Players can now select the body of the kart, the wheels, and other additional accessories such as the glider. Some parts need to be unlocked before they can be used. Mario Kart 7 features sixteen new courses, but some of the past courses making a return have had the underwater sections added to them. StreetPass is used to exchange ghost data with people that you pass on the street.
You also can use that data to register that person as your friend on the system itself and proceed to play online with them. The new Community feature allows players to create groups with other Mario Kart fans while setting up specific rules to make customized racing environments. Community leaderboards will also show the most up-to-date information from recent races. With SpotPass enabled, players will be able to receive ghost data to race against.
Up to seven ghosts can be downloaded at the same time, allowing for a full eight-player race. There are only 17 playable characters in Mario Kart 7, short of Mario Kart Wii's 25 playable characrers, though some downloadable content is being considered to add more courses and characters to the game.
The full list of tracks are as follows: [19] [20]. Mario Kart 7 sold between , to , copies during its first week in Japan. These sales and Super Mario 3D Land ' s sales have impacted hardware sales too, as Nintendo reports the 3DS will soon cross three million hardware units sold in Japan and they expect it to reach the four million mark before its one year anniversary.
Genre: Racing. Publisher: Nintendo. Developer: Nintendo. Game file size: MB. ESRB Rating:. Coins collected in this mode do not count toward the coin total to unlock kart parts. With the Nintendo 3DS's online capabilities, players can look for other users for online play, local, or global range.
Players can choose a worldwide competition to race against other users that are connected, race with friends that were met via StreetPass, or play in communities formed by users with customized rules for the races.
With StreetPass, the users can exchange their Miis, Ghost Data from Time Trials, players' names, and information of communities, while the user will only receive Ghost Data from other users and community recommendations via SpotPass. When players take part in online races or battles, points are added to or removed from their VR short for VS Rating based on their finishing position. The main purpose of VR is determining the skill of players, to match them with players of a similar skill level.
Online play in Communities does not use the VR system. Mario Kart 7 includes 17 total drivers eight starting drivers and nine unlockable drivers. Each driver is categorized into any of five weight classes: Feather being the lightest, followed by Light , Medium , Cruiser , and finally Heavy. Peach Light. Donkey Kong Cruiser. Koopa Troopa Feather. Daisy Light. Rosalina Cruiser. Metal Mario Heavy New Driver. Honey Queen Heavy New Driver.
Wiggler Cruiser New Driver. Lakitu Feather New Driver. Much like in Super Mario Kart , all playable characters have a rival order, the order CPU drivers finish at the end of the race. However, unlike in Super Mario Kart , it is more simplified, as two characters are set instead of single characters followed by another single character, etc.
Each character's rivals will never change; for example, Bowser will always appear in a Grand Prix if the player is playing as Mario. However, if a set character is supposed to be unlockable, the set character is replaced by a default character until the unlockable character can be used. That will make the default character a third rival that occasionally appears in the race. Depending on the character, the kart body that's chosen may appear bigger or smaller.
This affects how big of a target that character's kart will be; for example, smaller body frames are harder to hit. The character's weight determines the body Frame size, Metal Mario being the only exception, as he's medium size despite being a heavy character.
These characters appear in the background of certain stages and do not affect the racers in any way. Mario Kart 7 introduces the option to personalize the player's vehicle before getting to the race.
The player can select the body, the tires, and the glider to build the desired kart. By collecting many coins from the races in Grand Prix mode, the player can unlock a new body, a new set of tires, or a new glider to use. It is possible to acquire a maximum of ten coins in a race.
As the user chooses the parts, the stats may vary according to the parts' combination, and the vehicle will work better in particular situations. There are 17 kart bodies, 10 tires, and 7 gliders for a grand total of 1, kart combinations. The following is a list of all the avilable parts, using the American English names. If the kart has a different name in the British English version, the British name is put in parentheses under the American name.
All kart parts are sorted based on how they're ordered in-game, starting with the standard parts. The following notation is used:.
Standard Normal. Beast Glider Ghastly Glider. Swooper Swoop. Unlocking a different kart part requires a certain total of coins collected from every race in Grand Prix. Once the player has reached that amount, a random kart part is unlocked. The only exceptions to this rule are the gold parts and the Beast Glider. In contrast with Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii , which directly added the characters' and vehicles' physical parameters to obtain their final values, the game introduces the Points which are conferred by characters and vehicle parts.
In each statistics, the points given by the character, body, tires, and glider are summed to obtain a final value called Level Lv which is then used by a table to convert the level into various related physical parameters used by the game. The Level of five statistics is displayed in the vehicle customization screen:.
Said Level is represented through bars by adding two points to the sum of points, then dividing the result by four, resulting in values ranging from 0. As an example, the process through which the statistics of a certain combination of character and vehicle parts are calculated and displayed is shown below:.
The following table shows the statistics of the various drivers. In addition to the statistics shown in the vehicle customization screen, there are the following statistics:. Many classic items make a return in Mario Kart 7. Similar to its predecessors, players receive items by driving through an Item Box found on courses.
When players drive through an Item Box, the Item Roulette will select an item. In addition to Item Boxes, Coins can be found on the track. Players can collect the coins by driving through them. Picking up a coin increases a player's top speed.
If players collect ten coins, their kart is at maximum speed and cannot gain additional coins. Players lose coins if they get hit by an item or fall in a pit. Collecting a certain amount of coins unlocks vehicle parts to select them in the vehicle's customization menu. Also, unlike in its predecessor, the item warning sound will only play if a Spiny Shell or a Bullet Bill is approaching. One prominent change to the classic items is that the Spiny Shell now has been redesigned into a wingless form, similar to the one found in Mario Kart 64 and having a new sound effect.
Its overall behavior is also changed as well; the shell now flies lower to the ground and is able to hit other racers on its path. In addition, the explosion is noticeably less powerful compared to previous installments. It also features three new battle stages, and three Retro ones. Only the Mushroom Cup and Shell Cup , as well as the battle courses, are available from the start, but upon unlocking them they are available for all game modes, and not just for that specific Engine Class , unlike past installments.
A new feature of Mario Kart 7 is that three of the courses — Wuhu Loop, Maka Wuhu, and Rainbow Road — have three sections each, with each section counting as one lap. The following charts show the American English names of the tracks, with the British English names in italics. Like in Mario Kart DS , the retro tracks' width have been shortened, except the DS retro courses, which have been widened.
The Normal Staff Ghosts are available at the start, but when the player gets a time higher than the Normal Staff Ghost of a track, the Expert Staff Ghost of the same track will be unlocked. Mario Kart 7 is the first Nintendo 3DS game to use the system's ability to patch games, spurred by significant shortcut exploits found on certain courses.
Updating is free, with the data being categorized as 3DS Add-On Content; the patches can be deleted at any time and have no effect in offline play, but are mandatory to play online.
An SD Card is required to download the patches, however. A New Dimension of Kart Racing! For the first time, drivers explore new competitive kart possibilities, such as soaring through the skies or plunging into the depths of the sea.
New courses, strategic new abilities and customizable karts bring the racing excitement to new heights. Mario Kart 7 brings Mushroom Kingdom racing fun into glorious 3D - and that's just the beginning, as new courses, strategic new abilities and cutomisable karts bring the racing excitement to new heights. Up to 8 players can enjoy local wireless races or race together online.
The game has received generally positive reviews. As of December 12, , Metacritic has an average score of 85, including 64 positive reviews, and 9 mixed. GameXplain has given the game's Multiplayer 4.
She criticized the character roster for being small and the potential of the Spiny Shell "screwing up" the race, but she praised the innovation and the polish the game provides. He praised the game for being well-polished with only a few flaws, noting the Spiny Shell as "unavoidable race-ruining bullshit". He praised the first person view, the new tracks, and the new glider and underwater features while criticizing the Battle Mode, and online modes "being a distraction rather than a destination".
He remarked that the game has "been the same as previous entries of the series, but the innovations have kept it fresh", while criticizing the online structure and lack of mission mode. He praised the fanservice and how "anyone can pick up and enjoy" the game. They ended their review with, " Mario Kart is in need of a severe shake up.
This stagnant, crawling, and indolent effort is not it". The game sold over , units in its first 4 days in Japan. Mario gliding in his Standard Kart. Yoshi driving his Bumble V with a Red Shell. Bowser driving his Monster Standard Kart. Peach gliding in her Birthday Girl. The 7 in the original logo featured a different design than the final logo.
Several tracks shown in early trailers lacked details shown in the final version, such as the lack of Wigglers in Wii Maple Treeway and the lack of ramps in Wuhu Loop , Mario Circuit , and Rock Rock Mountain. An early version of Mario Circuit , with missing ramps. An early version of N64 Kalimari Desert , featuring more cacti than the final version. When playing in multiplayer mode, both locally and online, there are several changes made to the tracks, most likely to retain a stable connection.
If executed correctly, they allow the driver to skip sections of the track. On May 15, , an update was released that made these glitches unusable in Online Multiplayer.
Retro Studios was also responsible for contributing to the Donkey Kong series attributes in the game, mainly the DK Jungle track. The music composition is credited to Kenta Nagata and Satomi Terui. Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata were the game's general and executive producers respectively. Mario Kart 7 Deluxe. History Talk 0. This page was created by Jake.
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Toad Circuit Toad Circuit remains relatively unchanged from its original appearance, sans an aesthetic upgrade. The long circular turn at the end of the course has been changed to be on stilts, and thus has been made into an anti-gravity segment. Otherwise, this course remains mostly the same. Daisy Hills In terms of aesthetics, Daisy Hills is now set during sunset, and the town featured near the end of the course is now larger, and arcs around the lake that racers glide over.
The wide turn before the gliding segment has been made to be on the side of a cliff, with wooden ramps leading up to it, and thus an anti-gravity segment. The small road on the left side of the gliding jump has been removed, though players are now able to enter the water directly instead from there via a small pathway.
Cheep Cheep Lagoon Cheep Cheep Lagoon's aesthetics have been heavily modified from its original appearance, and is now set around a small fishing village. The dock that racers jump off into the ocean has been made wider, though the underwater path around it has also been extended.
The cave that players drove through in the original has been changed to be an undersea cavern and is filled up more with water; players can still glide over the water however, though the path leading to the blue glider jump has been made longer and wider, and is now curved slightly.
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