I like the fact the it allowed you to switch items allowing quick decisions, however that could be easily done in a game with only one character per kart, so I see your point. However, with two characters you can use two different special items, which I find to add a bit of extra strategy, although minor and Mario Kart isn't about strategy anyways.
idc I'm giving it a second chance anyway.
I've already said my response to this argument several times.
1. The original may not have aged the best but I stand by the opinion that the DS version is excellent.
I'd take it a step further, if you care about story then read a book or watch a movie. Video games don't have good stories. Period. Even the most praised video game stories have no depth at all.
I wholeheartedly agree with this, I still like SM64 don't get me wrong, but it didn't feel enough like a platformer for me to enjoy it as much as other main marios. It felt more like "what if we made Zelda into a Mario game?" aka adventure-puzzle like Captain Toad.
I wouldn't go that far. I mean yes, watch movies, movies are great, but in depth story wise they're pretty much on the same level as videogames imo
Of course I can but you expect it to, it's a book/movie you expect it to have a good story. What you don't expect to have a good story is Mario. When I play a Mario game that has a good story I just find it so much more intriguing. Ever since I first played SPM, BIS, and SMG as a child Mario games with good stories just have some kind of irreplaceable amazing charm that I can't get out of a book (doesn't mean I don't enjoy reading though.)
Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine are pretty much low on my list too, though my least favorite is Super Mario Galaxy 2 despite having better gameplay than Sunshine.
Why though - I find it better than Sunshine is basically every way other than maybe story but I always found Sunshine's story to be quite slow paced and boring. Better gameplay, better music, better level design, more interesting worlds, galaxies, and themes, better graphics and visuals, better presentation and composition.
I'm generalizing, there are some games with good stories but I don't know if I would call any great. Games have too many limitations as far as story goes. The biggest is that video games are repetitive, and so every event in the story needs to lead back to the main gameplay mechanics. In other mediums, the story is the entire point so everything else is built around that. In games the story is just an accessory to the gameplay. Characters in games are generally quite simple because they're either the protagonist so they need to be a self insert, or they're an NPC whose entire design is based around the function they serve in-game. Good, flawed characters seldom exist in games. We can have shows like Breaking Bad or Barry where the protagonists are horrible people who do inexcusable things, but you still like them and empathize. There aren't many video game characters like this.
