>>6507
If you actually go through the tutorial carefully, it can easily take you upwards of an hour. It's not just basic controls, driving mechanics, and items, but there are also multiple ways to use up rings, and sometimes you have to deliberately use up your items so you can use your rings instead, depending on what you might want to do with the rings. And it's not like you have multiple buttons to use rings in different ways. You can do this little whip attack that's a little bit like Road Rash, but not when you have rings, for example, because if you have rings the button will do something else. There's a lot of little things beyond that, but it's the stuff with the multiple ways to use rings that I think went a bit too far.
However, once you actually get to racing, a lot of the stuff that seems perhaps overwhelming at first isn't actually needed. I think it would have been smarter to space out the tutorials. The game has a zillion tracks and cups and unlockables, expecting you to really get into the single player. I understand why some people won't want to, and sometimes I wouldn't even be in the mood for it, but I do appreciate a good single player mode in a racing game. Also, since it's complicated, I can't get my friends to play much with me anyway. I only got them to play Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart a few times because that game was so simple. This perhaps overcorrected.