Mario Kart 7

[Swimmer Ryan]

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Anyone got this yet? It's the really cool new Mario Kart on 3DS. New additions to the game include hang-gliding attachments for karts and the ability to drive underwater. There are 17 playable characters in this game. With 4 new characters. With 32 tracks and 16 originals and 16 classic tracks. Another return is the ability to collect coins to boost your speed.
Trailer for the game.
Banana Cup
Flower Cup

 

[Razer302]

I still haven't gotten a 3DS myself but I was playing this on my sisters one and I must say the game is great. Loads of fun and will definately be a game I buy with my 3DS at christmas.

 

[Overlord Drakow]

I intend to get this soon. Been awaiting this game for a while now.

 

[Impo]

I got the game just today :D !
If anyone's interested, Vappy made a PC community (you'll know what it means if you have the game) at 57-5396-7707-6267, so come and join :D !

We should totally try and make a weekly get together on it!

 

[assassinjay1229]

Still haven't gotten a 3DS yet, but when i do i'll definatly get this for the nostalgia inducing tracks ^_^

 

[feralig8rx]

Like many others in this thread, I too am waiting for a 3DS, haha. But this game is definitely the one I want the most!

 

[thedestinedblade]

Looks good but no 3DS either. Any reason why they randomly decided to number this one?

 

[thedestinedblade]

I'm aware of that, but they never numbered any of the other games. Just seemed a bit random to me.

 

[Impo]

It's because Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 3DS are too similar, and they needed to have some distinction.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I'm not a fan of the "7". There were two arcade titles too, so this is really "9".

Regardless, I know adding 3DS in the title may have caused confusion for parents. So, I would have preferred a subtitle maybe, the way Super Circuit had one.

 

[Swimmer Ryan]

Some think the 3DS is just a 3D DS and not a new console

 

[pokesterific]

Sometimes I wish I had a 3DS of my own when I see Mario Kart games. I know I'm missing out on it. Sigh..

 

[Legendary Silke]

I'm not a fan of the "7". There were two arcade titles too, so this is really "9".

Regardless, I know adding 3DS in the title may have caused confusion for parents. So, I would have preferred a subtitle maybe, the way Super Circuit had one.

Seems like the arcade titles didn't count, then.

I think having "7" in the title instead of "3DS" means less confusion... and also makes it clear that this title is new.

I can't wait for the day I buy Mario Kart 7. Unfortunately it might be really late. Like, this Christmas?

 

[Overlord Drakow]

I got it a few days ago and I really like it. I'm up for games with other people on here pretty much whenever.

 

[WillPowerPedro]

I have some communities right here if you guys wanna play them. And forget the sign-ups. Just read the community info.

 

[jpp8]

The 7 was probably added for the "Lucky 7" item. IDK. :I

Also this game is very fun to play. Being a snaker from MKDS, I was not disappointed in the slightest how it is now gone. All the tricks to get boosts, all karts, characters, and customizations being equally viable and dependent on the skill of the player, skillful use of items deciding how one will get to first, all the different courses; it's all very fun. As long as you have some degree of skill with drifting, you'll do just fine in online races thanks to the loss of snaking. As a whole, the new course selection is kind of meh, but then there are some real awesome winners like Music Park, Piranha Plant Slide, and of course Rainbow Road. The retro course selection is amazing. The Mushroom Cup from the N64 version, quite possibly the most memorable, is in the course selection barring Moo Moo Farm. Having skipped the Wii version, this is my first exposure to it, and I can safely say that Coconut Mall and Maple Treeway are both very awesome. And of course, SNES Rainbow Road is just amazing.

However, the requirements for unlocking parts became increasingly tedious. 8 cups x 4 ranks = 32 cups for racing x max 40 coins each cup = 1280 coins after racing in all of them. 1500 coins would've been a good cutoff for the basic parts, but I'm at 3000 coins now and I'm pretty sure I'm still missing the Paraglider. Without a way to finish ASAP as in the DS version, this "grinding" becomes very taxing. Also, the loss of formal balloon battles in favor of a point based system was a dumb move. That's all the beefs I have with MK7.

It's a fun game. Mario Karts have mostly been must haves for consoles and this only continues the trend. I'd only really recommend it if you have wi-fi connection, otherwise, hope you're a Mario Kart fanatic as the single player selection offers little replay value (at least keep an option for balloon battles to be a last man standing type of minigame).

 

[Kenshin5]

I'd go with what Team Fail said that it is the 7th installment. And that the Lucky 7 item is probably paying homage to the title rather the title paying it to it.

My favs are probably Music Park, Rock Rock Mountain, Piranha Plant Slide, Wario Shipyard, Maka Wuhu, Bowser's, Castle Rainbow Road. I love a lot of Classic favs Bowser Castle 1, Luigi's Mansion, Coconut Mall, Waluigi Pinball, Maple Treeway, Koopa Cape, Dino Dino Jungle, Airship Fortress. As for SNES Rainbow Road is probably the one I like the least ironically enough I think I have did better versus online competitors then I have against the CPU.

I wish they would have more Battle Courses then offered.

 

[Xx Typhlosion xX]

I got it as soon as it was released, it is a really huge improvement in my opinion, it even looks better on 3DS than Mario Kart Wii, other than graphics, new additions like hang gliding and driving underwater is awesome, there are also several paths to take during a race, I also liked being able to customize your kart.

The letdown for me was the removal of VS mode, which was in Mario Kart DS, where you could just pick a track, have teams and race. Getting 3 stars on every cup is also tedious, it places pressure on you to finish 1st in all races which is really stressful. I also didn't like the new characters introduced other than Lakitu, I would rather have Waluigi and Bowser Jr.

 

[WillPowerPedro]

I got it as soon as it was released, it is a really huge improvement in my opinion, it even looks better on 3DS than Mario Kart Wii, other than graphics, new additions like hang gliding and driving underwater is awesome, there are also several paths to take during a race, I also liked being able to customize your kart.

The letdown for me was the removal of VS mode, which was in Mario Kart DS, where you could just pick a track, have teams and race. Getting 3 stars on every cup is also tedious, it places pressure on you to finish 1st in all races which is really stressful. I also didn't like the new characters introduced other than Lakitu, I would rather have Waluigi and Bowser Jr.

Local Multiplayer does have VS mode and that id the same concept for online multiplayer. And I wish they put more characters such as...

 

[jpp8]

Getting 3 stars on every cup is also tedious, it places pressure on you to finish 1st in all races which is really stressful.

I thought getting 3 stars was very easy in this game though. In Mario Kart DS, it was nigh impossible to get 3 stars in everything without snaking. And even then, there was still a chance you'd end up with 2 instead of 3 for some reason. Not to mention all those missions that you had to do AND get 3 stars in. In MK7, as long as you know how to drift to get turbo boosts, do tricks at every bump and ramp, keep an item in reserve for those stray red shells, and manage to keep your coin count high, getting and staying in first is cake.