Bear with me, but I'm just having too much fun thinking about what courses all could still make it into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Since last time there has been another leak in addition to the retro labels, where they have found a couple unused music pre-fetches in the files. See here. Plus, the data-mined retro labels have proven to be correct. With this we can already construct a pretty good picture of what's coming next via the Booster Course Pass:
It seems that the courses without a retro label, like Ninja Hideaway or Sky-High Sundae, are either new courses from Mario Kart Tour, which aren't a city tour, or simply new courses. But Merry Mountain may fall into this category.
Here is what courses Mario Kart Tour has still to offer that haven't been covered above and weren't already included in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in some form, 30 in total:
Of course we're not limited to these. Coconut Mall and Sky Gardens have shown that new courses for Mario Kart Tour may come to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe first. But it still makes the tracks in this list likely candidates, where you can already try to fill the gaps in the first list. Mix in some other fan favorites and you can try to paint a pretty picture.
Here is what's not yet included in Mario Kart Tour, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, or the above leak already, 49 in total:
Out of all these 79 courses, which haven't been data-mined yet, only nine more will make it into the Booster Course Pass. Based on all the data we have, here is which ones I would pick or expect to fill those gaps:
- SNES Vanilla Lake 1 or 2
- GBA Cheep-Cheep Island
- GCN Daisy Cruiser
- GCN DK Mountain or Bowser's Castle
- GCN Dino Dino Jungle
- DS Airship Fortress or Luigi's Mansion
- Wii DK Summit
- Wii Koopa Cape
- Wii Bowser's Castle or Rainbow Road
Well, there are some tough choices to make. Right now it seems that we will either be getting Luigi's Mansion or Airship Fortress from Mario Kart DS, but not both. I personally prefer the latter, it's one of my favorite race tracks, but they are both great courses. One of the remaining GameCube courses could be really any of them, where there are many good choices, like Mushroom Bridge, Peach Beach, or Wario Colosseum. I went with DK Mountain, because I loved this one in Mario Kart Wii, my first Mario Kart game, but Bowser's Castle would be great, too, since we haven't gotten any other of those yet.
And even with what's still be going into the Booster Course Pass, there will be around 70 old courses left, more than enough to fill a second Booster Course Pass. I still think that they should port over all the remaining courses from Mario Kart 7, both original and retro, where most of them are already in Mario Kart Tour anyway. They are all great, especially since they would offer more on the front of gliding and under-water gameplay.
The other Mario Kart games will also have some excellent courses that probably won't make it in, like Dry Dry Ruins or Toad's Factory from Mario Kart Wii. Yes, we can't have it all, but there is a lot of potential here. Sure, we don't really need all those Mario Circuits and Luigi Raceways, but some of the older Bowser Castles would be cool and they could potentially have all Rainbow Roads united in one Mario Kart, which would be amazing.
So, I'm hoping that this will continue in a second Booster Course Pass, which has all of this covered. Make Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the ultimate Mario Kart, before they move on to the next game, which most likely will be more focused on crossovers with other Nintendo franchises, like The Legend of Zelda.
Having every Rainbow Road would be super hype even if they don't get the same treatment that the 64 version got in the base game. Really hope that happens.
ReplyDeleteI know many people are split on Nintendo Kart idea but I'm honestly all for it of it means we stop getting baby characters, metal characters, and generic enemies like Dry Bones. I'd like to believe they wouldn't give us Baby Samus or Metal Fox if Nintendo Kart happens