Two weeks in, my enjoyment of Mario Kart 7 shows no sign of fading. The online races work so well, this title alone could keep my 3DS in action for the system’s lifespan, just as online racing in Mario Kart Wii kept that console humming through many software droughts.
Some random thoughts about the game have cropped up since the review:
We lost King Boo and Dry Bowser for Wiggler and Honey Queen? Yeeesh!
Next MK…I want Boo Mario and Toadsworth as playable characters.
Yoshi keeps yelling something that sounds like, “Pothole!!!”
Changing your Mii’s shirt color effects the in-game voice…but it’ll still sound like Yoshi’s cousin Bubba.
Online players who keep choosing Maka Wuhu just to ruin the race by exploiting the shortcut glitch are complete tools.
Take the alternate route just before the rotating barrel in Bowser’s Castle. Fun!
That long glide down from Rock Rock Mountain through the forest’Best flight moment in any game. Ever.
Koopa Cape Wii or Koopa Cape 3DS? I like ”˜em both’interesting variations!
Tracks that still give me trouble: Luigi’s Mansion and Daisy Cruiser
Blue Shells are my only hope of winning a race against Holly!
So, how are you all enjoying MK7? Have you found any particular details that make you smile…or pull your hair out? Please share!
I just bought it yesterday and this game is perfect. Hope to see you guys online 🙂
Man, these MK posts are killing me as it is sitting under the tree wrapped nice and tight for my seven year old… Grr. I CANNOT FREAKING WAIT till his grubby little paws rip it open and I finally get my shot. I will def. be seeing yous guys in the community races. Aaaand, I have not heard yet but is the DS style snaking on this title? Not that I would or anything if it is -_-
@Gdg2004:
Hang in there: Just one more week! 🙂 As for the snaking: due to the way powersliding works in MK7, it's possible in a few spots under perfect circumstances, but the end result is so brief that it has no real effect on the races.
Your right about Holly, once she gets ahead in a race theres no stopping her!!
No the snaking isn't in this game.
What's this Wuhu glitch I hear about? I've never seen it.
Thank Gods of Nintendo…snaking ruined MK DS ONLINE…
@wakko1337:
On the Maka Wuhu track, immediately after the first checkpoint, if you turn around, drive off the road and jump into the water, Lakitu will set you back on the track where it loops around *above* that location–right at the second checkpoint, completely bypassing the entire middle section of the course. This puts you about 30 seconds ahead of anyone not taking the shortcut.
This is both unfortunate and kind of interesting, because it's more of an "overlooked design feature" than a standard glitch. It's a very easy shortcut to take, and everyone can do it. Is it a deliberate secret Nintendo included? Just one more piece of fencing would have stopped it from happening. It's hard to believe that no one at EAD or Retro discovered this. And the second portion of Maka Wuhu is the least interesting part of the track, so this actually gives you a more intense version of the course.
What's sad is that–for online multiplayer– it sort of wrecks one of the best tracks in the game (and I love all three of the super-long 1-lap tracks). If you've ever raced on Maka Wuhu online, and had the race suddenly end because "the winner reached the finish 30 seconds ago"…that's what's happening.
The funny thing is that it's thrown a weird psychological element into the Maka Wuhu online races: If someone *chooses* Maka Wuhu–instead of it appearing randomly–everyone now watches that player as the pack approaches the first checkpoint. What I do now is hang back and observe. If the clown turns around and jumps in the water, I follow, continue to the end (love that hang gliding finale) and stop just before the finish line, because, y'know, I'm Lightning McQueen.
What's refreshing is when everyone warily approaches the checkpoint, no one takes the shortcut, and everyone happily continues the race normally. At first, the shortcut was used by show-offs. Now that word's getting out about it, players are less likely to pick Maka Wuhu because choosing it instantly flags you to the other players as a potential cheater.
The whole issue is both frustrating and fascinating. I wish Nintendo would comment on it and either encourage players to use the shortcut or somehow patch it…which I can't really imagine happening.
Oh wow…that IS both cool and snobby. No wonder time trials have times I couldn't match. I played online for three hours this morning, and only one person picked Maka Wuhu, and any time another track was picked, he couldn't even battle for a decent spot. I guess he just gets his score up on that track, haha. I might have to try this once or twice offline JUST to see how badly it beats everyone else lol.
I haven't gotten it, but Dry bowser is my favorite character of them all.
Also I seen some hacks on the wii game,and I seen how easy it is to put new tracks in, and I want to be able to have some downloadable content for the wii u since I seen how easy is to put a new track on the game, and maybe build your on custom track.
Sorry about my ramblings.
Also does anyone know what happened to zelda informer on all three of my computers I can't access from firefox nor chrome for the past week.
Well its good to know that the old snaking is out… I really tried not doing that until somebody else in the race started doing it 🙂 even then it took so much FUN out of it. Yes its cool, but it takes away from actually… racing.
@ gdg2004: hehe, I used to do the same: once someone on the race dared to start snaking, I finished him with my superior snaking skills 😛 . Anyway, I agree with you all, snaking was not good for the game.
Only complaint: Lack of a certain purple clad, pointy mustachioed, anti-Luigi character. Waluigi is one of my favorite Mario characters, below Lemmy Koopa, of course, if my name didn't give any hint towards that. Other than that, I feel as though I'm really good at it, considering I don't even own it, and the one and only time I played it, it was via download play with a friend at school who's been playing nonstop. I beat him quite badly, 'twas funny indeed.
Roster blows. Waluigi gone? No special unlockable secret characters? A Mario clone? yeesh.
Also, the retro tracks arent very retro… 4 Wii tracks? Yeesh.
I am really starting to get sick of all the hackers online. Anytime they fall off the track they instantly appear back on the track some distance ahead! They travel twice as fast as everyone else without any items! No items work on them; you fire a red shell at them when they are clearly unorotected and nothing happens! They seem to move around the track like someone is dragging their icon on the bottom screen along the track with the stylus! I love the game, but the hackers really ruin the online for me.