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Mario Kart World’s Strange Retro Tracks | Level By Level

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It’s been nearly a month now since the release of Mario Kart world for the Nintendo Switch 2. It’s been a lot of fun playing through and exploring each of the game's courses. One thing that’s a bit weird to me though has been the retro track selection. Not only are we missing tracks from certain games, but some of the courses here are just bizarre in general. So in today’s episode of level by leveI thought it would be fun to rank all of Mario kart world’s retro tracks not by a tier list, but with an alignment chart! (Also Nintendo it would be really cool if you fixed the online!!!!)

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20 Comments

@hampterland 1 year ago

Airship Fortress is such a funny track to include in World. “Here’s an active war zone we’ve turned into a tourist trap. Take lots of pictures and get some lunch from a Yoshi’s! :D”

@bennmakesminecraftmappings 1 year ago

For 300k rank every group of purple coins in odyssey

@1505627 1 year ago

I've heard a rumor that the reason Mario Circuit 3 gets remade so often is because it was the first course designed in the franchise

@BlueMarioGaming 1 year ago

I could only shudder thinking of 2013 era Nathaniel Bandy's reaction to this retro selection.

@suspiciousshadeofgreen 1 year ago

I would argue that Sky-High Sundae was a GREAT choice for a retro track. Imo a good selection of retro tracks should have some that were already fan favorites that Nintendo knows people will like, and some that weren’t well received that deserve a second chance. Sky-High Sundae fits this second role perfectly, and the remake delivers on making it actually good now.

@SvanTowerMan 1 year ago

I think Mushroom City should've been one of the new retro tracks. It's never been remade, and imagine the World remake with rail grinds, wall rides, and the open world gameplay. There could've even been an open world-exclusive skate park so you could get all Tony Hawk's Pro Skater!

Nintendo, hire me.

@MariusBLGQ 1 year ago

In my opinion the worst change in DS Desert Hills is the removal of the entire SMB3 theming. Even if you didn't like the layout, at least it contained references like the angry sun and purple pipes. Now all of it is gone and it's just a regular desert.

@TempoKong 1 year ago

fun trivia: in the french version, Desert Hills is named "Désert du Soleil", which means "Sun's Desert"

guess what was also removed lmao

@OrangeToadGamer 1 year ago

Wanna know what I just realized, why put Desert Hills in this game instead of Sunset Wilds? The whole complaint surrounding it being included in 8DX was the lack of the sunset due to 8DX lacking a dynamic skybox, and what does MKWorld include, a dynamic skybox, so imo, they should have just put Desert Hills in the BCP and Sunset Wilds in World

or if they wanted a desert themed GBA track in the BCP, Yoshi Desert was right there 💀

@WiiUWeirdo 1 year ago

What is even funnier about desert hills is the Mario land theming is that it would have worked better with both Yoshi desert and Dry Dry Ruins as there are temples and Sphinx in Mario land. You know what Mario land does not have: slopes.

@Noobguy22 1 year ago

If only Delfino Square was added, imagine how beautiful it would look in HD, and all of the great changes there could be!

@ARG-ARandomGuy 1 year ago

Kinda weird to me that they turned the very SMB3 based Desert Hills into a Super Mario Land inspired track, especially when they use the World 3 enemies for what looks like World 1. Super Mario Land has more than one world, Nintendo!

Also, Tokotoko should’ve been a racer, that would’ve been hilarious

@CrabKFP 1 year ago (edited)

17:01 I'm gonna be the pedantic dino-nerd here. Pterodactyls ain't no dinosaurs. Closely related, sure, but no dinosaurs so the argument falls even more flat

17:24 Now, not being pedantic here, but this is a common misconception because Triceratops is the most famous one, the one in the track is probably a Nasutoceratops. It has the cattle like horns and the lack of a nasal horn

@damayne.8397 1 year ago (edited)

11:19 Star Track Cup 💔

@MishKoz 1 year ago

17:00 if you wanna be even more nerdy 🤓☝️ pterosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs. They're flying reptiles.

@Novum228 1 year ago

A massive issue with the community when it comes to retro tracks is that the commnunity thinks of the tracks as is rather than how it can change. You wouldn’t think of the GBA tracks until you see how they changed in 8 Deluxe (with two major exceptions)

@deadheat1635 1 year ago

I think the reason people hate the Wario Stadium simplification is because people don’t like the idea of simplifying courses after what happened to Sky Garden and Sunset Wilds