I Care Very Deeply About Mario Kart. 

After a rough week, 1 hour and 30+ minutes about the comfort of Mario Kart is definitely what I need.

I don't know what's more traumatising. Finding out I never knew about inside drifting, or watching the footage of a track I *thought* I knew and seeing a shortcut I've never seen before...

Surprised there's no mention of 8 original's item system. Not being able to hold an item behind your kart while simultaniously picking up another item was a defining element of that game. Undone in Deluxe for better or worse.

These videos always feels like I'm listening to a friend talk about something they love for an hour straight. I can barely tell there's any edit breaks with the voice. I love these videos.

MarioKart is the ultimate Party Game, even more than Smash Bros. It's easygoing game play, different courses, and that music...it is just perfect fun. Whenever I've been at my lowest, it's helped me and my friends come together, and gave me the right dosage of fun that I need. Happy 10th Anniversary to Mariokart 8!

If there's one thing I love more than mounting Wario, it's a Liam Triforce retrospective.

At 17:23 the jump from N64 graphics and appreciating the game for its mechanics to full 60fps mario kart 8 was so jarring in such a cool way. We've come a long way in gaming and seeing it through the lens of mario kart, a game i grew up playing and loving, is just unbelievable.

This is the best Mario Kart video I've ever watched. It is SUCH a breath of fresh air to see such a well informed take on the Mario Kart series. Someone who has CLEARLY explored the mechanical depth of Mario Kart rather than just being a large name passing by. I was already completely impressed by this video before you were even done talking about the first game in the series. Having now finished the entire video, I reflect on how you did the entire series justice in covering every single inch of what makes every single game special... except for one unreasonably glaring hole While hatred for Mario Kart Tour is FAR from uncommon, I still welcome the day that I hear anyone besides myself singing its praises. It is a game that is developed on completely different terms from any game in the series and rather than _just_ seek to emulate the feeling of being "Mario Kart on your phone," it's focus shifts onto an entirely new mechanic, the one singular opaque element of the HUD that you blatantly chose to ignore, the score function. Because unlike any other Mario Kart Game, the aim is not merely to win the race, but rather a creative hybrid of Racing and a Tony-Hawk trick-based game-play in which your main focus is to build massive combos which every fundamental skill of your standard Mario Kart driving feeds into. I'm not going to pretend it is a game for everyone or even that every person needs to appreciate it, but in a video which otherwise does a 10/10 job finding the strength of Mario Kart in every single form it has ever taken, the choice to even make mention of such a creatively different entry in the series only to tear it down for everything it stands for is a baffling decision, and one which I don't agree adds any form of value to this video. It speaks to me as a glaring failure of research in a video that otherwise goes out of its way to document the incredible depth of every single game in the series from the hidden item probabilities of the first to fan-made kart-builder of the most recent. You don't have to like the game, and frankly I'm not even sure if _I_ do anymore, but the way you talk about it as if there is not a single positive thing to say about it is nothing short of heartbreaking to me. Especially when it may single-handedly be the reason why your two favorite iterations of Rainbow Road eventually found their way into what is now the _ULTIMATE_ Mario Kart Experience. How hard is it to say one singular nice thing about a game you dislike? I write this comment not to be a cynical asshole who thinks Nintendo can do no harm and that you're "blasphemous" for disliking one of their products, but as a passionate Mario Kart player who was more impressed than I've ever been at every other second of this video. As someone who saw the depth and understanding you displayed for EVERY OTHER GAME IN THE ENTIRE SERIES only to see you completely drop that nuanced depth for this one singular section of the video. This is still the best Mario Kart video I have ever watched by a WIDE margin, but your decision to alienate Mario Kart Tour as the one and ONLY game undeserving of even the slightest amount of praise stops this video from being perfect. The arcade games taking advantage of coin-gobbling arcade cabinets don't disqualify them. The older games having dated and hard to grasp controls don't disqualify them. The ABSURD price point and COMPLETE lack of depth in Mario Kart Home Circuit does not disqualify it. So I ask you, why does the mobile game having OPTIONAL micro-transaction and watered down controls disqualify _it_ of the bare minimum?

"...imagine doing that in this game; where the items turn races into the Normandy landings, EXCEPT it's a free-for-all, and we're all trying to get off those boats." I'M DYING HERE! THAT'S SO ON POINT AND EXACTLY WHAT MAKES DOUBLE DASH (and especially the "Bob-Omb Blast"- battlemode) ONE OF THE BEST GAMES TO COUCH PLAY WITH YOUR FRIENDS! Everyone just hollering "GET HIS ASS!" at anyone who's in the lead atm and the joy/horror of getting to that 1st place yourself. Man do I love Double Dash!

Mario Kart tour in this retrospective was done dirty… it hasn’t been a gatcha game in years and was responsible for reintroducing forgotten mechanics that slowly made their way into the booster course pass. Despite the gameplay itself it’s clear the developers did their homework on past entries and had a soft spot for the franchise

Despite your harsh criticisms of Tour, which, yeah, valid, it's not really a racing game, it's still got a dedicated playerbase and actually a lot of mechanical depth because it's actually about scoring as many points and actions as possible within the limited time in each race due to the automated accelerating. If you go into it wanting Mario Kart on mobile, you're not going to get anywhere.

37:58 this is the Mario Kart equivalent of Dark Souls’ “get gud” and I am so here for it. When I finally mastered the drifting mechanics in Double Dash, I was able to absolutely dominate in every subsequent Mario Kart game I played.

Double Dash' Rainbow Road theme is still the most beautiful song in the whole series. The game holds a special place in my heart.

I love Mario Kart, especially 8 with all its content now. Even playing it alone is weirdly ... comforting. The stages and music always make me feel comfy, haha. Also, amazing thumbnail!

Do you have any idea how cathartic it is to see a Mario Kart video that not only understands Super Mario Kart, but also has good things to say about it, AND states the game having a steep learning for its controls, as opposed to writing it off as "bad game lol"? Thank you, Liam Triforce!

1:04:00 I think the best part about Super Nintendo World is how it allows anyone of any age to enjoy Mario and by extension Mario Kart, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, etc, without the skill barriers that come with playing and understanding video games. The whole park feels like a family-oriented version of Super Mario 64, with missions and objectives to accomplish using your Power-Up Band, major collectables you and your party are working towards like the Golden Mushroom and Universal Cup, all alongside the amount of physical interactive experiences that feel like Mario Party Mini-Games brought to life! Even something as small as tapping your band to a treasure chest in Bowser Junior's hideout causes it to glow, all the lights in the room to change color, and for you get a stamp collectable on the app just for being curious of the world your exploring, which bring me back to playing games like Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess, and finding secrets in those games that simply reward you for taking in your environment more carefully. The only difference now is that my whole family can enjoy these experiences and characters I've loved for so long, in a way that's active and easily understood no matter what your background in video games or Mario as a series is. That part alone is why I'm so excited for the Florida iteration and it's Donkey Kong areas. To that end, I think Bowser's Challenge succeeds in bringing the idea and multiplayer mayhem of Mario Kart into a theme park space, in spite of clearly lacking in recreating the gameplay format of the console games, because, if it were simply go-karts with AR, the competitive element between friends and family in the same Kart wouldn't be there, in spite of the loss of more complex item play, or any real control of the Kart itself. The park is really the true evolution of the Wii era's "anyone can play it" mindset, but brought to an insane, true to life, scale. Even more so because it's not tied to a video game system with its own rulebook of understanding, if you want to hit a Question Block, you literally just hit it, there's no stopgap in player understanding, which is why it was so fun for me and my family in a way that no other theme park experience can claim to be. It's everything I love from Nintendo, fun with those I care about, in an immersive environment.

Two things I want to add to this video: 1. The Mega Mushroom in Mario Kart Wii does give some protection against shocks. If you get shocked while in that state, your character will return to their normal size instead of becoming mini 2. Mario Kart 7 actually introduced a change that I consider bad. As the trick button is now the same as the hop/drift button, it is impossible to do a trick while holding a drift, which is entirely possible in Mario Kart Wii by shaking the Wiimote or pressing the GC D-Pad while drifting over a ledge/ramp

All I do on RU-vid is watch, I have literally never commented on a video before. But your videos are always captivating, and Mario Kart is my favourite game series ever. So before I even start watching, THANK YOU for doing what you do. You - and Mario Kart - are the best 👑

I didn't grow up with Mario Kart, but it became the standard drinking game with my friends in college and it still retains that status now. I think the much discussed (in this video) bridging of skill gaps is a big reason for that. I avoid racing games because I suck at them, but in Mario Kart, I'm having fun even when I'm constantly losing. And sometimes, I do win too. The simple addition of items does so much imo - not just because they can sometimes turn things around, but also because it gives you more interaction with other players even if you're constantly behind. It makes for great couch situations.

I feel like Mario Kart 8 doesn't get enough credit for being like the ONLY absolutely flawless soundtrack. Like, not just consistently good, but consistently incredible. Every single track can be listened to on it's own and hold up. That alongside most songs having last lap, front-running, tiny, and underwater variants is just wild. I really hope the big band jazz style never goes away. Definitely a situation where you have to wonder what they could possibly do to follow it up.

One of my favourite video game frachises of all time, and the best party games!

Toad/Paratroopa with the blue toad cart is the best Double Dash combo IMO. Triple red shells and golden mushrooms all day!

I wish competitive Smash accepted at least 30% of the randomness that Competitive MK full on embraced. I feel that's part of why Ultimate seems to have stagnated low in recent days despite MK8's longer lifespan.

Mario Kart still being amazing with even the oldest ones still holding up, even AFTER the revolution of MP games due to Halo then COD, makes it unquestionably one of the greatest series of games to ever exist. I'd like to tag Mario Party onto that list as well. Timeless.

I feel very validated after you said that the co-op mode is the best way to play Double Dash!!. Me and a homie went through the whole game unlocking everything in Grand Prix in co-op mode and it was super fun!

the thing is, although mario kart wii is from most peoples view HEAVILY bike oriented it open a niche (in online play) to master the best karts, the best kart players are terrifying taking up most of the track and constantly wheelie bumping all of the bikers, all of the vehicles feel so unique and different unlike 8 where no matter what you use it feels the same

Love these sorts of retrospectives. I'll always be a Double Dash guy, but for parties, I try to be diplomatic and go with MK8 Deluxe. Like you said in the video, MK8 does a great job of making multiple strategies feel viable and probably does the best job at closing skill gaps without it feeling unfair. As for where the series can go from here, I still feel that a future installment should bring back character-specific specials. I doubt it would happen, but a Diddy Kong Racing Adventure mode 1P experience would also be great. MK DS sort of had that going on with boss battles, so it's not impossible. One of MK 8's biggest weaknesses is that there's little point in playing through the cups besides practice. There is almost nothing to unlock that you can't just unlock by playing multiplayer with friends. Then, of course, there's the most obvious direction: Turning Mario Kart into Nintendo Kart. lol

You should give Tour a second chance. It's nowhere near the league and quality of MK8, but it has a solid robust scoring system that keeps me coming back for more. The elaborate combo system encourages repeated playthroughs, and the RPG-esque driver/kart/glider improvement mechanics are a worthy reward that only makes you want to try and break your former records. Plus, the modified versions of classic tracks are worth the playthrough.

With the broadband adapter(?), double dash!! could also be played with up to 16 people across 4 gamecubes. 8 karts, all playing co-op xD

You should play SRB2Kart, Mr. Triforce! Its such an awesome game, I bet you'd love the item balance they went with. The blue shell equivalent, the self propelled bomb, is one of my favorite designed mechanics in any racing game.

Mario Kart is so influential in pretty much everyones lives, we can all relate to this

How crazy would it be if they remade double dash and you could play online coop against others that would be amazing

This is officially one of the best ways to finish out my workday. 1.5 hours of Liam Triforce! P.S. The orchestra that did the soundtrack for Mario Kart 8 ABSOLUTELY killed it and I hope they had so much fun live-recording it.

Your long analysis videos are so great to listen to while drawing. thanks for making this! been a real good watch so far

The only reason GCN Rainbow Road hasn’t returned is because they’re getting remade in chronological order. MK7 remade SNES RR. MK8 remade N64 RR. The next game will remake GBA RR and the game after that will remake GCN RR. It’s not because of anything to do with it being made for a specific game

Btw, the Egg 1 Kart is by far the strongest, it has the longest mini turbos in a hidden bonus by far, and MKDS is the ultimate snake drift game

Great vid. Your vids are so good at not sounding overhyped but still making your passion clear. Keep it up!

probably the saddest part about the mario kart series is that there legit may never be another one that's purely chaotic like Double Dash or Mario Kart Wii's item selection- cuz those were absolutely perfect I deff miss those mega mushrooms, bowser shells, thunder clouds, and giant bananas Sand-baggings very interesting, as I'm actually unsure if many even thought of it like that in the early 2000s during double dash era. I and likely many other people legit thought falling back into a lower place for better items was a fun thing to do in both that and wii. I'm glad they finally nerfed it in mario kart 8 deluxe though.

33:22 fun fact, that’s mushroom city. You can see daisy cruiser from peach beach and yoshi circuit, and you can see DK mountain from baby park and Dino Dino jungle

Omg new video 🙏🏼😭 thank you, I have been waiting for this slice to release tysm time to listen to this at least 10 times a month to keep your revenue up and the algorithm boosted

Throughly enjoyable, as always. Thank you so much for putting the time into these, always a pleasure to watch and a nostalgia overload

I’m definitely most nostalgic for Mario kart 64. That’s the one that always filled me with glee. Double dash was also super fun with the co-op option for driving. Was perfect for playing with my little cousins who weren’t quite masters at the game. For whatever reason I didn’t like MKwii, which was everyone’s favorite at the time. But I realized I always played these exclusively as multiplayer games, but then MK8 came out and I finally started sinking hours into the single player game. The dlc for the Wii U ver blew me awaaaay! Though I’m still nostalgia blind for 64 (especially its battle mode), MK8 is easily the GOAT. I just wish the switch booster dlc had more care put into it graphically and mechanically. Maybe I just suck (likely) but at parties now those are the ones everyone wants to play. Most of those switch dlc tracks (usually the ones ported from the mobile game) feel like they are weirdly sized and have rough art direction for streets that are drivable and streets that end and want you to turn. Still I fully agree that it’s going to be tough to top MK8. I’m still not bored of it, it’s truly a masterpiece. Amazing vid as always!

Hell yeah new video gonna be a great thing to watch tonight. Your thumbnails are always so awesome too man

Appreciate this little love letter to the series. I've missed out on a few entries, but my appreciation goes back to the SNES days as a little kid. That Soyo Oka soundtrack perhaps being the best thing from the original game at this point for me as I don't really long to play OG Mario Kart, but the good memories are still there. I like how you pointed out the various online competitive annoyances. Whether it was the snaking in MKDS or obnoxious imbalance with bikes on MKWii. Was a bummer on Wii online whenever you saw someone using Funky Kong with that bike and just dominating because, well it was almost predetermined. Though not just that, sometimes you'd run into hacked races too. You sum up vbery nicely how multiplayer experiences could be so different depending on the scenario. And yes, for me I'd say it's always been the couch multiplayer variant that I enjoyed the most just in terms of "let's try our best, but actually have fun."

Incredible video, just as I was expecting. So glad I got to contribute to the making of it, however small my role may have been!

Okay, now picture this. A roller coaster theme park dedicated entirely to Mario Kart! Imagine, more ground level, twisty tracks for things like Mario Circuit, Toad's Turnpike, Excitebike Arena, etc. Big, thrill rides for Wario's Gold Mine, DK Mountain, Rainbow Road, etc. Water rides for Dolphin Shoals, Cheep Cheep Beach, Big Blue, etc. The whole park would be divided into different sections that represent each of the cups, and with each next cup, bigger, faster, thrill-ier rides, with Rainbow Road being the biggest in the park! When you enter the park, you're given a checklist/stamp card/whatever that the people at the end of each ride can mark off. If you can complete/ride every track in a given cup, then at the end of your visit, you can get a mini trophy for whichever cup you completed! And maybe you can get a special, secret prize if you complete every cup in the park. Any ideas for what it could be? Lastly, you can get a shirt in the gift shop that says, "I drove on Rainbow Road." This is an idea that I've had for a while. I don't ever expect it to become real, but it's a lot of fun to think about.

your insistence on calling the blue shell only the great equalizer is amazing 10/10 video

Double Dash will always be my favorite. I especially love how you can't hold items behind your vehicle. It made satisfying being able to counter items with skill. It houses some of the best memories I can remember with my older brother.

As a former Mario Kart pro I applaud you for this video. Everything you said pretty much is spot-on and shows how much research you must have done. I clocked in about 5k hours of Mario Kart Wii, so it was hard hearing about the controversy concerning its metagame - but then I remembered that I actually struggled to learn inside-drifting bikes back in 2008 when the game came out. When playing with casuals I can imagine the bad feeling for mowing them down when they dare to pick karts :D

I miss Shine Thief. Doing donuts, going in and out of pipes with my hands in the air yelling "THUG LIFE". Good times.

I love your videos man. It's like you figure out everything I'm nostalgic about and make video essays about it lol. If you ever want to talk about Super Mario Sunshine again I would love that, as it was my childhood mario game. :)

Phenomenal video man. You really gave every game here a moment to shine and showed you've done research with each one's mechanics. Seriously, well done.

I’m half way through the video and its amazing! Love your videos, they’re all so high quality!

Amazing video! Very well put together and fun to watch.

Always love your stuff brohammed. Keep it up.... Btw that double dash red shell dodge clip was too clutch. Gave me chills

Some of my earliest memories are of playing super mario kart at my moms friends house. I remember being completely blown away by the fact it was in "3-d". I didnt know what 3d was called then but i knew it was different from the side scrollers i had previously played.

Mario Kart 8 is definitely my favourite. It looks and sounds so wonderful, the controls and mechanics feel like they strike the perfect balance between pure playful fun and depth to get good at it. Not to mention Saturday night kart on the Wii U with friends overseas in a skype call were some of my fondest multiplayer memories ever.

The best long form video for video games yter back at it again

Mario Kart Tour isnt meant to be played like a mario kart, you have to chain combos and is more like an arcade game. Good video, I enjoyed!

As someone who grew up grinding In double dash to be the best I possibly can, I appreciate someone talking about the things I loved so much about it. I have now played most of the Mario kart games and it was a joy to listen to your perspective. Very great video:)

Excellent work again Liam! I would love to see you tackle a retrospective on the Mario Party series!

Oh HELL yes, this is gonna be a great hour and a half.

I see anything from this channel that is n64 zelda, mario kart or mario and I immediately book myself an hour slot during my week to sit down and watch.

Mario kart is just one of those games that everyone loves. So many good times spent with these games and I love them dearly

1:07:33 Mario Kart Tour is not a spin off, whether you like it or not. Nintendo recognizes it as a main entry, mainly because it was featured alongside every other game in the booster course pass trailer. Not to mention, it has some really great tracks that have gotten into mario kart 8 deluxe, and in many of the polls I've seen regarding mario kart tracks, people tend to like many of the tour tracks over the console tracks (not all though). Of course I am a daily tour player, and I will defend mario kart tour with my life, so I may have some bias towards it. Now yeah, I love the game, but I admit it, there are some aspects I don't like. The random usernames for cpus in single player makes no sense, and the microtransactions. But there are many things I like more. The items are amazing, each character having a different tier pn different tracks, which makes you choose different drivers, karts, and gliders on different tracks, the amount of unique (or costumes of) drivers, the fact that the track lineup changes every 2 weeks, resulting in better replayability, and more. If you give mario kart tour a chance, actually try to play it, and ignore the microtransactions, it's a really fun game that has way more potential than people give it credit for.

Erm, ackshually, on MKWii Rainbow Road, it's faster to use a Kart, so you see the balancing is perfect

Excellent work Liam. This is an incredibly well-researched retrospective. I’m learning things about these games that I thought I knew backwards and forwards. Can’t wait to see what you put out next!

Liam you always bring me a smile when I see yah post. Thank you for what yah do!!! Might I suggest checking out Castlevania SotN and seeing what yah think? Not technically a Nintendo game but its still excellent and the music has stuck with me aince I was a kid.

Can I just say that I love your videos? They've always been excellent, and they've help me gain a bigger appreciation for the games I love. Keep up the great work Liam!

This is one of your best videos, great work!

mr triforce, i cannot express how much i love your videos, specifically zelda ones. i came for the TP retrospective, and stayed for you and your wonderful commentary. keep it up

I never looked too closely at stats. I always just picked whichever characters and karts I felt like using and never had any trouble. I got up to about 11,000 vr in MK8 for Wii U that way.

18:58 Nah I'm good. This is why I only play 8 Deluxe and not the older games. Being able to turn off the Blue Shell is one of the greatest additions to the series ever.

Mario Kart will always be one of my favorites! I put hundreds of hours into Mario Kart 7 when I was deployed, lots of good memories there. Thank you for this video~

All the memories of playing mario kart DS on the school bus with everyone as a kid came flooding back to me. Thank you for that 😊

Liam my good sir, once again you have successfully explained exactly why i love a video game series. Your hour long videos are exactly what i need whenever im feeling nostalgic. Keep doing what your doing man 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

God Damn Liam, the way your videos make me feel about and appreciate games is phenomenal. You continue to enamor me with your insight, and I personally strive to produce videos of your quality. Thank you for what you do ❤

Played every mario kart.... Double dash is the best and the donkey kong course is the most badass course in mario kart. The downhill portion, chefs kiss

The only thing that comes close to rivalling the difficulty of the original SNES rainbow road, is playing literally any track on 200cc in MK8D. Best addition to the franchise since.

Amazing content, what you said while watching you play, the editing, everything was perfect, I learned a lot of things, I had to idea the different characters and players were different before Mario kart double dash (only heavy and light I thought) and I played all the Mario kart in the order 😅 Some things you missed tho': -In Mario kart 64 what happened when you finished in 4th place at the end of a cup (your character watching the podium from a far position before a bomb hit you 😂) and the fact you transform into a bomb in ballon battle mode when you lose all 3 balloon, to hit one last target. -You didn't talk much about Mario Kart 7 but I find it perfect for it's time, great courses, characters (Lakitu character made his apparition I believe?) I played the most Mario Kart 64 with my brothers at the time, more than double dash (Which I just bought in Japan) and got to 9999 points online on Mario kart Wii ! I was proud of that one. -Mario kart 7 special items (7 items at once) and Mario kart 8 (same with 8 items)

If Nintendo was given more room at Universal with Nintendo World I think the Mario Kart ride would have been significantly better if it was done like the ride in Cars Land at Disney Land.

just what i needed . thank you , Liam

I'm terribly sorry Liam, I seriously tried to listen to you but all I could think of was *the Birdo Stream* You were there Liam, you can't escape it.

Liam: "Mario Kart 8 is truly a definitive title that makes it stand out as one of the best in the series." *Meanwhile...* Vinny: "Wow... twelfth place, ONE MUSHROOM."

58:20 it’s hilarious you talk about this when infamously on Rainbow Road, people consider Karts are the same as Bikes in terms of viability.

Also, you left out a rather controversial aspect of some select MK games: the Ranking system. In Super Circuit, it was infuriating, and you were forced to race with specific pilots to get all 3 Stars (not to mention all the other crap). In DS, it was primarily confined to Mission Mode, if I recall. On Wii and 7, you had to get lucky to make it to 3 stars (in Wii, it was impossible). Finally, 8 made the ranking system fair by only forcing you to place 1st on every track in a single cup.

Incredible video! Heavily considering buying the booster course pass just because of this.

45:20, 53:18 100% agree that I don't really like when certain chars/vehicles have certain stats, which incentivises playing as the stats you like rather than the character/vehicle combo you like (not even just about how good it is from a meta point of view, but also about how much you like the control/gameplay with the combo). Tuning karts/bikes would be cooler (where the stat selection is the same, but it's just you can apply it to any vehicle).

I have a lot of nostalgic memories of Mario Kart Wii, the Wii was our first family game-console and Mario Kart was by far the game we played the most often. After I moved away from home, we would always play a few rounds of Mario Kart whenever I came back home during holidays. One of my most treasured memories from this time being that I was playing while alone at home at one point and as I was playing Wario's Gold Mine aka one of the most difficult courses in the game, my dad suddenly calls which forces me to essentially play the entire track with just one hand. And somehow, I still finished 1st.

It's always a good day when a new Liam Triforce video comes out. I love Mario Kart.

I enjoy your videos so much man! You love and wnjoy nintendo as much as I do! Still waiting for TOTK though... But, Mario Party? Is it in the horizons?

Thank you for this. One of my favorite videos ever

Great video, the best chronology I've ever seen on the series and what I like most is there's no silly youtuberisms, many creators seem to think it's funny to regularly stop the flow of the video by going off topic. Also, 1:22:55 which course is this? I don't recognise it

I grew up on Crash Team Racing but I can see the respect and appreciation that people have for Mario Kart. It's a great series and I happen to had Double Dash growing up. It's not my favorite but it's definitely a fun experimental entry. I'm glad the series is still going strong and I'm happy everyone is having fun 👍

the musicians that play in the Mario Kart 8 band are mind blowingly good

Double dash is the best. I have such fond memories playing it. Such a great entry into the mariokart lineup.

Great video really enjoy the Double dash segment, wish you'd mentioned that red and blue shells can be dodged without items just using a well timed drift! Always prefer when a game rewards player for skill rather than RNG/unavoidables

Mario Kart is NOT a competitive game. Its a casual party game. Taking it and making competitive is antithetical to it's entire point.

just got through the bit about 8's vehicle combos & figured it would be fun to mention my go-to. Now I unfortunately forget my base WiiU build due to how long it has been, but back when I first started playing WiiU, my go-to character was Ludwig for he is my favorite Koopaling. Once I got the Pac-Man amiibo & the WiiU DLC, my build was basically hardlocked into my Mii with that costume (I love the animated Pac-Man on the helmet & the Pac-Maze makes for a GREAT racer suit aesthetic) in the Hyrule bike set (tried it out, learned the hard way it was a sport bike because past me got the icons confused all the time, then stuck with it because oh hey I was a Wario Bike main in Wii so now that I know, I can rock it), only switching my character once KAMEK was added in the Booster Course pass. Been loyal to the OG Hyrule bike, wheels, & glider for YEARS

There are two kinda Rainbow Roads: the "final challenge" and the "final reward". Super Circuit and Wii are challenges. 64 and 7 are rewards