Mario Kart DS is a wonderful experience, one of the best the series has to offer. It controls like a dream, it has a great character roster even if it’s small, it has a super varied kart selection, and it’s got some great tracks. As well, it’s visually impressive for the DS and sounds pretty good to this day. It’s also got the best single player content in the series, smithing has ever come close to mission mode. Not to mention it added online play, and download play for this game was one of the greatest games I had ever played as a kid, and it remains impressive and wholly unnecessary and awesome. Mario Kart DS remains my second favorite game in this series.