Ranking Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Wave 1 Tracks By Weirdness
In addition to being a way to make a video game title even longer, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s Booster Course Pass Wave 1 has brought fans eight new exciting tracks. Well, new-ish. And vaguely exciting.
Okay, neither that new nor exciting. None of the tracks are new. One of the tracks is exciting. Ninja Hideaway sure is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, folks. Just to be clear, Ninja Hideaway isn’t new. It’s from Mario Kart Tour. They just forgot to mark it that way. Really.
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Whether you play for fun or to prove to other people you’re better at having fun than them, Mario Kart tracks always do bring a fun sense of design and style. Rainbow Road is a cultural icon for a reason: It looks cool and has an alliterative name. Weird Mario Kart tracks are often as memorable for their weird twists and turns as they are for their gameplay value. At least, that’s what people who are bad at Mario Kart say.
But are these new-yet-not-new tracks weird enough? Has Nintendo hit the bottom of the well that is revamping old tracks for subsequent games? Is a third question in this paragraph needed? We ranked all eight new tracks based on weirdness to find out the first two.
There is nothing memorable about Toad Circuit. It is neither good nor bad, fun nor not fun. It just is, a platonic ideal of ‘fine.’ Every part of Toad Circuit looks like every part of Mario Circuit, Luigi Raceway, or Peace Circuit. There’s a start line. There’s a finish line. There’s some road in between the two spots.
A big inflatable Toad is cool, I guess? But not really that weird. Actually, kind of normal for a big racing event.
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