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Vocal minority on the Internet bitching that #MarioKartWorld is $80.

Meanwhile, I only got it for $50 through the #Nintendo #Switch2 bundle.

That’s $10 cheaper than #MarioKart8Deluxe, the most popular #MarioKart ever.

Why wouldn’t jump on that deal?

I’m not one to blindly defend a corporation, but it’s clear more costly games are systemic of the video game industry as a whole and Nintendo is throwing us a bone with this bundle deal.

BTW, Mario Kart World is a fantastic game with so much to do and explore. I personally feel it would’ve been worth the $80. Hot take, I know. But it’s one of those games I’ll be sinking many many hours into.

Maybe I'm just sucking down precipitous amounts of copium because I can't afford a Switch 2, but a lot of the Mario Kart World courses look worse to me :soft_sweating: They feel really wide and empty compared to their older counterparts to compensate for the new race sizes, while the over-use of bloom really washes them all out. I personally don't like Wind Waker HD because of the bloom though so maybe I just have an anti-bloom bias :blobfoxsmirk:

But yeah I dunno. The courses all have the same skybox which really saps a lot of the character, there's a ton of reused assets between levels, and the graphics look more simplistic than Mario Kart 8 in a lot of ways. The only level I think is a clear improvement is Sky High Sundae, which was easily one of the worst new courses in the booster course pack. I was excited to see Toad's Factory, but even that was outdone by its fan-created MK7 counterpart.

Just. Meh. I love me some Mario Kart but I'm very iffy on how World looks. :blobfoxthinkgoogly:

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