Mario Kart World is well on its way, and for all those tired, worn-out gamers needing something new, there isn’t long to wait. One of the most notable changes about this game is its size. In every Mario Kart prior to this one, players have always been hampered by the set track. When driving by land, sea, or air, you couldn’t pick yourself up off the track and drive beyond the track. In Mario Kart World, you can, but there is a track that seems to be coming that may change all that.
Mario Kart World Flies Over The Rainbow
For any Kart driver who has enjoyed other Mario Kart games, there has been one track at the end of the game as the final racing track. It’s called Rainbow Road and is unlike any other track. This one is a rainbow-colored racing course that is suspended in space. It has often been the final race of the Special Cup, and since it has had little to no guardrails to save drivers from plummeting off the edge, it has been the greatest product of players’ screams and shouts of fear as they fly off the edge.
Rainbow Road History
Rainbow Road has appeared as the final track in every major Mario Kart game save for Mario Kart Arcade GP DX, and thanks to a leak, it looks like Mario Kart World will have it as well. That’s right, this multi-color paved way with its tight curves, steep slopes, wavy ground, and almost-impossible perfect lap giver is coming to the next Nintendo Switch 2.
This difficult track first appeared as the fifth and final track of the Special Cup in Super Mario Kart and offered players the best view of the game as they strived to hold a 90-degree turn and flew off the edge. Not having any barriers can be bad enough, but Rainbow Road also had Star Thwomps, which would rise and fall, smashing the driver or sending them spinning out of control trying to avoid them.
Later, the track was remade in Mario Kart: Super Circuit, in Mario Kart 7, and in Mario Kart 8. In these remastered versions, speed boots were added, and the Star Thwomps would create rolling ripples in the tracks as they slammed down. Then, in Mario Kart 64, the track returned as the longest in the entire Mario Kart series. This one added outline images of every playable driver as well as chain chompers.
Rainbow Road Leaves The Console
Not so long after its release to the Nintendo 64 came Mario Kart Arcade GP, where Kart racers could enjoy taking on Rainbow Road from the comfort of the arcade racing chair. Rainbow Road had two versions in this one, with Rainbow Coaster and Rainbow Downhill, making it twice as difficult. With its massive and iconic challenge offered to gamers, it was even featured in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. That was when Mario, Princess Peach, Toad, Donkey Kong, and the entire Kong Army used the Rainbow Road to head off Bowser’s Koopas to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Nintendo has offered us several details about Mario Kart World that break the traditions of previous Mario Kart games. The Switch 2 will double the size of its racers, where there will be 24 racers. Players will have the chance to freely roam around the world, take photos, race in a Grand Prix, or even play a knockout mode of continual racing for the winners.
Switch 2 Is Offroad
This is where we get down to something that Nintendo Korea may have accidentally slipped. They released an image of Mario Kart World’s version of Rainbow Road, which was probably being held for a later release. The fact that Rainbow Road is going to be in Mario Kart World’s free-roaming world sets a different aspect to its outline. Rainbow Road has always been set in space, which changes the open, roaming nature of the new game.
Mario Kart World is coming in June and is offering more characters, more racers, with changes to their karts, the pre-making kart system, customization process, as well as tracks, an open world, and now a new version of Rainbow Road. That means the increasing difficulty is set to be more than out of this Mario Kart World, but racing on the almost-impossible track that is the pinnacle of difficulty in the Mario Kart series. So, claim your kart and start practicing because things don’t get any more complicated.
