Poll: What’s Your Favourite New Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC Track In Wave 6?

there should be an option to vote for Funky Kong's voice.

I think I'm leaning Rosalina's Ice World but it's a very strong lineup in general, might be the strongest set of the DLC.

I need to play them more to give a definitive answer but currently I'd say Bowsers Castle 3 simply because it is such a highspeed track at 200cc with great flow. And the music is great

Also I'm not someone who cares about graphics that much but just compare Bowsers Castle 3 to Mario Circuit 3 in Wave 2, both are SNES tracks but the difference is like night and day

DK Mountain, but that Bowser Castle is close second.

To be fair Bowsers Castle 3 is the one that they put the most work in besides the new track. So it’s deserved

Surprisingly, Bowser's Castle 3. I am normally not a big fan of these older Bowser's Castle, but this one has been updated to make it so much more fun. Overall, this is a really strong final wave, especially the Spiny Cup.

My ranking of these 8 would be:

1. Bowser's Castle 3
2. Rainbow Road
3. Rosalina's Ice World
4. DK Mountain
5. Madrid Drive
6. Rome Avanti
7. Piranha Plant Cove
8. Daisy Circuit

Never heard of Toad Madrid Drive. Is it like Madrid Drive but with more Toads?

I decided to put motion controls on and played Wii Rainbow Road last night, I felt transported back to being 8 years old, but with a little bit more skill. Also loved to see your character still burns up in the atmosphere when they fall off Rainbow Road, just as on Wii.

I had never play Rosalina's circuit, but boy did I expect better music than this. Coming from Mario Galaxy, there was so many great tunes to use...

For sure Bowser's Castle is my favourite, a really basic track turned into something really great, wall railing what a cool addition!

Bowser Castle 3 for the simple fact that we finally have another Bowser Castle in MK8. It's really disappointing to me that we have FIVE RAINBOW ROADS yet only TWO BOWSER'S CASTLES.

Would have really liked GCN, DS, or 7's Bowser Castle...

Not decided yet, but there's one thing I realized, once again: I hate the way the MK Tour courses are designed to differ between laps. It's so lazy and "gamey" with these arrow barriers. Do it with buildings and structures, if you have to! But I don't like the general idea of ever changing courses either, it really goes against what makes a racing game: By repeating several laps you get a chance to memorize the course and get better from lap to lap. Here you're just reacting, most of the time. Blegh.

Honestly, SNES Bowser's Castle 3. That one just got a really good glow up and it's a really fun track.

Who voted for Daisy circuit? Hang your head in shame 😂😂 one of the most boring tracks me and my wife have played. Rainbow road, DK and the Ice one are also great but the soundtrack to Bowsers castle is banging so it gets my top spot.

Bowser Castle 3. I wish we had also got Ghost Valley, Choco Island, Koopa Beach and Vanilla Lake during the last year. Instead, we received very bad (in my opinion) new circuits such as Squeaky Clean Sprint and Sky-High Sundae. I prefer fast and fun circuits over tacky childish ones, and SNES rules supreme. Maybe it's all because I grew up playing the older, more hardcore entries, but Mario Kart 64 and Double Dash have excellent tracks.

Nintendo included a lot of Mario Kart Tour and Mario Kart 7 padding because they didn't have to update the graphics, but the 3DS circuits are better in stereoscopic 3D. They have also destroyed some of my favourite circuits ever such as Choco Mountain and DK Mountain. Overall, I'm disappointed.

@NintendoWife Couldn't disagree more, and the changing tracks is an addition that most people really like. It adds a bit of variety and helps showcase even more of the cities in the Tour tracks, plus a few changes in older courses that helps them feel a bit more unique.

Obv love Dk mountain and BC3 (and wii RR), but voted for madrid driv,e because for a city track it does every right i think...

@lightningbolt79 Yeah I was afraid that would be the case. Guess I'm out of touch then. I've been revisiting Double Dash lately and I like it so much better. Makes me hope they'll, for once, strip some features from the next MK game instead of piling up. But that will never happen of course.

MK8 is great, one of the best MK's. But I have a few gripes. The lame way of changing routes via arrow barriers. Underwater driving is no fun at all, just slow aimless bumbling. Tracks are often too wide (btw. DK Mountain feels scaled up, turns used to be tight). Items are not as satisfying to use as in earlier games. Many many revisited courses are far inferior to their originals. If you think Baby Park is fun on Switch you have no idea. And after so many years of playing the same game it's become clear that more courses can only do so much to pull you back in. If gameplay always stays the same... in short, it's time for a new MK. And imo they can't keep everything MK8 had. Shell dangling, tricks, antigrav, flying, underwater, slipstream, ... these things define gameplay, so if the next one is to feel fresh, some things may have to go.

@NintendoWife I completely agree with that, so not everyone disagrees with you. Mario Kart Double Dash is extremely fun to play and has quite realistic physics that makes Mario Kart 8 seem like the vehicles are glued to the ground. Underwater and flying sections aren't particularly fun either, unlike in other games such as Diddy Kong Racing and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.

@Banjo- Exactly! Aah a fellow DD fan. That game feels so good, weighty powerslides, or hitting someone with a lucky green shell.. ah another little detail: Items don't disappear as fast as in MK8. So in combination with the character specific items (bananas!) you could totally litter a track which was hilarious. That's the thing, DD makes me laugh even when I'm losing because all hell broke loose all of a sudden.

When I'm reading reviews of the MK8 course expansions they usually dislike the tracks I like and vice versa. They say "boring" when it's a traditional racing course, and they love the 'spectacle' kind of tracks (where you do a lot of flying and stuff which is actually totally passive). New generation.

@NintendoWife And, because of that and the unique items, Baby Park in Mario Kart Double Dash is hilarious, no matter what your position is, which is saying something because I've never been a fan of the spiny shell, but huge bananas and a gigantic Bowser's shell spinning out of control in a 7-lap race is something to behold. Also, driving down DK Mountain (in Mario Kart Double Dash) is a total blast and one of the best gameplay moments in the whole series.

The city courses need virtual arrow-barriers, rather than physical barriers, because cars on older laps need to be able to go through the arrows and see their own view of the lap they're on. If it was a big building suddenly in the way then the players on the old lap layout wouldn't be able to race the correct route.

FWIW I like the old style SNES courses that are pure racing. Something like the Donut Plains one, not part of the DLC, where they just added a touch of water, or the Mario Circuit 3 DLC one that was a straight port of the SNES track into MK8 with no fancy additions. Although I also appreciate the new Bowser Castle one as well, they really spruced it up. The GBA tracks are unrecognizable from their original appearance. I feel like I should go back and dig out the old SNES, GBA, DS and 3DS Kart games to see what the original tracks were like.

My favorite track, for each cup would be...

Acorn Cup: DK Mountain
Spiny Cup: Bowser’s Castle 3

Bower Castle 3 for sure.

Bowsers Castle 3, with Rainbow Road Wii and DK Mountain close behind. The music is so good in BC3, and I love all the details and updates. Rainbow Road, like all the others in the game, is beautiful.

Daisy Circuit is offensively dull, and the Rome Tour tech brings nothing to the table. The Madrid one is meh but at least that football field provides something unexpected for five seconds

@martynstuff The Toads bup along to the music

Bowser Castle 3 is the most impressive Bowser Castle yet.

Rainbow Road Wii is my fav mostly because I have such good memories with it and it makes the transition so well, but every course here is great in my opinion, even the Tour tracks. Arguably the best Wave is right here

I am just wondering if it was just so much easier to port the Tour tracks (Cities) and those plain ones such as Wii Daisy Circuit into MK8 rather than those like Wario Collosseum, Dino DIno Jungle or Airship Fortress, or if it there was another reason for those tracks to take the spot instead. Because they kept being the worst reviewed and received in every wave while leaving out amazing fan favorite tracks out.
Hey all in all I cannot complain, 48 new mostly great tracks for a god knows how old game. Just sad those were left out for boring and plain ones

It's a tough call, but I think DK Mountain is my favorite track of the final wave.

@martynstuff LOL!

Besides Rainbow Road Wii being the perfect finale for the Booster Pass and Mario Kart 8D in general, I particularly like Piranha Plant Cove so far. Fun layout, the nighttime beach+water theme is really cool, and it feels like Petey Piranha's own course because of his emblem all over the course plus the presence of Pianta spectators. I think they should have named it Petey Piranha Cove, to differentiate it from 3DS Piranha Plant Slide in the base MK8D game.

rosalina's ice world for me. ( mainly nostalgia ) but i really think that the graphics are gorgeous and the music isnt worse than the original tracks music ( looking at you coconut mall, daisy circuit, peach gardens, los angeles laps, the one with the tulips, koopa cape and rock rock mountain which have imo the worst remixes u could think of:( which is sad because the soundtrack to me personnaly is my favorite part of a great track. having the insanely good saxophone in big blue and the catchy rock vibes snes bc3 has imo makes these tracks become some of our favs for a reason. u have every right to disagree with me. i just would of wished that we could of had the original soundtracks unlockable in the music menu. also that we could switch the speed to last lap of the soundtracks bcuz in the original mk ds imo peach gardens in last lap is the best soundtrack ive ever heard. anyhoo thx if youve read this god awefully spelled paragraph( the self correct feature is off bcuz im french and the crazy phone always wants to correct my words to french lol

I just reached my wit's end with the rubber-banding. It's miserable to play Mario Kart well.

@NintendoWife The game should control well enough and telegraph hazards etc well enough that you could win first place the first time you play a track. Memorization should really just be a natural occurence that you use to get better and better times. That's how I feel, at least.

I wasn't particularly wowed by the tracks. I guess Wii Rainbow Road is my favourite by default, and I liked the new Tour tracks by virtue of providing something a little different, but it's ultimately still the same old Mario Kart that I have been playing for nearly a decade, and new tracks/characters alone aren't merely enough to keep it fresh for so long. Some new power-ups or a return of Double Dash's dual-racing gimmick could have gone a really long way.

Really, the biggest highlight of Wave 6 was the addition of Pauline, but they could have saved all of this content for the next game instead (which I fear will be barebones, Mortal Kombat style, supplemented with wave after wave of overpriced DLC).

From 2001-2011, we got no less than FIVE new Mario Kart games (Super Circuit, Double Dash, DS, Wii, 7). SEVEN if you count the two Arcade GP games. And I overwhelmingly would have preferred playing ports of those over MK8D DLC as they all have something a little different to offer. Hell, a double-pack of the Arcade GP games would have been more exciting.

Meanwhile...

@LikelySatan Mostly it does “telegraph” the route, sure. But I don’t feel I can develop an understanding of those courses well, even over time. And as you replay MK this used to happen.

@NintendoWife I BELIEVE IN YOUUUUUUU

As someone who played Mario Kart since it's first game, I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE what they did with Bowser's Castle 3, and the updated theme song for it took me by storm!

Awesome job Nintendo! ❤️👍🏽

@LikelySatan I didn’t mean to describe that as a problem - rather that I’m not enjoying these courses as much as a result.

DK Mountain by a whisker from Bowser Castle 3 for me. Just too many fond memories of DK Mountain to not get the nod, even though it is Bowser Castle 3 that has impressed the most.