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Or you could be like me and get used to Luigi's stats

Yeah, that works

His handling isn't that bad, you can get used to it rather easily with enough practise. I mean, look at me.

In terms of pure speed, Luigi and I think Hammer Bro are both the fastest characters in the game. Idk Hammer Bro's stats, but if not Luigi is by far the quickest.

Again, as someone who's all about speed, I pick Luigi and I have Wario as a secondary.

I've owned every game in the series with the exception of MK64 and MKDD. Currently I have SMK (NSO service), MKSC (Original GBA), MKDS and MK8DX

I think so, this is supposed to be with SMK mechanics if I recall.

For those who don't know what he's saying, rubberbanding is when the player is in first and the CPUs gain speed out of nowhere, as if the two are held together by a rubber band.

Understood, I'll try it

May I ask, are you including the time inbetween races?

I decided to do an actual GP run, 3:29.29. I timed it from pressing Retry, but it was a very sloppy run.

Update: 3:16.86, still unfortunate respawn on GV1 and BC1, with a lightning hit too

ByoT, I would've if I had the ability to see. But at the time, I did not, so I couldn't do my best.
This time I'll push it as far as possible.

N64 RR (MK8 remake), either that or Big Blue

Ok, please stop. Why is it that all of you are only taking the CPUs into account? You're complaining about them in specifically the Mini-mushroom cup, which has, oh I don't know, hard tracks? Again, put enough time and effort in, and you can overcome them every time. The CPUs have rubber-banding, yeah, what's new? This is, as LuigiDawg said, the norm for MK. You're just playing another regular MK game with CPUs that you think are cheating because you're not as experienced as you are in other games.

tl;dr stop being immature, look at the bigger picture before opening your mouth, and please, only complain when you're good at the game, because if you're a new player saying the CPUs are unfair no-one's gonna listen

Exactly. Instead of focusing on how they're difficult, look at what they can't do and capitalise on that

No it's something they put in for the CPUs only. Rubberbanding is to make keeping the top spot more challenging, try to make the race a lot more interesting by making 1st harder to maintain (although the blue shell does more than a good job at this)

Top 5 tracks for me are:
1. Retro N64 Rainbow Road. They managed to get everything right when remaking this. The visuals are the greatest I've ever seen in a Mario Kart game, the new mechanics added since N64 were all implemented well, and the music was redone so, so well. The reason it's number 1 is that it did something other tracks didn't, in that its placing within the retro tracks was also done perfectly. This is a track that above all others, feels like a celebration of your abilities. It's the perfect final level for an MK game: No final incredibly hard driving challenge, no endurance match against the game, just a victory lap to remind you how far you've come.

2. 3DS Rainbow Road. Yeah, both my favourite tracks are RR, I promise these are the only 2. This was my favourite for a long time because of how grand it feels compared to other RRs. It's not a simple rainbow road, it's a full on space exploration with an incredible background, tons of varying challenges along the way, neat little shortcuts and an incredible music score. Well deserving of its praise.

3. Waluigi Pinball. COME ON THIS HAD TO BE ON HERE SOMEWHERE. Same points as before, but with one small issue that I have with the track. You don't drive on much of the actual pinball path, but instead you kinda get to see how the ball gets to the actual machine so that's cool. Now I think about it, the DS had a couple hits with pinball machines...

4. Big Blue. Easily the better of the F-Zero tracks (Sorry Mute City, you're still cool though). Much bigger focus on speed than Mute, as well as better music imo, makes for an exhilarating experience every time.

5. Gonna be an odd choice for sure, but Mario Circuit 2. This one's from personal experience not gonna lie. Me and MC2 have got along in every appearance:
MKPC: An extremely quick but fun track where I used to be incredibly skilled
MK7: Super fun to play at any level
SMK: My current best track in the game and second best track in the entire series
Hopefully when I finally get around to completing my MKSC timesheet, I'll enjoy it there too.

That's just the Spotpass ghosts everyone gets. Not gonna lie everyone thought they had MW WR at some point

Since MK7's the topic, how about I share my current SNES MC2 flap WR, which is now 20.760?

My top 5 would be Wii Fit Trainer, Ganondorf, Little Mac, King Dedede and Byleth

Ok fine, my t didn't register for some reason.