Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Booster Course Pass: Leaks and Speculation #4

Athens Dash starting line

We interrupt our current Tears of the Kingdom speculation program to talk a bit more about Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and its Booster Course Pass. While there haven't been any news about this since the last time, there has been quite some interesting development around Mario Kart Tour, which is ultimately the source of all the new contents in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

First of all, a new city tour has made its debut and it's Athens Dash. This has the potential to become one of my favorites of the cities, simply because it's not really a city, but you're racing through some ancient Greek temples. And they could do the same with Cairo in the future, though this would arguably end up being to similar to the many desert courses that we already have...

In addition, there has been some speculation about the data-mined "mobdk" course, which might not have anything to do with Donkey Kong at all. It seems to be featured in a Daisy-centric tour, where there is a good chance that "DK" actually stands for "desert kingdom", as an Sarasaland. As someone whose first video game was Super Mario Land on the GameBoy, I'm very excited about the prospect, especially after how sensational Yoshi's Island turned out to be. The music alone will probably make this one of my favorite courses...

Plus, there have been some other additions to Tour, like Wii Dry Dry Ruins, where I simply wanted to update my predictions a bit:

I would say that I can't wait to find out, but I will be so busy with Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom in the upcoming weeks and months that they can take their sweet time with this...

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