Best Levels Ever # 16
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- The sixteenth episode of Best Levels Ever.
As a series progresses, it's inevitable (or at least should, in my opinion) that each installement will attempt to trump what came before it and provide a richer experience.
Mario Kart is no stranger to this basic concept. After eight or so main games, the original Super Mario Kart looks very simple compared to the later games, including the designs of the courses.
But that's not to say it's now a bad game by any means. I still hold many precious memories with it that I wouldn't exchange for the world, and deep down, it might actually still be my favourite of the bunch of those reasons.
The tracks it has to offer might not seem much now, but one in particular brought me endless childish joy to my childhood...
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This track also featured in Mario Kart 7. The big jump was reworked into a glider section to make use of the new mechanics; it was possible to keep gliding all the way to the finish line by jumping off a newly-added jump, on the walls on the left. Always found it very satisfying!
It was also possible to keep riding the walls on the side of the track. This paved the way for a cool expert shortcut, consisting of riding the wall from the start of the lap to about one-third of the way through. Even if the track's layout is not so special for the series' impressive standards, the little changes that were added ensures the layout remains basic yet memorable.
Actually if you look close enough, the "newly added jump" is in super mario kart, so it's not new.
@@robichu3023 You're right! How stupid of me, forgot about it LMAO -- I remember now that I largely ignored it when I played Super Mario Kart casually, I found it too awkward and risky to take compared to the remade version of the track.
@@SirCorvid True
@@SirCorvid It's still good that the original version has it. Nintendo may have special cased away the Feather from that track since it would break said track too much, but they still injected shortcut fun into it, and disguised as a random irregularity that could be taken as a cool cosmetic trick, leftover or glitch, to boot. MK7 was clearly making good reference to it and could even encourage players to take the original more seriously.
@@CarbonRollerCaco That's true, the narrow landing makes it a good advanced shortcut. A shame that it's superseded. Hopping at the first set of zippers is far easier -- I distinctly remember it was one of the few cuts I could routinely perform in my casual play-through -- while also offering a greater reward. This method skips two corners of the track; try doing that with the intended version, and the off-road will nullify all the time gained.
5:12 missed opportunity to say the ever so classic line “Drat! Double Drat! AND TRIPLE DRAT!”
Mario Kart: Double Drat!!
The whole beginning fits perfectly for me and Mario Kart 64. It's one I grew up with and despite all it's flaws it's probably still my favorite entry in the series to this day.
Or me with Double Dash
This is how I feel about Wii
5:12 that would pretty much happen in wacky races lol
“Back in my day, we didn’t have those fancy schmancy anti-gravity glider jumps, we had one ramp and we liked it! Kids these days will never understand!”
Idk excitebike had a ton of ramps...
Sounds like something Cranky would say.
I bet Cranky prefers sticking to the road, and he's alright to feel that way. In fact, the majority of your usual racers involve street or closed tracks
“Manly because we’re bad at explaining.”
Putting banana peels and fake item boxes on speed boosts over pits was one of my favorite things to do so that the CPUs get stunned and are unable to boost over the pits, leaving them to fall down and waste even more time having to wait for Lakitu to pick them up.
Really interesting video, this series is at its best when it’s half gushing and half just seeing why exactly it’s good, this one was great to see how such a simplistic main area can make or break a Mario kart track
4:57 Mario Kart is already pretty much Wacky Races except every racer is Dick Dastardly. Drat and double drat!
I get what you mean though, MK64 was my first and I absolutely adored the desert train track and all the trolling you can do with it despite how rubberbandy the AI is. We need a Mario Kart Maker where you can design your own tracks, because I'd put that train in every single one.
Mario Kart: Double Drat!!
If you jump a little to the left there's another jump ramp that you could use to go even farther, but it is risky since you can land offstage
I played this game for the first time awhile back. Initially I didn't really like it (I'm in the crowd that's more familiar with the newer Mario Karts), but a little time and videos like this one have helped me to appreciate it more.
Also this course probably has my favorite theme in the series. I could probably listen to it for hours on end.
Great video. Mario Circuit 2 was my favourite track as a kid too. I was very excited when it was brought back in Mario Kart 7
Imagine how crazy the speed jump could get! They could throw in more than one - possibly even _two!_ And maybe even shove the track into a handheld game while they're at it!
Super Mario Kart was my first game ever, right after I turned 5. Mario Circuit 2 was my favorite track as well, for pretty much exactly the reasons you listed! Glad someone else gets it. :D
I like Super Mario Kart for a different reason. The basic CPU items and tight turns make it the most skill-oriented Mario Kart game I've ever played, and the small tracks are thrilling to speed through on 150cc (yes, actual mode when you beat 100cc). It's impossible to get a feather on Mario Circuit 2 or just about any Mario Circuit in the game. This is because each track type has a unique item probability set. The whole "jumping over the road" gimmick has been used in a *lot* of custom tracks, but it was pretty cool the first time I've seen it in vanilla SMK. Great video!
I love your videos. It's cool to hear someone recount uniquely personal childhood memories like this.
Man, it's so cool to see nearly 30 years later that there were other kids who messed with Mario Kart tracks the same way you did.
I personally was introduced to the series wayyyyy later in, but I must say you did a great job of presenting what exactly made you like this track, and the experimentation part got me very intrigued as well ! Good vid.
I was unimpressed until you did the thing with the mushroom. It blew my mind. At first I was "It's just a jump" but then, I was like "Omg, try more stuff!"
In Super Mario Kart, all the CPUs mostly follow the same path throughout the track. At 5:20 you can see Koopa Troopa about to drive between the second and third speed boosts in that row. If you put down either a banana or green shell there right as you're about to speed up, you can trip up the higher-placing characters and cause them to fall behind. It's really cool!
I just love that your experiences are so similar to mine. Here's to enjoy videogames, both old and new ones!
As someone who grew up on MKWii the Mario Circuit 2 jump still manages to fascinate me. It's the only large jump where you can see other racers below you and can actually be screwed over, which was only ever recaptured with the gliders of MK7. It was also on a SNES so something like that wasn't very high on the list of expected course gimmicks.
im honestly a super mario kart hater but i always found the mc2 jump rly cool. i love the idea of putting items at the top of ramps to screw over other racers and mc2 introduces this concept to the series and executes it perfectly! its so interactive! mario kart knows how to make a big jump awesome and has known from the start!
It was always the ghost circuits in my family. A simple tracks to be sure but it was a favourite for racing each other and trying to beat each other's time trials
Definitely one of the more interesting tracks in the first game, but there was something even better that I've seen on the Mario Circuit 2 track. You know how if you tail a CPU, they will drop items to get you off their back? Try making the CPU drop an item right before the jump. Dick Dastardly would be jealous.
In 2015, MKDS Was my Jam. I loved it and still do.
5:07 I used to do this a lot at Mario Kart 64, I loved to go backwards just to see how the CPU took my traps or just to see how they looked racing
I also liked Mario Circuit 2's jump back in Super Mario Kart, to the point where I still feel like several tracks from Mario Kart: Super Circuit, including Cheese Land, Ribbon Road, and Riverside Park, all evoke those same kinds of nostalgic feelings for me, sometimes multiple times.
By the way, if you're distracted by jangling keys, then I wonder what you would think of the Pokémon Klefki.
0:54
That track is a NIGHTMARE in SRB2 Kart, you can easily get bumped into the lava, and if you're going fast, well, every jump sends you to lavaville
1:59
But in this, people are evil on purpose, with heavy players looking to bump players out of the jump. Absolute chaos
I grew up with Mario Kart 64, THAT'S the one I love the most
Man I was hoping I would see my favorite "glitch" in the entire game.
Drop a shell or a banana peel right in between the second and third double speed boost right in the CPU's path, and if a player runs over it, they'll not only miss the jump and have to go back around, sometimes their kart gets "broken" to the point where they don't get the double boost jump and have to keep going back around! I've found it works really only in the 100 CC cups, but it's SUPER hilarious if you get lucky with items you can send multiple CPUs karts into that cycle of not being able to make that jump so that the lower level racers can finish "in the money".
The ultimate awesomeness is if you can manage to get 4 CPU players in that "fail cycle" so you can watch them try and over and over again and fail while still being in 4th place. It doesn't work often, but when it does, it's the funniest thing I've seen in just about any game ever lol.
And there you go... Video of my favorite game commentator... Keep up the good work!!
I'm there with you as well git on the nostalgia bit. Mario Kart and many other popular Mario games will always be in my mind as the most wholesome gaming memories. Playing multiplayer with my brother and friends, all day long.
Super Mario Kart is such a classic. I'm glad to have started playing MK games with this one rather than the modern ones.
I believed Donut Plain 3 would be put on the spotlight, now i have never felt so wrong
I think Kirby and the amazing mirror was my favorite childhood Game, for a GBA title it had so much to do and experiment with.
Mario Circuit 2 was the only Mario Circuit track that was remade the most times in later Mario Kart games.
I'm glad the game brought you so much happiness. Me and my brothers spent more than a bit of time seeing if we could get onto the boat in the Donkey kong level on the 64. So I know the interest. The yearning to learn and study and test for yourself is something great, don't underestimate it.
I've got an idea for your next creepy moments video: the Labyrinth level from Revenge of Shinobi. The music is frantic and tense, and it really does reflect the situation that Joe Musashi is in for that level. Deep within the heart of enemy territory, not knowing where each door could lead, and choosing any can get you dropped in the middle of enemy swarms waiting to kill you.
5:20 I played Super Mario Kart for days, never did that before!
I watch on birthday. Made me happy.
At the start of the video, I was wondering how you'd make this track interesting enough for a "Best Levels Ever" video, but you brought up the experimentation part and I was hooked
Excellent damn video. Gave me a whole new appreciation for SNES MK and reminds me of the wacky experiments I used to do
my favorite snes track is mario circuit 2 and i love putting bananas/shells right before the ramp to mess up the cpu order once toad got second because of the other racers failing the ramp over and over
Mario: "YOSHI! DO SOMETHING!"
I never played this game, ever.
Or the GBA one.
My first taste of Mario Kart was Mario Kart 64, and that's only because my best friend had the game on is N64.
Though I will admit that these days of racing with him on MK64 were very memorable.
You can play that Mario Circuit from Super Mario Kart in Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart and sometimes some racers getting rage because they got stucked in the pipe.
Looks like an interesting game, i'll try it
Now that I have played a recent highlight release I feel so detached from these simple pleasures. Dang
lol, I thought this track was cool when I was younger too because of the jump...but in 7
A FEATHER to jump that shortcut in Ghost Valley?
Cute 😉 and here you’ve unknowingly mentioned the ‘other’ way
I didn't "get" racing games until Double Dash
Your "Dick Dastardly Mode" was a bit too perfect, it even perfectly backfired on you the same way it would on him!
6:24 - Hold up, bananas can cancel each other out??
It was my first game and I loved this track too ! I've always found funny how some character couldn't get past this jump no matter how hard they tried. They were dead last all of the cup, dead last for the final track until the final lap and it was like they couldn't even manage to gather the strength to pass this Ooh so fun jump !
We used to do multiplayer with my dad and since the CPU in this game is wired to always go through the same route I would just stand right before the jump with a star and just stand there and all the CPU would fail to make the jump.
Mario Circuit 2 needs to return, was honestly the best of one the game.
I attacked the perennial second placed AI racer right before the jump once when I was a kid and not only did they fail the jump when they recovered due to lack of momentum, they kept failing it over and over again and finished MC2 8th with a DNF
I think what you said applies to me and Mario Kart Wii
You'd have to have planted the banana on the dash panel for it to screw anyone that slipped on it. But yeah, Mario Circuit 2 is one of my favorite courses so I can relate to this video a lot.
I remember when I got mario kart as I kid I played so much that my aunt questioned me if I was sane for doing the same thing for so much time.
I don't think another game reached that mark for me
Maybe bomberman 3
Eyy! A Racing game!!!
Have you played Sour Music Kart? It's a fun ROM hack of this game.
Mario kart double dash is very good
if you liked that i can't imagine when you play CTR: NF
I wonder if you can get on top of another player 🤔
Where is lub lub
This game is very underrated,it's still better than Mario Kart Super Circuit and Mario Kart DS imo
I really dislike the first Mario Kart. The CPUs are cheap
And whether or not they got better as the series advanced is up for debates. I remember being on the receiving end of FIVE blue shells in a single track, on Mario Kart DS. And Wii's the one that gets flak?! x)
@@VonFirflirch I prefer the newer ones, like 7 or 8. I am not defending Wii or DS.