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10:55 Well, I let you know that when I started to make my Rainbow Road ranking, I had this in first place with Wii being in second place because I thought my love for Wii’s iteration was just nostalgia bias. Then I replayed them and put Wii at first place, making 3DS fall to second place. Then I started liking the GCN version more, and the DS one also grown on me overtime as I replayed it, so now the 3DS version is in 4th place.

My main problem with Cheep Cheep Cape is that its only reason to exist is to say "hey we have underwater driving" to the player. It’s so uninspired that it almost feels like Nintendo used AI to make this course, which is not a compliment at all given my standards & the fact that I’m rather anti-AI.

Yes!!! Finally someone who enjoys Ninja Hideaway it's such as good course!

Imagine a crossover track based on Area Zero from Pokémon Scarlet/Violet. How epic would it be. Maybe it could be the penultimate track in a DLC, just before the obligatory Rainbow Road.

My ranking: 15) SNES Bowser Castle 1: BOOOOOORING!!! It's literally a lesser version of BC3 from the Star Cup. It has nothing to remember when you play this course. It's not even an SMK symptom! MC2 has a big jump, the Ghost Valleys have neat feather shortcuts, or DP3 has mandatory jumps. What does this one has? Uh... some jumps. Something that BC3 does way better. 14) GBA Bowser Castle 1 (original): This track is literally just a shorter version of SNES BC1 that is shaped like a glorified rectangle. You play it, you immediately forget it. 13) GBA Bowser Castle 1 (remake): Same, but at least we have better graphics. I like the gliding section & shortcut. 12) SNES Bowser Castle 2: This track... actually has a good layout! It has varied track design and pulling out a feather shortcut from the dead end can be pretty satisfying! The jumps section is also really fun. 11) GBA Bowser Castle 2: I like the part where there's several jump pads, with some troll ones and some other real ones. Sadly, the other parts are too basic, and the skybox doesn't stand out enough. 10) 3DS Bowser's Castle: The weakest 3D Bowser Castle. No contest. It just feels like the developers couldn't agree on what would be the main gimmick of the track and just dumped everything in one track without it being cohesive. 9) Wii U Bowser's Castle: Good layout, great music, cool dangerous atmosphere. The only issue that holds it back form being higher is the uncohesive scenery problem. 7) GCN Bowser's Castle: I love the ominous atmosphere of this track. Sadly, it also has really boring sections with not much more than boring turns. 8) SNES Bowser Castle 3 (original): It's already the best SNES track! It has varied track design, it's efficiently lengthy, and it has cool jump sections! 6) GBA Bowser Castle 3: Gorgeous skybox, cool music, fun layout, beautiful color palette, it's what SNES Bowser Castles should have been in terms of scenery & atmosphere. 5) DS Bowser Castle: It has a fun layout and not as much boring moments as GCN. It has a cool focus on split paths, dangerous sections, a cool spinning log section, a dangerous feeling music, and a fun moving platform sections! 4) Wii Bowser's Castle: It's a great course! The shaking road is fun to trick off, the section with the Bowser statue is really tense with halfpipes you'll be forced to take, and the final section is great and pretty too! I like the music, it has a hopeless feeling I really love. 3) SNES Bowser Castle 3 (8DX remake): I would have never expected this, but they managed to make a good SNES remake. The color palette is gorgeous, the metal music is such a banger, the scenery has such a dangerous feeling, and it's soooo exhalirating on 200cc. I especially love the lava falls at the start, it's really dangerous-looking, which is a great point for a Bowser Castle! 2) GBA Bowser Castle 4: Somehow, a flat piece of cardboard managed to score a very honorable 2nd place! The skybox is really scary and contributes to the tense feeling to this course. The turns are tight and fun to take. The layout is really fun and it has varied track design. The obstacles are varied. And the lava pools make the track harder and more fun! I beg you, Nintendo, please remake this track in a mainline Mario Kart game one day! 1) N64 Bowser's Castle: This is the winner. No contest. It has a fun layout, varied obstacles, a gorgeous color palette, and a constant dangerous and almost hopeless feeling. But the chef's kiss is the ominous aspect. It feels like a real castle Bowser could live and fight Mario in. I especially love the part where we're inside the castle because of how scary and dangerous it feels. And the realism worked on me because when I played it as a kid on MKWii, I used to think the carpet staircase that comes just before you exit the castle was actually Bowser's bed. Overall, this track just has it all, and I'm happy Mario Kart Wii kept its legacy alive! (SMH, another reason why it has the best nitro AND retro track selection in the series...)

You should make a Mario Kart Wii tracks ranking!

"Aren't you a bit early?" Weren't the other creators who made their videos 9 years ago?

I think Thwomp Desert might have been the real hot take in this video seeing how many comments are talking about how much they like it (me included, I'm a huge fan)

Missed opportunity to have a "I LOVE TRAINS" and "WOOHOO FINALLY IT’S TOAD CIRCUT!" joke by Schaffrillas.

Are you a man

"Beating a bunch of enemies to move on is not good game design" What??

For the next Mario Kart, I would like some more battle type modes. Something like what CTR had for their Switch release. I'd also like an online hub world of a decent size so you could drive around customizing your car in actual dealerships or whatever, instead of doing it all through menus. It's just difficult to upgrade worthy of a $60 purchase over 8D unless you add in a lot more features. 3D Mario, I hope it is more Odyssey style than Bowzer's Fury. A open world would be cool though.

Every character roster can’t be good if it doesn’t have Smol Dawn :3

When are you going to do a super circuit track ranking Albert Boris!

ALBERT W AS ALWAYS!

Did you use the dehydration gun?

Let the records show that I predicted 3DS Rosalina’s Ice World for the Booster Pass. Also, Rock Rock Mountain is the superior name because it reminds me of a Mario 64 level name. And if anyone still doesn’t get the Boston Building joke, then I don’t know what to say except for… ZOO WEE MAMA!

Go back I want to be Dino

when gba rainbow road gets remade in the next mario kart game(yes, its guaranteed to happen as every version from 7 onwards remade a rainbow road in the original game version order), i bet its gonna be even more EPIC

The skyboxes in this game are just kingly!

Calling DKC Returns bland is wiiiild- We all have our own opinions tho. Personally I'm a huge fan of the game and think the art direction is genuinely incredible, though again, to each their own. d:

Oh what clowns we all were

I’ve no idea how I’d go about sorting these into their own individual cups, but I thought up 24 tracks that I’d be interested in seeing return: SNES Choco Island 1 SNES Koopa Beach 1 SNES Vanilla Lake 1 N64 Wario Stadium GBA Lakeside Park GBA Broken Pier GBA Bowser’s Castle 4 GBA Rainbow Road GCN Mushroom City GCN Wario Colosseum GCN Bowser’s Castle DS Figure-8 Circuit DS Airship Fortress Wii Toad’s Factory Wii Mario Circuit Wii Dry Dry Ruins 3DS Daisy Hills 3DS Shy Guy Bazaar 3DS Wuhu Island Loop/Wuhu Loop 3DS Wuhu Mountain Loop/Maka Wuhu Wii U Toad Harbour Wii U Mount Wario Wii U Cloudtop Cruise Tour Piranha Plant Pipeline Honourable mentions that could effectively function as DLC I guess: SNES Mario Circuit 4 N64 Koopa Troopa Beach N64 Frappe Snowland GBA Luigi Circuit GBA Cheep-Cheep Island GBA Yoshi Desert GCN Dino Dino Jungle GCN Rainbow Road DS Luigi’s Mansion DS Delfino Square DS DK Pass Wii Luigi Circuit 3DS Mario Circuit 3DS Wario’s Galleon/Wario Shipyard 3DS Bowser’s Castle Wii U Thwomp Ruins Wii U Shy Guy Falls Didn’t include anymore Tour maps in my sort of DLC because I feel like with the Booster Course Pass, they’ve had their time to shine. And why is my DLC selection for the DS maps so much better than the base game selection, Jesus Christ💀

For me, MP9 is the best MP game because: -The graphics are gorgeous -The boards have original ideas that the car mechanic bring -The OST is pure gold -There’s barely any mini-games that are luck-base -And the minigame selection is the best one for me! It’s diverse, fun, based on various skills, and not too luck-based The only dud is that you should play a minigame at the end of each turn.

I consider MP1 to be the most overrated game in the series. It aged like milk. Too much mini games are really luck-based.

For your speech about objectivity and subjectivity, I have another idea: Distinguish what you consider to be good, to what you like. I don’t like Ghibli movies that much, but even if I don’t consider them to be better than Disney, Dreamworks, or Illumination movies, I consider them to be good.