I originally picked up ModNation as a rental and had a blast with the creation tools and online races, but after my week with the game was up I found myself a little tired of the loading screens that felt like they sometimes lasted for hours, and the career just felt incredibly punishing for a game that had a really light hearted look and feel. I absolutely adored the creation tools, making wacky 'Mods' and being able to put them up for the masses to find and download was a lot of fun, as was the track editor. Those two features alone have accounted for probably eighty percent of my time with the game. 
  
To be fair, the loading times were not as terrible as they felt. Going from menu to race was well under a minute, but during certain events, mainly career races, that we a mere three laps and with total race times taking sometimes as little as a minute and a half, they felt bad. Patch 1.02 fixes that quite a bit, Sony says they are in a lot of cases decreased by fifty percent, that might be a little generous but they are much shorter and feel a lot more tolerable than I remember them from before. 
 
Load times I can deal with, but my only other really big complaint with the game was the difficulty in career mode. The game was quite frankly unrelenting, I struggled to get a podium much less first place. I like a challenging game, but when the way you unlock additional creation objects for characters and karts is tied to the career and each tracks optional goals, it really grinds your nerves. Todays patch adds a 'casual' mode, and it helps the game drastically, I was still challenged but I managed to place first in four of the five races I attempted this evening. They were still at times close enough that it felt rewarding, but overall it puts a lot of those unlocks much more within arms reach than before. 
 
Hopefully United Front continues to support this game well into the future, it is really a great game and I hope to find myself drawn into it even deeper still.