Mario General Discussion

[The Host]

Man, unlocking all of the parts for the karts is time consuming. So much online racing and coin collecting, since I have yet to recieve a street pass.
 and does anyone know what the title given to your mii on the Mario Kart 7 channel means (example: I was 'Comeback Kid' for a while, and 'Model Racer' at one point).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I honestly have no clue; in fact, I'm 'Model Racer' now, IIRC. Could be wrong.

And yes, it is, but apparently there are coin farming communities, and I wouldn't mind having something similar to farm coins. Just to help with the requirements. =)

[The Host]

But you can only get 10 coins per race, so farming communities just give you a better opportunity to get coins.
But to get some parts you need to get a high VR rating (or street pass)... so a lot of online racing and collecting coins at the same time for me.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Actually, for all of them, you can technically unlock them with coins; it's just that the last few require like 10,000 or 20,000 coins.

But playing online would certainly help, yes.

[The Host]

I believe I worked it out to getting a VR of 10000 and 10000 coins. I'm currently at 3600 VR (approx) and 5600 coins (again, approx).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Sweet, that's not too bad, then. I thought you had like 4500 VR when I was racing you the other day, though? Or was I seeing more the VR from the others?

[The Host]

Probably the others. I've seen two or three people with over 10000 VR. But then again online sets you up with people in your range, so I guess if I ever get up to 10000 VR I'll see I lot more gold karts and such.

Getting VR up is challenging though, especially with blue shells always hitting me near the end of races. I usually race with heavy and fast karts, with low acceleration and off road, so when I do get hit by a blue shell its not good. Going from 1st to last online happens really quickly sometimes.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, I believe that happened a few times when I was playing you. Half the time I was involved in that somehow. =P

[The Host]

Yeah, I believe that happened a few times when I was playing you. Half the time I was involved in that somehow. =P

Yeah, welll. Whenever I think about removing the blue shells from the game I realize how important they are. For example, on MK Wii, you can choose to race in VS mode without items. When you do that, as soon as you get out front you aren't challenged at all, because there's no blue shell to worry about.

Whereas in online play, the first place person is usually close to second place, and when they see a blue shell coming they brake and get passed, just to avoid the shell...

[Magical Girl Mimi]

ZLS: That, or, you brake and let the guy tailing you get hit as well, which is a tactic I've been using myself. Doesn't really help much, but it's sometimes fun to be annoying to the people who try to steal your positions. =P Mostly abuse that against the CPU in 150CC, though. =P

[The Host]

I always find that by the time I brake the other people are gone and then I still get hit, which is doubly worse for me... Though doing it to the CPU in GPs is easier, as you've said.

Current Combo:
Toad, Zucchini, Slick, Beastly. Though for kicks I sometimes switch Toad for Metal Mario, to basically get max speed (but horrible accel).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Well, try and time it so that you end up right beside the person as you get hit; if it means you don't brake, perfect. =P

[The Host]

Eh, I just try to get really far ahead so that Blue Shells don't set me back to far. Online I've seen people drop back too late, and they're in third place and get hit by the blue shell.

Also: Mario Kart DS has some really good kart designs. I feel like MK7 wasn't as good, designwise. MKDS has the construction vehicle for Waluigi, and there were some others. MK7 has a bunch of cool karts, but some, like Zucchini and B Dasher, are reused, unfortunately.

But customiation somewhat makes up for that. If only the gliders had more variety in they're stat boosting areas (they're all basically the same, other than design).

[Magical Girl Mimi]

I agree, though you have to wonder if the reuse of B Dasher was intentional, given that it was the cover-kart last time. =P

And the gliders have more variation than you'd think.

[The Host]

The B-Dasher is a pretty cool kart though...

According to sites that I've seen, the gliders (all but Beastly and the triangle one) just add a bit to accel and take away from weight. Am I missing anything??

[Magical Girl Mimi]

1. Yes, yes it is. =P

2. I think that there's some sky maneuvering stuff to consider, but that might not be true. *Shrugs* Aside from that, yes, that's correct.

[The Host]

2: I wish they were more different though. For Example:
Paraglider = +Accel - Weight
Flower = +Offroad -Handling
Triangle (Original) = +Speed - Accel
Parasol = +Accel - Speed
Bat= +Handling - Weight
Beastly = +Weight - Handling
Gold = No + no -

[Magical Girl Mimi]

Yeah, that might have been nice. I wonder if it was more of a class of stuff for the gliders, however, if only because this was the first time they had any of that, period.

[The Host]

Having all of the gliders have the same stats allows for people to choose a glider that they like for asthetic purposes only, I guess, so its the one choice that hardly affects your race but defines your kart...

They should have also added some sort of propeller system as well, for underwater racing. If Nintendo continues with air and water races I can see them adding propellers to choose from in the future.

[Magical Girl Mimi]

1. Yeah, though they could've done a better job with the other choices. Don't think I've unlocked to the Paragrider, though; I might just because of the similarity to the Sailcloth from Skyward Sword. =P

2. I was honestly surprised that there weren't customizable propellers, as I thought I had recalled there being some from the pre-release info.