Mario Kart Tour

 MARIO KART TOUR

Disclaimer: this game is a mobile app that is regularly updated with new content. Everything written here will likely be outdated right around . . . tomorrow. Even in the time passed between my watching a walkthrough to take notes for this blog and actually writing the blog, new content has been added.

Mario Kart Tour is a mobile app created based on the Mario Kart series that brings the fun of Mario Kart right to your phone or tablet. It plays a little weird (as to be expected from the switch from console to mobile gaming) and its loaded with microtransactions, but as far as I can tell, its still pretty popular. It features multiple characters from across the Mario Kart series, plus a handful of newbies, and most of its stages are returning stages except for a handful mostly set in real world cities. Let's get right into it.

Our returning characters include most of the regular faces we've become accustomed to. We have Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, Toad, Toadette, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Funky Kong, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser and Bowser Jr., as well as Dry Bowser, Koopa, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, and Lakitu, all five babies featured previously, Birdo, King Boo, all seven Koopalings, Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach, and the glorious return of a 16-bit Donkey Kong Jr., alongside many, many, many, MANY costume and color variants of all of these characters. Our brand new racers include Pauline fresh off her appearance in Odyssey, Peachette (our first time seeing her in this blog), Dixie Kong (finally), Nabbit, Hammer Bro and his Boomerang, Fire, and Ice variants, Monty Mole, and King Bob-Omb. Still no Kamek, huh? Even after all of this. I got Pauline, I'm trying not to be salty.

Our items include a butt ton of returning items, including several of the specialty items from Double Dash, like Bowser's Shell, Peach's Heart, Yoshi's and Birdo's giant eggs, and Donkey Kong's giant banana. The new items include the Ice Flower; the Bubble, which protects you from harm; the Banana Barrel that shoots a stream of bananas at opponents; the Mushroom Cannon, which shoots out a stream of mushrooms out in front of you; the Coin Box; the Dash Ring, which sets dashes along the track ahead of you; the Bob-Omb Cannon; and the Giga Bob-Omb (a really big one).

As mentioned before, most tracks in this game are returning tracks from previous games. Some are a little updated for the mobile game setup, but they are inherently the same track. Our new ones are mostly tracks that take you around real-world cities in a world tour kind of setup. We have New York Minute, Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, Vancouver Velocity, Los Angeles Laps, and Merry Mountain (mostly a Christmas-themed level not based on a city). Most of these have a "2" level that takes you on a different route through the city.

Well, that's pretty much it. I'm sure there will be something new soon enough. If there is, just add it to whichever section of this blog it would go. Let's see what we've got:

Characters:

Mario Kart: Lock-on (basin or tire, fave), Shoot Forward (tornado or weather clouds), Drop Backward (oil or firecracker), Shoot Backward (pie), Melee (thunder stick), Status (shield), High Beam, Magic Hand, Jack-in-the-Box, ice flower, bubble, banana barrel, mushroom cannon, coin box, dash ring, bob-omb cannon, giga bob-omb.

Robo Mario: see all above, total gimmick rep. Might not even need to be echo.

Mario

Luigi

Princess Peach

Toad

Yoshi

Donkey Kong

Wario

Bowser

Waluigi

Bowser Jr.

Rosalina

Daisy

Baby Mario

Baby Peach

Metal Mario

Lakitu

King Boo

Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man

Blinky

Mametchi

Don-chan

Toadette

Diddy Kong

Funky Kong

Dry Bowser

Koopa

Shy Guy

Dry Bones

Baby Luigi

Baby Peach

Baby Rosalina

Birdo

Koopalings

Pink Gold Peach

Donkey Kong Jr.

Pauline

Peachette

Dixie Kong

Nabbit

Hammer Bro

Monty Mole

King Bob-Omb

Stages:

Mario Highway

Mario Beach

DK Jungle

Bananan Ruins

Diamond City

Snow Panic

Pac-Mountain

Pac-Labyrinth

Bowser's Castle

Castle Walls

Rainbow Coaster

Rainbow Downhill

Yoshi Park 1

Yoshi Park 2

Stadium Arena

Waluigi Stadium

Peach Castle

Kingdom Way

Splash Circuit

Tropical Coast

Bon Dance Street

Omatsuri Circuit

Aerial Road

Sky Arena

Bowser's Factory

Bowser's Castle

Pac-Man Stadium

Namco Stadium

Bananan Labyrinth

DK Jungle

VR Track

New York Minute

Tokyo Blur

Paris Promenade

London Loop

Vancouver Velocity

Los Angeles Laps

Merry Mountain

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's go over the newest entry in the entire series, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.