I just got back into this game after getting my hands on a DS Lite again and finding out about wiimfii's unofficial servers for the game.

I played a few matches against real people for the first time in the years and years I've had this game but not been able to access Nintendo's defunct servers for it (a surreal experience in and of itself), and realised quickly that I was getting smoked every march because the opponent's were well-versed in the fucking insane competitive tech of MKDS that I was completely oblivious to all my life prior.

Needless to say, I started researching, and got into snaking/MB based tech and holy shit, this game has opened up into depths of precision control that I thought were hitherto unheard of in any Mario kart. I have become newly addicted to Mario kart again.

Simply maybe the best Mario kart in existence.