After playing with the Mario Kart 7 update …

Glenn Analysis, Mario Kart 7 0 Comment

I downloaded the Mario Kart 7 update earlier today and had a chance to play right after the update and later in the day.

Here are my initial thoughts on it:

1. I notice that a lot of people in the lobby are still picking Maka Wuhu. I’m guessing this is the case because those people believe that their experience on the course will trump those that have to change up their style following the end of the glitch usage. I didn’t have any issue with this and still won almost all of my races on this course, save some unfortunate item situations.

2. If you fall at the point in Maka Wuhu where the glitch would have occurred, then you’re put a little ways back, which is great. You are seriously punished for falling off the course. Here’s a snapshot of it

3. The game, as a whole, still plays the same. Whether an item remains in the field after it is dropped is still a crapshoot – at times, it will last one whole turn, other times it will disappear within seconds of everyone passing by. My hope is that an item that falls on the ground would last 1.5 laps of the person that dropped it. This was the fix that I was hoping Nintendo would do. I really won’t know until I get a lot more games in but at the moment, I don’t think it happened.

I’ll spend another post talking about matchups and kart selection. I’m trying out two different setups and it’s likely I’m going to stick with Metal/B-Dasher/RedMonster. But it’s early.