The extras on the side of the tracks make them feel alive, like they're real race tracks in the Mushroom Kingdom. A sand ship with Toads tossing coins on the track, the cheering crowds, and the majesty of space are just pulsing at the corner of your eye while you race. Yabuki's art team has outdone themselves, especially when it comes to the extra flair on each track. The characters and tracks look gorgeous, with bright colors and effects everywhere. It runs in full 720p resolution at 60 frames per second with nary a stutter ( Edit: According to Digital Foundry, there is in fact a stutter). It looks absolutely amazing on the Wii U. When taken that way, Mario Kart 8 does falter in a few areas, but not enough to torpedo the whole experience. This is the "best of" entry, taking a bit of everything that worked before and cramming it all into a single title. It's from the more conservative side of Nintendo, the side that makes games like New Super Mario Bros U. Mario Kart 8 does not take the formula set by previous entries into wildly new directions. I ended up enjoying the portable entries, Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 7, far more than their console counterparts.
On paper, everything comes up golden in practice, it just didn't click with me. Mario Kart Wii? I honestly couldn't tell you why I didn't enjoy that game. Mario Kart: Double Dash for GameCube had bland tracks and didn't feel like a great improvement over its predecessor. I was worried about Mario Kart 8 because I wasn't a huge fan of the last two console entries in the series.
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