Mario Kart: Battle Royale! | ||||
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Developer(s) | GreenStar Studios Nintendo Bandai Namco | |||
Publisher(s) | Fantendo | |||
Platform(s) | Nintendo Switch | |||
Genre(s) | Racing | |||
Series | Mario Kart (spin-off) | |||
Release Date(s) | WW: January 4, 2020 | |||
Mode(s) | Single Player Multiplayer Online Play Wireless Play | |||
Age Rating(s) | ||||
Media Included | Nintendo Switch cardridge Digital purchase | |||
Available Input | Joy-cons Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Nintendo Labo's Toy-Con Car Vehicle Kit GameCube Controller |
Mario Kart: Battle Royale! is a racing/battle game developed by GreenStar Studios and Nintendo with collaboration of Bandai Namco and Microsoft. This game is made for Nintendo Switch released worldwide on January 4, 2020.
While this game being a second installement of the Mario Kart series, it approves to be a spin-off of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, focusing only on Battle Mode with their returning modes, such as Balloon Battle, Coin Runners, Bob-omb Blast, Shine Thief and Renegade Roundup. Additionally, a new battle mode is exclusively made for this game called Turf Plunders where players divided in two teams must cover the track with their respective team colors.
It has additional features such as new characters, new vehicles and their parts, new and returning items, new and returning battle courses and exclusive returning guests from all the Mario Kart games, featuring Villager, Isabelle, Link and Inkling from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe; Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Blinky, Mametchi (from Tamagotchi series) and Don-Chan (from Taiko No Tatsujin series) from the Mario Kart Arcade GP series; and Banjo & Kazooie (from their titular series) appearing has new racers as special guests with their own new course, Ancient Lake, from Diddy Kong Racing, transformed in a battle course.
This game is also big in online play due to having a gigantic map never done before in the past Mario Kart installments called Battle Island where up to 50 players battle against each other for the most scores and survivability.
Modes[]
Overview[]
- Single Player
- Battle GP!
- Quickplay
- Battle Island!
- Missions
- Shop
- Multiplayer (up to 4 players)
- Quickplay
- Battle Island!
- Local or Wireless
- Online Play (up to 2 players, local play only)
- Worldwide
- Regional
- Tournaments
- Friends
- Quickplay
- Battle Island!
Returning Battle Modes[]
There are six different types of battles:
Balloon Battle | The classic mode where players use items to pop opponents' balloons or steal them in order to score points. You can rather play in teams like in Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 8 DX or play solo on survival like in Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. | |
Shine Thief | A returning mode from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, one player must retrieve a Shine Sprite and keep hold of it for about 20 seconds, while the opponents use items against whoever has the Shine to force that player to drop it. The driver holding the shine sprite has a slightly reduced top speed. In Team play, one team must collectively manage to hold on to the Shine for about 30 seconds. | |
Bob-omb Blast | A returning mode from Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, in which players attack one another using Bob-ombs to score points and can carry up to 10 Bob-ombs. This version follows all of the same rules as Balloon Battle, the difference being that the only items are Bob-ombs. It also has exclusive variations of Bob-ombs with unique abilities found in Golden Item Boxes. | |
Coin Runners | Originating in Mario Kart Wii, players must collect Coins scattered across the course in order to have the most by the end of the match. Plays more akin to the Mario Kart Wii version of the mode, with players having no limit to the amount of coins they can collect, as opposed to the 10-coin limit in the Mario Kart 7 version. There are also new items that helps players to gain coins quickly found in Golden Item Boxes. | |
Renegade Roundup | A returning mode from Mario Kart 8 DX in the vein of "cops and robbers", with the racers being divided into two teams. One team, known as "The Authorities", has to use Potted Piranha Plants in order to capture players from the other team, known as "The Renegades". Captured Renegades are placed into one of several jail cells floating above various points on the stage. Remaining Renegades can free their teammates by driving over a key switch placed below the jail cells. The Renegades win if at least one member is still running free when time runs out, and the Authorities win if all of the Renegades get captured. All Authority team members also temporarily lose their ability to capture after being hit by an item and Renegades receive a speed boost when they are freed from the cells. | |
Turf Plunders | This is a new mode exclusively for this game called Turf Plunders. Like in Renegade Roundup, players are divided into two teams: the red team and the blue team. Each team must cover the entire track by driving around the whole track, like in Splatoon. While driving, players leave traces from their team color behind. Some throwable items are also useful because they also leave traces behind with the team color displayed by the thrower like the radia of Bob-ombs. The team that covered that plundered most ground wins. It will be displayed in percentages before the results. |
Battle Grand Prix![]
TBA
Missions[]
TBA
Battle Island![]
Battle Island is a new big addition to Mario Kart and it's one of the biggest and larges courses ever created to Battle Mode. Playable up to four players (two players online), this game allows you to battle against 50 players in one map with different locations and unique environements. There are iconic and recognizable locations on each different place such as the Hotel from Luigi's Mansion 3; Delfino Island, remade for this game, from Super Mario Sunshine; and Rosalina's Observatory from Super Mario Galaxy, located in the sky. You can play in teams or in solo survival.
Similar to Kirby Air Ride's City Trial and Smash Bros. Smash Run, players with five balloons need to collect power-ups to boost up their vehicles found scattered across the island before the time runs out. The timer varies depending the player's settings (default is six minutes) They can also snatch other players' power-ups by hitting with items against it. When the timer finishes, a small battle course minigame will start with their boosted vehicles. The courses and battle types are chosen in random choice.
Online Play[]
TBA
Characters[]
Playable Characters[]
There are in total 62 characters. All of them returns (for the exception of Mario Kart Tour for certain characters) from their respective series. Only characters that originated from Super Mario Kart (only with an exception for Donkey Kong, Wario, Waluigi and Daisy) are starters. Like in each installement of Mario Kart, each racer has their own vehicle weightclass, which these are:
- Feather (10): This is one of the lightest classes. They have an excellent acceleration and handling. However, they get knock-off pretty easily by other vehicles superior than this class by their light weight. Also, their top speed isn't the greatest. This is the perfect class for those who want to escape obstacles with ease.
- Light (10): Unlike the Feather class, the Light class is more rewardable on their weight, which prevent them to be stunned against other vehicles for a long time. They have an great acceleration and handling. Their top speed has increased slightly.
- Medium (20): This class is one of the balanced types and excellent for beginners for any type of players that want to play the game without a problem. Their stats are all average.
- Cruiser (11): This heavy class allows racers to knock others with ease. They can recover pretty fast after being hit and have a good stat at top speed. Thanks to their weight, they can't get knock-off easily but their handling and acceleration is not great, which make them bad on turning on tight curves.
- Heavy (8): This class is one of the heaviest classes in the game. While being similar to Cruiser classes, the Heavy class is an exceptional type for players that can handle the road pretty well. Their weight is impossible to be knocked-off by other vehicles and they have the best top speed. However, their acceleration and handling stats are abysmal which amek them really difficult to drive those vehicles. But if you want to survive well, this class is just for you.
- The Mii is the only character that you can choose which class is suite for each Mii.
- Metal Mario & Pink Gold Peach are the only exceptional characters that are in Heavy/Cruiser class but they use a Medium type vehicles.
- Names written in bold are exclusive newcomers in the Mario Kart franchise.
Alternate colors & outfits[]
Unlockable criteria[]
By clear each cup, the player needs to clear all cups within each mode. While this takes a whole long process, this game also encourages players to play more online to unlock characters faster by having the Nintendo Online membership active.
The local conditions are only to be done with no online and local multiplayer, while the online conditions are only required to complete online.
Rival and Partner Order[]
TBA
Vehicle Parts[]
Karts[]
Bikes[]
Standard Bikes[]
Sport Bikes[]
ATV's[]
Tires[]
Gliders[]
Unlockable criteria[]
Statistics[]
Driver Statistics[]
Vehicle Statistics[]
Items[]
Like in every installment of Mario Kart, you can obtain items from Item Boxes. However, the Golden Item Boxes, which those are new in the series, have rare items inside. These items are hard to find and there are only one on each course. However, when a racer breaks this rare box, the game automatically will chose an another Item Box to replace, avoiding camping to only one place.
Returning Items[]
Banana
Common |
Triple Banana
Uncommon |
Banana Bunch (x5)
Semi-Rare |
Giant Banana
Rare |
Banana Barrel
Rare |
Green Shell
Common |
Triple Green Shell
Uncommon |
Red Shell
Unommon |
Triple Red Shell
Semi-Rare |
Blue Spiny Shell
Rare |
Gold Shell
Semi-Rare |
Bomb Shell
Semi-Rare |
Bowser Shell
Rare |
Feather
Common |
Super Leaf
Uncommon |
Mushroom
Common |
Triple Mushroom
Semi-Rare |
Golden Mushroom
Rare |
Mega Mushroom
Semi-Rare |
Super Star
Rare |
Boo
Uncommon |
Coin
Common |
Gold Box
Rare |
Lightning
Rare |
Thunder Cloud
Semi-Rare |
Thunder Stick
Semi-Rare |
Fake Item Box
Common |
Fire Flower
Uncommon |
Boomerang Flower
Uncommon |
Bob-omb
Uncommon |
Double Bob-omb
Semi-Rare |
Time Bob-omb
Semi-Rare |
Giga Bob-omb
Rare |
Yoshi Egg / Birdo Egg
Semi-Rare |
Heart (x3)
Uncommon |
Blooper
Semi-Rare |
POW Block
Semi-Rare |
Piranha Plant
Semi-Rare |
Super Horn
Uncommon |
Crazy 8
Rare |
Freezie
Uncommon |
Tornado
Rare |
Boss Galaga
Semi-Rare |
Changes and item descriptions[]
New Items[]
Item | Name & Rarity | Description |
---|---|---|
Poison Mushroom
Common |
A throwable item that slows the players' vehicle for an average period of time. | |
10 Coin
Semi-Rare |
Player recieves 10 coins in return. It is only available in Coin Runners. | |
Dark Boo
Rare |
Unlike the regular Boo, it steals the most essencial collectible instead of items such as Coins and Shines. Like the description states, the Dark Boo only appears in Shine Thief and Coin Runners. | |
Ice Flower
Semi-Rare |
It functions exactly like the Fire Flower, but it freezes the opponents instead. They stay stunned for a little short of time, like the regular Freezie. | |
Super Heart
Semi-Rare |
It functions like the regular Heart, but it can reflect upcoming projectiles and cannot be broken until its time is up. | |
Inky Piranha Plant
Uncommon |
Unlike the Piranha Plant, when pressed, it spits ink on ground making it a splat, or even at the opponents covering their visions like Blooper. In Tutf Plunders, it will be the ink of the team color that will be thrown. It doesn't appear in Renegade Roundup since the Authorities have already a Piranha Plant. | |
Arcade Hammer
Semi-Rare |
Allows you to wack this big hammer back and forth for a short period of time. On impact, it squashes the opponent flat. Originates of Mario vs Donkey Kong arcade. | |
Bull's-Eye Bill
Rare |
Follows a targeted player slowly without stopping, popping two balloons at the time, loses half of the coins, sends the Shine Sprite even further and stuns a renegade player for a long time. It also covers a big mark on the filed in Turf Plunders. | |
Super Pickaxe
Rare |
This is a dangerous item. It pops all the balloons in one swing, loses all the coins, sends the Shine Sprite even further and stuns a renegade player for a long time. | |
Jiggy
Rare |
Hundreds of Jiggy's appear on screen with some pieces missing. It acts like Blooper but it's harder to see. Each Jiggy vanishes one by one and never comes on screen again until it disapears. |
Item Bonuses[]
Collectables[]
The collectible items does not appear in Item Roulettes.
Courses[]
There are in total 16 cups to compete (7 nitro, 9 retro), while having four courses each cup. The number of courses in total are at least 66 tracks (64 being playable in the Grand Prix and two more extra courses for Quickplay and other modes). All course soundtracks are from their respective composers.
Nitro Cups[]
Retro[]
Shell Cup | Banana Cup | Leaf Cup |
DX Battle Stadium | N64 Double Deck | SNES Battle Course 1 |
GCN Block City | GBA Battle Course 4 | 3DS Honeybee Hive |
DS Palm Shore | Wii Chain Chomp Roulette | DS Nintendo DS |
Wii Delfino Pier | GCN Cookie Land | 3DS Wuhu Town |
Pipe Cup | Moon Cup | Ice Cup |
SNES Battle Course 2 | DS Twilight House | Wii Thwomp Desert |
DS Tart Pop | N64 Big Donut | SNES Battle Course 3 |
GCN Pipe Plaza | GCN Luigi's Mansion | 3DS Sherbet Rink |
N64 Block Fort | Wii Galaxy Arena | GBA Battle Course 1 |
Heart Cup | Lightning Cup | Crown Cup |
Wii Block Plaza | GBA Battle Course 1 | SNES Battle Course 4 |
N64 Skyscraper | DX Dragon Palace | Wii Funky Stadium |
DX Sweet Sweet Kingdom | GCN Nintendo GameCube | GBA Battle Course 3 |
DX Lunar Colony | GCN Tilt-A-Kart | DX Urchin Underpass |
Extra[]
Pac-Man Maze | Bonodori Festival | Tamagotchi Town | Battle Island |
Battle Island Areas[]
Main Location Points | Environment | Location | Description |
Diamond Summit | Forest / Ice Area | North | This location is located near a giant icey mountain resembling a Freezie looking-face. It offers different types of ice themed gimmicks such as falling stalactites, snowball throwing Mr. Blizzards, ... There's also a large tundra area where players can hide behind giant trees. |
Arid Pyramid | Desert / Factory Area | East | This place is located near a giant pyramid resembling at the upside-down pyramid from Super Mario Odyssey. Sanddunes have some places with sinking sands slowing the players from driving. |
Marine Springs | Beach / Water Area | South | This place is located in a tropical beach area near a huge lighthouse. |
Spotlight Metropolis | City / Town Area | West | This place is located in a more metropolis-like environment where players encounter busy streets for their adavntage. It really resembles at New Donk City from Super Mario Odyssey. |
Island Colosseum | Colosseum / Grassland Area | Middle | This place is where players battle eachother without any gimmicks like Battle Stadium. |
Rainbow Cloudway | Cloud / Airship Area | Sky | This place is located skywards if players take the vine path or the cannon path to the skies. It has rainbow colored roads that connects each track. Airships also appear. |
Subterranean Ruins | Cave / Sewer Area | Underground | This place is located under the whole map while taking the sewers from Spotlight Metropolis or the caves in Arid Pyramid. The places in this area are reall narrow and dark difficulting the handling for certain vehicles. |
Trivia[]
- This is the first Mario Kart game that features all the characters from the previous installements.
Gallery[]
Logo[]
Boxart[]
Items[]
Media[]
Track | Music |
---|---|
Main Theme / Main Menu | youtube |
Character / Vehicle / Course Select | youtube |
Online Theme / Option Theme | soundcloud |
Final Minute Fanfare | youtube |
Win 1st Results / Mission Cleared | youtube |
Win Results | soundcloud |
Lose Results / Mission Failed | soundcloud |
Mission Mode | youtube |
Misson Mode - Final Minute | youtube |
Boss Battle | soundcloud |
Super Star Theme | youtube |
Mega Mushroom | youtube |
Stamp Collection | soundcloud |
Credits[]
- All the stage names are inspired by the music composers Panman14 and JoshhMarshh on Youtube.