This is a great Mario Kart game, the ideas used here are amazing, the tracks are fantastic, and the soundtrack is great as well. However when it comes to this game there are two flaws with it, the first flaw isn't anything to major it's just the handling on some of the karts and characters which feel a bit to hard to control with the lighter section of characters, but for being a old game I'll cut it some slack. The second flaw however is what really drags this game down and that is special items. Special items are character specific items that you can get throughout races that have special properties. For example Yoshi's special item is his egg which acts like a red shell but drops items on impact. The problem with this is that it creates a tier list of which characters are viable for this game. Creating a tier list of characters based on which special item they have is not something I like. To make this worse is that there is two special characters you can unlock that has access to all of the special items. Now I know I'm talking about a subject in a old game but the items can influence who you want to play as. Also there might be people out there who would use this game for a tournament and your choice in your character will matter. Overall this is a great Mario Kart game with the idea of two for one characters being great and you should try it out if you haven't!