
Mario Kart Tour
Nintendo · Sep 25, 2019
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- 7.0Mario Kart Tour is... well, it's Mario Kart. On mobile. And apart from its portrait-mode gameplay, it truly captures the Mario Kart feel, with the levels we know from previous titles, high-quality 3D models, music, and sound effects. It might just be the highest-quality game Nintendo has released on mobile to date, and I actually enjoyed playing it.
- Looks just like Mario Kart, doesn’t really play like Mario Kart. Frustrating controls and progress that almost necessitates the purchasing of premium currency mar this entry. Fine as a time waster up until progress stalls.
- 6.7The actual gameplay and racing of Mario Kart Tour is well done: controlling the karts feels good, the courses and characters look and sound great, and playing simplified one-handed Mario can be a lot of fun. But the road to a mobile version of Mario Kart is a bumpy one. On top of multiplayer not currently being available at all, Nintendo continues to struggle with how to comfortably monetize a mobile game without hamstringing its gameplay. Tour’s prices are prohibitively high and not getting top honors on a race despite winning first place just because you don’t have the right racer or kart feels unfair.
- 4.5Mario Kart Tour is a blemish on the franchise it shares its name with. The genre-defining creativity found in past entries is completely absent here, replaced by a hollow experience that's simply coasting on the name and goodwill of the games that came before it. I can only hope this is Nintendo's mobile initiative hitting rock bottom, and that it's all uphill from here. Because I can't stand the thought of another one of my favorite series having its reputation dragged the mud in search of a quick buck.
- 5.0I think there are several reasons I can’t give Mario Kart Tour a good review. The first being the controls make it so unenjoyable to race anyone, and there are no consequences for getting it wrong (invisible walls to stop you falling off). The second being the predatory practices and the pay to win features are locked behind gacha. The final reason being they released the game unfinished as the “Multiplayer” section does not work.
- 9.0Mario Kart Tour isn’t perfect, but it is Nintendo’s best offering on mobile yet, and one that manages to completely avoid pay to win in the freemium space. That’s pretty commendable stuff.
Gamer reviews
This racing action game is pretty fun but i don't like Gold Pass about to monetize microtransactions either. My controls are so much lit with a lot of weido sterring.
The fact that the online is an illusion is very disappointing.
If you want a Mario Kart on your phone, this one's for you. But the game requires network connection to download additional features, such as maps, and other updates in the game. The characters in the game is a gacha-type, as well as the karts, and more. The gameplay in Mario Kart Tour is what expected in every mobile games; swiping left and right for controls, and tapping for power-ups. But the controls needed more work. Whenever I swipe left or right, it had a delay, but maybe it's my tablet or the network connection. It would've been better if there were D-pad options, but since it's in portrait view, it's understandable that the developers decided to make swiping as its controls. Not only that, since I was playing on tablet, the game's U.I. and gameplay looked blurry and seemed almost stretched to fit on tablet version. Hopefully, the developers of the game will fix this kind of issue. So far, the game's good.
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