Mario Kart Tour is bringing its Mario Tour to a close and is ready to introduce its next update to players next week. This time, the game is ready to don its headbands and shurikens with the Ninja Tour, which starts on March 22nd, 2023 and is set to last until April 4th, 2023.
The tour will bring another Wii course back into the fold, reintroducing Dry Dry Ruins from Mario Kart Wii after being absent from the series since 2008. If you're wondering whether you'll be able to dress your Mii up in an accompanying costume, then you're in luck, as the update will also add a Pokey-themed suit with its latest Mii Racing Suit wave.
While the Mario Tour is wrapping up, the MAR10 Day celebrations are continuing with some tasty eShop discounts on Mario titles in North America. We've listed all eligible games for your convenience, so be sure to check that out.
Will you be checking out the Ninja Tour when it kicks off next week? Let us know with a comment down below.
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This game greatly improved over the years.
Although I'm still avoiding to go back to it because gacha games are designed to feel like your second job and take too much of your time that should go to other games.
Very happy with the game. Haven't spent a penny but don't feel like I'm missing out, and certainly doesn't feel like a 2nd job.
I need to get back into this game. I used to play daily for a few minutes during break but then Marvel Snap came out.
@victordamazio Didn't they get rid of practically all gacha elements?
I do hope this comes to the Booster Course Pass but not holding my breath because Koopa Cape and Rainbow Road are much more popular Wii tracks. Wii tracks so far in the pass have been the extremely popular ones.
@lighteningbolt79 It's unfortunate how many people are missing out on Tour because of it being a mobile game (I'd love if it were also on Switch like the Pokémon ones), the gacha elements (which are practically gone like @Yhdekskymmenen said), the "daily missions" (there are barely any, you can mostly play it at your own pace) etc. because there are parts of it (e.g. the combo based gameplay instead of just getting 1st place, character exclusive items) that I prefer to regular Mario Kart!
So happy Wii Dry Dry Ruins got added to at least Tour, it's such a fun track!
@Grumblevolcano Yeah, unfortunately I really doubt it will come to the Booster Course Pass, not only because the tracks you mentioned are more popular, but also and especially because Koopa Cape is in the banner leak and according to the prefix leak the only other spot left for a Wii track is at the end of the last cup so Rainbow Road makes way more sense there. The only chance would be if some of the unlabeled tracks end up being retro ones that they simply didn't decide on at the time instead of a nitro non-city course.
@Yhdekskymmenen They removed the random paid prizes, but there are still random free prizes, and the game is still designed to make the player play every day, if they don't, they will miss progress, rewards are still given to the player like a dog getting treats.
ninja hideaways my fav tour track
enjoying the game, but if my favourite characters come to Mario Kart 8 I think I'll stop playing.
@victordamazio Doesn't the word "gacha" refer to those capsule toy machines you pay money for to receive a random prize? Getting random rewards for free every now and then sounds like something different.
@Yhdekskymmenen The gacha people like to bash MKT on is paying the higher value in game currency (in this game's case, Rubies) to get a random item even though they got rid of that completely MONTHS ago.
@victordamazio The only thing you have to do daily is literally one race and while I agree that the game still has "gacha" elements in the sense you mentioned I also agree with @Yhdekskymmenen that usually people refer to paying money for a random prize when complaining about "gacha" in (mobile) games and they got rid of it months ago as @That1Toad64 said, too.
If Tour is not for you because of that and/or other reasons that's fair, but let's be precise when talking about what any game is about.
@BASEDSAKRI that is an approved opinion
@JohnnyMind You nailed it. Mario Kart Tour is literally free fun Nintendo content updated every two weeks. And the touch controls, while certainly not as enjoyable as a controller, are absolutely remarkable.
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