Re: Mario Kart 8
So far, I have gotten 3 stars in both Mirror Cups and AC Cup in 150cc. I am yet to get 3 stars in Bell Cup in 150cc as not enough time to win (it was midnight at that time). Since I wanted to win with Dry Bowser and Bone Rattler, it was a bit of a challenge. My impressions with all tracks:
Baby Park - Quite a simple course, and sometimes I lost track of the lap count mainly because the music changes are different from other tracks. I do like how you can slam on other people and get a speed boost. It does feel more rewarding to overtake other people in this course compared to most courses, I must say.
Cheese Land - I didn't expect this course to be a very hard track. It goes to show that simple layouts can be made tougher when the terrain is tricky. Sometimes those cheese potholes messed with my direction, which is my main problem with it. There are even a few times when the CPU even used the glider shortcut near the end, which was infuriating when I thought I would win! Speaking of shortcuts, this is problem a course where the shortcuts are the least obvious of them all.
Wild Woods - Surprisingly, it's a course that isn't too difficult. I guess it's because of the amount of straight paths here. Due to this, I like how relaxing it is to race here, except for that one time where a blue shell caused me to fail to get First.
Animal Crossing - I didn't expect to have trouble with this track, mainly because of catching up with a CPU in the first place. I guess it's because of my lack of experience with the way this track works, but still, some of the turns in this course are very tricky to navigate.
Neo Bowser City - If there is a retro game with courses I have the most trouble with, it's the tracks from Mario Kart 7. I don't know if that game has easy tracks, but I certainly have trouble with not only this one, but Music Park, Piranha Plant Slide, and to an extent, DK Jungle.
Ribbon Road - This colourful course is a fun to navigate, and it's also relatively easy to do so. A top-rated course from me.
Super Bell Subway - When looking at the map of this course, I am surprised at its layout. I think when people say this is akin to Ice Ice Outpost from DLC Pack 1, they are not kidding. Lots of dual pathways, though I never travel through those alternate paths before. Sometimes I made a wrong turn at the garden portion of this track, which slowed me down.
Big Blue - I was surprised by how fast this course is, even though I played Mute City earlier. A really fun course when I tried it in Mirror, but I haven't tried it in 150cc because I got 2nd on Super Bell Subway earlier.
Also, 200cc was really an experience! I only got 3-stars in Mushroom Cup so far, as it required a few tries because Sweet Sweet Canyon and sometimes Water Park was more difficult with the turns. My current configuration for this mode is Mario with a Sneeker (forgot the other parts).
Thanks for reading.