I could play you forever and be happy. It's rough. It's slippery. It has some hard ass tracks. But it is the epitome of simple yet effective for me. This rating is probably 10000% nostalgia bias as it is my earliest memory on earth but I really do think a lot of this game holds up. So much of the bones are laid back here of the Mario kart template and yet this title does still have its unique execution on a lot of it, down to the unique limitations of the hardware. The game has no 3d karts but that allows the environments to look the part and have a decent render distance but it's the colours and shapes that absolutely do it for me. The aesthetic of this Mario kart is like no other. So easy on the eyes and the music are all absolutely bangers. Challenge is truely unfair but fun nonetheless and the introduction (some may say still one of the best to this day) of the battle mode makes the N64 truly standout as the multiplayer console. I just finished this game finally. After all these years on being alive and throughout every retry, failure and win. Every minute in this game made me smile. That's absolutely what gaming is to me. ✨ Magical ✨