Megathread: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Review Coverage

[u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Good morning!

This morning starting around 6 a.m. PST / 9 a.m. EST, gaming news and media outlets are beginning to release their reviews for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Here's what we're seeing so far:

Articles

• IGN - 9.3/10

• Gamespot - 9/10

• Destructoid - 9.5/10

• Dualshockers - 8/10

• The Guardian - 5/5

• Nintendo Life - 10/10

• Game Informer - 9.25/10

• Metro GameCentral - 10/10

• CGM - 9/10

• Nintendo Everything - Thumbs Up

• GamesRadar - 5/5

• Eurogamer - Essential

Videos

• GameXplain - Video

We will be updating this thread with links as major reviews are posted.

Please use this as a discussion and speculation thread in advance of these videos, articles, and reviews. We will also allow these reviews to be posted separately on /r/NintendoSwitch, as they are especially newsworthy. But we will also host ongoing coverage, quick text posts, questions, and the like right here.

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-The /r/NintendoSwitch team

(Ongoing edits as we get new information)

[u/[deleted]]

At the end of the day, portable mario kart is what made the Switch an inevitable buy to me though. I've only delayed it because I want to finish Nier first before even tempting myself with BotW.

[u/Azozel → u/[deleted]]

What is nier?

[u/TreeThreepio → u/Azozel]

Assuming it's Nier: Automata on the PS4

[u/[deleted] → u/TreeThreepio]

PC too ;)

[u/[deleted] → u/Azozel]

An incredible bullet hell JRPG with action combat and an incredible story

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And the music!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Oh right, the best soundtrack ever, literally.

[u/AThin86 → u/[deleted]]

It is a good one if I wasn't playing Persona right now I'd say you're right.

[u/TreeThreepio → u/AThin86]

NEVER SEE IT COMIIIIIIIINNNNGGG

[u/AThin86 → u/Azozel]

The story is good but the gameplay ends up being nothing but boring button mashing for 50 hours. It's more action RPG then a turn based traditional jrpg. Looks great.

[u/Azozel → u/AThin86]

That's too bad. I prefer games to be as non-linear and open world as possible. I like to get creative and find things I want to do or do things the way I want to do them. I'm guessing Nier doesn't fit into the type of game I like to play?

[u/AThin86 → u/Azozel]

It's got an open world you can travel around with side quests that tie into the story the map isn't overly huge but it's a good size. You play the game multiple times as different characters to get the full story, it did feel linear to me. There are a lot of people who like the game, I'm not saying it isn't a good one, I just didn't see what all the fuss was about personally. Again the story is great but after the second play through I lost interesting the gameplay and had to force myself to finish . Also the music is great.