None hit the highs of the original games’, but they don’t need to.
as part of its Booster Course Pass DLC. It’s an ambitious release strategy that will eventually see it double the number of courses in the game to an impressive 96 in total by the end of next year. Nintendo might not be referring to these new releases asand almost eight years afterit’s hard not to hope that they might effectively serve as a sequel., none of these tracks are brand new. Much like roughly half of the game’s original 48 courses, they’re remasters from previous Mario Kart games.
This faithfulness extends to the look of these new areas, which aren’t as detailed as the remasters Nintendo shipped in the original game. For example, Ribbon Road and Sky Garden are both courses that originally appeared on the Game Boy Advance, but the former shipped as one of’s stock tracks, while the latter was released last week as part of this new DLC.
My favorite of the new tracks is Shroom Ridge, a dense, tightly winding mountaintop circuit filled with traffic to avoid. Not hitting its cars feels like threading a fast-moving needle, but the reward is an endless drift, which sometimes feels more Ridge Racer than Mario Kart. Another, Tokyo Blur, also feels infused with a little of that Namco racing magic, although to me, it feels a bit too wide and open to encourage the kind of chaos where Mario Kart thrives.
Elsewhere, some of the new courses feel more basic, and I can’t see them becoming part of many people’s regular roster. Much as I love the giant Toads floating above Toad Circuit , the track itself is basically a flat, boring figure-eight circuit. And Game Boy Advance location Sky Garden feels too much like a retread of Cloudtop Cruise to really offer anything new.
Coconut Mall and Choco Mountain are solid additions but can feel like they’re repeating elements that have already been done better in’s existing courses. Despite debuting in an earlier game, the N64’s Choco Mountain feels like a simplified take on Grumble Volcano, while Coconut Mall feels like a mix of Sunshine Airport and Super Bell Subway. The mall’s reversing escalators are a fun, tricky addition, but the overall track is on the simpler side.
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