I have a lot of complicated feelings about this game. MK8DX on paper sounds like a huge improvement over MK8, but it does a lot of things that detract from the experience for me. I personally do not care about battle mode and never have, so that did nothing for me. There were no new racing tracks which was a huge disappointment for me, since I already had the game on Wii U. Plus, changes to the core game mechanics like the removal of fire hopping, allowing people to hold two items again which made the game way more chaotic and unbalanced, and some over advanced mechanics that were removed made me feel very alienated by this game. I had fun playing locally with friends when we all first got our Switches though, and it's still Mario Kart 8, so I don't hate it, I still think it's a good game. I just think the Wii U version was more fun to play.