How Baby Park Evolved In Mario Kart | Level By Level 

14:44 If you want to watch me completely ruin a computer's day 🔥

Another thing about 8 Deluxe, the dice blocks rotate around the track and get more separated as it goes on, making everyone get the items at different times.

Baby Park is that one track everybody says and believes they hate but when playing they actually have a great time

Honestly, as I've only ever played the DS version, I didn't even know it was supposed to be a theme park.

I think a key reason why Baby Park has always stood out for me is that Baby Park is designed around items being the focus of the experience rather than the track design itself. Basically every Mario Kart track to ever exist has had the design of the track as the focus of the gameplay experience for players with items serving as additional hazards to spice things up and to keep things interesting. Baby Park on the other hand has a track design that is purposefully simple which serves to enhance the chaos of the items which make the track chaos. This is why Baby Park works in Double Dash and 8/8 Deluxe but not really in DS in my opinion and I’m far from the only one to hold that opinion. DS had a much more simplistic item system by comparison (likely due to limitations) and so Baby Park lost its charm and as a result the simplistic nature of the track becomes obvious. Really nice video btw! I really enjoyed it!:D

This track is the closest we’ll ever get to a Nascar track in Mariokart (if only they turned left outside of mirror mode)

I think another idea for a level by level episode is comparing recurring tracks/themes throughout the Mario Kart series. Evolutions of Mario Circuit, Bowser's Castle and Rainbow Road, and maybe character specific theme levels like Yoshi and Wario.

It's interesting to see the evolution of such a unique track

Tour’s version is a combination of all three other versions, it has the aesthetics and layout of 8, the lap count of DS, and the item chaos of Double Dash. Tour also has three variants of Baby Park. Reverse, which adds a few dash panels and ramps (as the track would normally just be the exact same as the original if the only change was going in reverse), trick, which also adds ramps but also makes the track longer on both ends (reducing the lap count to three in the process), and reverse/trick, which changes the layout into a figure 8 with some ramps (for the same reasons as the reverse variant).

You know you’re watching a good channel when you’re still interested in minute 15 of a Baby Park video

Who else is excited for new characters in the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC

Baby Park is a track in the Mario Kart series. You know, the karting game with Super Mario in it.

I was just watching one of your videos! Thanks for this!

I think it would’ve been interesting for you to look at the Tour version too, and how the T variant makes it a figure 8, instead of an oval. Also, even though it’s not official, you could’ve also included the CTGP version in MKWii.

You know it would be cool if the rollercoaster could hit you when it passed by and if maybe there would be a few items already on the track maybe even fake item boxes exclusive to this track

Funny how *Tricky Nick* made a *Baby Park* video a few days ago *I guess talking about Baby Park is very topical right now* 💀

Wow, that's a video idea I was not expecting... Great vid Odyssey!

I find it Mario Kart DS' rendition so interesting with how much worse it is. It's the exact same layout but the limitations needing small parts of what makes this track special to be constantly taken away is why the other 2 are leagues ahead.

4:23-4:27 Mario Kart Tour brought this back Also, shout outs to Tour's Trick and Reverse/Trick Versions of GCN Baby Park

“Erm, acktually, it’s an oval and err, not a circle”🤓☝️

Despite the fact that there are 3 baby parks, they are all so different! Gcn was chaotic, Switch has high quality, and DS we don’t speak of

You ended up somewhat addressing this in the outro, but I was already planning on making this comment, so I'm gonna still do it anyway to boost engagement. It would have been interesting to look at some of the other versions of Baby Park. The Tour version is interesting because while it loses the anti-gravity from 8 Deluxe it regains the character specific items from Double Dash as well as having the possibility of up to three items per character allowing for even more, bigger items than 8 Deluxe. Additionally, the tour variants, while they lose what made the original track so special (it's simplicity) are still fun and interesting in their own way by adding just a touch more chaos. I think the regular version of the track in Tour is still the best, but the variants work better than I thought they would when I saw it was being added. Something I didn't think of until you mentioned it though is how the game play change affects the quality of the Tour tracks. In Tour the goal is not to come in first, but rather to earn as many points as you can. Granted, coming in first is worth so many points that you should absolutely be trying to do that anyway, but it means that you can't just make a beeline for the finish, you have to stop to try to trick off of things and hit opponents with items. I can't tell how I feel about how this would affect Baby Park's ranking in Tour. On the one hand, there's nothing to trick off of except in the Tour variants, so you have to earn most of your points using items. On the other hands, this means spamming items is much more encouraged, making the track even more chaotic. However, there's one more version of Baby Park (that I know of) and that's the version from Mario Sports Mix. I think it would have been really interesting to compare this one to the others and talk about if it manages to live up to the hype of it's Mario Kart inspiration. Personally, I think it loses what made the Kart version so special, but I haven't thought about it very hard.

Great video! I also personally love baby park (except DS lmao) so it was cool to see a level by level on it 👍

I swear i had the weirdest ‘baby park themed’ dream ever 3-5 years ago and just remembered it now, thank you and great video

Baby Park is one of the Mario kart tracks

That first clip transition using two Marios to represent Double Dash was a genius move that not enough people are gonna appreciate Edit: upside-down Mario to represent anti-grav. Man, do I love the attention to detail here.

I think you are missing 1 more important thing about Baby Park's MK8 version which is the Deluxe version recently added customizing items in which you can choose which item you want to be used in a race which means you can actually create MKDD's craziness with items that make their version chaotic, and since more items are likely to be added which means the track COULD likely be more chaotic than ever.

You can make baby park even crazier in mk8 deluxe by using the new custom item selecting mode

Yes Baby Park is a very enjoyable course… except for in Mario Kart DS!

Baby park's background really evolved... *baby pink gold peach statue in the bg* me: oh shi-

they changed the red and blue floor because in the mk8 version the entire track is on a seesaw, so the colors devide the two sides of the seesaw (even though it doewsnt move).

I think it's so wholesome that you and your dad play MK together :) Used to do that with my dad and aunt all the time, I miss it 💕

I think you should also mentioned Wave 3's best update, the ability to customize the items that you pick. So you can single out lame coins away and feel fre to have blue shell and bullet bills only track.

I've never noticed the baby pink gold peach before. Now I will never unsee it. Thanks.

Hear me out, this could've been improved in 8 deluxe with a brand new path either on the rollercoaster or in the theme park using the arrows from the tour tracks.

Get ready for someone to say: “Where’s the Tour version of Baby Park?! 😭 This is clickbait!!!11!”

Baby park is the definition of a love hate relationship for me

Pure chaos sums it up pretty well

Omg I saw an odyssey central mario kart video and this is a good day now

Baby park is just a circle but the items make me rage

love your level by level videos was wondering if you can do an episode on sonic cuz some of those levels are really good and would love to see your opinions on some of the levels in the sonic series you could even do like a racing level by level with the sonic racing games

4:26 Mario kart tour: allow me to introduce myself

Something i wish existed in MK8DX was being able to set custom lap counts to non-city/non-one lap tracks

excitebike arena is just baby park on steroids

“Wario Stadium has 2 laps, since it was so massive.” I agree, but how about N64 Rainbow Road? I’m surprised that track didn’t have 2 laps, as well! Such a hugely missed opportunity in MK8 to make such an exceptional change.

Can't believe you didn't mention luigi's mansion being in the background in the 8 version....

Wow! How can such a simple track go through so many changes over the years? It’s simultaneously amazing and absurd!

I also don’t like how he doesn’t show the entire level by level tier list anymore, but I understand because it is way too big

I always get immensely when a RU-vidr talks about anything Double Dash related (nostalgia reasons)

Great video! Honestly since it's baby park, I would have expected a shorter video.... Also baby park is the only reason we have baby versions of the characters

Baby Park may be chaotic, but SRB2Kart has Roundabout. It's essentially if Baby Park was even smaller and had 20 laps. I even changed the music to be THE WORLD REVOLVING from Deltarune and made the final lap track to be that one part of a Dark Souls 3 boss theme.

This is perfect for the 'level by level'

Unsure if Odyssey will read this, but i had been imagining wildly if Snes Mario circuit 1 was the one added instead of 3, but i imagined it with lotsa twists, like i imagined that its 5 laps and that the first is normal but in the 2nd at the half of the track there is a detour to a brand new u-turn that returns to the track but backwards and its one way in which then by crossing the start makes it lap 3 and turns out the second half has been elevated and put in a slanted angle, turning it an anti-gravity section (with a replacement one placed were it originally stood) , quickly turn back into that new u turn but now it goes back to the regular track below which the racers couldn't go to before in lap 2 for lap 4 to start and we don't go by the normal finishing goal again with another u turn returning to the second half of the circuit backwards with gliders before going back in it again to the goal for lap 5 which in a sense combines almost all of those elements.

The tour versions of Baby Park are actually pretty interesting. R/T is a super tight figure 8, while T lets you go out of the oval for a little bit before letting you trick back into it. It’s really cool

I think the tour version would be the most chaotic version because of the triple item slots, but the truth is, it's not, at least in single player. In single player, you're going against cpus, and mkrs cpus can be brutal, or too easy to deal with. I think online multiplayer would have the most chaos because it's actual people, and everyone will likeley have triple item slots, giving them the ability to have frenzies, which in turn, add more chaos. The biggest dealbreaker is that it's only 5 laps. I wish I could test out multiplayer and see how chaotic it is, but it's not in the current tour, so I'm gonna have to wait many weeks.

Fun fact: the roller coaster on Baby Park has collision. So chucking items forward like bob-ombs and bananas will actually bounce off it and basically return to sender. This happened many many times to me when going for a bob-omb snipe….

One thing I love about 8 deluxe now is the custom items I played baby park with only banana’s and it was the most chaotic thing I’ve played in MK8 Deluxe

Tour had fun varients of baby park

My favorite track in MK8DX when it released and tho it has fallen to like 3rd place it's still a banger

The special items were so fun and unique. Should bring it back!!

12:45 there's sonic music in a mario video, and I love it.

I will say, the bars between the lanes WAS a buzz kill for me in MK8. one of the wildest, most fun parts of Baby Park in Double Dash was keeping your eyes on the other side of the track, knowing that anything could come from karts driving towards you on the opposite side! Closing off each side really lessened the chaos.

Fun Fact: Odyssey Central Got hit the most in the Double Dash version

I actually love the track because it’s so small no matter if ur first or not there will be more items that hit u and u can use more which makes it more chaotic which is very fun

0:18 if that's a circle I'm the queen of france

Baby park is the most fun track playing occassionally. It's the second wind when you are almost ready to close mario kart for the day. And i love it. The chaos is just so much fun, but not 5 times on an evening.

Tour surprisingly has a better baby park then DS’s wow bit embarrassing

Not to mention, custom items also makes baby park more hectic by only enabling the more powerful items!

Another reallly interesting thing in the original MKDD version: at some points on the track the rollercoaster goes over the track and is pretty close to it as well. Interestingly they actually gave it collision so it actually can stop items. My tests showed that it stops the momentum of banans and giant banans thrown forward and it even instantly destroys the giant bowser shell (on the blue half the rollercoaster is upsidedown on its tracks and therefore close enough to the kart track to block it) Hope you enjoyed =)

I think its fun wore off on me, in MK8DX it's a huge toss-up on who wins unless you intentionally sandbag. At least it has an interesting no-item shortcut on every turn. Tour's variants interestingly go outside of the oval!

what da dog doing made me laugh a lil too much

200cc might be chaotic, but play on time trials for true chaos

It’s odyssey, wooooooooooooooooooooooo

If you do another video like this definitely do Yoshi Circuit!

Small thing: I think you can get hit by the roller coaster in the Gamecube version.. but not the 8D version? I always thought that really added to the chaos

Baby Park isn't the same without Bowser Shells, Giant Bananas, and Chain Chomps everywhere.

the best way to play Baby Park is on MK8D, 200CC, Custom Items, Triple Green Shells only. I never thought playing Touhou in Mariokart would be so fun.

To me what makes MK 8’s version better is the addition of customizable items, like imagine doing baby park with only blue shells or triple shells

That character you started using when playing MKDS is a cool character. He should be in Smash.

Double Dash has my favorite version because of all the fond memories of passing someone just before the finish line, only to realize that the person you passed was 7th and not 1st.

Take a shot every time this dude says the word chaotic.

the only thing i don't like about 8's version is the wall tbh, i like how in DD green shells could go across so easily

Just wanna say, they did bring back character exclusive items for Mario Kart Tour, though I wouldn’t blame you for forgetting that game exists.

dude i’m so excited for different colored birdos

You fool, by 2025 we’ll have Baby Pink Gold Christmas Cat Peach

Oh nice I’m early. Hey I’m a long time fan. Keep it up. I request Kirby content plz

In Mario Circuit GBA, there is a hidden shortcut that I think you guys haven’t seen. You use a mushroom and jump off the gliding shortcut. You then glide to the left and land onto the red/yellow/blue/green wall. You drive straight until you fall off. Try it!

Shout out to the custom items option in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe for giving Baby Park even more chaotic possibilities.

But what’s funny is that the MK8DX version was ported to DS and it looks good!

Also 8 made baby park tilt which makes it feel more chaotic

Another change that wasn't brought up is how the Blue Shell works also affecting the chaos. 8 Deluxe's Blue Shell travels along the track rather than flying over it. In a track as chaotic and claustrophobic as Baby Park, that means multiple people can be smacked around by it before it even reaches its target.

GCN and 8DX's Baby Park are tie for me, and as for Tour's version I think its 3rd, it's pretty much combines all the versions of the its previous iterations into 1, its N variant is alright since Frenzies are hella stupid on it, as well as its R variant. T and R/T are a whole different level of chaos tho which I like. Tour's iteration was a pretty mixed bag at first being only 5 laps but its suits Tour's gameplay pretty well tbh

One of my favorite things about the 8 deluxe version that NOBODY TALKS ABOUT! Is how it’s tilted. Yes I’d does give anti gravity but what I appreciate more is that it makes this course feel more like an amusement part ride than a race track like the other two versions.

Has anyone stopped to consider that the track might actually be an attraction at the amusement park?

The only track where 1st place can be hit by a star on a regular basis

I played the ds version a lot as a kid and never realized how empty this track is until playing the original

I wouldn't completely write off 8DX's items as being less chaotic than DD's. They have the grounded Blue Shell, Crazy 8, Bullet Bill, Boomerang, and Fire Flower. While not as grandiose as a Giant Shell, they feel just as destructive.

that dad part was great

I always loved getting baby park in double dash

I really like baby park. Maybe we can have more than one variation in this game too.