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My gosh, they remastered the theme with trumpets, kept the sun setting at the beginning of the final lap and made the last part of the track non-flat. An inbetween with Mario Kart 8’s efforts that more affected the track layout but sometimes removed a few key parts (looking at you, Mousers and...

Well, wasn’t fully expecting it This is not on the level of Mario Kart 8 as the track looks flat, but at least they finally rememebered that this track exists! Little aside: it looks like the Native American Shy Guys were replaced with miners Shy Guys, for pretty obvious reasons...

Also, as the data mining had discovered a few months ago, Half Pipes finally returned after having been featured only in one game!

Yes, the track that cannot be released for reasons we mortals cannot grasp.

Super Bell Subway is possible, Toad’s Turnpike I see as something of the third year or after that - this year was dedicated to add support for half pipes so that Wii tracks could be added after the 1st Anniversary Tour, I can see them working this year to backport anti-gravity from MK8 which is...

All the tracks released so far had the Reverse and Trick variants, so we can expect those, it’s the Reverse/Trick variant that is not always released. As for the friend Coin, it’s more a feature to ping the other friends to show them that you’re alive and also to see who replies to know if and...

“Leaked”... I mean, they uploaded the sound track from Mario Kart Wii, an educated guess is that they’ll just reuse the original sound track because that’s what they’ve done so far. I’m wondering if they’ll reuse the Mario Kart 7 layout without any change or if they’ll readd the half pipes...

Back then Draggadons still inhabited the land and showed Rexes how wing size doesn’t matter when it comes to flying: But then one went to Pyropuff Peak, one went fossilized, the flying Blue Yoshi became a legend and their wings were lost in blocks. Rexes, only having regular Yoshis as fellow...

Well, that was from the game Yoshi, not from Super Mario World. You know, that game that featured plenty of Koopa Troopas... Anyway, Miyamoto wasn’t as involved in the final design of Yoshi (Tezuka was) and the guides from APE notoriously took many liberties in the illustrations accompanying the...

Basically, most tour-related aspects been improved: * daily login bonuses last for 14 days and give Normal, Super and High-End level-boost tickets * the event shop sells those as well, along with High-End points-cap tickets and the High-End driver, kart and glider you mentioned (along with the...

Yeah, but Coins can be bought with Rubies so they still have a monetary value, unlike Event Coins that are completely free.

The meme has been broken Diddy Kong is now available for free in the event shop, whose currency can’t be bought with real money. if you have a shelter, go there, the sky is going to fall on us. And if you don’t, to balance things out you’ll end up with two forced years of Nintendo Switch...

The artwork is based on Super Mario Kart I noticed that there are a few past spotlight drivers and city tracks in the background, maybe those can be expected, also lol at Egypt being mostly cut out of this picture... Little aside: DeNA aren’t the main developers and as such their involvement...

He even has a hand-drawn artwork! That Toad tho

I’d agree, but when I see this I kinda get stuck there, there’s already Mario Kart Tour that forces me to use everyone + dog + dog(biker) + gold dog

I think the drift sound effects is also from Super Mario Kart, their voices when selected are sound clips from Super Mario Kart. I like what they did with the animations following the style of Super Mario Kart even for the new ones, luckily the animation and sprite work of Super Mario Kart was...

Only if you give Yoshi legs, though. The first two Paper Mario did the magic, Nintendo can do too.

Apart that there is no current canon (to have an idea at how extraneous is the concept of canon in Mario games just look at Super Mario Odyssey putting Yoshi’s house near Super Mario 64 Peach’s Castle and then putting completely different surroundings to both), the DK Jr. sprite is a 16-bits...

This is the year 2020, Nintendo discovered that Mario Kart Tour’s pricing model is now one of the staples of the series. And since this is on Switch rather than mobile, the drivers cost $100 instead of $40. Can’t wait for the $50 Gold Glider physical DLC.

Every Mario Kart: Toad (and Yoshi) MKDD and MKW: Bowser Jr. too MK8: Ludwig and Morton are my mains before the usual two MK8 200cc: (with Bowser Kite)

Well, if anything we’ll have a new game in the Mario Kart 7 series! I wonder if the developers knew that the 3DS game would have been the skeleton of so many games... Still, I think the idea is pretty nice and fun (but the prices are absolutely out of control), I’m curious to see what the...

With it being 2.5D, you can expect not to see it in Super Mario 3D All-Stars, plus it was featured in the medley. Super Mario Galaxy 2, on the other hand...

Remember when I talked about how they had recently introduced a new Yoshi design that, despite small changes, looks more similar to the original design? Judge by yourselves:

Well, my main thought Super Mario Galaxy 2 was a mistake. It is only for Yoshi fans who simply can't stop contemplating the beautiful animation of him going backward when he drags things with his tongue. Seriously though, it's lolful that it wasn't even featured in the medley, even if I...

Color me surprised

The design of Luigi’s Mansion King Boo has the crown of LM3 King Boo, so I think that game was already covered. Paper Mario is a much more complex story: Mario Kart: Super Circuit was developed by Intelligent System, hence the references to Paper Mario’s Peach’s Castle as an example. On the...

In a quite surprising twist, city tracks are back with Tokyo Blur 3. Daisy with a Cheep Cheep mask too.

I don’t mind the lava theme too much and I like when developers go the extra mile when remaking a track, especially so in a game that is known to favor SNES and N64 courses since they are easy to remake, but I’m surprised that they didn’t follow the Ruined Kingdom theme, since that track was...

To be fully fair, the site explicitly says that phones with just 1 GB of RAM aren’t supported, consequently they rejected my ticket about the game going out of memory. The game isn’t even supposed to run on my phone, so I’m already lucky that I can still compete in ranked cups without spending...

With the 2.4.0 update, more RAM is used (and CPU as well if you use the dynamic switch between portrait and landscape), this makes the game perform worse on older phones. With an iPhone 6, you need to use Power Saving mode to be able to finish some races, otherwise the game uses so much RAM...

DS Airship Fortress coming back! Also, an alt that is likely Pirate Mario Pirate Goomba Pirate Bowser Jr.? The hair is suspicious (From here, if you want to know the source of the picture)

I just realized that since that ending shows the stats of the tour and the most used drivers and karts (in my case Gold Dry Bones took the spotlight, with a little focus on Dry Bowser as well), it can be considered the return of the victory ceremony that had been absent since Mario Kart 7. Well...

In short: Super Mario Kart: interesting realistic mechanics that are sadly undocumented and make playing the game way more difficult than it should be, also way too fast AI with special items and very few themes. Didn’t age too well and is not very approachable by new players. Mario Kart 64...

New special item never seen before coming up, too. And Monty Mole is now part if the main roster, with its own cup. They are likely getting things ready for the anniversary with quite a few goodies.

Too bad that Yoshi was then given shoes That a Starfox 2 developer confirmed he made the tool is very important, it confirms that the leak isn’t lolmadeup content by someone with a lot of creativity...

That one, yes, one of the clips was Iggy's battle in Super Mario World.

Well, there’s no indication that Miyamoto created the Koopalings though, those sketches with the Koopalings were from Kotabe and Tezuka, the latter was indeed the enemy designer of Super Mario Bros. 3.

Between third and fourth option. It’s not going to change and I’m not going to pretend they still are Bowser’s children in the current games, but after seeing their concept artwork (which was actually that of Bowser’s redesign), the change still doesn’t make sense to me. They were conceived as...

Ok, now jokes aside, landscape mode with classic controls works much better for me as I no longer reach the border of the screen while trying to widen or sharpen the various drifts. Plus you usually need to see where the turns go much more than where the track goes upward or downward. My only...

Well, better late than never Plus, in landscape mode there will be an option to have the left half of the screen dedicated exclusively to the control of the kart and the right half reserved to item use. Imagine this game with the defensive items no longer accidentally dropped in front of the...

That gun was very frustrating though - he literally never fired it, so even a pair of scissors would have been more menacing at that point.

In any case, sorry if I’m repetitive on that, but let’s not forget that Color Splash had EXP: the hammer scraps were exactly that as you only got them by battling, and when you filled the hammer bar through them you increased a stat: max paint available. As useless as max paint could be...

Well, that's what it was. In hindsight, it's not surprising that they are going with N64 tracks, many of them have a very low poly count, providing a simple layout on which you can then build more or less depending on current resources, in this case they had quite a few resources and managed to...

Aaaand, Mario Kart Tour just keeps on delivering, it now has an official music video, watch it at your own risk:

So, the Exploration Tour was announced, one track that will be added is N64 Choco Mountain, but this one? It doesn’t match any previous mountain-themed track. Nitro track? Heavily reworked Wii Wario’s Gold Mine? As an aside, since the Ice Tour support for half pipes was added, complete with...

Well, I liked Mario’s lines in Super Mario Sunshine (why they were cut???) and the voice acting as a whole, regardless of how we rate it nowadays, was memorable (I am your mama?), but let’s not forget the Super Mario Advance games! Ultimately, as even the Mario Kart games showed, the Mario...

I do have that book, but haven’t scanned yet. I have to choose what parts I should upload, plus the lack of Baby Luigi puts a dent in the merit of the book as a whole...

Thanks for the tip! It actually makes the story even more interesting, as SNES Yoshi’s Cookie is where this sprite design effectively first appeared, but in the bigger sprites the design was definitively the SMW one. So where do the small ones come from? Considering how apparently they served as...

Let’s continue my (useless) insight into the development of Yoshi’s design! Although Yoshi’s modern design can be seen in many early N64 games, including Mario Kart 64, it’s not too far-fetched to say that Yoshi’s modern design debuted in Yoshi’s Story, his modern voice for sure did, and...