3.5/5 ★ – DarrensTrashBag's review of Super Mario Kart.

As a multiplayer game, Super Mario Kart is superb. The battle mode is tons of fun and it is great to just do 1v1 races with your friends. The singleplayer sucks. Some of the most jarring decisions I have seen Nintendo make in a game. Rubber-banding is fine in these types of games, but this game takes it to the max. Any mistake made in 100cc or 150cc will automatically lose you first place, even if the mistake happened in the first lap. It is very hard to come back to this game compared to later titles. The most ridiculous thing that they did was make the CPUs super overpowered. They have infinite items that they could use any time despite never going near an item space. They can jump over every item on the map despite never having a feather, and they can just clip through thwomps like they didn't exist. It's fine to make the game difficult, but this is literally unfair to the player. In terms of maps, they really blend. However, Bowser 3 and vanilla lake 1 are the worst maps in all of Mario Kart. Rainbow Road is easily the best course in the game. Just beat all the cups on normal to get the special cup, and then never play singleplayer. 65/100