I went to Eurogamer yesterday and spent about an hour playing MK7.

Firstly I loved it.

I got to choose any character (8), kart (loads), wheels (big or small) and glider. I played 4 tracks (one cup?) and the AI meant i won pretty much every race from the word go. The booth babes didn't know anything.. facepalm. So wasn't sure if these tracks are actually going to be the same cup in the final game. I got to play four tracks and then the game reset to a welcome screen. As i found out on the first corner, you can't use the dpad at all.. maybe you'll be able to use it in the final game and just wanted us to get used to the circlepad. Boost was after the numb 2. The large wheels look like they wheel spin as you hit the gas which is a nice touch.

Seeing as the game comes out in november, this must be a final build in most respects but they could've probably edited the preview code to restrict quite a few things.

So, from the other topic, i'll tyr to cover some of the questions.

Whats the MT situation?

Its not really like mkds, so i think it must be more like what people say mkwii is like. I've not played mkwii but i've seen it in action. To do the mt you perform it like a normal mt but if you flick it wont seem to go blue then orange immediately, its like the game knows you shouldn't be doing an ssmt there so stops the colours changing. hmmm. Generally i only managed to do an mt on most corners, sometimes two but you can't hop into a new mt quickly.

Handglider

So, it automatically seems to come out when you go off a cliff. It comes out quickly. From there you steer with the circle pad. You can easily steer left and right, pulling back gives you some evtra height before falling again. Pushing forwards sends you into a dive which feels fast in terms of flying. I am not 100% sure still whats faster out of dive-flying or driving. I will say that i did some fast-diving/falling with the glider on one lap and it was a quicker lap but that could've been down to general inconsistency and improvement as i drove each time.

However, flying with the handglider felt quicker in one section where the alternative was to fall down underwater and drive underwater for a few seconds.

I found a nice little trick on one course where the glider popped out and I dived onto the booster/zipper thing and then bounced off so i managed to keep it out, by combo'ing that with fast-diving i managed to hit a couple of them and flew forwards off the last one which all seemed quicker than the general driving/bouncing which would've been the alternative.

Underwater driving is slower than normal driving, most of the time its seen as a penalty for falling off narrow roads. There was a split bit on one track like that cave part in dino track on mkdd. One route had coins and the other route was simply shorter. Bit of a trade off I suppose as the coins do make you go faster.

The heavy karts can't fly as far as the lighter karts. Hmmm, or maybe its the wheels rather than the kart. Actually probably the wheels which effect how far you can fly.

Tracks

I played four, not sure if any of them are replicated from mkwii but one had one of those bouncy mushroom things from mkwii. Most of them played a little like a cross between mkdd and mkds tracks. There are quite a few situations where the track will divide (if nothing but an object in the way). And there are some alternate routes. One one track i clocked that you could drive up this grey thing which has a zipper at the top, it was pretty quick compared to the normal route. If anyone has any questions i'll try to answer.

Shortcuts
Couldn't find any glitches, there were a few places where I spotted that you should be able to hop/shroom through gaps to cut track but it wouldn't let me. It just kept on blocking me, a bit like some of the odd jutting out polygons on jungle park way (mk64). Either way, it wouldn't let me. The hop is a low hop like in mkds as opposed to the mk64 hop which seems higher. This limits it somewhat. I tried to spend some time driving into corners of walls but just bounced off. The problem was, on the tracks i played going through those walls wouldn't have really seemed like a time saver so it was a bit fruitless.

So, thats pretty much it, i wasn't allowed to video it and my mate was shit at videoing it because he didn't zoom in. They wouldn't let us video so he flicks between me and track. Its not as good as the videos already seen but i'll post it up when my phone has charged anyway.

If anyone has any questions i'll try my best to answer them.

Either way, its fucking good.

And so is Mario3d+kid icarus (a bit like a nice looking version of space harrier)

It felt like you could not start a new mt until the boost of the last one had finished.

I'd like more details on tracks. Based on what you say it looks like you played the 3 tracks that were in the first demo. But what was the fourth ?

Hmm, not sure if there was any difference between starting a new mt after a orange or blue boost. I don't think there was. Literally you would try to slide, get the slide and flick the cpad but nothing would change. It was weird. Again maybe if I'd played more mkwii I could make better descriptions relative of that.

Another example is that there is one part where you go up this hill and there are zippers scattered around like on mkds rr. There is a massive ball come down towards you on the left a bit like that snow ball in mkds. So I hit a zipper and on the last one I hopped into a slide but couldnt get any colour from the slide.

Tracks..

Ok, there was one track which had quite a bit under water, maybe it's been in videos already. It had a slalom and coins inside clams not to dissimilar to the piranhas on waluigi stadium, mkdd.

There was one track which had a bit like the inside of bowser castle on mkds. It was a little tricky to get the perspective of the corner and I fell in once or twice. One I'd remembered thought it was easy. It reminded me of one of the last corners on tick tock clock.

As for items there wasn't too much to say, green shells, bananas, red shells, shrooms, blooper squid thing, I didnt see any blue shells or bullet bills.

ALAKTORN wrote on 09/25/11 at 11:20:22:


No it's not

It's like you're not able to charge a MT when you're already in a boost (zipper/shroom/mt)? That's pretty weird imo

The Gaff wrote on 09/25/11 at 02:59:34:


TellTale wrote on 09/12/11 at 13:22:33:


Lol even after 1 hour playing the beta the glider is already being found to be glitched and easily abused.

I think it was in a trailer that Daisy shroomed while gliding to reach further, but it wasn’t much of a boost, keeping them for some sort of shortcuts should be better…

alaktorn, i can't upload the video via youtube at work. If you pm me your email address i'll email you the file and you can upload it for me?

Hi Paul, no, i couldn't because it just threw you into GP, you couldn't select TT and there aren't replays in GP. Sorry, i did try

If anyone else wants me to email the vid i've got (which isn't great really) to post on youtube, just pm me your email address. I dont know when alaktorn will be back online.

to my knowledge there was no trick mechanism. If there was then it evaded me. I didn't use the touch screen at all so it might've been something to do with that?

could be but thats a bit fiddly.

they didn't have a c-pad though.

Not sure if the game needs tricks but if they're in, they're in eh.