Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Wave 2 DLC is Good? - NINTENDO LISTENED TO THE FANS?! 

Choco Mountain is legendary for its difficult lap skip in the N64 community! It absolutely is a gigantic deal to Mario Kart history.

To be fair with the 2D sprite audiences, they were also present in the base game tracks as well. (Mario Kart Stadium, Mount Wario, MK8 Rainbow Road etc.) However, there were never so close to the players in the previous tracks, so it's much more noticeable & jarring to look at in Sydney Sprint than it is in the base game tracks. They really could've done a better job hiding that from the players, same goes for the giant sized spectators & giant background objects, which was also an issue in the base game tracks, but is much more noticeable in the booster course pass because of how close they are to the racers.

Glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t mind Mario Circuit 3. I grew up with the Wii version of the track and still like the retro feel of it along with its sharp turns. Snow Land was another highlight for me and I wouldn’t have bat an eye if it was in the base game.

heavily disagree about the choco mountain part. it's one of my favorite courses from the n64 game! definitely can see why others don't like it though

This is why people should voice their honest opinions.

Choco Mountain is a legendary speed running course.

I’d definitely prefer less of the corner cutting, but from what we’re getting, I think this wave was very solid. The best Mario Kart track, Waluigi Pinball, definitely got me the most excited, but I was most pleasantly surprised with Sydney Sprint. Fun layout, mostly decent visuals (outside of the 2D characters), and god-tier music. Definitely one of my current top 3 from this whole pass.

They actually included a New Course: Sky High Sundae. A NEW course and most of these course look pretty good. A definite improvement from wave 1.

6:20 the 2d sprites found in this course are also in Mario stadium from the base game. Hope Nintendo fixes the 3 of these tracks

4:54 - Actually the Mario Kart competitive community LOVES these kinds of skips/exploits, including the returning Mushroom Gorge shortcut haha

Comparitavley Graphics may be a down grade, but I don't personally agree they are "bad." For me they are about on par with the graphics used for Smash Brothers, which many still consider good looking. The base game of Mario Kart 8 just looks really good, I understand that doesn't excuse the argument, but I just wouldn't call them bad, just a downgrade. The 2D sprites tho, that's inexcusable, it's a distraction for many. Just have less of a crowd if they are gonna be that close.

The night and day comparison of Wave 1 and Wave 2 shows that genuine complaints can go a long way to help things improve. Edit: Also, about Mario Circuit 3, I wouldn’t really have much complaints about it…..if GBA Snow Land wasn’t in the same wave and updated it to the brink.

Very happy it did improve a lot overall and I really enjoyed it too. Kalamari desert is a huge highlight for me since it is a good track and riding on the train track for the final lap is incredible! Also love the thumbnail since waluigi looks scary lol! I can't believe that chiguy is doing the donut now! :p

Im kinda excited for what the rest of the DLC has in sore for us, so long as we get more Wii courses as well as few GameCube ones. We need those for SURE

I was busy at the time and did not experience with one when it originally released but from what you were saying I agree that that there was major issues that need to be addressed I’m happy that they were fixed in a update during wave 2

Both Choco Mountain and the desert are my two favorite courses from MK64. Which is also my favorite MK. Loving all the courses so far.

So glad I can jam to waluigi pinball theme again, it’s such a banger 😩

1:34 “nobody with any actual taste in games would play Mario Kart Tour” hey, I’ve played Tour since launch, and also own every other Mario Kart game, what you said was very ignorant 6:20 you are just nitpicking, every time someone complains about those 2D sprites they stop driving, every time! just play and you won’t care. Gosh.

With Choco Mountain, at least we got an incredible remix, I’m genuinely at the point where I don’t care about the quality of the tracks (well I do kinda), I just wanna here the Mario Kart 8 orchestra work their magic.

If I was a long term fan, I would have mixed feelings specially considering the game age, but I only played og n 64 plus I don't have a Switch, so I can't have enough nostalgia or game experience to express it

So call me crazy but I was extremely happy to have any Mario Circuit from SNES in the game. The SNES Mario Circuit theme is one of my favorite songs in the series and I’m glad they chose MC3 since I love drift heavy tracks. I’m also really glad they went back and fixed some of the problems for the tracks from the first pass. All in all though Pass 2 was so much better and I’m looking forward to the rest of them.

Look at that Smart Steering antenna

With regards to the 'flat crowd' in the Sydney Opera House, I just told myself they are paper mario characters......this kinda helped lol

Honestly for 20$ wave to looks awesome

I love Choco mountain tho, it plays a HUGE role in the glitching and speedrunning history

I dont know what your deal with choco mountain is Its an iconic N64 track that people love Its especielly jarring when you defend mario circut being an actually bland course

uhh not really the levels still look way worse compared to the base game levels

“Why don’t you try actually paying attention to the things I say for more than 5 seconds, I know that’s asking a lot of the TikTok generation out there” 🤣 bro I couldn’t stop laughing, I’m a gen z kid and I completely agree with you

Looks like the "Pretendos" like us won.

Choco Mountain is amazing, what are you talking about?!

Chocky Mountain Moment

Racing good content into the future

The unique sound effect for Waluigi Pinball is still there. What on earth are you talking about?

Man, I love Choco Mountain. 😂 Was my favorite from the first round and one of my favorites on the N64.

I still wish the graphics of the DLC were up to par with the base game, but these tracks are definitely an improvement!!

I'm not with you on Choco Mountain. Memorability does not equate to being a good selection. Choco Mountain plays so much better than Kalimari, imo.

I would argue that the moving cars in the Switch version of Coconut Mall is worse than the Wii/3DS versions. The cars in the Switch version still feel very easy to avoid because they still aren't moving from side to side. When they're moving from side to side, you're sometimes forced to change up your lines which I honestly prefer. The way they move in the Switch version is obviously better than them doing nothing at all however it's not perfect but it is a step in the right direction.

Here’s how the definitive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Character Roster SHOULD’VE been in my order: 1.Mario(with selective styles of Gold Mario, Metal Mario, Cat Mario *new & Tanooki Mario) 2.Luigi(with selective styles of Cat Luigi*new, Metal Luigi *new & Gold Luigi*new) 3.Peach(with selective styles of Cat Peach and Pink Gold Peach) 4.Daisy(with selective styles of Cat Daisy *new, & Pink Gold Daisy *new) 5.Rosalina(with selective styles of Cat Rosalina *new & Pink Gold Rosalina *new) 6.Pauline*new(with selective styles of Cat Pauline *new & Pink Gold Pauline *new) 7.BabyMario(with selective choices of Baby Luigi, Baby Peach, Baby Daisy ,Baby Rosalina & Baby Pauline *new) 8.Yoshi(with selective colors) 9.Toad(with selective colors *new) 10.Toadette 11.Lakitu 12.Koopa Troopa(with selective colors *new) 13.Dry Bones 14.Kamek*new 15.Bowser 16.Dry Bowser 17.Bowser Jr.(with selective choices of Lemmy, Larry, Wendy, Ludwig, Iggy, Roy & Morton) 18.Birdo *new 19.Petey Piranha*new 20.Wario 21.Waluigi 22.Donkey Kong 23.Diddy Kong*new 24.Funky Kong*new 25.Dixie Kong*new 26.Cappy*new 27.Inkling Girl(with selective colors) 28.Inkling Boy(with selective colors) 29.Link(with selective style) 30.Zelda*new(with selective style) 31.Villager Girl 32.Villager Boy 33.Honey Queen 34.Wiggler 35.R.O.B 36.King BombOmb 37.Mii What do you think of my new and improved roster in this game? Let me know in the comments below!

Mario Circuit 3 is by far one of the most cruel and unforgiving tracks in the game rivaling Dragon Driftway and Neo Bowser City.

The tracks look easy and beautiful at first glance and in the 200cc they are mind-blowingly exhilarating.

I'm loving the super circuits tracks. It's the less remembered in the series, but it has great tracks and music

Train Shenanigans

Gotta say very fun tracks

A) i feel like with the Mario circuit course it is just a lazy addition because donut plains retro track kept a lot of the old while still being able to have the Mario kart 8 identity. B) i can't help but feel adding these tracks makes the game retroactively worse. Before i could play any track and have a good time but now i feel i have to choose my courses because there's a chance I'll get one of the lazy boring tracks.

Good vid but who plays with smart steering?

Donkey Kong Racing is my favorite racing kart game

wave one did have coconut mall and ninja hideway which you have to admit ninja hideaway was the highlight for wave 1, that being said, wave 2 i feel was much better, especially the track choices, the fact nintendo listened to the criticisms was great.

It's a me! Mario

Nintendo plz fix the size of the shy guys/yoshis/toads around the tracks it's super immersion breaking having Bowser being smaller than a Toad lol

Thanks for showing your apreciation to Nintendo for listening! This might sound stupid, but most people only complain Wave 2 still isn't as good as base 8 (which in some cases still is) instead of also giving some positive feedback. Really great complaining ;)

Wow that's good

why do you use smart steering?

No new characters or karts. 😕 It's nice that Nintendo are extending the lifespan of MK8, but I'd be bored just to play with the same character. And I did. Sigh.

How is he always mad even when he’s happy

Regarding Choco Choco Mountain: Just say you can't drift, because it's an awesome course.

They still didn't fix the escalators. The whole point is to use 20x20 vision to recognize the direction. The arows with green and red glow makes the gimmick pointless and a broken obstacle challenge.

I think the Devs have already proven us they really care about this DLC, maybe Nintendo is still a B probably not giving the devs time to work on this, but it shows, this is a project made for us.

They might have picked better courses for wave 2, but there is just as much corner cutting as in wave 1. All the tracks are ported from mktour, including the “new” ones like sky high Sunday. There are going to be “worse” and “better” waves than the first, it’s all just going to be down to preferences of tracks.

I actually play MK8D and MKT lol

I like Choco Mountain😅

No the maps are unfinished and bugged because they are upscaled versions of there moble game I have very easily fazed threw walls objests or ended up out of bounds without being taken back on to hhe track

Why ChiGuy using the antenna

the 2d sprites are actually a nod to paper mario, dont worry about it...

Ok, I'm out on "omg, the Opera House audience are 2D! 😫😫"

I can't believe they added 3rd Yoshis in the SNES track while having a 2d audience in the Mario Kart Tour course

You play with Smart Steering.

Sorry but I have to disagree with your opinion on CHOCO Mountain. Honestly one of my favorite tracks from wave 1. Also I’m not sure how critics could say shortcuts are uncompetitive when you need a great deal of skill to pull them off.

Can we please stop complaining on the Crowd in Sidney Sprint? It's not cutting corner, they have 3D models for Toad, Yoshi and Shy Guy, but simply loading hundreds of model in a short space like this would made the game lag or have loading issue, I agree it was not the best looking thing, but it's not a cutting corner issue like I hear from many people

Most of Wave 1 kinda blended together for me, Wave 2 makes every track feel so unique and different from one another

Damn calling people out who like Mario kart tour it’s like u don’t know what an opinion is lol he’ll I don’t even like tour..

Mario kart tour is probably Nintendo's highest priority before the actual good console game dlc which is sad.

I think it would've been awesome if Mario Circuit 3, if they were gonna go for a simpler look, had all the textures be pixel art reflecting the art of the SNES original.

Of course everybody likes Mario Karts I'm an Xbox fan and I like Mario Kart a lot but For Me Donkey Kong Racing is better it always been my favorite

the Mushroom Gorge skip is exclusive to 200cc

Why are you so pressed over Tour?! It's a little weird. (Even more weird how you gushed over Kalimari Desert's inclusion of the Tour remix as the 3rd lap)

Choco mountain is a classic and a fan favorite wtf are you talking about

Why are people impressed? It's still pretty bad visually Some of the tracks are fun sure but they're still not to great

I don’t play tour but you seem really close minded about it and wave 1 honestly, you seek out the worst parts and mostly ignore the good for them

You act like these courses weren’t picked already. They aren’t listening to fans. If they were they’d make Mario Kart 9 instead of milking Mario Kart 8 into its 10th year.

Mario circuit 3 shouldn't even be there. This track been remade so many times . They could have did Number 4 and stop porting Tour Tracks. Tour Tracks shouldn't be there . Tour Tracks should be Free DLC .

I still hate how the scale of everything is wrong in the new tracks and particularly the city levels. For example Bowser is smaller than a goomba in the NY track.

Idk I liked the 2D characters idk 😐 Reminds me of Paper Mario...

Wow, you're such a negative nancy here 1:34. There are plenty of reasons to play Mario Kart Tour. For me it's the expanding content, retro courses, drivers, etc. The game has also become more F2P friendly and it's just a casual pick up and play type of game. You have fun things to grind and get rewards for doing so. Deluxe has none of that because it lacks any sort of new content unlockables outside of gold items and random parts. Deluxe is mechanically fun to play in terms of the skill of the game, but that doesn't take away Tour's fun for some of us. I really wish Nintendo fans would stop crying about every bit of thing Tour does.

Mario Kart Tour is better than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe unironically

I hate nothing more than whiners taking credit