Anyone here play online? If so, what do you think?
Personally, I think it's fun, but it can also be really damn annoying. You don't gain enough points for doing well, and you lose far too many points if you get a bit of bad luck in a course that takes very little skill to get through.
My point score is around 6500 (I've been playing since Christmas). Got it close to 7000 once, but then I kept getting added into groups of people with over 8000 points, unfortunately, and they went down a little. I never tend to stay in those kind of groups for long though.
I'm a big fan of the courses that take a decent amount of skill to finish with a good ranking. SNES Ghost Valley 2, Grumble Volcano, Rainbow Road, Wario's Gold Mine etc. are my personal favourites. I don't really like playing on courses such as Coconut Mall and DS Delfine Square as new players can win on these kind of courses by getting a little luck with items, which is cheap. Although I can't say much because that's how a first won first place, by getting a Bullet Bill on the final lap in 6th position (out of 12) and using it to rocket ahead of everyone else. It was my second ever online race (came third out of twelve on my first).
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