It’s a good game, just not one that inspires as much excitement as the rest of the games on this list.
#MARIO KART WII U PORTABLE#
Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS is a “must-buy” in the same way that every portable Mario Kart is, but I don’t know that gliding and underwater driving did much to enhance the experience. I didn’t realize how much apathy I have for Mario Kart 7 until I had to rank it in a list! I don’t really have a bad word for it, but all the words I’ve got-stalwart! mandatory! perfectly serviceable!-feel like some pretty faint praise. While these changes literally paid off for Nintendo- Mario Kart Wii is the best-selling entry by a Moo-Moo Meadows mile, having sold over 35 million copies-all I can remember is offering a lot of deflated, apologetic shrugs while auto-drifting past a friend who got blue-shelled three times in a single lap. Mario Kart Wii tries to add fairness by dropping first-place-punishing power-ups more frequently than ever before and offering players who don’t want to master the game’s drifting controls an “automatic” option so they can wiggle the Wii’s motion-controls worry-free. It makes a lot of sense that a Mario Kart made for the Wii-a console that captured the casual gamer like few before-would be the series’s most egalitarian. Some of those games suffered more than others, though, and after countless laps and heartbreaking last minute losses, this is my best reckoning of which Mario Karts get a checkered flag, and which ones get left in the dust. For a game that seems static and stalwart, Mario Kart has endured a tremendous amount of change over the years-transitioning from 2D to 3D, suffering through the addition and removal of fan favorite characters, and even the introduction of motion controls. But with the release of Mario Kart 8 for the Wii U, it’s time to take a look back at the series’ 22 year history. Okay, there are only eight Mario Kart games to begin with, at least if you don’t count the arcade versions.
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