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Nintendos Mario Kart Tour - A Review

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You might say that I’m late to the party for writing a review on a game that was released over two weeks ago, but I wanted to wait deliberately so I could see how the game would come along and how did it do?

The Gameplay - 

Any one familiar with Mario kart will recognise the familiar characters and familiar boxes that give you items. You complete races, earning points as you complete the races and you get different points depending on tricks you do and which carts or person you pick. 

The more points you get the more stars per race you get up to the maximum of 5 stars per race. Simple so far, per cup there is three races and one special event which is different time. You need stars to unlock the new cups and that’s where the challenge comes in. 

You can get new karts and characters through the store using the pipes or by using the coins you collect in races. This way you can get more points per race. 

All downhill from here – 

First of all, the game is played in portrait mode which is a bit disappointing, but you do get used to it. Sometimes in can be a bit difficult handling the karts which is annoying however there is two different driving modes. 

Mario Kart Tour is a free to download game, but you wouldn’t expect a game this cool by Nintendo to be completely free would you. The pricing however of the games in app purchases are very questionable. Want to race 200cc of course you do!! You get extra points and its faster this however costs £4.99, What only £4.99 when the game is free that’s not to bad. Oh no that’s £4.99 per month. 

Yes, PER MONTH. £4.99 per month gets you the Gold Pass, with this you get more rewards each time you unlock them, and you get 200cc Racing. Not much more then that. Now, you want to unlock more karts its okay you can use 5 gems to fire a pipe in your hopes you may get the kart you want! But oh no you’ve got only 1 gem L.

I’ve got some spare credit in my iTunes account don’t mind spending some more. Just £1.99 for 3 Gems. Not that you can actually do anything with 3 gems, so you’ll have to buy 10 gems for £5.99 Incredibly cheeky don’t you think Nintendo. 

So, what’s it like after two weeks? 

The game was very fun to play, I was hooked racing the tracks and using my shells to battle my way through the other racers. However, I Still currently have two cups locked and I need 14 stars to open them. I have at least 4 stars on all my other races I have completed and what’s worse is during this time I have been using the two weeks Gold pass trial!! 

To Summarise:

Mario Kart Tour is a good game but I have gotten bored of it, feel like there’s nothing left to do and with the Gold pass for £4.99 per month they seriously need to bring more advantages to it with the likes of Apple Arcade being released the same month for the same price I cant see the Gold pass being insanely popular but only time will tell. For now, I will wait and see if more cool stuff will come.

Kyle Wilkinson

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