The WORST Takes & Backlash on Mario Kart 9 | Nintendo Switch 2

[@ActualAero]

How are you feeling about the new Mario Kart game on Nintendo Switch 2? 👀

[@t.fernbach602]

Mario Kart is looking as good as it's going to get. Did people all of a sudden expect Mario to look like Kratos or what? It's a certain art style, it's not supposed to be hyper-realistic.

[@ActualAero]

I agree and the art style is already upgraded from MK8 anyway

[@entertexthere1127]

I clocked about 200hrs on MK8. I can see the difference right away. Just the polygon alone, shadow and draw distance are more advanced.

[@cyrus8886]

It has way better lighting more polygon count on models Shadow draw distance has been massively increased They improved massively all the "technical" aspects of games that you're average gamer doesn't really notice Which makes sense Nintendo games already have killer AD so improving the technical stuff is the obvious step up

[@ionryful]

24-Player Baby Park!?!?

[@ActualAero]

Would be chaos lmao

[@damndanielcruz6754]

Hopefully the online will be stable with 24 players at once

[@ActualAero]

Hope so. Would be a good way to show the capabilities of the Switch 2 online features

[@icebomber2178]

having all the ''duplicates'' from mario kart 8 as skins in 9 would be great! hope we get to keep the yoshis and shy guys as well :D

[@the_mighty_kc]

"It looks the same" - somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about

[@ActualAero]

So true

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Peach is wearing her iconic dress while driving a motorbike possibly designed as like a moped based on the step-through bikes for females. Also, the Donkey Kong redesign is based on his arcade design.

[@shantaehalf-geniehero4318]

DK’s design is heavily based on the movie, looks nothing like his arcade design

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@ Yet, Mario is given his Wonder design.

[@christianr.5868]

Digital foundry also said that it doesn’t look like anything that couldn’t run on the original switch

[@garvensman]

Aside from the fact that PS4 to PS5 didn’t have a big jump, it’s expected that this style of graphics at a glance won’t look very different. However, with better animations, higher resolution textures, and just how massive and open this track looks, blows MK8 out of the water. Go look at footage of MK8D, especially the initial new tracks. You will feel downright claustrophobic when you compare those tracks to how wide open this is.

[@ActualAero]

And we don’t even know when in development that footage was recorded, final version of the game will look amazing

[@BlueGroove7]

Only saw a few seconds of 1 track and not even the whole thing. People are crazy.

[@Nintenguy128]

When it comes to the presentation of the game, any game in general for that matter, I personally couldn't care less about graphics at all as I prefer art styles rather than graphics (people SHOULD understand the difference between graphics and art style/art direction because they're NOT the same thing), and Mario Kart 10's art style looks peak so far and I already prefer it over 8's style (8 still looks peak too btw) because of it having a more N64-esque look to it for the character designs and such, I love how Nintendo is trying to go back to more how Mario looked back in 90s with the 2D artworks and the N64 renders, while still modernizing them and make them be expressive like how Wonder looks, so when it comes to art style, the new game already looks amazing in my opinion.

[@ActualAero]

I like how it looks too!

[@christianr.5868]

I was expecting it to look as good as team sonic racing. But it doesn’t look much better tbh. Mario kart 8 looked great. But was hoping for an improvement to the lighting engine

[@optical_flames]

I really like these character models and the way they look. I get nostaljia.

[@ActualAero]

I love how cartoony they are

[@optical_flames]

@ActualAero Yeah. I like what they did with Mario Wonder. Hopefully, with a new 3D Mario game, they will use the same model and the world would be wacky and cartoony. I didn't like the idea of Mario being in the real world with humans. It feels out of place and doesn't fit with the Mario character. Makes me feel a little triggered. Mario Odyssey is a good game but its not my favorite game.

[@One-ct3xe]

It looks great! I wonder if this is the Switch 2 turned up to max performance?

[@ActualAero]

I don’t think it’s pushing the Switch 2 to its limits but it should be a good showcase of the hardware

[@pieterhofkens7259]

I really hope they don't not include diddy kong for dumb reasons. He's my pall

[@ActualAero]

Hopefully he isn’t locked behind DLC again lol

[@neorobin1833]

Sungrand Studios also made a really good video about the graphics etc

[@ActualAero]

I’ll have to check it out

[@neorobin1833]

@ActualAero its really intristing and shows how much Power the Switch 2 has

[@fearceigknighter]

Fun over shiny graphics.

[@sneshead3326]

They’ve expanded the world just not the graphics

[@ActualAero]

Well they need to for 24 players lol

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

I will take anime graphics over photorealism any day. Fantasy and reality should be separate from each other. That is also why power should just be for the rendering and content.

[@ActualAero]

Animated and fantasy art styles will always be more unique and hold up more in the long run compared to photo realism which looks outdated a few generations later

[@carlosdanielprado]

Mario kart 9 Nintendo channels are always sycophantic 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@RuuyG]

There are technical improvements, but none of them make up for the game looking artistically inferior in my opinion. At least this stage or this section of the possible open world, has ugly color choices, boring landscape, muddy ground textures, and IMO is worse looking than any of the of MK8 tracks.

[@IkeGameDeveloporExolsExofan]

It Doesn’t Look Graphics different at all part of me hopes its because Mario kart 8 is already peach hd and that we see the difference with other switch 2 games otherwise if it doesn’t have better graphics or different enough it risks walking the same path the Wii u did