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haha mario kart 8 music is tricky -- it's some of the best sounding, pre-extended, designed-as-background-music I can find; but Nintendo is really protective over it :P

so like, I want people to be able to hear and enjoy it, but at the same time, I have to turn it down really low to avoid nintendo's auto-copyright-bots giving me a strike

BUT YEA AN HD F-ZERO WOULD BE SO GOOOOOD, hopefully that's what 200cc + blue falcon + fzero tracks has been hinting at :)

yeah nintendo can be pretty brutal with their copyright claims :/

200cc has been very fun (so many people crash into walls especially in cheese land), but the item balance still kinda irks me with that game. At least blue shells are much less common. It's like their teasing us at this point for a new F-Zero.

cheese land 200cc is, as close to the definition as you can get, impossible.

only being able to hold 1 item forces you to play waay too defensively, and it kinda ruins a lot of other things by association.

imo neo bowser city is much worse. the rain they added to the course made it more of pain than it already was on 3ds.

the one item thing plus the fact that you often get coins in first really killed playing online for me. usually people either play defensive like you said or you have those in the midpack that spam the items as soon as they get them (which makes it incredibly hard to catch up). green shells are also really hard to avoid now too.

the really long hitstun accounts for how easy it is to get combo'd in mk8, especially when you fall back into the pack

I personally think nbc is a tad bit easier to drive on than CL in 200cc just cause at least it's an even road, it doesnt randomly divot, fall, and rise. though tbh I really haven't played much 200 so i might not be the best person to ask.

it's beyond me why the blue shell and green shell have the same hitstun (or all shells for that matter). triple reds are like being pummeled with three blue shells and the triple banana's are not very good defense when they spin around now.

trips are weird in general in this game, cause they auto deploy. banana circling you is also stupid, and while we're at it, WHY THE FUCK IS THE BOMB, BANANA, GREEN SHELL, AND RED SHELL HITSTUN ALL THE SAME.. remember when a banana just made you slip, ya know, like a real banana?

well nbc is hard b/c even the brakes don't work very well and the mid section of the track is brutal.

hitstun should really be, in these levels:
blue shell
bomb / green shell
star / bullet
red shell / boomerang
banana

oh remove fireballs altogether please, stupidly OP and 0 skill level.

accel doesn't matter b/c of the awful hitstun so heavy>>>>>lights in the this game. which is shame because I used to main toad and koopa troopa. I recently played ds and green shells just make you flip over and it doesn't slow your character down that much.

boomerang is horrible too and I agree on the hitstun values.

honestly removing the coins and bringing back double items would be vast improvement.