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"Mario Kart: Double Dash!! First Impressions"

What a horrible disappointment.

The soundtrack is nothing above poor, and the graphics are vibrant but mostly lack detail. The courses are, on the whole, poorly designed and incredibly short-lapped. There's a distinct lack of options, and battle mode is brought down by the awful arena design and unforgivable lack of bots. The gameplay is generally good, but too slow, especially now F-Zero GX is released.

This seems to mark a worrying trend for the series; this is worse than Mario Kart 64, and that wasn't as good as the original. Even Crash Team Racing, a PSOne game and a blatent rip-off, has better design in some respects. I see no explanation other than the fact that this was rushed out to give sales a boost at Christmas. Oh Nintendo? What have you done?

A shame. But these are first impressions, and I have only played about an hour and a half. Perhaps I'll grow to love it. At present however, it IS good, but only around 6-7/10.

If you've got DK on the back, and he gets knocked off so he drags along behind you, it sounds like someone's raping a cow..

"Eurgh! Eurgh! Eur..Eurgh! EURGH!"

Auf deutsch™ wrote:
> I just hate it, even if you're not playing as Daisy, you still
> constantly hear it. Also, it's really annoying when certain
> characters repeat their own damn names
>
> "Baby Mariiooo"

Now that I agree with...and it's annoying 'cos Baby Mario is my favourite character along with Toad

I just hate it, even if you're not playing as Daisy, you still constantly hear it. Also, it's really annoying when certain characters repeat their own damn names

"Baby Mariiooo"

But it really isn't. The only real challenge in this game is unlocking the Staff Ghosts. Really, the only thing that has taken me more than 3 tries is unlocking staff ghosts.

Auf deutsch™ wrote:
> Maverick42 wrote:
> One thing justly criticsed in Double Dash are the voice samples.
>
> I literally cringe everytime that stupid voice at the start says
> "Niiiiintendo! Woohoo!". Makes you want to hit
> something...
>
> "Hi, I'm Daisy"
>
> ARGH
>
> *punches TV*

LOL, the "Nintendo Woohoo" is genius!

Maverick42 wrote:
> One thing justly criticsed in Double Dash are the voice samples.
>
> I literally cringe everytime that stupid voice at the start says
> "Niiiiintendo! Woohoo!". Makes you want to hit something...

"Hi, I'm Daisy"

ARGH

*punches TV*

Ashman wrote:
> Mattribute wrote:
> The extra mode is like 200cc...
>
> It's not THAT hard.

Stop with that.

Even though I've beaten them all (and most of them on Mirror Mode) they are very tricky...

It's classic

One thing justly criticsed in Double Dash are the voice samples.

I literally cringe everytime that stupid voice at the start says "Niiiiintendo! Woohoo!". Makes you want to hit something...

Must... play... more.