Mario Kart Tour Grants Access To A Track Unplayable Anywhere Else

Well at least the music of that track is in MK World

First line of the article reminded me of an Inbetweeners quote..... Being knee deep in Clunge

Sorry I guess our US readers may not get the reference 🤣

Seeing Petey Piranha in the article's thumbnail made me remember that court in Mario Slam Basketball / Mario Hoops 3 on 3 where the baskets were Petey Piranhas that hit you if you tried to dunk.

What a game that was

(9th of June isn't today.)

I've uninstalled Mario Kart Tour but I really enjoyed this track, and hoped it would make it to Wave 6 of the Booster Course Pass.

To be fair though, if it was a toss-up between this and Piranha Plant Cove... I'd probably still go for the latter with it being the most thematically different (we already had Piranha Plant Pipeway after all!)

Got really confused at first and thought this was about Piranha Plant Pipeway from MK7... they could have done with giving it a more different name!

I've played Mario Kart Tour at least a little bit once every few months since the fall of 2022, usually on vacations and stuff like that. Maybe I'll make time for this!

@Member_the_game I love Inbetweeners and Jay! 😂 Not sure I'd want him hitting on me lol, but he and the rest of the group are hilarious.

@Member_the_game
You’re definitely a Bus Stop Wan**r 🤣🤣🤣

Downloading it now b/c who knows when I'll get a Switch 2. And Hello Kitty Island Adventure worked well casting from my iPad to my TV and using my PS5 controller, so if this works the same, well that works for me.

Edit:

The good: Looks great on my 75" 4k TV cast from my iPad.
The bad: Nintendo, of all companies, sucks at making video games. There is no controller support in this game, after 6 years on the market. With all the controllers in the world currently available for mobile games what kind of incompetent nitwits don't have optional controller support in their game? Bunch of bozos.🤪

Still not enough to make me want to play Mario Kart with a touch screen! So shame it never came to the Booster Pack. Actually they could've put it in World instead of bringing back Sky High Sundae so soon

Tour is one of the best MK.

@PlatinumSeraph this is what taught me it’s called Pirahna Plant Pipeway in British English, so thank you!

Here in old ‘murica, it’s Piranha Plant Slide.

Shame there's no new content, but it's still a solid take on MK. I've put a ton of hours into it and only spent a few bucks in the gacha days more or less to throw some money for all the free enjoyment I've gotten. It's a way better game than everyone who joined the dogpile let on.

This course looks like an inferior version of Piranha Plant Slide, which is playable on Mario Kart 7 and 8.

One of the best things about graduating to Mario Kart World is that I no longer have to play those awful Tour courses in online races in MK8D 🤣. They were horrendously designed, you never knew which way you were supposed to be going.

@chriswashere313 no, they are quite different. Piranha Plant Slide is basically an underground 1-2 like track. Piranha Plant Pipeline on the other hand is a almost all tubes and has branching paths. Considering the booster pass was basically Mario Kart Tour Switch Edition, It's too bad this track didn't make the cut.

@Laurenzio I thought of Mario Sports Mix haha, but same idea!
@grumblevolcano Thanks for pointing this out!

I tried Tour years back on someone's phone and found the gameplay not to my taste - like most mobile games. So I won't be trying this course. Luckily I'm enjoying World a lot these days, despite being so very unfair, especially Knockout Tour!

It's actually technically not true that Piranha Plant Pipeline is only playable in Mario Kart Tour! There's a mod of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe called CTGP (Custom Track Grand Prix) that adds a bunch of new tracks to the game, and one of them is Piranha Plant Pipeline.

You’d think this track would be a great fit for World’s wall-riding mechanics, with you racing mostly on the inside of pipes much like some 3d F-Zero tracks.

I hope they’ve considered a way to fit more tracks in World. I’ve fallen off playing it since the devs nerfed the online random option. New tracks would provide some reason to come back, until I get sick again of driving them for only 1 lap per race.

My first online race in MKW ended in a communication error and I haven't picked it back up since.

@rjejr In my opinion there is something very much wrong with a mobile game if it needs a controller to be enjoyable. But then again, Mario Kart Tour is indeed quite awful.

I imagine this one'll be in World eventually. Koopa Beach getting a "night" remix in Free Roam suggests that track choices for DLC won't have to be courses skipped over in the jukebox selection (which, to be fair, would essentially boil down to a bunch of Bowser tracks, Tour cities, crossover courses, and a selection of stuff from Super Circuit outside of a few exceptions).

@KoopaTheGamer Mobile games need controllers b/c mobile games are games and games need controllers. There's a reason we've moved on from the 1 button Pong stick. Not saying mobile games need the touchscreen turned off, certain activities like inventory management and menu navigation can work well with a touchscreen. But that's not playing a game. Social media works well with a touchscreen as well, but it's not playing a game. 🤷‍♂️

@rjejr I personally believe that games should be made to work well on whatever device they are targeting. So mobile games should be built to work on touch screen (preferably both in landscape and portrait). Granted, making Mario Kart work well on touch screen would be next to impossible.

@KoopaTheGamer It is important that the game can run on the hardware it's targeting, but controllers have nothing to do with that. How many people do you know who game on laptops and PCs? How many people do you know who bought their laptop or PC bundled with a computer? I've purchased a lot of PCs and laptops over the past 30 years, both for myself and others, and not once did any of them come with a controller. And I did a lot of gaming on most of those, and my kid's as well, with a controller.

Controllers for mobile gaming are a thing. And Bluetooth controllers are a thing, I use my PS5 controller on my iPad cast to my TV.

Here's an article from 5 years ago in June 2020 about available gaming controllers for mobile. At this point if you're making a game on mobile w/o controller support, well what kind of "game" is it really? 🤷‍♂️ I suppose to be fair to Nintendo MK Tour is pre2020 but they should have added it by now. 😝

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/best-mobile-game-controllers-2020

@KoopaTheGamer I think the proportion of people with an iPad trying to play proper games without a controller is probably lower than you think. (Series X/Xbox One S/Pro Controller/Joycons/PS4/PS5/MiFi/luna controller are all supported.) Most people wanting to play a proper game are likely to have something suitable.

I don’t get why anyone wouldn’t. (Stuff like Netflix removing all the decent games is bad.)

But the Netflix version version of Hades played much better than the Switch one.

Prince of Persia the lost crown is much more pleasant to play on iPad (And only £7.99)

The best one though is Symphony of the Night which is only £2.99 and a great port. (Far better than the significantly more expensive 360 version on a Series X).

It's a shame the track didn't come to MK8 Deluxe and I really hope that Nintendo adds the track to World to prevent it from becoming lost media. I don't play Tour as I dislike its monetization mechanics but I do hope the "Stop Killing Games" initiative is successful, forcing Nintendo to create an offline version like they did with Pocket Camp.

@Olliemar28 There's an error in the final sentence, "Let us know with a comment if you plan on diving back in Mario Kart World to experience Piranha Plant Pipeline."

Bolded should be Tour.

@wanderwonder I discovered that while looking this up too! Some other fun ones are "Koopa City" for Neo Bowser City and "Wario's Galleon" for Wario's Shipyard.