Mario Kart Tour (Review)

Description
Mario Kart Tour is a free mobile game released by Nintendo in 2019 in the Mario Kart series. To play well on mobile devices, the game has shorter races, simplified controls and different mechanics and characters compared to the rest of the console Mario Kart games. The game also features tracks based on real-life cities, called in-game as "tours" and feature locations such as London, New York and Tokyo. The game got large amounts of backlash on around the time of launch due to the large amount of in-game purchases, trying to mask the singleplayer mode as multiplayer and a lack of a real multiplayer mode.

Kasper
I downloaded Mario Kart Tour some time after launch, and I didn't think it was nearly as bad as other people have been saying it is. Compared to similar games on mobile, it has great controls and tracks. Each week in the game you get a new set of cups to play on and on a few of them you can compete to get the highest score out of similarly skilled players that rewards the highly skilled with tons of in-game currency. This makes the game fun to come back to each week, however it does get boring to play after a playing for a long time, since it rarely adds new tracks and the competitive mode gets impossibly hard to win. However, I think that the in-game purchases are not that bad and you don't need to "play to win", as you can get most of the stuff featured by playing the game often, as well as the gold pass being a complete waste of money since I imagine the 200cc it adds wouldn't be very fun to play on mobile and you can get most of the "exclusive" characters and karts without buying the pass.

A big negative aspect of the game is definitely the multiplayer mode, as it seems to have the same kind of system in place for online that Switch games such as Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Super Mario Maker 2 uses, which makes races almost unplayable, as well as the fact that some, if not most of the players in the race are using their unstable mobile networks to play.

Pros

 * Great controls
 * Great tracks
 * Fun to come back to

Cons

 * Tons of in-game purchases
 * Multiplayer is almost unplayable
 * Gets boring after a long time

Individual Ratings
Kasper: 6/10

Final Rating
6/10