Date played: November 15th
Platform: Wii U
Session fun rating: 9/10
The first DLC pack is out and it's a beauty!
It features 3 characters, a few vehicles and parts and most importantly, 8 new tracks. The characters are better than I expected. Link, from the Zelda series, is the star of course. He fits in really well, has cool animations and a fitting voice. His little tunic waggles in the wind happily! Cat Peach has cool animation, but she's a bit annoying. Finally, Tanooki Mario is the most welcome surprise. Some of his trick animations are pure gold and he has the coolest horn sound in the game.
The tracks are mostly very good. There's 3 remakes from previous games and 5 new courses. The remakes are the Yoshi track from Double Dash, the Wario mine from the Wii and my personal favorite, Rainbow Road from SNES.
The new tracks are awesome too. One is based on Excitebike, another on Zelda, one on F-Zero and two completely original tracks. There's one where we race on and around a dragon circuit. It's a bit on the short side, but it's well designed and fun to drive around. The other has a sort of dual track design, but it's been fairly boring so far.
Zelda, Excitebike and F-Zero make for some really amazing tracks. Mute City, from F-Zero is fucking FAST. There's boost pads everywhere, lots of fast turns and even a pit lane that recharges coins. Excitebike is filled with huge jumps and mud splatter. Hyrule Castle is also very cool. The coins are replaced by rupees, there's a bunch of references to Zelda everywhere, hell, even the sound effects are completely changed to match Zelda's sounds.
I'm really happy with this DLC, it was cheap too. Good job Nintendo for doing DLC the right way.
Platform: Wii U
Session fun rating: 9/10
The first DLC pack is out and it's a beauty!
It features 3 characters, a few vehicles and parts and most importantly, 8 new tracks. The characters are better than I expected. Link, from the Zelda series, is the star of course. He fits in really well, has cool animations and a fitting voice. His little tunic waggles in the wind happily! Cat Peach has cool animation, but she's a bit annoying. Finally, Tanooki Mario is the most welcome surprise. Some of his trick animations are pure gold and he has the coolest horn sound in the game.
The tracks are mostly very good. There's 3 remakes from previous games and 5 new courses. The remakes are the Yoshi track from Double Dash, the Wario mine from the Wii and my personal favorite, Rainbow Road from SNES.
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| Link, an F-Zero kart and SNES Rainbow Road?!? Yes! |
Zelda, Excitebike and F-Zero make for some really amazing tracks. Mute City, from F-Zero is fucking FAST. There's boost pads everywhere, lots of fast turns and even a pit lane that recharges coins. Excitebike is filled with huge jumps and mud splatter. Hyrule Castle is also very cool. The coins are replaced by rupees, there's a bunch of references to Zelda everywhere, hell, even the sound effects are completely changed to match Zelda's sounds.
I'm really happy with this DLC, it was cheap too. Good job Nintendo for doing DLC the right way.
