So I really love the core of this game, particularly the new mechanics, courses, characters, the soundtrack, and overall driving feel…
…but my goodness, the sorely lacking options and bizarre menu navigation are proving to be more trash with time. I can’t believe that with this new patch, they’re now making it even -HARDER- for people to play classic 3 lap same track races when it’s already so limited and an obtuse method. WTF are they thinking? For what it’s worth, I actually quite like intermissions, but at least give people an easy, simple, intuitive option to play classic 3 lap mode in offline and online vs friends when they want to. Don’t get me started on the garbage unlock system for the enemy characters.
@Blooper987 Although I’m still playing regularly, I agree with so much of your post. It’s like there was no UX/UI quality assurance team at all with this game, it’s unbelievably sloppy in that aspect despite how good the core content is. Fun fact, the last time you could optionally choose a survival balloon battle with no time limit in a Mario Kart game was 2005 Mario Kart DS, a full twenty years ago!! Wii started forcing time, and 7, 8 Wii U, 8D, and now World STILL have not given that option back.