Rome Avanti: Looks good, and stands out a little from the general city tracks thanks to the Colosseum set pieces. 8/10
DK Mountain: DK Mountain is easily a top 2 Double Dash track (I have trouble deciding between this or Dino Dino Jungle). So glad it got in over something like Mushroom Bridge. 9.5/10.
Daisy Circuit: I really don't care for this one. The statues are nice, but the track itself is just so plain. Coming from the final wave especially, it's disappointing. 5/10.
Piranha Plant Cove: Honestly I was so looking forward to Piranha Plant Pipeline, so I'm a little salty this pretty much made it impossible for that to get in. The course itself is pretty nice, definitely a high tier water track. 8/10
Madrid Drive: This is a weird one because half the track is full of really cool set pieces like the football stadium, or the art gallery where there's 2 paintings of Piranha Plants with a real one in the middle painting. But the other half is just full of driving through generic looking streets that are indistinguishable from the dozen other city tracks. In that sense it heavily suffers from being the final city track in the DLC since its flaw is much more apparent after playing every other one before it. They needed to end on an amazing city track, and instead I'd probably place this one somewhere in the middle. 6.5/10
Rosalina's Ice World: I actually feel this track is kind of underrated. Still it isn't amazing, and like Daisy Circuit it also suffers from being a somewhat anti-climatic for the final wave (I said something similar about Madrid Drive too, but since that was a Tour track it had to make it in, so the complaint there was they just happened to not make that last track special, while in this case they had a choice to pick ANY past track and chose relatively weak ones). It looks very nice, and I like the slide at the beginning that leads to the little ice village, which cracks on future laps. But the second half of the course is very dull. 7/10.
Bowser's Castle 3: Holy shit what a glow up! Between the past 2D entries (SNES & GBA) it felt like Nintendo's approach was to completely re-do the GBA tracks and keep the SNES tracks very simple with just updated graphics. This one gets the full on GBA treatment, with multiple new elements, varying elevations all over the place, and just generally feels like a brand new track. A very fitting "Bowser's Castle" acting as the penultimate to the booster course pass. 9.5/10.
Rainbow Road: What else could they end on? It's not my favourite Rainbow Road (that'd be 3DS), but this is like the poster child for Mario Kart Rainbow Roads. It's the one everyone knows and remembers. 9/10.
Other than that it's nice to get 4 characters when we were only expecting 2, but in truth I don't care much for these ones. I much preferred the last waves characters, and my boy Wiggler is staying as my main. The Mii costumes were a nice addition too, giving something for people without amiibos.
DK Mountain: DK Mountain is easily a top 2 Double Dash track (I have trouble deciding between this or Dino Dino Jungle). So glad it got in over something like Mushroom Bridge. 9.5/10.
Daisy Circuit: I really don't care for this one. The statues are nice, but the track itself is just so plain. Coming from the final wave especially, it's disappointing. 5/10.
Piranha Plant Cove: Honestly I was so looking forward to Piranha Plant Pipeline, so I'm a little salty this pretty much made it impossible for that to get in. The course itself is pretty nice, definitely a high tier water track. 8/10
Madrid Drive: This is a weird one because half the track is full of really cool set pieces like the football stadium, or the art gallery where there's 2 paintings of Piranha Plants with a real one in the middle painting. But the other half is just full of driving through generic looking streets that are indistinguishable from the dozen other city tracks. In that sense it heavily suffers from being the final city track in the DLC since its flaw is much more apparent after playing every other one before it. They needed to end on an amazing city track, and instead I'd probably place this one somewhere in the middle. 6.5/10
Rosalina's Ice World: I actually feel this track is kind of underrated. Still it isn't amazing, and like Daisy Circuit it also suffers from being a somewhat anti-climatic for the final wave (I said something similar about Madrid Drive too, but since that was a Tour track it had to make it in, so the complaint there was they just happened to not make that last track special, while in this case they had a choice to pick ANY past track and chose relatively weak ones). It looks very nice, and I like the slide at the beginning that leads to the little ice village, which cracks on future laps. But the second half of the course is very dull. 7/10.
Bowser's Castle 3: Holy shit what a glow up! Between the past 2D entries (SNES & GBA) it felt like Nintendo's approach was to completely re-do the GBA tracks and keep the SNES tracks very simple with just updated graphics. This one gets the full on GBA treatment, with multiple new elements, varying elevations all over the place, and just generally feels like a brand new track. A very fitting "Bowser's Castle" acting as the penultimate to the booster course pass. 9.5/10.
Rainbow Road: What else could they end on? It's not my favourite Rainbow Road (that'd be 3DS), but this is like the poster child for Mario Kart Rainbow Roads. It's the one everyone knows and remembers. 9/10.
Other than that it's nice to get 4 characters when we were only expecting 2, but in truth I don't care much for these ones. I much preferred the last waves characters, and my boy Wiggler is staying as my main. The Mii costumes were a nice addition too, giving something for people without amiibos.