...

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Aw, ok. When I hear someone flipping, I usually think of someone being upset. And I'll admit, most times I play as Link, I still have that OMG I can't believe it feeling. But Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach & Dry Bowser... they could of just been skins like Yoshi, Shyguy & Villager. In fact Tanooki Mario is a skin for Mario in Mario Kart Arcade. But Metal Mario is still his own character.

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Heh, I knew there was room on the roster for more characters. Not trying to brag but that's something I've said many times before. (Just hope they give them to WiiU owners in the form of a DLC/update). Ya know, it would be nice to see some good guys as heavyweights. Who better than Plessie to fill that spot. Hopefully in the MK9 and MK8NS they'll lump together the clones in this fashion.

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Yeah, Pless was a major new character in 3DWorld. The only 3DWorld characters who returned in later games is the green Sprixie Princess in MT:Boring Smash, a few enemies in Paper Jam & Draggodon in Color Splash. And yeah, most heavyweights are bad than good. I don't like how Link is a HW though. He doesn't seem that tall. He's slightly taller than Yoshi.

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And how Yoshi is lighter than Mario & Luigi. Yoshi is bigger & eats more so you'd think. Funny thing is in Smash he weighs around Wario. Mario Kart seems to always have weird logic in weight. But whatever. Other characters I wanna see is E.Gadd, K.Bomb-Omb, Kamek, Hammer Bro.(Fire, Boomer & Ice as alts) & Boom Boom & Pom Pom.

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For returning racers, I'd be fine with any(Please Dry Bones), but Honey Queen. She just don't feel right. She has that hip granny personality & wasn't even that much a major character in SMG. I'm not a fan of Waluigi, but he should of been in her spot, especially when his track is in MK7.

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For Gameking Sorry for being a busybody but Waluigi was going to be in Mario Kart 7 but got cut due to time restrictions and was replaced by Metal Mario. (not officially stated but I have proof)

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*replaced by Metal Mario and not Honey Queen.

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@GK: The sad thing about MK8 is that there arent enough refs to their recent mainstream games. SMK had tons of SMW refs and tracks based on stages from that game, MKW had lots of Galaxy refs/tracks, and pretty much the same with the rest. Don't know about MK7... Anyway, it's like the MK series is starting to lose it's way a little. (Which MK fans must've noticed by now.)

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I used to wonder about the weight logic too. Yoshi is bigger than Mario and a bit... chunky(?). I think this all started in MK7 when they made sub-classes. Like lightweights now have featherweights and heavyweights have cruisers. I think when a character is tall they usually just put them in the heavy class because they need a bigger kart which would increase their overall weight...I guess?

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Ha! Hip granny... That does describe HB Queen fairly well.

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@Aisu, really? I didn't know that one. Either way it's still sad he couldn't be in it. Kinda makes me feel the same how Yoshi wasn't in 3DWorld. Some may think he got replaced by Plessie, but I remember it's because Yoshi's flutter jump was too similar to Peach's glide, Tanooki suit, propeller block & I guess Rosa's Spin attack. Thus the potted Piranha Plant took Yoshi's place of...

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eating enemies. I don't really like the potted Piranha because you have no control and in one level, was kinda glitchy. Even in MK that thing can take you off course. Never liked it, I liked the Super Leaf to come back. And I always say this about Metals. Sure they look cool, but I'd be happier with Metal Box as an item, half-star power, weight increase & each character with own metal colors.

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@Robert, Heh, yeah. That's all I can think of her in MK7. But seriously, all she did was have you oddly climb her body for launch star pieces then worry about the neighbors... thats it. If you wanna give me an old timer to race with, give me Toadsworth or E.Gadd. Btw, MK8's DLC did relate to 3DWorld with Cat Peach, Bell Cup, Bell Subway & had Potted Piranha as an item.

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Maybe in MK8.5, Switch or whatever they create more courses related to 3DWorld. Another idea for courses I wanna see is actual areas from other Mario games like Bom-omb Battlefield, Delfino Isle, Big Bell Hill. Not tracks like Tick-Tock Clock where it's just based on a level. We got Zelda&AnimalCrossing worlds, why not other Mario universes like BeanBeanKingdom?

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I'm not sure how to feel about this if it plays too similarly to MK8 either. It's become the onlyone I don't really like.

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But is a hip granny all that bad? ;) But seriously, the only reason I can think of for them making Honey playable was so that they could have another heavyweight female. I know that THAT is the exact reason for why they made Pink Gold Peach (and because of Metal Mario). Why they did not instead use Pom Pom AND keep Honey I will never know/understand.

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@GK: They did give refs to 3DW but my problem is they weren't creative courses based on 3DW. While the nitro/original courses were fairly fun, they seemed too generic. It didn't make me think of any games they were referencing. @Mizu: If your talking about MK9 playing like MK8, then I agree. The drifting is trash in this game. It's a big step back from MK7. @Aisu: Nah. I just find it humorous.

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Really? I thought the drifting was fine in MK8. But true, wasn't much course refs for 3DW. MK7 had it worse with it's dull tracks like Piranha Slide & Wario shipwreck and generic Rock Mountain. Even it's retro tracks are better.

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Well hip granny ain't bad but she didn't seem major enough to add. Besides I feel like not many people would choose her compared to the other characters you had.

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For Gameking I agree that she was not major enough to really use....but it is not her fault. Nintendo has a large amount of characters that should be used more often, given either their role/reason for existing, their popularity, or a combination of both, for some reason. Take Wart and Tatanga, who have not really reappeared past their initial debut, for example.

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