Mario Kart 8 deluxe, after 5 years of being the Nintendo switch’s best selling game, is finally getting DLC in the form of the booster course pass. This is going to be bringing 48 retro tracks to mario kart deluxe from super mario kart, mario kart 64, mario kart super circuit, mario kart double dash, mario kart DS, mario kart wii, mario kart 7, and mario kart tour! Wave 5 of the dlc dropped a few days ago containing two cups, the Feather cup and Cherry cup. That brought over a total of 8 tracks, Athens Dash, Daisy Cruiser, Moonview Highway, Squeaky Clean Sprint, Los Angeles Laps, Sunset Wilds, Koopa Cape, and Vancouver Velocity. In today’s episode of level by level we’re going to take a look at all 8 of these tracks to see if they’re good or bad retro tracks and put them in a tier list! Oh and there are 3 new characters, Petey Piranha, Wiggler, and Kamek!
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Minor corrections I forgor Wii had a track in every wave as well and wiggler got added to tour while I was editing. You may leave your dislikes now 💔
Should add captain falcon
Sunset wilds? More like…sun wilds
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite youtubers
My only gripes with Koopa Cape now I've played it a few more times are the turning things that acted like lightning never returning and the beginning of the lap feels too caged in but other than that it's still a solid remake. Sunset Wilds got the Sky Garden treatment but let's hope for Wave 6 it gets the Coconut Mall treatment
The last course of this wave should've had its 3rd lap first and first lap last because the first lap is so much more climactic
Could you PLEASE Rank all the Mario kart 8 trick animations, like you did with All Smash taunts?
11:43 I remember that video
Odyssey Central when he gets married and his wife wants to go to Paris (it’s more boring city stuff): 😱😱😱
At least you can say Sky Garden takes place in the sky, and fits its name.
It’s at least nice to see Vancouver Velocity use it’s Olympic history and Rogers Place in its track design. Though I wished that Nintendo had a Mario spun Vancouver Canucks logo in the track or played on the cities Asian heritage. We need more city life dammit!
Just wanna say smth as a Tour player rq:
Vancouver Velocity was the 5th city to be added to Tour and considering London, Paris, Tokyo and New York were the previous 4 cities, it would make sense why vancouver would be the fan favourite. At the time, there was also only the forest variant. Anyways, after that, more cities with more complexcity came out along with vancouver 2 and 3 being worse than expected however vancouver is only known for its first variant. Thanks to that, vancouver was hyped for no real reason. Also, they chose one of the worst possible routes for the track with the second lap actually being Vancouver 2 in reverse. Idk, just thought I should point out that the anti grav had nothing to do with the hype
The only thing i want is that FIGURE 8 CIRCUIT FROM DS IS NOT A TRACK
Wave five is currently my favorite
Cool stuff here, but I needed the sun to set to have the cup feel complete
Here are some tracks I want to see in Final Wave:
Cheep Cheep Lagoon
Shy Guy Bazaar
Rosalina's Ice World
Luigi's Mansion
Vancouver Velocity is quickly becoming pretty much my favorite tour track. I don’t really care much for the aesthetics I just really like the layout
yayy congrats on 150k subs!!! 😀
I ****ING HATE THE REMAKE OF KOPPA CAVE BECUSE THEY CUT THE PIPE IN HALF MAKING YOU DRIVE UNDER WATER INSTEAD OF ACTULLY TRAVELING IN THE PIPE!
Vancouver is one of the most beautiful tracks in the game in my opinion. I pmay it for its aesthetics and music rather than its layout
A few things to add:
– Apparently, mario kart 8 deluxe can't support dynamic light on the terrain (and maybe changing skyboxes, but I'm not sure), so they couldn't implement the sunset in the track 🙁
Now, why did they still add it ? I don't know :
Moonview Highway on the wii had faster cars with bigh menacing headlights and the ability to switch land on the large part of the track. There were also more of them. Now, some of the "nerfs" mk8dx brought to it are a bit sad in my opinion, while others were probably needed to not make it too chaotic. I don't know what other people think of it
I'm calling it rn. Spiny cup is gonna be a rainbow road gauntlet
Every channel talking about Mario Kart can't talk about the biggest problem… Man instead of reviewing all the time how bout think of smart things to say, that goes for all YouTubers…
THERE SHOULDNT BE 3 MAPS ONLY SHOWING UP ONLINE.
I'm so tired of the same old maps showing up. We have sooooo many tracks now, and its only 3 to choose from, and most the time it's old maps
Wave five is the first wave that isn’t better than the last. My ranking would be:
1. Wave 4
2. Wave 3
3. Wave 5
4. Wave 2
5. Wave 1
Aftons dash
#FixSunsetWilds
Technically tour added the half pipes to the underwater section of Koopa cape. So 8DX's Koopa Cape is a mesh of all 3 iterations of Koopa cape at this point
Wave 5 has been a giant W
11:34 I think the ring might be a refrence to king boo’s crown from the Luigi’s Mansion games becuase the gem is the same color
11:49 no it’s not slippery there’s a fan blowing you 🤓
I've got an idea for a video after all the DLC comes out. You should compare your video of what you thought would be released vs what did get released
No Diddy Kong or Funky Kong still is crazy
Just realized that daisy cruiser is a figure 8
You missed two paths in squeaky clean sprint. When you can go above the sink you can also go on the faucet and in between those paths is also a booster pad thing
If I may ask, what caused Riverside Park and Amsterdam Drift to fall in the Tier list?
Don’t forget about wigglier turning Coler when hit
LA Laps was one of my favorite tracks but only cos i’m from there , i j liked dodger stadium being included but was a little shocked they had us driving through oil rigs 😭
Great job with your Rankings Hope They Add Diddy Kong In Wave 6
Los Angeles Laps doesn’t even feel like Los Angeles. Probably my least favorite tour track imo
They’re amazing
Athens greatly benefits from being more of a "ruins" theme track instead of city #8 with the exact same street texture,
Put Sunset Wilds and Sky Gardens in C Tier, you can't turn all retro tracks into master pieces, but they do play well enough
Yippee
There's some more shortcuts with the glider in Squeaky Clean Sprint
i hate the fact that instead of adding airship fortress they add another tour track💀
Here are my random opinions on the tracks:
•Athens Dash feels a bit annoying with a few turns and some collisions detected. 8/10
•Daisy Cruiser was actually the most difficult track for me in this wave, mostly due to it being a bit linear (and the one retro track I’ve never played). Not a complaint, though. It’s really fun! 9/10
•Moonview Highway was one of my least favourite Wii tracks. Here in 8, it’s actually one of my favourite retro tracks. The music and controls really make this track extremely enjoyable for me. 9.5/10
•Squeaky Clean Sprint for me is the feather cup’s weakest link, but it’s still good. The opening and end are nice, but the narrow path inside the drain is frustrating to navigate sometimes. 7/10
•LA laps is pretty good IMO. Theming is kinda bland, but the few half-pipes and turns are pretty entertaining. 6.5/10
•Sunset Wilds. It’s… fine? It’s okay to race on, but it feels very bland, especially at the end of each lap, not just the last and it’s lack of a sunset. 5.5/10
•Koopa Cape, visually, hurts me. It actually makes it slightly harder to race through, but it still a fantastic track. I can’t explain why, but the half-pipe in the pipe is really fun to take, even on 150cc. 7.5/10
•Vancouver Velocity… ouch. They did this one dirty. Lap 1? Actually phenomenal. (Vancouver Velocity 1 was my first Tour track ever, so I’m a bit biased) Lap 2? Still pretty good! Lap 3? I genuinely find it boring. I wish that we started it with lap 1 in reverse before going back into the arena. 7.5/10.