Topic: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Here are my rankings for Wave 1 of the Booster Course Pass:
1. GBA Sky Garden
2. N64 Choco Mountain
3. 3DS Toad Circuit
4. Wii Coconut Mall
5. DS Shroom Ridge
6. Tour Ninja Hideaway
7. Tour Paris Promenade
8. Tour Tokyo Blur

Here are my rankings for Wave 2 of the Booster Course Pass:
1. GBA Snow Land
2. Tour Sydney Sprint
3. Sky-High Sundae
4. DS Waluigi Pinball
5. Tour New York Minute
6. Wii Mushroom Gorge
7. N64 Kalimari Desert
8. SNES Mario Circuit 3

SNES Mario Circuit 3 is one of my favourites, this kind of circuits are fun to race with no gimmicks, although the music is the worst version of Mario Circuit this far. There should be at least one type of SNES circuit in MK8DX.

@Tasuki @vio
I played Mario Kart Wii fairly recently and I thought the mushrooms are just as bouncy as they've always been. So I thought it was perfectly fine. I loved wave 2's courses overall...and yeah, I'd love to see Maple Treeway as well!

@MarioLover92 On the topic of Wii tracks, you want to know which one I'd like to see come back the most (excluding the obvious of Rainbow Road)? Moonview Highway.

This was one of the first 'city' tracks I ever played in Mario Kart and god what an introduction. The layout, the changing scenery and driving terrain, the lighting, the different cars, THE MUSIC.

@Fizza I loved Moonview Highway as well! That's one of the courses I'd want to see make a comeback for the BCP. Mario Kart Wii had a lot of awesome tracks, honestly - Toad's Factory, DK Summit, Koopa Cape, and even Daisy Circuit are what I'd like to see too!

@Fizza I'd honestly prefer it over Wii Rainbow Road, Moonview Highway is a cool course that I didn't get to play much online. Most wanted Wii track would be DK's Snowboard Cross.

The Rainbow Road I'd like to see the most is Super Circuit's one. It was a really cool touch that a number of tracks were inspired by Paper Mario, the ones that come to mind are:

• GBA Boo Lake
• GBA Rainbow Road
• GCN Dry Dry Desert (we already have this in MK8)
• Wii Dry Dry Ruins

Super Circuit was developed by Intelligent Systems so the Paper Mario crossover was kind of like how Retro Studios developing MK7 resulted in 3DS DK Jungle.

Next track for Tour is GBA Bowser Castle 3:

Sadly the track doesn't have the unique background the GBA original and Wii remaster has.

Next tour track is N64 Luigi Raceway, Tour now has all the tracks that appeared in MK7 except Melody Motorway/Music Park, DK Jungle and the 2 Wuhu tracks.

The Mii racing suits trailer just confirmed SNES Ghost Valley 2 for the current tour (previously it was only known N64 Luigi Raceway was being added). Nice seeing the MKWii retro tracks are being delved into a lot more recently.

Well we have a release window now at least! Can't say we had that for the last one....

Also, one thing I noticed when rewatching the trailer was this moment right here:

ARE THEY BRINGING THE TRICK RAMPS FROM WII BACK!? IN THAT CASE, DK SNOWBOARD CROSS PLEASE.

@Fizza I can already tell that I'm gonna love, love, love Merry Mountain! It looks like such a fun course and I love the holiday theme. I did see there's a train chugging around the course, I could imagine Toads riding it, and they'd throw in presents that contain coins or items. Peach Gardens is one of my favorites, as well.

@MarioLover92 I cannot get enough of Christmas-themed levels. Especially around Christmas, they fill me with so much serotonin from just the sight of them. I can't wait for the music as well, we caught a tiny snippet of it in the trailer and it sounds great. Any Christmassy game music makes me happy though, I have an entire YT playlist dedicated to songs like that XD

Honestly, I didn't even react with Wave 3 announcement like the additional tracks should be for next Mario Kart game, not for 8 Deluxe.
I already lost the enthusiast about this game.
This is one of Nintendo's strategy that I do not like honestly, brought back the attention of the game that already 5 years old since Switch release and add something unnecessary that can be done for next installment.

@Fizza Oh I agree for sure, I love Christmas-themed levels as well. Makes me feel all festive and everything, lol! I also love listening to snow music from various Mario games while I decorate for Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised if Merry Mountain turns out to be my favorite course from wave 3... it probably will be! <3

@Fizza About DK Summit/DK's Snowboard Cross...

Peach Gardens is an odd one, it's a good track but given the gradual difficulty increase for the Booster Course Pass it suggests the only possible remaining DS track that could be added is Airship Fortress given Bowser Castles have been avoided so far for MK8 (like the base game got Grumble Volcano and Wii U DLC got Koopa City instead) and Rainbow Road seems to be picked in such a way that the GCN and DS ones stand no chance of appearing. Hopefully a 2nd Booster Course Pass happens which adds tracks like DK Pass and Luigi's Mansion.

Merry Mountain is cool and it's fantastic to see half-pipes return given a bunch of Wii tracks used them (DK's Snowboard Cross, Koopa Cape, Maple Treeway, Dry Dry Ruins, Bowser's Castle, Rainbow Road).

So if they're adding half pipes to the game now, can they please put them back in Coconut Mall?

@Anti-Matter To each their own. Feel free to sit back and wait for MK 9, but you're going to be waiting for a long time. The rest of us will enjoy the 48 new tracks. Which BTW costs me nothing anyway since I have the NSO Expansion Pack. I personally could care less about MK 9(or 10 if tour is 9) right now. 8 is old yes, but is still a beast and has aged very well.

Switch news section has returned to posting about the Booster Course Pass tracks:

• September 17th - Tour New York Minute
• September 23rd - SNES Mario Circuit 3

So with this pattern continued (September 17th rather than September 16th was likely a result of real life events):

• September 30th - N64 Kalimari Desert
• October 7th - DS Waluigi Pinball
• October 14th - Tour Sydney Sprint
• October 21st - GBA Snow Land
• October 28th - Wii Mushroom Gorge
• November 4th - Sky High Sundae

Final wave 1 course appeared in Switch news section a month before wave 2 released so we're probably looking at early December release for wave 3.