MK8DX Booster Course Pass Final Review & Predictions

Better late than never to finally play this DLC to give a review on it. From Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch and other key words. And also I look back at my older predictions to see how I fared... for the 3 people who care.
Playlist: • MK8 Booster Course Pass
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:32 - MKT City Courses
2:45 - Visuals
3:48 - Review of all cups
6:50 - Overall review
10:28 - Corrections of predictions

[@poyo915]

I always want to complain about the city tracks until i remember they are probably the actual reason the Booster Course Pass was created to begin with

[@imaginationsquare]

In my opinion the cities are one of the best, most hyped things of this DLC

[@SuperLucario64]

I personally don't mind the Mario Kart Tour city courses, but I respect your opinion. Though I can kinda see why you don't like most of them that much.

[@WritingCountingOriginal]

I want to respect his opinions too, and normally I would, however I think he's just biased, so it's impossible to respect them.

[@SuperLucario64]

@@WritingCountingOriginalYeah, people are always complaining about the city track from Tour. Like, just be grateful that we have more content in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe!

[@shadicTPZ]

While I see why you have a problem with the Tour tracks, I think it's important to know that they're from a mobile game, and that'll eventually shutdown in the future. I think the BCP was a way to ensure these courses live on in some way; well, except Piranha Plant Pipeline.

[@WumbleWasp]

Yeah I agree. It's why I was positive with them in the first place actually. And I do like the non-city tracks. I think they should have been a bit more selective though because there were plenty of courses from that game that were infinitely better than the city courses that will never see the light of day after that game shuts down because they priotised including all city tracks for some reason. Some really could have stayed in the past imo.

[@butchcassidy887]

​@@WumbleWaspliterally just Pipeline. What "other tracks" are you talking about here?

[@WumbleWasp]

@@butchcassidy887 - Luigi Raceway - Koopa Troopa Beach - Frappe Snowland - Mario Raceway - Luigi Circuit - Cheep Cheep Island - MUSHROOM BRIDGE - Dino Dino Jungle - Luigi's Mansion - DK Pass - AIRSHIP FORTRESS - Dry Dry Ruins - Daisy Hills - Wario Shipyard - 3DS Bowser's Castle

[@butchcassidy887]

@@WumbleWasp these tracks can and will return in future Mariokart games, I honestly don't see what your point here is, just like your whole video.

[@WumbleWasp]

​@@butchcassidy887 You've missed the point I was originally making though. A massive massive massive reason I hated this DLC is because they just ported in and remastered the tracks directly from Tour. There's no reason in future mario kart games, they couldn't go back to the Tour original tracks and give them a proper remake treatment like every previous mario kart game does with retro tracks. But that's not what the BCP was doing, and if they were just half-assedly porting over tracks, then I would have much rather those half-assed tracks been better selections. Sorry if I didn't make that clear before. But I also want to stress that this video was mostly for my subscriber base, hence the last 3rd of it...

[@sonicjhiq]

To be fair it was we got this DLC (Granted unreasonably late) or we got nothing until the next mk game until 2025+ and I'd rather take this timeline

[@WumbleWasp]

I didn't mind the concept of DLC personally, but I just think it was mishandled. If it was like the Wii U DLC, I wouldn't have been negative about it. Even the last few waves which were alright are still a far cry from the base game quality, and previous mainline games too imo.

[@oceanblais4125]

Here were my original predictions: Wave 1: (Confirmed) Release: March 18, 2022 Golden Dash Cup: Tour Paris Promenade 3DS Toad Circuit N64 Choco Mountain Wii Coconut Mall Lucky Cat Cup: Tour Tokyo Blur DS Shroom Ridge GBA Sky Garden Tour Ninja Hideaway Wave 2: Release: June 28, 2022 Turnip Cup: Tour New York Minute 3DS Daisy Hills GBA Sunset Wilds SNES Mario Circuit 1 Propellor Cup: Tour London Loop DS Waluigi Pinball GBA Yoshi Desert GCN DK Mountain Characters: Diddy Kong Birdo Wave 3: Release: October 25, 2022 Rock Cup: Tour Vancouver Velocity 3DS Rock Rock Mountain N64 Kalimari Desert SNES Bowser Castle 2 Moon Cup: Tour Berlin Byways Wii Koopa Cape 3DS Shy Guy Bazaar Tour Merry Mountain Characters: Funky Kong Kamek Wave 4: Release: February 19, 2023 Fruit Cup: Tour Singapore Speedway GCN Dino Dino Jungle Wii Maple Treeway GBA Boo Lake Boomerang Cup: Tour Los Angeles Laps Wii Mushroom Gorge DS Luigi’s Mansion SNES Vanilla Lake 1 Characters: Pauline Petey Piranha Wave 5: Release: June 25, 2023 Feather Cup: Tour Sydney Sprint GCN Daisy Cruiser Wii Toad’s Factory DS Delfino Square Cherry Cup: Tour Amsterdam Drift GCN Mushroom City Wii Dry Dry Ruins 3DS Rosalina’s Ice World Characters: Dixie Kong Nabbit Wave 6: Release: October 27, 2023 Acorn Cup: 3DS Wario Shipyard Wii DK Summit DS Airship Fortress 3DS Bowser’s Castle Spiny Cup: DS Peach Gardens GCN Waluigi Stadium Wii Moonview Highway Wii Rainbow Road Characters: Wiggler Hammer Bro / Fire Bro / Ice Bro / Boomerang Bro

[@NickMario1]

Are you gonna make a new Mario kart 9 prediction list now that the booster pack is over with?

[@apekop03]

The biggest problem with the city tracks is the lack of diversity Most citties are the most basic citties (as in the most famous cities around the world) and instead of having at least one from every continent, they made it so that europe has 7(!) cities, asia 4 cities (or 3 if you count Sydney for Oceania) and North America 3 cities Would have been so difficult to choose some at least one from both Africa and South America?

[@CesarCheeser08]

Most of the cities are good, the only ones I have beef with are New York, Tokyo, Paris (boring), & London (too long)

[@SMPSMLParodies_]

How’s Madrid the worst city and Vancouver boring? 😭

[@WumbleWasp]

It's not the worst city track (that goes to Berlin Byways 🤮) but it's definitely not great. It's probably better than average (of the tour city courses) actually now that I look at it. Vancouver is boring though

[@imaginationsquare]

​@@WumbleWasp I hate that I have to give you half correct with Vancouver, they really didn't do it justice, having the best lap first and the worst one last. Aka they start off with a bang and just make you forget it by the time you reach the end. I hurt to say this because I was dying from excitement for this one

[@SMPSMLParodies_]

My City Track 8DX Ranking 14. Tokyo Blur - definitely not a blur 13. Paris Promenade - Repetitive 12. London Loop - boring and I hate the skybox 11. Amsterdam Drift - too many sharp turns 10. New York Minute - They coulda done more tbh 9. Berlin Byways - The train station saves this from being boring 8. Rome Avanti - just alleys and nothing more, but it’s a fine city 7. Los Angeles Laps - The oilfield is a weird idea but the hammers are easy to avoid imma be honest 6. Sydney Sprint - It’s a bland city but super fun 5. Vancouver Velocity - It goes from very fun to a 10 sec straightaway 4. Bangkok Rush - it was my favorite city in tour but they removed the ink plants and ruined the skybox 3. Madrid Drive - Loads of enemies and buildings and the iconic stadium, perfection! 2. Athens Dash - It’s not a city which what makes it a good standout ci- ancient ci- ancient acropolis + city track! 1. Singapore Speedway - Its too fun

[@caseyf14483]

⁠@@SMPSMLParodies_My Ranking of the Cities 1 Singapore Speedway 🇸🇬 2 Athens Dash 🇬🇷 3 Vancouver Velocity 🇨🇦 4 Madrid Drive 🇪🇸 5 Sydney Sprint 🇦🇺 6 Paris Promenade 🇫🇷 7 Rome Avanti 🇮🇹 8 Amsterdam Drift 🇳🇱 9 Berlin Byways 🇩🇪 10 Bangkok Rush 🇹🇭 11 Los Angeles Laps 🇺🇸 12 London Loop 🇬🇧 13 New York Minute 🇺🇸 14 Tokyo Blur 🇯🇵

[@nolanjthesupergoanimator2909]

@@WumbleWasp Tokyo and Paris are the 2 worst city tracks, WTF are you even on about?!

[@imaginationsquare]

Jesus you are really overly negative, it's really not this horrible at all, in my opinion nearly every single track in this DLC is hundreds of times more fun than nearly every single basegame track. I hate the basegame artstyle with a passion and the tracks of basegame don't only drive like butts, they often are super same-y, and I often find the super boring and straight up mid to bad. In my opinion nearly everything since Wave 3 (minus Rock Rock Mountain) looks thousands of times better than Basegame. Basegame might look impressive, it's just dull, ugly in my opinion, and in general just boring. I'm so glad this DLC exists because I don't think I'd be still playing this game if this DLC didn't exist.

[@WumbleWasp]

Don't watch my original review on this if you think this is 'overly negative' haha.. I was pretty positive on the backend of the DLC here. I can't wrap my head around thinking the base game tracks look worse than the Tour ones. But to each their own. Have fun with the DLC.

[@imaginationsquare]

@@WumbleWasp thank you! I just think basegame looks detailed, sure, and yes I wished the BCP had that detail and care, I am a 3D artist myself I know when I'm looking at low effort (though I'm 100% certain these devs did all they could) and I also want to clarify I do not support slapping a random concrete texture on stuff (incl. Rocks, grass, sand, wood) and calling it ''HD,'' but when basegame looks so dull, like the color got sucked out of it completely in some areas (original Wii U DLC did a much greater job) I'm just happy to see some non-''Wii-U-era'' dull graphics, but something interesting. When I play Mario Kart 8 basegame, I don't feel like I'm playing a Nintendo title, I feel like I'm playing a Playstation or Xbox title, that for no fitting reason strives for realism. I don't want realism in my Mario Kart game (I also don't want flat colors but I do prefer having actual bright colors) I would prefer best of both worlds, look at the stunning stages here, Waluigi Stadium, Moonview Highway, Piranha Plant Cove, SNES B3 and last but certainly not least, Yoshi's Island! These know what texturing is, yet they are bright, colorful, they just make me happy! The Mario characters actually fit in these worlds, they don't stand out like a flashgame using 60 diffirent artstyles. The Mario cast doesn't belong in such hyperrealism, they belong in the modern Mario Parties, 3D world, Super Mario Bros series, or this DLC! I just wished all of this had the same standard of detailing... Sorry for this extensive comment, I just can't properly explain it shorter, if you read all of that, massive props to you, and thanks! I hope this clears it up a bit more.

[@WumbleWasp]

Yeah that's a good perspective. I guess the tracks do have a good art direction.. basic but great for a mobile game. And they could have looked pretty great for a console game if they touched them up a bit more. Some of them do actually. They do clash with the base game though

[@imaginationsquare]

@@WumbleWasp yeah I'm also not a very big fan of casually splitting the game into 2 artstyles, but I'm glad the DLC happened at all, they did what they could and especially near the end they did a mostly very good job on my opinion, just had a rough start

[@nolanjthesupergoanimator2909]

@@WumbleWasp The base game tracks are *OBVIOUSLY* way much more than *INFINITY* times better than the Tour ones and they *OBVIOUSLY* look way much more than *INFINITY* times better than the Tour ones too, like, yeah, the BCP is *OBVIOUSLY* way much more than *INFINITY* times worse than the base game, like dude, the oversaturation in the majority of those BCP DLC tracks, the dirtiness in those tracks, the hideousness that they have, the ugliness they got, the lack of textures they have, lack of bake maps in them, and the blocky-ness of the models in the BCP DLC tracks are just too much, and the BCP is so oversaturated that the characters and karts end up being that way too, and like, yeah, the base game is really not even "super boring", nor "super same-y", its tracks don't even "drive like butts" AT ALL, and its tracks are way better than the tracks from the BCP driving-wise too, and the base game for sure does not look like a Playstation title nor does it even look like an Xbox title, like, it's not even Call of Duty at all, the MK8/MK8DX base game is *DEFINITELY* way much more colorful than that and it is *DEFINITELY* way much more colorful than what those full-on base 8/8DX disregarders think, like, take a look at Sunshine Airport, GBA Mario Circuit, Cheep Cheep Beach, Music Park, Electrodrome, every base game rainbow road, (although Wii U Rainbow Road is lighter and pastel) Ribbon Road, Cheese Land, Wild Woods, all variants of the Animal Crossing track, Neo Bowser City, Mute City, Big Blue, Super Bell Subway, Water Park, Toad Harbor, DK Jungle, Baby Park, Mount Wario, and even the battle stages, and even the atmosphere in Shy Guy Falls is colorful, even though the track itself has the apricot colored cliffs, and the atmosphere in Thwomp Ruins is colorful too, even though the track itself is filled with light gray thwomp structures, and Sweet Sweet Canyon has those vibrant and pastel colors in it even though its atmosphere is light pink, like, the texture for the offroad icing in front of the finish line is white, but the overall lighting, post-processing effects, and atmosphere makes the offroad icing look light pink. Also Dolphin Shoals has the vibrant coral in amongst double the amount of pastel table-top coral. And I understand and respect Dotnet's opinion about the base game, but yeah, I *ULTIMATELY DISAGREE* with EVERY single thing he says in EVERY single comment that he wrote in this line of comments out in this comment section *ULTIMATE TIME,* like, the base game not only looks impressive, but it *OBVIOUSLY* looks so very super beautiful, fun and happy, stunning, and it is fun and happy in general too, AND ALSO I've said this before. The tracks from the Mario Kart 8/Mario Kart 8 Deluxe base game and the battle stages are *DEFINITELY* not even near realistic *AT ALL,* but they're *SEMI-REALISTIC,* AND the characters in the MK8/MK8DX game are cartoonish, so overall, base 8/8DX is cartoonish

[@familydad1713]

this guys so cynical