Best Mario Kart: Double Dash Cups
After I realized that the Special Cup was my favorite in the first four Mario Kart games, I realized that it wasn't until Mario Kart DS that the Special Cup went down in quality. This Special Cup is great. Wario Colosseum is amazing, with cool jumps and obstacles like fireballs. It also looks cool, and the 2 laps make it unique.
Dino Dino Jungle is my favorite track in the game, with an amazing concept of using a giant dinosaur as an obstacle, and also has other cool things, like water geysers for example. Bowser's Castle is the weakest of the castles with Bowser Statues, but I have to give it credit for being the first one to introduce those statues. As for Rainbow Road, it's pretty darn good. I love how well placed the boost panels are, and getting launched high in the air is cool. Not to mention the great music.
I have to say, it was pretty hard to decide which cup is the best among the three cups that aren't the Special Cup. I ended up choosing the Flower Cup. Mario Circuit is pretty boring, but I like the other tracks enough.
Mushroom Bridge is cool. It looks cool, and there are a lot of cool details, like all the cool vehicles and some hidden shortcuts. Daisy Cruiser is a bit overrated, since I don't think a boat is that original for a track, but it's still quite good. I especially love the moving tables and item boxes.
Waluigi Stadium though is amazing. It's not as cool as Wario Colosseum, but it's great for the same reasons. I also agree with darthvadern. The Wario and Waluigi tracks are really good for some reasons.
Star Cup is the weakest in the game, but unlike darthvadern, it's not too far behind the other cups. I don't care about the ice physics in Sherbet Land, so I think it's pretty good, especially with the skating Shy Guys that are really cute.
Mushroom City has even more hidden passages than Mushroom Bridge, making it a little better personally. Then we have the two most overrated tracks in the game. Yoshi Circuit has an original concept but lacks unique obstacles.
Getting down a volcano in DK Mountain is cool, but I think it could have been better if there was lava. It's still the best track in the cup, though.
Mushroom Cup courses tend to be very boring in most Mario Kart games due to being very easy and involving little to no skill. However, Mario Kart Double Dash is the exception to the rule. I genuinely enjoy all of the tracks in MKDD, including the Mushroom Cup tracks. They are all unique in their own ways.
Granted, it's low on my list, but that doesn't mean I hate these tracks. Luigi Circuit is a good introduction for the first course in the game. Peach Beach is another good track. I like the setting, the music, and the track layout.
Baby Park is an amazing track for one thing and one thing only. Since Baby Park is just a small oval, a lot of items can be thrown aimlessly all around the track, causing a lot of mayhem. Dry Dry Desert is also underrated to me. I like the fact that there's a dust devil that roams around the track, I like the Pokeys, and I even like that giant sinkhole where some type of piranha plant monster looking thing lives and eats you when you go all the way down.