Unpopular opinions about the Mario series

"Metal Mario was created by Bowser, who took inspiration from Eggman's creation of Metal Sonic, in attempt to stop Mario. Bowser decided that the depths of Hazy Maze Cave was a fitting place for Metal Mario since no other bosses could withstand the noxious gas clouds. Unfortunately, Metal Mario walked into the currents and meandered out of Peach's moat, where he escaped. His powerful presence was left behind, however, and he forgot his hat, which was why Mario randomly transformed to metal when he entered the secret cave and why Mario could grab the metal hat.

After several weeks of aimless underwater wandering (and he found a spare hat from treasure hunting), he played a few rounds of golf (no one questioned it since Baby Mario already messed with people's heads), though he had dreams of something bigger. He eventually resumed wandering for several more years, with his voice distorted from all that water, and then marched onto the shores of Isle Delfino, where the Piantas thought he was Mario and invited him to a kart racing competition. With a solemn nod and shrug, uttering "Let me go" (kinda like "let's-a go"), he accepted and found the kart racing fun."
 
Borp said:
Double Dash absolutely plays like jank but I'm not against 'doubles' returning if just as an optional mode. I like that it's a slightly more interesting way to handle 2 item slots and a way to let a 2nd player join in without having to race against the 1st player.
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Haven't responded to this but I've seen other team-based racers handle co-op play much better, Team Sonic Racing is one of them. The player on the back skips out on most of the game and just tosses items and helps with drifts, it's not really involving.
 
So what you're saying is Mario Kart should instead have a team mechanic like Crash Nitro Kart or Team Sonic Racing instead.

Not a bad idea. 🤔

But then again, Mario Kart could stand to adopt any number of its peers' concepts. Like Adventure Mode for instance. :yoshi:
 
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's roads are way too lackluster, resulting in all the tracks feeling the same but with different background scenery. It's also boring that rough terrain is only used as punishment zones. I wish a lot of the scenery was brought onto the roads as obstacles & terrain to overcome.
 
He was gonna be but he suddenly vanished.
 
Toad from the Mario cartoons is not annoying, he's hilarious. He has quite the attitude, lol, and I generally like the delivery of his lines

"Eat pineapple, kid"
"Flyin' lessons!? Are you outta your mind!? "