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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.

So, just an observation for the Mario Kart DS #RetroAchievements

The time trial achievements are VERY generous so far, which is a relief having done the Double Dash time trial achievements.

To put it into context. Luigi Circuit on Double Dash asks for a time of 1:26:277 whilst the same track on DS is 1:36:939.

Sure, the games play differently, Double Dash is a faster game than Mario Kart DS, but a time difference is over 10 seconds.

Double Dash asks for near perfectly driving, whilst the last time trial I did on DS was Delfino Square, and I kept messing up the off-road shortcut, but still managed to come in about 3 seconds under the target time.

There is still plenty of time for me to get angry at this #MarioKart, so fear not.