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Mario Kart 7 [a] is a 2011 kart racing video game developed by Nintendo EAD in cooperation with Retro Studios and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.As with the previous games in the Mario Kart series, players participate in racing on various Mario-themed tracks, playing as one of seventeen different Mario characters.
Rosalina [n] (voiced by Laura Faye Smith) is a princess character introduced in the 2007 Wii game Super Mario Galaxy. As a child who fled into space after her mother's death, she becomes the adoptive mother of the Lumas —mysterious and friendly star-like creatures that inhabit space in the Mario franchise. [ 17 ]
In the game, Rosalina is the adoptive mother of the Lumas, a fictional species of star-like creatures, and also watcher of the cosmos. Rosalina has since appeared as a player character in subsequent Mario games, such as the Mario Kart , Mario Party , and Super Smash Bros. series, as well as Super Mario 3D World .
The game does, however, introduce Rosalina, Spike, and Bowser (playable in the Bowser Party mode) as playable characters for the first time in the series and additionally re-introduces Donkey Kong, who had not been in a Mario Party game since Mario Party 4, and Toadette. The game also introduced two new modes: Bowser Mode and amiibo Party.
The Japan-only Sega game Pachinko: Sammy's Collection is the first third-party game to incorporate Miis, while the Wii version of FIFA Soccer 08 is the first third-party game released in North America, Europe and Australia to use the Mii Channel. Many other games, like We Ski, and Guitar Hero World Tour and Sonic Colors also use Miis.
In the UK, Mario Kart Wii was the best-selling video game in the week ending April 12, 2008, having "the eighth biggest opening sales week in UK software history," according to GfK Chart-Track/ELSPA. [50] [51] The game dwarfed all other five Mario Wii games released up until then for the Wii combined when comparing first-week sales. [50]
Rainbow Road customarily appears as the final brand new track of each Mario Kart game and the final race of the Special Cup. It typically is among the most difficult to complete, since most Rainbow Road tracks often have little to no guardrails to prevent the player from falling off the edges of the track, and oftentimes feature tight curves, steep slopes, and wavy grounds.
The game boasts eight playable characters: [3] Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Wario, Waluigi, Yoshi, and Rosalina. [7] These characters can be controlled by human players as well as artificial intelligence (AI). [4] [5] The game also features game modes, in which Toad or Toadette guides the player. [7]