Not so casual

For a game thats supposed to be aimed at the more casual player, you have to be pretty freaking hardcore to unlock all the characters in Mario Kart. Its not enough to to earn a gold trophy in every cup like I have. No then you will still have five characters left.

To unlock all of these you have to get a star ranking on every cup. Now a star ranking is one step better then the A ranking and to get it you have to get close to a full 60 points (finish in first place on every race) and on top of that get good times on all laps.

Even doing that will leave some characters locked. You also have to beat all of the developers ghost data which can be really hard. But thats still not enough, you have to beat them with a good margin of several seconds to then unlock the expert ghost data. Luckily the game is sattesfied with you just unlocking this data, you dont actually have to beat their times which may or may not be possible.

I think Im pretty good at Mario Kart and definitely what you would call a hard core gamer when it comes to Nintendo games but this is too much for me. I might unlock one or two more characters but I can say right now that I will never be able to unlock all of them. Which is a weird thing to say about a game that has been criticized for being targeted at the more casual gamer.