Dude, I was just going to post about Mario Kart DS.
As someone who didn't buy the new Switch I've been watching a bunch of videos criticising Mario Kart World to see what its all about and I can't get over how stagnant the series is in terms of content, not counting track bloat, and how hard they're resting on the success of DS.
Look at this model of Donkey Kong:
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Its so emblematic of how they had to work with a battery potato that has a touch interface and that still didn't stop DS from:
- Doubling the track count by introducing retro tracks (I'm not counting Super Circuit porting the SNES tracks, nobody cares about Bowser's Castle 5)
- Introducing the versus mode with customizable rules
- Introducing that any character can use any kart
- More accessible battle mode that you can play against the AI (extra points because this was also back when it was still elimination based)
- Custom flag creator
- Motherfucking mission mode
- Motherfucking Dry Bones
And nothing since has made any strides forward other than 8 adding 200ccm, which World cut again.