Mario Kart DS
I picked up Mario Kart DS for my Nintendo DS last Friday, and I've been enjoying it all weekend. It's great fun, and really brings back great memories of playing the SNES version with all my friends at Derelict or BP's house (I refuse to keep typing BeaverPhear). Usually it was more of a race between the two of those racing fools (since they owned it and thus practiced), but the great thing about the game is that it is full of equalizers that give everyone a chance to have fun. Way in the back? You get a lighting bolt or super mushroom or something to help you get closer to the front.
Well Mario Kart DS honours its roots as it is truly a great game (personally I felt that the GameCube version of Mario Kart wasn't that great - I didn't buy it), and not only does it have the same amazing gameplay as its forebears, but it even includes some "Retro" tracks harkening all the way back to the SNES version. That is just so cool, and something I appreciate a lot. It adds a couple new items, the neatest is the "octopus" that spits black ink on opponents screens to obscure their view, and the cheapest has to be the "flying blue shell" which flies and homes in on the player in first place; it cannot be avoided.
The big deal about Mario Kart DS is that it can be played online. Not only that, but thanks to the Nintendo DS's wireless networking capabilities, it can be played online wirelessly! The downside of online play is that occaisionally you may run into a poor sport that just disconnects when the race isn't going his way. Upside: it's nothing compared to playing computer controlled opponents, it's actually exciting! You get to create a custom emblem for your kart using the touch pad and a decent 32 colour palette. If you need some help or don't feel that artistic, you can use the nifty Mariokart Decal Maker with any of your own image files.
Now if you do manage to get a hold of this game, you can add me to your "friends" list by adding this friend code: "171858 314937". However, I will also have to add your friend code, so let me know what yours is. Sign up at wintendofi to exchange your friend code with others.
posted by Blight @ 7:51 PM
10 Comments:
That's what you've reduced your friendship to? A series of psuedo-random numbers?
It's a bleak world when all you have to do is type '11773293028' and people feel like they're your friends...
Unfortunately it is what Nintendo is forced to do to prevent child molesters from assaulting little Timmy through teh Intarweb.
Otherwise you can only play against random people.
Man, Mario Kart was the best game for Super Nintendo. The sequels were pretty good too. I played that game over, and over, and over again.
One more time,
I'm the CanadianAttackBeaver. Beav for short. Not BeaverPhear. That's my blogs name.
Anyway, that game will be mine when it comes out over here (3 days baby!).
Mario Kart was an epic SNES game. My brother and I played that game over and over again. There were fights, and controllers were thrown. It was great.
I'm not sure about this "blue shell" that you can't avoid. IN the old one, if you timed it just right, you could jump a red shell. That was sooo sweet.
Ok Beav sorry. Anyway trust me the blue shell is unavoidable... although when I say that I feel like there is some way you will work your Kevster magic and the DS will *know* that it is you playing and you *will* evade it somehow.
Bastard.
One of the most fun of the new items has to be the "Bullet Bill". You use it and ride a flying bullet bill from last to practically first. Also, anyone in your way gets knocked down.
Sounds like the game designers are going crazy with power.
My roommate is planning to get an Xbox. I told him to forget it, but he's adamant. I wonder how this'll affect my free time.
Man, honey-roasted peanuts are good! (that's what I'm eating right now..)
An Xbox? Or an X-Box 3-shitty?
Saw the X-box 360 in action today. Not impressed. If this is the next generation then I dispair.
However, that said, I think the old school X-box is good value, and there are some sweet,sweet games for it. Just get a better controller with it. Oh man. Get a decent controller with it for the love of my dark master.
And what is with the DS coming out with all of these sweet ass games? It's killing my bank balance!
I think what XBox is doing is pretty smart. It's capturing the market quickly, with a machine that's almost as good as the PS/3 and better than the Nintendo system. I think the main failing with the current XBox is it entered the market when most people already had a PS/2.
Y'all are just hating on the XBox because it's Microsoft.
Marketing-wise what it is doing may seem fine, (and I would debate that) but the XBox 360 just fails to excite me. I have little doubt it will do well on the market, but a sweeter lineup of launch games might have done it for me.
Of course - I wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
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