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#mariokart

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Ishambard

Whilst I gave the Mario Kart Double Dash staff ghosts a lot of hate, and they deserve it, doing the Time Trial Achievements for Mario Kart DS was a much weirder experience.

The short tracks proved to be a lot harder, with Yoshi Falls taking me a good FOUR attempt. Donut Plains was also similar.
This is in contrast to the near hours I had to put into Daisy Cruiser on Double Dash.

Heck on DK Pass, I actually hit one of the giant snowballs and still beat the target time.

So here's the thing. DS wants to use certain characters and certain karts, which is fine. Varies up the gameplay.

But below is an example from Waluigi Pinball. I feel I shouldn't be beating the target time by nearly 10 seconds.
I mean, DS does put you through the hell of Triple Star ranking every cup on every CC, so the time trials were a nice break from that.

The time trial achievement for Waluigi's pinball, requiring a time of 2:34.751
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A screen shot from Mario Kart DS showing a time trial time on Walugi Pinball of 2:25:898
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#RetroAchievements#MarioKart#MarioKartDS
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Ishambard

Mario Kart DS is an odd game, especially when you eventually grind your way to Mirror Mode.

Unlike other #MarioKart games, the character doesn't seem to make any difference to gameplay. It is all down to the kart unless each character has hidden parameters that influence the karts stats that I am unaware of.
I know Mario Kart Wii does that.
But Bowser in the Egg 1, as hilarious as it looks, seemingly plays the same as if Toad was in there.

Another oddity that frustrates me is the rubber banding, nothing new. Mario Kart rubber banding is notorious.
But it feels like if you are able to eek out a sizeable lead, the AI gives up. But if they are visible on your bottom screen mini-map, you they will very quickly be trying to force themselves down your tail pipe.
You can be one of the faster karts, and the AI will outpace you in slower karts. Well, until they get a certain distance ahead of you, and they seem to also just... Quit. It's all very strange.

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