Reviews from

in the past


Giving it an extra half star just for Snaking. Outside of that, its a Mario Kart that's handheld. Not much else to say really.

The best Mario Kart game hands down!

Favorite Mario Kart purely based on nostalgia

8/10 - ❤️❤️❤️🖤


I got to play this on the bus instead of looking out the window

One of the most fun Mario Karts with the best single player experience. Trying to get the staff ghosts and 3 star missions adds some challenge

Snaking in this game absolutely spoiled me for every Mario Kart after.

Modern Mario Kart but on the go, not that you have any reason to play this nowadays unless you still use a DS.

bruh, 8 aint got shit on the mission mode

I find the game to be very impressive for when it originally came out on the DS, and the track selection is very strong.

All I want is a mission mode like in this game, Nintendo! That's all I want! Make good single player shit for these games GOD.

STILL THE BEST BY A COUNTRY MILE, MOTHERFUCKERS.

I don't remember playing this one much as a kid, but when it came out on the e-shop I got it and completed it. As a Mario Kart game, it's kind of clunky, but the rigid, early DS graphics have some charm. Some of my favorite tracks are in this one, Airship Fortress, Wario Stadium, and Delfino Square, to name a few. The mission mode is something I wish they would bring back, even if it is just reused assets from Super Mario 64 DS, a lot of Mario DS games did that, so I won't hold that against it. Plus, they did something creative with it, so creative, in fact, they apparently can't do it a second time.

This is, in my honest opinion, the best Mario Kart game. It had great tracks, good mechanics, download play so you could play with friends who didn't have the game, it was portable, and it had an awesome mission mode.

bring back mission mode you cowards

this was rlly fun cuz you didnt need the game to play with friends who had it and i never actually owned it but I remember people bringing their ds lites to school and we'd sit under the tables and play on rainy days at recess

playing this in the church youth group room >>>

I used to play this game relentlessly, though it hasn't aged that well.

The "DS" stands for Dumb and Stupid!

Played this game with a DSi so I didn't have access to drifting because this game legit breaks your L and R buttons.


It's hard to make a bad Mario Kart, isn't it? Loved to play this on the go.

my fav game in the mario kart series

Best Mario Kart so far thanks to the mission mode giving it some single player heft