{"id":164825,"date":"2019-09-27T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1805503\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:00:17","slug":"mario-kart-tour-is-a-pretty-pedestrian-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/27\/mario-kart-tour-is-a-pretty-pedestrian-mobile-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mario Kart Tour\u2019 Is a Pretty Pedestrian Mobile Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mario-kart-tour-full-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>If this winds up being a shorter, hollower, and less thought-out game review, then it\u2019s only because <em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em> is a shorter, hollower, and less thought-out mobile take on Nintendo\u2019s widely popular kart racing series. I understand why Nintendo wouldn\u2019t put its games on something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/hands-on-apple-arcade-is-a-throwback-to-good-mobile-games-1804128\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Apple Arcade<\/a>. If you want premium Nintendo games without microtransactions, the place to go is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-nintendo-switch-1685280\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a>, not some Apple subscription. But with <em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em> the fact that these Nintendo mobile games are equal parts glorified ads and free-to-play cash grabs becomes increasingly hard to ignore and forgive.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em> feels bad from the start. Purists may argue that skill went out the window once Nintendo made power-sliding more automatic, but the racing in the mainline games I think strikes a nice balance between accessibility and finesse. As a one-handed mobile game, obviously <em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em> needs to be simpler. But swiping your thumb to steer isn\u2019t bad because it\u2019s simple, it\u2019s bad because it just feels bad. Even the optional motion steering does little to make me feel like I have any real control over my character.<\/p>\n<p>The inaccurate controls force the game to use flat, uninteresting track design to keep players from constantly crashing. You may not notice this at first due to the game\u2019s high production value. Whether it\u2019s remixes of <a href=\"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/index.php\" title=\"\u672c\u7db1\u9801\u63d0\u4f9b\u4e00\u500b\u65b9\u4fbf\u7684\u5e73\u53f0, \u70ba\u5927\u5bb6\u914d\u5c0d\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2,IT freelance, \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b , PHP\u88dc\u7fd2, HTML\u88dc\u7fd2, CSS\u88dc\u7fd2, JavaScript\u88dc\u7fd2, XML, Java\u88dc\u7fd2,Server\u88dc\u7fd2, MySQL\u88dc\u7fd2, \u4e2d\u5b78\u96fb\u8166\u79d1\u79c1\u4eba\u88dc\u7fd2, \u5728\u8077\u4eba\u58eb\u96fb\u8166\u63d0\u5347\u88dc\u7fd2,\u5c08\u696d\u8003\u8a66\u96fb\u8166 \u88dc\u7fd2,\u96fb\u8166\u5716\u50cf\u8a2d\u8a08\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2, gra\">class<\/a>ic tracks or new international tracks in cities like New York and Paris, this looks like a modern <em>Mario Kart<\/em> game. It even maintains the recent gimmick of switching between land, sea, and air. But race enough courses and you can\u2019t help but notice the same boring loops again and again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vq4mrTlnDfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But the worse loop of all is still the loop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/please-pay-for-mobile-games-1685904\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">free-to-play<\/a> mechanics, a business model so harmful that again Apple had to make a whole new service to counterattack. <em>Mario Kart Tour<\/em> is full of the expected by unacceptable gambling-like tactics. Want to use a rare character like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/peachette-makes-mario-kart-tour-even-more-thirsty-1803367\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Peachette<\/a>? Better hope the real money you spend leads to a lucky roll. Characters, kart pieces, and even entire racing speeds are locked behind paywalls, including a bizarre subscription pass. And it feels particularly gross when paired with <em>Mario Kart\u2019s<\/em> history of randomization and rubber bands AI difficulty. \u201cPay a dollar\u201d to avoid the Blue Shell doesn\u2019t sound out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad. While the game is online multiplayer only you don\u2019t need a constant connection once the race actually starts. You can play on a subway and not worry. Plus just listening to my own music while playing leads to funny juxtapositions like Waluigi and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/game-of-the-year-dj-heromouth-moods-1686450\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Neil Cicierega<\/a>. And while I would\u2019ve enjoyed a twist on the formula (like in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/hands-on-dr-mario-world-is-nintendos-mobile-drug-1794319\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Dr. Mario World<\/em><\/a>) the fundamentals of <em>Mario Kart<\/em> are still pretty solid.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want to play <em>Mario Kart<\/em> on the go please do yourself a favor and get <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mario-Kart-8-Deluxe-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B01N1037CV\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1705462 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/SEE_IT_HERE_GEEK-1.jpg?resize=178%2C51&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"51\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mario-kart-tour-full-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>If this winds up being a shorter, hollower, and less thought-out game review, then it&rsquo;s only because Mario Kart Tour is a shorter, hollower, and less thought-out mobile take on Nintendo&rsquo;s widely popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/mario-kart-tour-is-a-pretty-pedestrian-mobile-game-1805503\/\">&lsquo;Mario Kart Tour&rsquo; Is a Pretty Pedestrian Mobile Game<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/27\/mario-kart-tour-is-a-pretty-pedestrian-mobile-game\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2054,2,2467,2123,2047,2205,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-GSt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164839,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164825\/revisions\/164839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}