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I suspect that they'll replenish free trials for online and do one for the Expansion Pass once the Switch 2 releases, so you might get a week to play them without payment. (Might)

Yeah, because the DLC will atleast be available to get later(until the servers go down)

Tbf it's not like a F2P game's FOMO where the skins & stuff really aren't worth it. I can't think of a first party Nintendo game where the DLC isn't worth it. Xenoblade is good, Engage, Mario Kart, Splatoon, Smash, Star Allies(that game really needed it), BotW was...fine, I guess.

You can listen to the music because it was an update, the same way you can see the DLC tracks. It doesn't make sense for DLC-less players to have the old menu. (Check Smash Ultimate where you can see the DLC spirit boards, or Splatoon 3 where you can see the train station to the Splatoon 1 & 2 hubs)

The whole idea is really to make you feel like you're missing out, which you technically are? So I guess it's working.

There isn't any lava offroad, "lava" is just a hole. To make it look like lava, make the color orangee when you're creating the track, then put a hole over it.

Offroad is driveable terrain that slows you down, not something that makes you respawn.

I thought it only worked for game's online servers, not the Eshop.

He can't buy the WiiU DLC anymore, the servers are down, the only thing you can do would be redownloading any games you previously had. He's kind of cooked as a WiiU player.

So you haven't stop talking about old Sonic games.(I mean, why would you, they're(mostly) pretty solid although some haven't aged well(like Adventure 1))

I realize that Superstars is not the best argument for this because it kinda sucked compared to Mania but the idea is still the same; people love talking about old games. Especially when we can only speculate about the next game for the next two months.

There isn't really much to talk about yet. All we have is blind speculation.
And people still talk about the older games all the time(look at MKWii's stuck in the past fanbase).

Do you stop talking about your favorite games just because another entry is around the corner? So once Superstars released you stopped talking about Mania? Instantly?

The Wii was new harder tho. There isn't much rubber-banding in Mario Kart Double Dash & onwards because the harder was way better. It's only the first 3 that had that problem.

Pretty sure this is in every game, just those games were built on the shittiest Nintendo consoles known to man

I mean, fo course he'd "sound suprised", he isn't allowed to confirm that he's been working on a game for it.

Also, it's only called Ultimate in English. In Japan it's just Smash Bros. Special. It's a special game that culminates the whole series up to this point. That's literally it.

They can reboot it the same way Mario Kart is being rebooted. Every 64 & Melee character uses
outdated movesets. Some Brawl characters as well. They can always cut the roster back to around 50 or so, drop all the semi-clones and 3rd parties who will never return and add more. There's other stuff besides characters too, like stages and items. Ultimate released in 2018, there have been a ton of 1st party games with new characters since.
There are other ways to improve the game than just having a ton of characters. Less can be more.

Only the very first version for most, tbf, also barely anyone actually owned a GameCube

Wii games could be played on WiiU & we still got Sm4sh.

How would you even play Mario Kart in 2D? You can't pass people in 2D...it'd be like playing an actual racing game where one mistake would decide the race. (Also 2D platformers work because the characters jump around and there's verticality to the levels, cars can't jump, nor do race tracks have the same level of verticality. It'd just be a straight line.(which is actually what a fair amount of Odyssey's 2D Sections are)

I realized that I've been a bit negative here, so I'm going to try to put down my own predictions for the course music, using examples from other video games.

Mario Bros. Circuit

This is the only track that we know for sure.
My prediction for every circuit in this game is that they'll all have dynamic music(Nintendo has been doing this more recently with their games(Xenoblade 3, Pikmin 4, Metroid Dread, BotW & TotK, etc. etc)) Heck, Mario Kart already has the front-running beats, they're definitely testing the idea. I predict the music will be more area based than position though, something like 2 Sonic where Acts have different variations of a theme, but it'll still be the same song.

So, my predictions for Mario Bros. Circuit are as follows:

Number 1: The Circuit

This song will be probably be the most basic form of the music, for obvious reasons. As for the instrumentation, I predict ye olde Western sound.
Y'know, like this (but way faster)


Eventually, we'll likely get an extended Desert road section and likely a western-styled town(maybe a farm too), which will be full on Wild West, sort of like this

Unironically this song might be too fast, but something that gives off the feeling of racing through the desert on horse back. This could also work for a train track section, but I have a better song in mind...

Lastly, the road section looks long enough to the point where I hope it also has slightly different music. (Exact music is hard to find for this vibe)


Also if we ever get the train track section:

God I love this song

Anyway, that's all for the first course. I'll be back for the next track after a while.

First 5 seconds already tells me it's a no, it does not matter that we do not know what kind of music the game will even have, stars in Mario Kart only last 8(?) seconds, that has way too much buildup & is way too hyper for the power up. It'll probably sound like the Wonder variation in game.

Also, whenever Mario Kart does EDM, it's in moderation. Like, take Electrodrome for example, or Berlin Byways. Singapore Speedway. These courses are few and far between, because the game is really too slow for them. It also actually helps the music stand out even more, because the other tracks in the cup are usually pretty chill or adventurous, and then your ears get hit with a rave every once in a while.

TLDR not only is that way too intense for a star, in any Mario game, it has way too much buildup, vocals(I did not expect that) and would be too much effort for something that you'll hear every race if you're struggling. It's also got that Splatoon issue where it's way too freaking loud at some points and blocks out other sounds which limit your awareness. Like, imagine somebody drops a bomb tight, like behind one of the Bangkok Rush parking lot corners, and you can't hear it being set because the mf next to you is blasting Tekken music at 600 decibels & you get bombed. Even worse if you are the one with the rave and it runs out the millisecond you really would've preferred to still have it.

If we ever got a Mario fighting game, sure thing, but even then most fighting games aren't this intense. It's only Tekken(yeah Guilty Gear is intense too, but it's not electro)with music like this, which tracks, because Tekken is a crazy game, & because the music doesn't matter as your opponent will always be on screen.

Will is a strong word for something that you don't even know will happen, but okay.