Mr Party Hat

Asylum was easily the best for me. I didn't get along with City at all, and the third one was good but didn't benefit from the open world.

I'm still shocked when (not super serious) action games don't simply copy Asylum's combat.

Amazing. I really need to wrap my head around Minecraft before my kids hit the architect phase.

Botany Manor and Indiana Jones

I can't believe quite how much they ballsed this up.

There's so much friction everywhere. The game pauses every time you complete the smallest sidequest. The terrible stealth sections. The traversal. No fast travel between zones. And imagine if you could jump off cliffs on your chocobo and glide, even short distances. These are fairly small decisions that would have been easy to change, and they add up to make the game an absolute slog.

I can't remember another game+sequel with this dramatic a drop in quality.

Who is this for?

Me.

Also I reckon there's more going on in that new Mario Kart than meets the eye. Look at how long that straight road is, there's no way that's a normal MK track. It'd be dull as all hell. And there are no fences, plus a whole lot of rendered desert. There would be nothing to stop you driving off the road and exploring (what admittedly looks like a whole load of nothing).

It'll either have a new gameplay mechanic (US road trip?) or they've used a big reveal to debut the most boring stretch of racetrack in Mario Kart history.