Shadi logic: Faster Mario Kart is not Mario Kart at all. :roll:
It obviously has extreme Mario Kart inspiration, but it has tons and tons more features than Mario Kart ever has. Not only with the missions and shopping menus, but you can shoot multipliers all at once, turn off the weapons altogether, the use of multiple IPs is a big plus too I think. It also has a ton of weapons we have never seen in Mario Kart, like that generic big purple bomb, the generic horn, the all-star stuff, DLC...
Oh yeah, and no bullshit blue shells! Balance my ass!