After finishing Mario Kart Double dash, I decided to try Mario Kart DS as I never played that one.
I’m guessing that it had to do with the hardware, but the karts felt slow, so I moved on to Mario Kart 8.
I have to admit that this version of the game looks the best and the kart movement feels the best.
It’s such an improvement over Double Dash that I think I do in fact like it better. Especially at 200cc.
There’s two types of bikes in 8: standard and crotch rocket (for lack of a better term). They even have different icons when picking your kart. The drift mechanics are reversed on the crotch rockets. As far as I know this is intentional. Those feel backwards to me — if the standard karts feel backwards to you, I totally get it. It’s like being forced to use non/inverted camera controls, whichever is opposite to your preference.