This is the MK game I played the most when I was younger, so maybe I'm just really familiar with it, but I still have no clue why this one gets so shafted by fans as much as I see it does. The glider sections are a great addition, the loss of bikes is sad but they're replaced with maps that have a heavy focus on huge drifts, and the maps are all pretty good. The new maps are mostly solid, maybe the best Rainbow Road in the series, but there are a couple bland ones; none explicitly bad, though. As everyone else has said, the major highlight of the game is its fantastic retro courses. Overall, just a very consistently "good" game. No soaring highs (like Wii's) nor crushing lows, but just really good throughout.