Today's long-awaited Mario Kart announcement finally pulled into the pitstop! Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 2 has arrived and brought with it a host of iconic circuits that we have never had to chance to race on Switch. One of the new additions, however, is Sky-High Sundae — an entirely original track that will be landing as a part of Wave 2 on August 4th.
Quick into action, Nintendo has already begun sharing details of this sweet-looking course. The tweet below showcases some of the delightful sugary sights that we are going to be racing past next week. The ice cream theme is so in your face that we are almost suffering from brain freeze!
It looks so tasty, we could eat it! There's chocolate dripping down and ice lollies adorning the sky, and it all looks awfully colourful too. There's even an ice bar at the starting line.
But that's not all from Nintendo on Sky-High Sundae (where was this mushroom-boosted speed when we were awaiting the announcement?) as the Big N also shared that will be entirely driven using Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's anti-gravity mode. Better watch out for some ice-cold collisions and slippery slopes on this one.
The all-new track — which will also be joining Mario Kart Tour in the future — comes alongside classic returners Mushroom Gorge and Waluigi Pinball among others. For all information on the latest Booster Course Wave news, be sure to check out our complete rundown here.
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Are you excited about the new wave? Get your engines started down in the comments and let us know!
[source twitter.com]
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Woo this track uses the antigrav mode the whole time? Oh yeah that is gonna be fun! Cute theme as well.
It's really nice that one of these tracks is finally using anti-grav. It looks really well-designed as well.
Something fresh frozen that even Gordon Ramsay could be proud of.
Sweet Sweet Canyon? What happened to you?!
This proves that if we're lucky we may even see some original tracks coming soon too, hopefully some arcade tracks in there as well. While this new tracks looks good, its theme isn't quite that original since track based on junk food already exist in the base courses.
Please do not refreeze your ice cream after it melts because Listeria.
It looks to be all high speed anti gravity antics with no guardrails. Absolute chaos.
I'm sorry, but the textures look terrible.
I'm glad they have a new course. It's a surprise since I was only expecting retro courses.
Then again, this whole DLC was a nice surprise.
Pretty solid set. New track looks fun and Kalimari Desert, Waluigi Pinball, Mushroom Gorge, and Snow Land are all good ones to bring back.
This is a pleasant surprise! Way to inject new life into Mario Kart 8’s longetivity. This will only prolong sales and make it more distinct than the Wii U version. We don’t need a Mario Kart 9 as this is shaping to be the ultimate version if new tracks are available!
I actually really like the old SNES-style tracks, they are always the purest racing.
It looks like a fun stage, based off of what they showed. I'm looking forward to trying it out, once it's released.
@d-slice
I think this is new in the same way Ninja Hideaway was (although, obviously ignoring that this hasn't been in MK Tour yet). I'm fairly sure this course has been datamined in MK Tour for a while now and is obviously going to be added there in a future update so they probably designed in for MK Tour, but for whatever reasons, it just hasn't been added yet.
I wouldn't go around expecting any more "new" courses considering this has been datamined in MK Tour.
1. I'm very happy that the dev team remembered anti-grav racing exists in this game, because all the Wave 1 tracks clearly forgot.
2. Mario Kart 8 is now one step closer to being Sugar Rush from Wreck It Ralph.
The starting line is a freezer. Perfect.
Constant anti-gravity on a track that'll eventually be added to Tour is extremely interesting. I've heard a few people already say it here but maybe this means that anti-grav will be added to Tour alongside this track? One can hope.
once all the tracks are out random worldwides will actually be fun again cause there will be so many tracks in the rotation
Giving me Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs vibes. N-ice!
Isn't this track from Wreck It Ralph?
I'm genuinely shocked no other course has used antigrav for the entire track.
Here's hoping for a brand new track with each wave
based on how it said "- A new Ice cream themed course"
https://www.resetera.com/threads/unannounced-mario-kart-8-dlc-tracks-leaked-via-datamine.563635/ this leak is confirmed true
@lighteningbolt79 there is actually a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen in the trailer that says the course will be coming to Mario Kart Tour at a later date. So yeah, not exclusive to MK8D but still fun to get it here.
I don’t really like food-themed levels in video games. But this one looks fun.
Schrodinger’s video gamer…. How is it possible to be excited and not excited at the same time? Only Nintendo could swing this. One the one hand, it’s more content for my favorite franchise and game of all time. It’s reasonably priced.
Otoh, this is so lazy. Even the new tracks don’t have the same textures as the original 48. This should have been released 2-3 years ago and we should be looking forward to a proper Mario Kart for the Switch. {{{{{Sigh}}}}}
@RareFan
This game is 8 years old. What more do you expect?
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