Mario Kart for Game Boy Advance. It's been a simple game, but too much fun at the same time, I'd say it's unfairly hated by everyone today because it doesn't play as well as all the Mario Kart games that came after Double Dash, not to mention it can be very archaic for some people because it's pseudo-3D. Still, I was able to enjoy it quite a bit, having grown up with Mario Kart for Super Nintendo, this game is quite familiar to me to play, plus I love GBA games, so I had to give it a chance someday and I'm glad I did now.
Mario Kart Super Circuit was developed by Inteligent Systems and is the first portable Mario Kart game, this one takes as main base Super Mario Kart for SNES, but also takes in passing elements of the N64 release as the designs and voices, although with the detail that they are from the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64 instead of the updated voices of the international version; so it will be strange at first, mainly because of Luigi and his strange voice, but eventually you end up getting used to it. The graphics of the characters are pre-rendered being pretty much the same as MK64, but the other graphics like the stages of the tracks, menus and everything else have the traditional pixel art style, and it looks good especially on a GBA screen. I liked the tracks, there was a variety of them and they were accompanied by music that is also good in my opinion, or at least it is if you like the sound of the songs in GBA games.
You have the same roster of characters from Mario Kart 64, but with the difference that now each character has stats that make controlling each character feel different. The first thing you may notice when playing is that the karts feel too "slippery", I don't know how to explain that feeling, but that's the way it is. After a while trying to adapt to the gameplay I tried almost all the characters, with the heavy characters I wasn't able to be good at playing, so my choice this time was Peach, I feel she is the character that controls the best, or at least, the one that best fits my playing style. Although this brought its disadvantages, because once I got used to using Peach, it was impossible for me to get used to the other characters, so I spent all the cups using the same character no matter how difficult that was in some tracks where it was better to use heavy characters.
It was really difficult, I'm not lying, but this I emphasize because I went for the highest challenge, which is to obtain a 3 star ranking in all the cups, which to get you must meet more or less the following requirements:
-To be in first place in all the circuits.
-Do not use objects
-Take a lot of coins.
It can be a bit hard, but in my case I was able to get it after many hours of practice and in the end it felt really good, the tracks are good and once you master them driving around them is quite nice, I think that mastering the gameplay of this title was what made me appreciate it. It helped a lot that this game relies more on your skill and not so much on randomness.
Additionally, if after finishing the Special Cup, if you collect 100 coins in each cup, you can unlock cups from the original Mario Kart for SNES. I thought it was a pretty cool detail that all the tracks from the first game are adapted and frankly it made me smile, although I don't plan to play them, because this game makes a lot of use of the R button, and I think if I keep using it so intensely here I'll end up ruining it, not to mention that I'd rather play them on a SNES as they should be played.
Conclusion
It's probably not the best Mario Kart, nor the most revolutionary, but it's really very good, it managed to get me quite addicted and it's great that winning requires skill and not so much luck. It complies very well with what is to be expected from a game of this style for the system.
I do not recommend this game. I liked it a lot, but I think it might not really be worth playing nowadays, so this review is more about talking a bit about the game and my experience.
Mario Kart Super Circuit was developed by Inteligent Systems and is the first portable Mario Kart game, this one takes as main base Super Mario Kart for SNES, but also takes in passing elements of the N64 release as the designs and voices, although with the detail that they are from the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64 instead of the updated voices of the international version; so it will be strange at first, mainly because of Luigi and his strange voice, but eventually you end up getting used to it. The graphics of the characters are pre-rendered being pretty much the same as MK64, but the other graphics like the stages of the tracks, menus and everything else have the traditional pixel art style, and it looks good especially on a GBA screen. I liked the tracks, there was a variety of them and they were accompanied by music that is also good in my opinion, or at least it is if you like the sound of the songs in GBA games.
You have the same roster of characters from Mario Kart 64, but with the difference that now each character has stats that make controlling each character feel different. The first thing you may notice when playing is that the karts feel too "slippery", I don't know how to explain that feeling, but that's the way it is. After a while trying to adapt to the gameplay I tried almost all the characters, with the heavy characters I wasn't able to be good at playing, so my choice this time was Peach, I feel she is the character that controls the best, or at least, the one that best fits my playing style. Although this brought its disadvantages, because once I got used to using Peach, it was impossible for me to get used to the other characters, so I spent all the cups using the same character no matter how difficult that was in some tracks where it was better to use heavy characters.
It was really difficult, I'm not lying, but this I emphasize because I went for the highest challenge, which is to obtain a 3 star ranking in all the cups, which to get you must meet more or less the following requirements:
-To be in first place in all the circuits.
-Do not use objects
-Take a lot of coins.
It can be a bit hard, but in my case I was able to get it after many hours of practice and in the end it felt really good, the tracks are good and once you master them driving around them is quite nice, I think that mastering the gameplay of this title was what made me appreciate it. It helped a lot that this game relies more on your skill and not so much on randomness.
Additionally, if after finishing the Special Cup, if you collect 100 coins in each cup, you can unlock cups from the original Mario Kart for SNES. I thought it was a pretty cool detail that all the tracks from the first game are adapted and frankly it made me smile, although I don't plan to play them, because this game makes a lot of use of the R button, and I think if I keep using it so intensely here I'll end up ruining it, not to mention that I'd rather play them on a SNES as they should be played.
Conclusion
It's probably not the best Mario Kart, nor the most revolutionary, but it's really very good, it managed to get me quite addicted and it's great that winning requires skill and not so much luck. It complies very well with what is to be expected from a game of this style for the system.
I do not recommend this game. I liked it a lot, but I think it might not really be worth playing nowadays, so this review is more about talking a bit about the game and my experience.
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