{"id":4574,"date":"2022-08-04T17:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/review-mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2-harmless-fun-but-moreb-side-filler\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:14:22","slug":"review-mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2-harmless-fun-but-moreb-side-filler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/04\/review-mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2-harmless-fun-but-moreb-side-filler\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 2 &#8211; Harmless Fun, But More&#8221;B-Side Filler&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A stumbling sophomore outing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_1\">Wave 1<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>&#8216;s Booster Course Pass, everyone and their nan turned their attention towards Wave 2; specifically, when on <em>earth<\/em> it would be coming out. Excitment reached fever pitch (just check out the comments section of any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a> related content if you don&#8217;t believe us!), so naturally, expectations for the latest batch of courses are exceedingly high. Was it all worth it, though? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_2\">Wave 2<\/a>, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now gained a total of sixteen new tracks so far in 2022. Just let that sink in for a moment: <em>sixteen<\/em> new tracks. It&#8217;s a five-year-old game, for goodness sake. <em>Eight<\/em>, if you count the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/mario_kart_8\">Wii U release<\/a>! We&#8217;ve tried to keep this figure in mind when playing through these new courses and really look at the bigger picture here, because the new tracks on offer in the <strong>Turnip Cup<\/strong> and the <strong>Propeller Cup<\/strong> are a mixed bag, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 2 &#8211; Harmless Fun, But More&#8221;B-Side Filler&#8221;<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A stumbling sophomore outing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_1\">Wave 1<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>&#8216;s Booster Course Pass, everyone and their nan turned their attention towards Wave 2; specifically, when on <em>earth<\/em> it would be coming out. Excitment reached fever pitch (just check out the comments section of any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/mario_kart_tour\">Mario Kart Tour<\/a> related content if you don&#8217;t believe us!), so naturally, expectations for the latest batch of courses are exceedingly high. Was it all worth it, though? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_booster_course_pass_wave_2\">Wave 2<\/a>, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has now gained a total of sixteen new tracks so far in 2022. Just let that sink in for a moment: <em>sixteen<\/em> new tracks. It&#8217;s a five-year-old game, for goodness sake. <em>Eight<\/em>, if you count the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/mario_kart_8\">Wii U release<\/a>! We&#8217;ve tried to keep this figure in mind when playing through these new courses and really look at the bigger picture here, because the new tracks on offer in the <strong>Turnip Cup<\/strong> and the <strong>Propeller Cup<\/strong> are a mixed bag, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/mario-kart-8-deluxe-booster-course-pass-wave-2\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}