into a staleness for the franchise because this game sold so freaking well regardless of that stale phase that lasted for about a decade or so it's still my favorite game out of the series it had been quite a long time since nintendo had made a new NUMBER_TOKENd mario so it was awesome getting to play one again after so long what's really nice about this one is that it makes the most attempts at creativity the main bosses in each world are unique and interesting we've got mummy pokey cheap skipper lackey thunder mega goomba and a few others on top of that they aren't really hard per se but it's nice seeing something actually new and plus you had to beat two of these bosses as mini mario to unlock two worlds and that is not as easy as you'd think it'd be the power-ups are the highlight for sure the mega mushroom is just dumbly satisfying since you plow through everything in your path and the blue shell is such a bliss to soar around it i even made a whole video about beating the whole game while being in the blue shell that's how much i enjoy this power-up on top of the excellent single player we've got a bunch of mini games to play as well some of them are the same as mario NUMBER_TOKEN dss while some are brand new it's another mode that's fun to sing some hours into mario vs luigi is a mode that's kind of lost in time since nobody uses their ds for multiplayer anymore but you'd connect with someone else and battle it out to get more big stars than the other person NUMBER_TOKEN. mario kart NUMBER_TOKEN it is indeed another mario kart game i guess mario kart NUMBER_TOKENds didn't sound that great so they just stuck with a number that they were up to control wise it's much more polished than mario kart wii which already had great controls you have to wait to drift still but i guess that's just gonna be a thing for every mario kart in the future the graphics are extremely impressive even to this day the details and texture work is crafted in a wonderful way the biggest change for this one is hang gliders and the ability to drive underwater it reminds me a lot of sonic and all-stars racing transformed but in a more tame fashion these feel like natural extensions to the mario kart formula enter welcome additions that we'll likely see until the end of time the character roster is also pretty great but waluigi is omitted for some reason and they even brought back waluigi's pinball so i'm not sure what's up with that for the first time you can customize your tires and gliders and that's on top of your cart which is really neat since they all have different stats and whatnot the brand new items are honestly a bit weak you've got the fire flower which is okay the super leaf which is almost useless and then the lucky NUMBER_TOKEN is just a bunch of old items at once the online is pretty good though in fact it's probably the best part about this title that and the new tracks my goodness have they continued to up their game on the track design rainbow road maka wuhu wario shipyard piranha plant sly
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN even made a whole video about beating the whole game while being in the blue shell that's how much i enjoy this power-up on END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN