Good
- they did an amazing job of bringing Mario carts into 3D. The controls are fluent and responsive. I also liked how they changed up the drifting so that you can get boost, and also the angle is less awkward as super Mario Kart
- stages were varied. Lots of vertical terrain, and different obstacles.
Bad
- hitting someone stationary during spin out will make you spin out even if u are going slow.
- cpu go unfairly fast. They can still keep up with me despite me spamming gold mushroom
- cpu will catch up right behind you near the final part of the final run. Despite them bring far behind
- getting 4 bananas makes your Kart look like it's boosting which is very misleading and has caused me to crash
- it's way too easy to spin out. Turn left and right too many times, you'll spin out. Someone heavy runs into you, or you run into someone heavy, you spin out. On top of the regular item spin outs. It's too much, and basically match ending for you
- CPUs don't utilize items fully. They don't use shells.
- it's a shitty feeling when you pull off multiple perfect drifts dodging everything, only to have the cpu magically catch up. Why should I stress on doing perfect drifts when CPUs are going to be toe to toe with me no matter what? I should just drive normally. This in turn makes the grand prix gameplay super boring.