This game is fun overall. However, there are some blood boiling aspects to this game that just don't make sense. For example, when you play multiplayer races, you can increase your grade from F to E, E to D, D to C and so on. However, they make it so hard to do this as if you don't do so well in a race, it takes away experience points. If you reach grade E from F, and you continue to do bad on races, it demotes you back to F. It took me 4 hours to get to grade E and after the 4 hours, I ended back at F at 0.0%. This is extremely frustrating and actually idiodic that it takes the points away from you. On top of that, multiplayer races seem incredibly bugged. When you hit someone with a bomb or turtle shell, they don't seem to spin and pause. Most of the time you hit then and they keep driving as if nothing happened. I am assuming this is due to connectivity but it is seriously so frustrating. Additionally, it is incredibly unfair that you have to pay for some drivers on some courses to get 3 item slots. Most of the characters are $30-$40. There are tracks where the only drivers that have 3 item slots are ones that you pay for, or ones that you get from pipes. This is also outraging. They make it impossible to have fun with this game without making it pay to win. I know writing this review won't change anything, so I don't know why I bother. But in the small chance that someone reads this and does something about it, what a perfect world we live in. It's a miracle.

The game is good and the level design is also good but also you should have more control of movement. Instead of it always going forwards, there should be 2 buttons to go forward or backwards. Oh and also to the people saying the game is bad because you have to pay, not all games are free, even mobile games. And maybe the auto-run feature (how you currently move in the game) could just be a setting you can enable. But this should not be $10. With the current content the game provides, this should be $5 or $6. If they want to keep it $10, well I have some suggestions. Add more worlds! There should be 8-10 worlds. And after you beat the game, maybe there’s a post-game quest with 3 extra worlds where Bowser Jr. has taken Mario or Luigi hostage. And also don’t just make the way to unlock almost all the characters “Get a certain amount of these toads to get their house!” Instead maybe you unlock a character for every world you beat! Or possibly every remix 10 world you beat. And we also need another game mode. Here’s my idea: Mission Rush. It’s kind of like Remix 10. Basically you play 10 different levels. Not a small part of the level like Remix 10, for each level you have to play the full level until a mission is fulfilled. For example, maybe you play 1-4 and the requirement is to stay off the ground for a total of 15 seconds. I don’t know if this is a good mode though because it’s too similar to remix 10.

I love the game, it’s fun and entertaining. I don’t regret spending $10 on the game. There are so many other things you can do than just completing all six worlds. However, I do think there’s a lot of room for improvement. To start, some characters and buildings require way too many toads. You won’t always win the Toad Rally, and if you lose, you lose toads. Pointless things require so many toads that it can take you months to collect them all, and that’s if you’re a good player. Some things let you expand your kingdom, so I guess it’s okay. But some characters are way too much. For example, Toadette. She requires 200 red, blue, yellow, green, and purple toads. That’s a lot. Purple toads, in my opinion, are the hardest to get in large amounts, so it can take quite a while. Characters usually have special abilities. Let’s take Toadette as an example again. She doesn’t have an ability in Remix 10 or Word Tour. She only has it in Toad Rally, and that’s to steal some toads from your rival at the end, increasing your chances of winning. At some times, it’s really useful and helps you avoid losing toads. Other times, however, it can be useless. If you’re spending a lot of time and effort into collecting the toads, the ability should be good. It should be worth it. Another problem is that the World Tour is a bit short. There are only six worlds. I feel there should be more, seeing as you’re spending $10 on it. You can play part of the game for free, but the fun part only comes in with the full version. Overall it’s a really fun game, I just wish it could be better.

I have been playing this game for a few months now and I honestly love it. I am reading through some of these reviews and I honestly can’t understand where the negativity is coming from. Sure the game is $10, but you would pay $40 or $50 for a similar game on a different game console like a Nintendo DS or Switch so that is definitely not an issue at all. The graphics are amazing for a mobile game, it looks and works absolutely great on my iPad. The controls are extremely simple to use so there are no complaints from me about difficulty or lag in that degree. I saw some people complaining that the game is too difficult, and really it’s not. It’s much like the old school Mario games in terms of difficulty and frustration—which is to be expected in a video game. If video games had no challenges to them, what would be the point of playing it? Another complaint I’d like to address is the fact that you cannot turn back. For one, this game is literally called Mario RUN. For two, in the main part of the game you can find bubbles that will allow you to move back as far as you’d like. Also, the courses are so short it really isn’t a big deal to just start over if you’re that caught up over it. Overall, I give this game five stars because it really has that old school Mario feel with a new mobile twist to it. It really passes time for me, honestly maybe a little too much considering my iPad is technically to be used for my grad work, but I catch myself playing this when I get bored. Absolutely no complaints so far, except maybe if later on down the line there will be an update with new worlds that would be awesome.