This may be way too soon, but I couldn’t help myself. I already put together my wanted Retro tracks for MK Next lol. Thought it would be a fun excerise. It’s a mixture of both a wishlist and expectations.
I’m of course assuming the usual 16 Retros in the base game, one appearance of a game per cup, as usual.
SHELL CUP
DS Figure-8 Circuit
3DS Daisy Hills
GBA Cheep Cheep Island
Wii Toad’s Factory
BANANA CUP
SNES Vanilla Lake 1
GBA Luigi Circuit
N64 Wario Stadium
3DS Shy Guy Bazaar
LEAF CUP
GCN Mushroom City
3DS Wario Shipyard
SNES Bowser’s Castle 2
Wii Dry Dry Ruins
LIGHTNING CUP
GBA Lakeside Park
N64 Banshee Boardwalk
DS Airship Fortress
GCN Rainbow Road
Some notes on what I considered:
- Automatically eliminated any course that appeared in MK8D, including its new ones. Just spent 10 years with them, think other courses should be given the opportunity in the spotlight.
- In terms of tracks that have already appeared as retro tracks before, MKDS and MK7’s retro courses were given priority before MKWii, because of the bigger visual upgrade potential.
- I attempted to follow some “rules” to pad it out. For instance, I don’t really care about any circuit tracks but I know they’re realistically going to appear so I couldn’t ignore them. I also usually like Star/Special courses more but I knew we’d get some flower cup and mushroom cup tracks.
- I don’t know what to do about GBA Rainbow Road. The BCP was really the perfect place for it and it didn’t show. GCN felt right because the next big console MK should get the next big console RR in line after 64, like how 64 RR was a big deal for 8.
- GCN RR and N64 Wario Stadium are the reasons Wario Colosseum couldn’t make it. Didn’t want 2 Wario courses or 2 GCN in the Lightning cup, but would’ve loved to have it otherwise.