![]() Other than that, the basic format is here: get items, race computers in cups and move on forward. It's Mario Kart, just stripped way down.īut these aren't really the biggest problems. Looping, fantastical tracks are deeply streamlined and recycled, and while there's nothing really wrong with them, there's nothing all that right with them either. It loses a lot in translation: swiping to steer works in an essential sense, but you'll spend a lot of early time flailing around the course haphazardly as you overcorrect, fail to make tight turns and miss what would otherwise be easy adjustments with a full controller. This is most definitely the defining strategy for Mario Kart Tour, which looks in many ways like a knock-off of Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the developer's current flagship Mario Kart game and one of the best local multiplayer games I've ever played. One of Nintendo's mobile strategies is to use iOS and Android as ways to release inferior versions of its console games, something probably best exemplified by Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. And with that, I can say fairly confidently that you don't have to. Mostly, I played it so that you don't have to. The game got its hooks in me for a brief moment because of an aggressive attempt to get me addicted through a morass of collection mechanics, experience bars and unlocks, the sort of psychological warfare freemium games deploy in order to push your forward to progress for progression's sake, a pure dopamine drip without much behind it. After that? I'd like to say that the game got its hooks in me because of simple, addictive gameplay, but in my heart, I know that's a small part of the equation. I can't tell you why exactly I did this: at first, it was just to see what it was like, as I do with a bunch of games I don't really intend to stick with for the long haul. This week I spent a bunch of time playing Mario Kart Tour on iOS, Nintendo's newest attempt to make sense of a mobile development ecosystem that largely evolved without its involvement. ![]()
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