>>7521
Is dat playable Fishy Bopkins???

I sincerely can't tell if this is an elaborate edit of yours or if it's a semi-obscure Nintendo reference in a Mario Kart game

nice edit, anon

This is the quality content I come to kissu for. God bless you Spikeposer

>>7526
I forgot the fucking t in the poster part goddammit.

>>7523
I love that SMG4 has had such a big impact that people call Spike "Fishy Boopkins"

My heartfelt thanks to Anonymous!

>>7523
>>7524
He was introduced as an unlockable racer in the new Mario Kart World and was previously playable in some of the more modern Mario Party games and Mario Tennis Aces!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBBK4j_0WuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyvcIPYfR4M
MKW is a fantastic addition to the Kart series: It has great, polished gameplay with a few new extras sprinkled in (extra mechanics, Knockout Tour, Free Roam), a very high quality and diverse soundtrack with a lot of throwbacks, and a unique sort of 3D Mario experience when freeroaming in the open world.
While Free Roam really does feel relatively empty and lonely to play, an issue which I believe stems from the severe lack of enemy placements, the exploration is still fun in the same way it was fun to go off the script in other 3D Nintendo titles.
There are P-Switches (little missions), small sidequests and collectables in the form of Peach Medallions and ?-Panels, both of which might be locked behind secret areas and some pretty tricky puzzles, making for a feeling similar to a classic 3D Mario game. You can also enter Photo Mode to capture a nice scene.
A handy new QoL aspect is that you will automatically get put in Free Roam when waiting for an online lobby to start or inbetween matches, giving you the ability to make progress even while waiting or to invite your friends to join your exploration adventure.

The console costs $450 and the game will be either $50 or $80, depending on if you're going for the digital download in the console bundle, or the physical release. This is all before sales tax, which is why the European version is around $10 on top.
I wholeheartedly recommend the game to anyone interested and with money to spare.

I'd buy it if it were in stock, guess I can check.

that KissuKart logo looks legit.

>>7560
>and a unique sort of 3D Mario experience when freeroaming in the open world
Sounds fun. The last Mario Kart game I played was on the 3DS, or was it DS? The one that had a really crazy and cool quest system. I really like it when developers include an elaborate solo mode in a game that is ostensibly for multiplayer. Mario Kart and older Smash games really did the trick.

>While Free Roam really does feel relatively empty and lonely to play
Maybe they'll add to it later, didn't the Mario Kart on Switch 1 get a bunch of DLC over time?
The money thing is keeping me from it for now, but I want to get one in the next year or so since you generally want an early generation console when it comes to modern cracking and piracy.

Another nice aspect of the soundtrack is that I believe it uses a lot of legacy synths / presets.
https://youtu.be/ruzGxp4tj74?t=8 This sounds close to soundTeMP (Flyff, Ragnarok Online) and the ones in the Dire Dire Docks arrangement sound similar to a multitude of releases from the 90s.

>>7575
Agreed! I do still need to look into the other Karts that aren't World or 64, but I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I heard praise for the DS title.

I think you're right and I'm confident they're going to release DLC for World as well, which of course would be great, though the digital-only nature of it always leaves a sour taste in my mouth!

>>7576
It's weird to see tracks with a beginning and end instead of laps, but it does work very well and allows the track to tell a story of sorts.
Looks really good, I love the visuals. Somewhere out there, there is a better universe where companies kept focusing on fun fantasy visuals instead of leaving it to a few companies while everyone else chases photo realism.

>>7580
Oh wait I guess that video there is showing a lap, but I've seen clips where it seems it's just a Point A to Point B thing.

We are exploring Moo Moo Meadows.

>>7580
>>7581
I feel the same about the visuals! PlayStation lost me with the release of the PS3 for that reason and while I still might get the consoles a decade later when they're cheap, I only really stay up to date with Nintendo because I like their library a lot better.

You did see right that tracks are usually connected via "intermissions", something I'm not entirely sure how to feel about! In the singleplayer Grand Prix, only the first track is a classic 3 lap race, the other ones are connected to intermission sections that count toward the total lap count. Knockout Tour then completely gets rid of 3 lap races and Online follows the rules of Grand Prix, though you can work around the intermissions by opening a different selection menu with the + button, allowing you to play tracks in the classic lap mode. Nintendo sadly messed up by never mentioning this and most people are still unaware of this option.
I do like this new approach of an interconnected world a lot, but I think it would be best if they added an easy to spot option for a classic mode to both Grand Prix and Online, and also improve on the straightaway sections to make them feel a little less boring! Another nice-to-have would be if you could toggle weather and day / night time yourself.

>>7606
That looks cozy,not sure why pussies are complaining about "nothing to do" in the open world.

>>7661
WTF that's pretty dark for Mario Kart...

>>7661
Oh no! Is Spike okay? I think we should all sign a card for him, and send some flowers to his hospital room, or something... Poor little guy.

he wasn't able to avenge 4taba.....

I'll fix the problem with images when I get back to working on the site...

>>7666
What problem with images?

>>7667
in reference to 4taba

>>7748
Hold on there's an entire cow named Andy now in Mario Kart Switch 2 edition?

>>7749
The Moo Moo Meadows cow is now a playable character called "Cow", that Andy guy was just a random player in an online lobby.

Switch 2's apparently coming back in stock at Walmart on the 25th (maybe online only, today's Best Buy stock was like that), so I'm going to try and get it. Otherwise it seems like at random times during the week Gamestops are going to be getting stock as well. Feel bad for any tard that overpaid a scalper for this.

>>7763
Awesome! I'm unsure if this is an EU thing in general, but I was able to get mine pre-ordered online on a consumer electronics store that I saw still had stock even a whole week after pre-orders first went live.
I feel bad for all the anons that are gonna miss out on playing with a whopping TWO Kissu racers at the same time!