Mario Kart Tour

Speedrunner Mario said:
Quick, ignore the gacha and realize that Tour is a good game!
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Quick, realize that the gacha has far too much presence in the game and that it's impossible to ignore!
 
even if you ignore the gacha, you still have to deal with tour's really bad controls
 
Speedrunner Mario said:
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Look, I admire and respect unpopular opinions, but telling people to simply "ignore the gacha" is going too far. Few would deny that Mario Kart Tour goes much further into the microtransevil than any other Nintendo game has done or should have done. There is no defense for the payment model here, nor is there any plausible way to "ignore the gacha" when there's basically no way to play as your favorite character without it. Great for you if you got your favorite character early on. But manipulative payment models like this that prevent many others from getting their favorite characters without spending unreasonable amounts of money are undeniably morally black.

It might not be as bad as some other games released at full price and still containing gacha mechanics, but to see Mario entering the realm of microtransevil at all is very much a disappointment to many. Even if the gameplay is good, that alone cannot save this game with the gacha mechanics around. People have a reason to be disappointed. I myself am very disappointed as this is the first time I've ever had one of my favorite game franchises enter that realm of microtransevil.
 
There have been tons of racing on mobile that were released before Tour, and are far more enjoyable as they didn't make any unnecessary compromises. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing on mobile, an eight year old game, plays fairly similarly to a console kart racer and is far more enjoyable then MKT (or was, because Apple hates legacy support).
 
I wouldn't say it's the first time a Nintendo owned title has done something of this caliber of money grubbing. Although not a videogame, Pokemon TCG.
 
For a moment, let's ignore the gacha elements, and we'll even go further and ignore the microtransactions and the Golden Pass.

- Characters missing such as Luigi, Rosalina, their baby versions, Wario, Waluigi, and Bowser Jr., yet we get Peachette and Musician Mario (the latter being a separate character... for some reason).
- Graphics that aren't terrible but aren't fantastic either and are a tier below Mario Kart 7.
- Lack of online multiplayer, but bots use usernames of other players to make it LOOK like it's online multiplayer which is just really shady.
- Clunky controls.
- Characters being more useful on certain tracks (they get more items more often), thus killing any incentive to use your favorite character that the official Mario Kart games have. Unless you don't have the best character for the track, why would you EVER use anyone else? You would be stupid not to.

Yeah the game still sucks.
 
why aren't the characters even there to begin with (especially Baby Luigi)? they want to artificially with-hold content, dripfeed it to us, and get applauded when "hey look the character that was in the demo but not in the release yeah he's out now!)
 
Pokerninja2 said:
- Lack of online multiplayer, but bots use usernames of other players to make it LOOK like it's online multiplayer which is just really shady.
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They say they're going to add it later with friends, but then again, that's what they said three months ago with Mario Maker 2 and we haven't heard a thing from that.
 
Oh yeah this means that the Japanese-outfit Mario and Peach and the chef outfit Shy Guy, along with whatever other costumes they wanna add, will be separate characters as well.

This shit is lame.