It Took 21 Years?! How Boo Lake Has Changed! | Mario Kart 8 Wave 3 DLC

[@Ethan-TT8]

For non tour players the pumpkins on the track in tour were only there as a special event. They only appear in the Halloween tour

[@imaginationsquare]

The 8 Deluxe version is perfect, some people call it too small, but that's a thing I like about it. If this track was bigger it would get old I think, plus the wierd turns would be a lot less challenging, how small it is gives it it's charm in my opinion.

[@MC-bo6ql]

That is probably why they chose Boo Lake over Broken Pier.

[@Leopez02]

21 years, that sounds very long Time, im jos 20 years old teen boy and I Have Been always playing Mario Kart games since Mario Kart DS. That New Boo Lake of Mario Kart 8 deluxe was My first Boo Lake and IT was awesome. 👻

[@elPetete]

5:33 during halloween or holiday tours, the courses get decorated with objects like that, and they give extra points when hit with items or the kart

[@mattzai19]

Something you didn't mention is that the lake in the 8 Deluxe version is more clear and very blue as well as any of the lights seen above the lake becoming green while underwater, as in tour it's a bit green. And the skybox in the 8 Deluxe version is also more realistic than Tour's Cartoony-like Design. All the ramps were also recoloured to match the bridge.

[@BK2410]

The lake is not green in Tour it's dirty which is much better.

[@dustymcwari4468]

Maybe so it’s not too much like Twisted Mansion’s underwater section, the water’s green there

[@apollorock3r244]

4:06 The Rocky spires could be implied to be Broken Pier, another spooky level in Mario Kart: Super Circuit.

[@jgodden8022]

Credit where credit's due, this guy is a much better music analyst than most game content YT analysts, including otherwise excellent analysts such as the Digital Foundry team. I'm assuming he actually studied music and music production to a decent level.

[@PeachToadstool]

I'm very flattered by your words. Thank you. While I have experience in the video game music field, I don't have formal education in it (rather, my degrees relate to game development). I compose music, and the jingle in this video is just one of many examples. If you enjoyed the short musical analyses here, I recommend checking out Melodies of Gaming on GameXplain. We recently had Grant Kirkhope as a special guest narrator!

[@mariobermudez1228]

I wasn't too much into Boo Lake I admit, but after seeing your coverage I have a new appreciation for it. Good jo.

[@PeachToadstool]

Thank you so much!

[@bandicootsauce4569]

And to think that all these details are things we take for granted when driving on this course...

[@CheloWiiU]

I love the music. Seems like the drums on MK8 version were played by a real drummer, or maybe programmed so the drumkit sounds more natural. The version of MK Tour sounds more like programmed MIDI. Loved the video, nice details!!

[@PeachToadstool]

I totally love the drum presence in the update. I think it may be the official drummer of the Mario Kart Band, Hiroyuki Noritake, but the performance was run through plate reverb (as mentioned in the video), giving this sort of surreal sound. The Tour version is MIDI (and I come from a heavy MIDI background, particularly VGMusic!)

[@BK2410]

I personally really like the Tour version too specially the opening it sounds so spooky.

[@JustJulyo]

Do kinda miss how in the GBA version the blocks would fall when you hit them

[@BK2410]

I really like music for Boo Lake specially this part from Tour 7:53. the 8dx remix is pretty good too!

[@TylerTheNintendoMaster]

21 years.......I'm old

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome video

[@GameXplain]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@OldSchoolGaming4Life]

This was a fantastic update to the original, sans them (predictably, and unnecessarily) simplifying a few bends. However, I do not like the fact that the skybox doesn’t change colors with each lap, similar to Sunset Wilds, like in the original throughout. They had the opportunity to do so in this remake, and they blew it. The twilight skybox here looks great, though.

[@ejakaegypt]

Kinda reminds me of banshee boardwalk. I can only imagine how great that track would be if they add it

[@Mr.Face222]

Wait a minute...I had absolutely no idea until I saw this video that the sky changes in the original version. What have I been missing?

[@misdrievousdemise3815]

As someone who used to play the original Super Circuit on the GBA, the narrow bridge that Tour and 8 Deluxe had never glowed. It was a normal wooden bridge as far as the game could make it

[@PeachToadstool]

After reading this, I booted up my original release cartridge to see how the first bridge was, and yep, it glowed! The second little bridge, however, never did.

[@TPLS2]

I wish there was more boos at least.

[@mccuish]

The music chime for the GBA version reminds me of super mario RPG

[@MarioandJulius]

When I hear the original boo lake and the tour version to and Mario kart 8 deluxe it the beginning sounds like it has a music box

[@p1austin767]

Mario Kart lore

[@WritingCountingOriginal]

That rhymes with Mario Kart Tour, which certainly plays a part

[@GMKGoji01]

I'm just so so happy that Boo Lake became a retro track after Bowser Kart Tour-Ment made it look awful.

[@BK2410]

The 8dx version is literally the same one from Bowser Kart Tour.

[@WritingCountingOriginal]

Another Tour whiner I see? Toxic much?

[@Pitrek1113]

Ya forgot the phone on the thumbnail lol

[@DeloofTegOrb]

Not late at all…

[@YesAmFrienD]

Deloof!

[@DeloofTegOrb]

@@YesAmFrienD Hello

[@jasonfeiner318]

Can you do “How Rock Rock Mountain Has Changed! | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Wave 3 DLC” next?

[@PeachToadstool]

Almost done with it!

[@BK2410]

It didn't got changed to much after Tour lol

[@Willchannel90]

They took lots of time for updates for any games until 2023.

[@jakobchristensen4511]

They have a guy, whose last name literally means graveyard cover this? Can't be a coincidence.

[@PeachToadstool]

Ah, a fellow Dane? Nice to meet you! I've always seen it as churchyard, but many times churches did have graveyards like in Mad Monster Mansion from Banjo-Kazooie, so it was pretty much synonymous, so that became rather interesting etymology. It's a pure coincidence either way, since I've been covering the DLC for a while now as the music composer of the team.

[@jakobchristensen4511]

Yeah, Dane indeed and I guess you're right in saying that Kirkegaard means churchyard but that would be transliteration rather than translation, wouldn't it?

[@PeachToadstool]

@@jakobchristensen4511 When taking the sum of parts, yeah, I guess it would be, but I also recall that family always focused on churchyard, I guess maybe to avoid any morbid meanings, even my late grandfather who came to America from Danmark. Regardless, it's all pretty cool. Thanks for the chat!

[@smashbro67]

You forgot to point out the corpse at the bottom of the lake during the underwater section.

[@biondigiacomo7176]

Sorry, WHAT?!

[@YoyIeCake]

The WHAT

[@juliovillarreal3519]

😮😮

[@knuclear200x]

Blake

[@TheSnycher]

I wish we had gotten the 64 Ghost Track but thisll do

[@jeremiahhester6408]

You mean Banshee Boardwalk?

[@TheStickCollector]

Interesting, and yet Wario Colosseum is not included?

[@betterthanbrooklyn5806]

It feels so tiny.

[@judereno2821]

Haha

[@Poever]

Nintendo has a bias against the gba and GameCube courses

[@TheSpeedfoever]

Not anymore since its there now

[@pikminpro2001]

not against gba, at least not in mk8 all the gba courses were made with love you feel that when playing them.

[@dustymcwari4468]

GBA is eating good, GameCube is the only one currently starving, even the SNES got a sandwich x,d

[@WritingCountingOriginal]

And bias towards the game you people never bothered to learn about, Mario Kart Tour. Man it’s hard for me to stress how happy I am to watch y’all experience 20+ Tour tracks whether you like it or not

[@nerdlywacko]

I think the remake is very good, but there’s one glaring flaw. It’s too short.

[@dustymcwari4468]

The Ghost Valley-style courses are usually short, and this was the Ghost Valley 1 of Super Circuits, so makes sense to be short