Topic: Mario Kart World

@PikminMarioKirby I didn't care for his performance in Brothership either. His gibberish was mediocre at best and certain lines("LEW-EE-GEE" and OoHh "YEeaAH") got particularly grating as the game went on. I'm really not hearing much substantial improvement between titles, Kevin sounds as awkward/restrained here as he did in his last four games.

@N00BiSH Mmm yeah not as good as the god-like "Mario Kart 8!!" line but I'm happy they didn't leave it out

So I WASN'T just eating sand - they up and gave Samantha Kelly the boot too according to the credits:

Who do you think you are going to main? At the moment, I’m leaning Pianta.

@Munchlax Donkey Kong, Rosalina, and Goomba. Normally I'd throw in Wario, but the uh, current state of his vocal performance has me steering away from that possibility.

I get why people dislike the new VA, I really do. But it was going to happen, Mr. Martinet isn’t going to live forever and it’s better that they get a VA lined up rather than scrambling for one when he does pass. That said, yeah, some of the lines aren’t amazing. But I personally like all but the Mario Time one.

Mains will probably be Cow, Dolphin, DK, Bowser Jr., King Boo, and Cataquck. Maybe Pianta and Conkdor as well. (What, I’m indecisive lol!)

@Munchlax I don't know how soon I'll get the game and Switch 2, but when I get MKW, I'd just stick with favorites personally. I like playing as Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Toad, Toadette, Yoshi, and Rosalina.

@CaleBoi25 putting the fact that Charles can still currently do the voices fine aside, they did a terrible job futureproofing a successor for him. A keen ear can tell that Kevin didn't have any sort of voice coaching for the role.

@Anti-Matter thank you for contributing absolutely nothing and telling me something I already know.

@N00BiSH Ehhh it's debatable if Charles could do the voices. Maybe Mario himself, but the Luigi voice he did for Mansion 3 just felt more like Waluigi than it did Luigi at times. This being said, I feel like they definitely could've gone for someone better as well- or at least voice trained Kevin more. His Mario isn't the best, but he does a good Luigi. Wish they could get a different Mario and Wario or something.

@VoidofLight He sounded perfectly fine in LM3 - different, sure, but certainly not worse. But yeah, multiple voice actors would've been a better alternative than trying to make an all-in-one Charles replacement with a guy who doesn't really have the range for that kind of job.

Wow… I never knew this was such a big deal lol

@rallydefault I'm very picky about soundalikes okay

Waiting for my copy to download right now! I’ve got about 30ish minutes on it. Got up early, so hopefully I don’t stay up TOO late. Gotta remind myself there’s always tomorrow 😅

I tried the first race, and it feels like 50cc is more of a slog than usual. I also hate how I have to hold the A button down to accelerate now instead of the control stick..

Finished it already. Next.

Hmm...sounds like they are using the A button instead to get around joycon drift.

Don't all these games use the a button to accelerate...?

@Eel 8 lets you have the option between pressing down the A Button or holding upwards or downwards on the right joystick to accelerate or go in reverse.

I'm not currently sold on the controls. I don't know if it's just that I haven't played Mario Kart in a couple of years, but the controls just seem a little clunky?

I'd rather use ZL to brake instead of B, using A to accelerate is already bad enough but I accept ZR is being used for hopping. It's just a shame there's no re-map available in the game other than doing a system wide re-map.

The wall-ride movement is just plain bad. It seems to be completely random if you'll ride a wall or bounce off of it. Hopping from a grind rail sometimes seems to throw you further than it did the last time you used it. It's like the game just picks in the moment what it wants to do.

Some of the free roam challenges seem to be based more on luck than anything as you can run the same exact lines and your kart will just get slowed down on terrain that didn't slow it down the previous attempt.

Granted, I've only put a couple of hours in to the game but so far it's less Mario Kart World and more Mario Kart Weird. I'll give it a fair shot though, it might start to click eventually.