Racing games were among the genres which had the most to gain in a transition to 3D too, so Mario Kart 64 releasing less than a year after the N64's debut was hardly surprising. One of the worst entries in the series and you'd be better off playing anything newer.Ħ0% Nintendo 64After the success of Super Mario Kart on the SNES, it's understandable that Nintendo would be keen to bring a sequel to their new console, the Nintendo 64, sooner rather than later. It hasn't aged well and is only kept in people's memories because of nostalgia or speedrunning (ya'll are crazy for real LMAO). Overall I wouldn't touch this game ever again really outside of parties or whatever if it gets brought up for some reason. Even when using a lot of boosting items and things it is still so hard to catch up to 1st place if you are behind because the CPU cheats and goes faster than they should be able to.

It makes the game so infuriating sometimes that I just have to stop playing the game. They rubberband like crazy and will randomly overtake you (especially near the end) for no apparent reason. Now this may actually be somewhat necessary because of my next point.

You pull items that you have no right to be pulling in upper placements like stars, lightning, and golden shrooms. I really don't know why they made throwing shell the way they did, it's impossible to very hard to aim them at all, especially if you have 3. It makes coming back from any position that isn't 1st near impossible. Shells are some of the worst items in this game and are unusable on some maps (I'm looking at you toad's turnpike). The items are probably the worst they've ever been in the series here. Because of this and the awful turn radius while drifting it makes hitting some turns impossible while drifting. I actually think it's impossible to hit them fast it feels like you have to wait for so long before you can even build it up. Also drifting/mini turbos are unnecessarily hard for no reason.

Why do I swing the opposite way of the direction I press. The controls are better but they still have a lot of problems. 40% Nintendo 64Better than Super Mario Kart but not by a lot.

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