Best Mario Kart 8 DLC Pack 1 Courses
On November 13th of 2014 marks the 5th anniversary of the first DLC Pack in Mario Kart 8. Not that it's anything huge or anything. I'm juts going to grind lots of Mario Kart related lists until then just so that they are made because no one else is going to make them. With that being said, here's a list of the best DLC Pack 1 courses in Mario Kart 8.
This is probably the only course in DLC Pack 1 that I would actually consider to be an amazing course along with maybe Mute City. It's based on The Legend of Zelda and it's just such a well-executed course with stunning graphics and so much to drive around. It's based on The Legend of Zelda and it has a forest, a castle, and even deku-babas, keese and rupees instead of coins. The music is a remix on the classic zelda theme from The Legend of Zelda. Such a fun course to play and easily my favourite of this DLC pack.
Mute City is in my opinion a course in-between amazing and great. F-Zero is one of few racing titles by Nintendo other than Mario Kart and it's certainly one of the best. It's incredibly fast-paced and the music is chaotic and you gotta be careful. This course, based on the track of Mute City from F-Zero matches all the stuff needed for it to feel like a mix between Mario Kart and F-Zero and it's just amazing. Fast-paced, amazing remix on the F-Zero theme, those pink sidewalks, you name it. It's such a fun and underrated course. While Big Blue in DLC Pack 2 is better, this one deserves recognition as well.
While DLC Pack 1 did only have three retro tracks and none of them are that great, I do think GCN Yoshi Circuit was a pretty good track in my opinion. It's in the shape of a Yoshi and in this game, it was executed well. In Double Dash, it was too hard to control with the twisty turns, the DS remake was so bland and uninteresting, but this remake look stunning and and it's easy to control despite it being twisty. The updated music is also excellent.
This was a great update to a pretty fun course overall
The course that has made the most appearences in Mario Kart games, at a staggering five times. In Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Mario Kart 7, this game and even Mario Kart Tour! Well this version is the best. It looks pretty good with the visuals and the music has been updated slightly. Not much to say about it. It's still the same track but with other visuals. But I enjoy it.
This track is absolutely gorgeous and I’m not the biggest fan of it personally but I like this version
What they did to this retro course was just so sad. This is because the original on the Wii is actually my favourite mario kart course of all time. So much nostalgia and the difficulty was awesome. And then it came back on this console. I had high expectations but it looks like Nintendo wanted to make it even easier than Mario Circuit for frick sake! Now you get speedboosts by hitting the minecarts and there are guardrails almost everywhere! Not to mention how you can't no longer explore this course by driving up that rail that leads to out-of-bounds that existed in the original. Seriously that was my favourite part. Even the music has been downgraded and while the visuals are impressive, I still prefer the original. Not a terrible course because I still enjoy it but man it was so downgraded!
Most people agree on that this is the worst DLC course overall in the game and among the worst courses in the game. I disagree a lot. While it's one of the weaker courses in the DLC packs overall, I find it severely underrated and actually quite original. It's not often you get to visit the arctic for frick sake and drive on two parallel colourful roads. Although I do agree yellow and green don't go well and that the shortcuts are crap. The music isn't any interesting either. Overall my opinion on this is decent.
This is just Baby Park 2.0, now it's for adults. And by that, I mean that it's twice as big and it's a dirtbike arena, and babies don't drive dirtbikes really. It's a very forgettable course. It's cool for making tricks and stuff and it's a nice throwback to the Excitebike game on the NES but the music is uninteresting and the layout is pretty boring. It gets old pretty fast. It's below average for me but not terrible.
It's..., well how can I put it? I mean it's an incredibly original idea as you drive through a statue of Gobblegut and it has tons of chinese stuff. But man where are the colours? Grey, beige, grey-green, and that's it. Terrible colours combined into the most visually un-appealing thing ever. Not to mention how twisty this course is. If you're palying it on 200cc, good luck. Good idea, poor execution. I've gotten to like it more as time has went by and I's consider it a decent course.