Here are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s biggest and best changes
Young player-focused features like Smart Steering
If you have a more novice or younger player in your home, you might want to turn on Smart Steering or Auto Acceleration. Smart Steering essentially puts bumpers on the track so players won’t run into walls or fall off. Auto Acceleration basically keeps the gas on a bit to keep players moving.
If you’ve ever played with a young kid, you’ll know how this can keep them a bit more competitive.
Players can now break while drifting
This one comes largely because of 200cc. That’s unlocked and available in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe right away, and it offers bleeding fast races. They’re so fast, in fact, that drifting becomes nigh impossible at times.
Now you’ll be able to break while drifting, thus letting you slow your way through tight corners without breaking your drift in order to attain that boost at the end.
You can adjust multiplayer controls schemes before starting each race
This was a problem with the Wii U game. If a player wanted to tweak their controls during multiplayer, they had to wait for the first race to start, pause the game, enter the options menu and adjust their motion control options there. Each player had to do it, too, so that meant lots of waiting.
Now, you’ll be able to set up your motion control preference on the character select screen (along with Smart Steering and Auto Acceleration). Those options can be tweaked in races, too, just like before.
Battle Mode is back, baby!
I mentioned it in the intro, and I’ll say it again. This might be the biggest one, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe features Battle Mode. This was sorely missed in its lackluster form in the original Mario Kart 8. That’s five modes spread over eight Battle Mode specific courses.
You can read more about that here.
That’s what’s new in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for the Nintendo Switch. It’s due on April 28, 2017. Will you pick it up?
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