SmashBoards Creates: Welcome to Mario Kart! (A Mario-focused Mario Kart, Hiatus: Current impressions + DLC suggestions)

[Freduardo]

• Star Cup
  • Perkilator
  • BritishGuy54
• Lightning Cup
  • Perkilator
  • BritishGuy54
  • nirvanafan

Vote for your top 2 in each category, with your own below 1st.

Star:
Perk
Brit

Lightning:
Brit
Nirvana

 

[nirvanafan]

Lightning Cup
1 BritishGuy54
2 myself

 

[Perkilator]

• Star
  • Mine: 2
  • Brit: 1
• Lightning
  • Mine: 0
  • Brit: 4
  • Nirvana: 2

Perkilator wins the Star Cup and BritishGuy54 wins the Lightning Cup! Congratulations!

Job #16: Battle Maps​

How many battle maps should there be, and what would they look like? For me:

New	Retro
Block Palace​	N64 Double Deck​
Lakeside Caldera​	GBA Battle Course 4​
Bob-omb Battleship​	DS Tart Top​
Nimbus Arena​	Wii Funky Stadium​
Great Ring of Kong​	NS Dragon Palace​

 

[BritishGuy54]

Job 16:

New	Retro
Castle Grounds​	N64 Double Deck​
Boo Gardens​	GBA Battle Course 4​
Grumble Core​	GCN Tilt-A-Kart​
Wonder Factory​	Wii Delfino Pier​
Great Banana Temple​	NS Dragon Palace​

• Castle Grounds - People love the MK64’s Peach’s Castle, so let’s turn it into a battle course. Takes place right beside Peach’s Castle.
• Boo Gardens - A maze-like battle course taking place within a hedge maze and Boos haunting the area.
• Grumble Core - The crater of a volcano, small and cramped like battle courses of old. As time goes on, areas of the track collapse like Grumble Volcano.
• Wonder Factory - Based on Mario Wonder’s final world. Surrounded by green wonder… fluid(?) and under barrage by Bullet Bills.
• Great Banana Temple - Based on DK Jungle’s ‘great banana’. Filled with booby traps, as time goes on.
• N64 Double Deck - The last N64 battle course remaining. It’s time has come.
• GBA Battle Course 4 - Fits well as the desert battle course, and redesigned with an oasis theme.
• GCN Tilt-A-Kart - Could be interesting with the antigravity gimmick turning on in the last minute, spicing up the gameplay.
• Wii Delfino Pier - We haven’t got a Wii Battle Course yet.
• NS Dragon Palace - Fun course I wouldn’t mind seeing return.

 

[Perkilator]

• Perkilator
• BritishGuy54

Vote for one, just not your own.

 

[DragonRobotKing26]

My vote will be on Brit

 

[Perkilator]

And BritishGuy54 wins the battle! Congratulations!

Job #17: Special and Spiny Cup​

The last eight tracks of the base game, same rules as before.

Special Cup	Spiny Cup
Luigi Casino​	NS Cloudtop Cruise​
Koopa Clown Carnival​	N64 DK's Jungle Parkway​
Castle Bowser​	Wii Bowser's Castle​
Rainbow Road​	GBA Rainbow Road​

• New courses
  • Luigi Casino: Based on the DS casino minigames
  • Koopa Clown Carnival: Loosely based on Switch Scramble Circus from 3D World
  • Castle Bowser: Based on the last story levels from Mario Wonder
  • Rainbow Road: Based on its appearance from the 2023 Mario movie
• Retro courses
  • Cloudtop Cruise and Wii Bowser's Castle: Same as before
  • DK"s Jungle Parkway: Redesigned to look like it takes place near New Orleans. The ramp with the big jump is now a glide ramp.
  • GBA Rainbow Road: The Bowser Castle from Paper Mario 64 is now part of the track design, with the big swinging spike balls as obstacles.

 

[BritishGuy54]

Job 17:

Special Cup	Spiny Cup
Wario’s Arcade​	GCN Wario Colosseum​
Shy Guy Temple​	NS Cloudtop Cruise​
Bowser’s Castle​	DS Bowser's Castle​
Rainbow Road​	GBA Rainbow Road​

• Wario’s Arcade - Inspired by Waluigi Pinball, and I imagine the casino theme might be a little iffy nowadays, so an arcade might be a better fit. Wario loves money, after all.
• Shy Guy Temple - A desert track with ruins, traps, and imagery based on ancient Shy Guys. We somehow don’t have a nitro desert track yet…
• Bowser’s Castle - It’s Bowser’s Castle. It has to be here.
• Rainbow Road - It’s Rainbow Road. Could be a point A to B course across space, a literal space race to the moon.
• GCN Wario Colosseum - Now actually has a crowd of people in the colosseum.
• NS Cloudtop Cruise - We don’t have a sky course yet. This one fits.
• DS Bowser’s Castle - I’d like each game here to have at least one course that hasn’t been remade yet. I’d prioritise this one over the Wii version.
• GBA Rainbow Road - A fun capstone for the game.

 

[Perkilator]

• Perkilator
• BritishGuy54

Vote for one in each category, just not your own

 

[DragonRobotKing26]

My vote will be on Perk

 

[Perkilator]

And Perkilator wins the Special and Spiny Cups! Congratulations!

I’m gonna go on a brief hiatus from this thread. What are you current impressions of the base game so far? And what do you suggest for DLC?

For my current impressions, frankly I was hoping for a New Donk City track to be in the Special Cup.

 

[BritishGuy54]

Current Impressions:
I don’t mind the track selection too much, but I feel like some of the ideas are just different for the sake of being different.

We’ve also got a few flaws here:

• There is no nitro desert track. This should be a priority going into DLC.
• We’ve given too much attention to Wii. Now the only tracks that haven’t been remade yet are Luigi Circuit and Mario Circuit. We ought to have included one of these.
• Likewise, why did we go with Wii Bowser’s Castle? The DS one was right there, and now the DS is stuck with tracks that have appeared before.
• We did not need FOUR N64 tracks. We could have at least substituted DK’s Jungle Parkway for GCN’s Wario Colosseum, especially as we already have Lakeside Park as a jungle track.
• GCN and DS have gotten the short end of the stick with just two tracks each.

There are positives, of course:

• I think the selection of SNES, GBA, 3DS, and NS tracks were good, and made sense.
• I’m very grateful we didn’t double dip into Mario Kart 8 Deluxe’s retro track pool, including Tour’s tracks and the BCP.