Gaming There Will Be Blue Shells: Mario Kart (8 Deluxe)

At least replaying cups works towards getting 5,000 coins (or in the original Wii U version, 10,000, gulp) for that sweet gold glider.

 

Hopefully Petey Piranha, he's a blast to play in Tour. Really the only heavyweight I'll rock.

Always loved the idea of piranha plants on courses not attacking him on purpose lol

 

The Yoshi’s Island sound effects are a neat touch, and the new path opening up after hitting the flying question mark looked really cool. I’m not a YI fan by any means, but I’m excited for this track.

 

Birdo coming to the game is some great Double Dash love. Now get us some courses from it on the Booster Course Pass, Nintendo!

 

Only four. Dry Dry Desert and Sherbet Land from the base game, and Yoshi Circuit and Baby Park from the WiiUs crossover expansions.
Either way, every other game has seen representation with the waves we've had. I'm hoping we can see at least two more Double Dash tracks added to the overall roster before such additions are concluded.

And since I like numbers, I've taken a look to see just how much representation each previous game has across all tracks. And it's a lot more even than you would first think.

SNES [3] / N64 [6] / GBA [6] / GCN [4] / DS [6] / Wii [6] / 3DS [7]

With 24 tracks still to go across these last three waves, with 9 of them being Tour tracks, that's a spread of 15 tracks to allocate. SNES representation is likely to continue to suffer. I'd say there's only one more track coming from it. But all the rest can easily get two more tracks each. Leaving two left. I'll gift an extra to the Gamecube, and another to the Wii. If true, the full tally of game representation ends at:

SNES [4] / N64 [8] / GBA [8] / GCN [6] / DS [8] / Wii [9] / 3DS [9]

Just what tracks those are is anyone's guess, but one thing that is almost certain is that we'll get another Rainbow Road to end Wave 6. I can only hope at least one of those tracks is a Boswer's Castle, as this is the least representation of that staple track since Double Dash.

 

Anything in Tour is likely to be coming to 8 Deluxe. The GBA tracks in Tour have seen such a massive makeover, which is why I think we're still seeing them come to 8 Deluxe. Meanwhile, SNES tracks are recreated to be faithful, so it makes less sense to add those over tracks from other games. As for uniqueness, I think that only counts for new additions rather than anything previously already in the game. We're at a point now where there's so many tracks already in the game that trying to be unique with all new additions is going to be impossible. At least in terms of themes.

It's likely one of the GBA Bowser Castle's will be within Wave 4 while one of the console Bowser's Castle's will be in Wave 6, along with a second Rainbow Road. As for others, I can only guess based on my personal preferences and those tracks that are in Tour. Of course, basing it off what's in Tour is a bit difficult considering that game is still getting new additions.

 

The only thing left from SNES that I'd like to see in MK8D is a Bowser's Castle course. I remember thinking those were neat when playing the original Super Mario Kart back in the day.

 

The SNES ones would be cool to see, but they're not in Tour. Hopefully they get added this year so at least one has a chance of coming to 8 Deluxe.

 

Have any of you tried adding each other to each other friends list and playing online together?

 

New characters in addition to new courses?
Wow

At this rate, is there any point in even making a new Mario Kart game? 8 basically has everything

 

They will eventually, once the next console comes out.

 

Waluigi Stadium looks so good! And Riverside Park is lovely. But Mario Circuit? Where's the Bowser's Castles!

 

@The2ndQuest called it!

 

Shulk confirmed for Mario Kart.

 

I could see the last slot at the bottom going to a non-Mario character to fit in with the rest of the row.