Still, it’s been hard to ignore the swath of people who couldn’t possibly care less if game content is actually good, only how much “effort” needed to be put into it. This makes the NSO Expansion a little more enticing that it used to be, which is something it desperately needed. Or, if you happen to have the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, it’s free with your subscription. The pass is $25, which considering how many courses that adds, comes out to about 50 cents per track. For me, it’s just nice to have this new stuff available to play on my TV instead of on my tiny phone screen with touch controls and an onslaught of predatory microtransactions. I’ve seen this being called “lazy” and while it’s not quite as high-effort as I would like to see, it’s certainly not as bad as it's being made out to be. They also seem to be pulled from the mobile game Mario Kart Tour, which has resulted in a somewhat jarring graphical appearance when compared to the existing tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. They’re new versions of old courses from throughout Mario Kart’s history. Let’s get the bad stuff out of the way first.Īs stated, the new courses aren’t actually new courses. The Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass will bring 48 previous Mario Kart tracks to Mario Kart Deluxe over the course of the next 2 years. The only thing that’s really missing is new courses, and Nintendo has just solved that problem in a pretty creative way.

I still get plenty of regular play out of the game with my wife and kids. Honestly though, I’m having a hard time seeing that as a bad thing. Mario Kart 8 is truly the game that will never die.

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