Well it's Mario kart, there is no story

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Gameplay:

The game play is simple with acceleration working well, drifting and using items. You accelrate by pressing the B button (it's been awhile since i played so it might no be right). You use items with the Y button, these items consist of a green shell witch goes anywhere, a red shell witch homes in on an enemy, the star witch gives you invincablity, and the blue shell witch hits the person in first place. There are 8 players to play as that include Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Koopa, Yoshi, Bowser, and D.K. Each character has there own stats like Toad being a lightweight and going fast and Bowser being a heavyweight and going slow. When you start a race you have to go around it 3 times, which is fine but only half of the screen shows the race and the other half shows the map, i personally think this is annoying, i wish there was just a small map in the corner like in the GBA version or Gamecube, There are 4 cups with 4 races inside, the first one usually having the easy tracks mostly starting with Luigi's Circuit, and then to the harder ones like Rainbow Road with no guard rails and thwomps everywhere. I should mention the A.I, the A.I is weird in this game, they always get the same item everytime like Luigi getting the star, the A.I isn't rubber band like in MK64. While racing you will find coins along the ground to, collecting these coins gives you a lot more speed than normal, get 10 and you will go fast. There's a bunch of hazords and obstacles like penguins that slide along the ground, lava which burns you, and ramps that give you access to a secret area, but you probably want the mushroom item to give you more speed.

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Graphics:

The graphics look great for an early SNES games with no sprite flickering and vibrant colors for the characters, except D.K because he's wearing a shirt instead of his tie for some reason. All the levels look nice like Bowser's Castle looking like a castle and filled with lava and spikeballs. The only annoying one is rainbow road because i can't focus on the road well because there are to many colors.

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Sound/Music

The music sounds great, my favorite one being the Bowser Castle theme, my least favorite being the chocolate road because the track is annoying to go through with dirt roads to slow you down and bumps, and the music sounds lame to. The sound is great for the car engines, the 3..2..1.. GO! and the items sound find except the shells, they make annoying whooshing sounds and when a red shell is behind me i just want it to hit so i don't have to hear it.

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Final Verdict:

This game is good with respondable controls, great music, ok sounds and great tracks, except rainbow road. The downsides are the pointless map at the bottom and the A.I only using one item every race their in.