Mario Kart: V² Circuit

Developer(s)

Publisher(s)

Platform(s)

Release Date(s)

July 27th, 20YB

Age Rating(s)

Genre(s)

Racer

Media Included

V² Disc

Mario Kart: V² Circuit is a entry in the Mario Kart franchise created for The V² by Toroko with conjunction from Nintendo. The game features a entirely new roster, mostly re-imagining it from the ground up. It returns many mechanics that were present in previous games such as vehicle customization and kart transformation through land, air, water, and anti-gravity. New to this installment is a casual story mode ala Mario Tennis Aces and the Phantom Drift move. Interestingly, this is the first installment to introduce a racing mode without items.

The game's title is a callback to the Game Boy Advance title Super Mario Circuit and features a similar cover. Additionally, elements from the Super Mario GP series appear as well, such as the subseries' unique lock-on feature for firing items and power slides.

Gameplay

Mario Kart: V² Circuit plays pretty similarly to other Mario Kart titles in that the player races eleven other characters on a track, using items from Item Boxes to change the tide of the race. Races can have different objectives based off what mode the player is in. Karts return with the customization they had from Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8, as well as the land, underwater, air, and zero gravity modes they had.

New to this installment is the Phantom Drift. This appears as a small meter that can be seen on the lining of most of the tires in the game and appears as a small meter on the ui as well. When activated, this drift allows the kart to phase briefly through opponents as well as perform extremely sharp turns extremely quickly. The Phantom Drift meter fills as you drift, incentivizing drifting.

You can also now lock onto opponents to fire items at them. This only works with a certain range, but allows you to fire quickly with precision. You can also lock your camera onto nearby racers if you are close by. When drifting, holding it longer for 2 seconds will allow you to perform a powerslide that blocks most attacking items. You can also perform it quicker if you drain some of your built up Phantom Drift energy.

Smart Steering and Auto-Accelerate return from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, although the double item holding does not return.

Grand Prix

The Grand Prix mode can be played up to two players with six available cups to race in. Each cup has four races on four unique tracks. The player must consistently win in the lead in these races to win, amassing enough points to top the leaderboard. The player can select from 10cc, 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and 200cc engine classes.

Master's Prix

The Master Prix mode is the Grand Prix mode stripped of items and the kart modes (no underwater, air, or zero gravity modes). Additionally, the player can "super boost" when they drift; when then are drifting a meter will appear, dropping and raising. By consistently hitting the triggers on the controllers when the gauge is full, the player will amass more speed. The player can select from 10cc, 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and 200cc engine classes.

Vesus Mode

With up to eight players, the players can race against each other in custom races. They can select what items appear and the rarity of them, the cpu difficulty levels, how many races and how many laps appear on each race. They can also select between Team or Solo races as well as what courses appear.

Double Mode

Pick two characters on your kart and switch between them during the race. The character hanging off the kart will carry an item while the character's stats transfer if they are driving the kart. This opens a lot of possibilities as you can have two items held at once and can swap your entire stat range in a instant, making for a lot of interesting mix-ups.

Time Mode

Cosmic Clone Trials

Race against a Cosmic Clone of your character to beat their time. After defeating the game's Cosmic Clone, you can try for a better score or get data from online Cosmic Clones that steadily rack up in difficulty, allowing for bigger and bigger rewards of coins. Beating a track's Cosmic Clone will also also unlock a character.

Frog Trials

Inspired by Wario Land 4, Frog Trials are strict time trials where you have to navigate the course and complete a lap in time to get to the vortex and escape before the Frog Switches triggered at the start of the race explode the course. These versions of the courses feature a lot of coins and Bonus Medals, which are rare items that only appear in this mode and only feature four per track.

Battle Mode

Each player has three balloons and drive around in specialized battle arenas using item boxes to grab items to attack other players with. Players can tell who hit whom with a area on the bottom of the screen alerting players of hits, as well as a balloon leaderboard showing how many balloons each player has. After a player gets hit, they have 1.7 seconds of invincibility to prevent flurry attacks from taking out their entire balloon stock.

Adventure Mode

A strange, powerful racer known only as Phantom X has arrived on Kartios Island, challenging the Mario gang to the race of a lifetime. Take your character of choice and go through many trials to train against this mysterious racer.

More details to come soon.

Hub Area	Info
Kartios Shores	TBA
Tanglewreck Tropics	TBA
Mystic Mansion	TBA
Savage Land	TBA
Wario's World	TBA
Phantom Mountain	TBA

Playable Characters

There are 121 unique characters that are playable in Mario Kart: V² Circuit. There are 36 starting characters, 54 unlockable characters, and 30 unlockable characters. On top of this, there is the Mii, who has variable stats and is designed more or less by the player.

Default Characters

Featherweight

Featherweight Characters:

Toad

Weight

Size
Medium

Character	Speed	Acceleration	Weight	Handling	Traction	Mini-Turbo
Toad	2.5	2.75	2	2.75	4.5	2.5
Toadette	2.5	2.5	2	2.5	4.75	2.5
Koopa Troopa	2.25	2.25	2	2.5	4.5	2.75
Goomba	2	2.75	1	2.5	4.5	2.75
Shy Guy	3	1.75	1	2.5	4.5	2.75
Bandinero	2	2.5	1	3	4.5	2.5
Wanda	2.75	2	1	2.5	4.25	3
Burt the Bashful	2	1.75	2	3.5	3.5	3.75
Mimi	3	1.5	1	3.75	2.5	3.75
Diddy Kong	4	3.5	1	1.75	1.5	4
Koopa Kid	3.5	1	2	2.75	3.5	3.5
Stork	2.5	2	1	3.25	3	3.75
Mario	2.75	2.75	3	2.75	2.5	3
Luigi	2.75	2.75	3	2.25	3	3
Princess Peach	3	2.5	3	3	2.25	3.5
Yoshi	2.5	2.75	3	3	2.50	3.75
Princess Fusee	1.5	4.75	3	2	2.50	3.75
Princess Daisy	3.75	1.75	3	1.75	3.5	3.75
Kritter	1.75	1.75	3	3.75	3.5	3
Broque Monsieur	1	2.75	3	3.75	3.25	4.5
Rex	2.5	2.5	3	3.25	2.5	3
Pauline	4.75	2.75	3	2.25	2	3.25
Princess Shokora	2.5	2.75	3	2.25	3.25	3.75
Cranky Kong	1.25	1.25	3	3.25	5	2.25
Wario	3.25	2.25	4	2.25	3	4
Bowser	2.25	3.25	5	2.5	2.75	4
Donkey Kong	2.25	2.25	5	3.5	2.75	4.25
Captain Syrup	4.25	1.25	4	3.5	1.75	4.25
Waluigi	3	1.25	4	4.5	2	4.5
Rosalina	4	2.25	5	2.5	2	4.75
Midbus	1.25	3.25	5	3.5	2.75	4.75
Funky Kong	4.5	1.75	5	1.5	3	3.5
Madame Broode	1.25	1.25	5	4.5	3.75	3.5
Cosmetta	4.25	2.5	5	2.5	1.5	4.75
Boom Boom	2.25	2.25	5	2.5	3.75	4
Shake King	3.25	2	5	2.5	3	4.5
Dixie Kong	2.25	2.25	2	3.25	3	2.75
Kirby	1.5	1.5	1	4.5	3.25	2.25
Olimar	1.75	1.25	1	3.5	4.25	2.5
Goombella	2.5	2.5	1	2.5	2.25	2.25
Vivian	3	1	2	3	3.25	2.75
Nabbit	4.75	3	1	1	2	2.75
Mewshi	2.5	2.25	2	3.25	2.75	2.5
Cappy	2.5	2	1	3.5	2.75	2.75
Bowler	3	1.5	1	3.5	2.75	2.75
Tiny Kong	2.25	2.25	1	2.25	3	2.75
Dry Bones	1.5	1.5	1	3.5	4.25	2.25
Banana Fairy Princess	4.5	1.5	1	3.5	2.25	1.25
Gooigi	2.75	2.75	1	2.25	3	3.5
Suna	2.75	3	1	2	3	2.75
Jane B. Christie	2.25	1	1	4.50	2	4.75
Blinky	2	5	1	2	1.75	2.75
Ms. Pac-Man	3	4	2	2.25	1.5	2.5
Mametchi	4	3	2	2.5	1.25	2.5
Slanito	2.5	2.5	3	3.25	2.5	3
Inkling	2.25	2.25	3	3.75	2.5	3.75
Link	2	2	3	3.25	4.5	3.25
Mona	3.5	1.5	3	3.25	2.5	3.5
Captain Toad	2.5	2.75	3	2.75	4.5	3
Captain Toadette	2.5	2.5	3	2.5	4.75	3
Bowser Jr.	2.5	3.75	3	2.25	2.25	3.25
Nastasia	2.5	1	3	3.75	3.5	3.75
Hammer Bro.	2.5	2.5	3	3.5	2.25	3.75
Birdo	3.5	1.75	3	3.25	2.25	3.25
Bandit	4.5	3	3	1.25	2	3.75
Lanky Kong	2.25	2.75	3	3.25	2.5	4
Queen Merelda	2	3	3	3	2.75	3.5
Princess Lotus	2.25	2.25	3	3.75	2.5	3.75
Captain Falcon	3.25	2.5	3	3.25	1.75	4
Geno	3.5	2.5	3	2.25	2.5	3.75
Mach Rider	3.75	3.25	3	2.25	1.5	3.75
Pac-Man	4	2	3	2.5	2.25	3.75
Lubba	2.5	3.5	5	2.5	2.25	4
Samus	3.5	2.5	4	1.5	3.25	4.25
R.O.B.	3	3	4	2.75	2	4.75
King K. Rool	2.5	3.5	5	2.25	2.5	4.75
Rudy the Clown	1.5	3.5	5	2.25	3.5	4.25
Metal Mario	2.75	2.75	5	2.75	2.5	4
Queen Ruby	2.5	2.5	4	3.25	2.5	4.25
Petey Piranha	3.5	1.5	5	3.25	2.5	4.5
King Boo	2.25	2.75	5	3.25	2.5	4.5
Pom Pom	3.25	2.75	4	1.25	2.5	4.75
Xananab	2.5	2.5	4	2.75	3	4.5
Chunky Kong	1.25	1.5	5	3.5	4.5	4.25
Princess Cinnabon	1.75	2	5	2.5	4.5	4.25
Chiro	3.25	1.5	4	2.5	2.5	4.5
Deathborn	1.25	1.25	5	3.75	4.5	4.75
Don-Chan	2	3	4	3.75	2	4.5
Foreman Spike	1.75	2.25	4	3.5	3.25	4.5
Pink Gold Peach	3	2.5	5	3	2.25	4.5
Mii	Variable	Variable	Variable	Variable	Variable	Variable
Morton Koopa Sr.	2	3.5	5	2.25	4	4.5
Iggy Koopa	3	2.5	3	2.25	4	3.5
Larry Koopa	2.25	3.25	3	2.25	4	3.25
Lemmy Koopa	3	2.5	1	4.25	2	2.5
Ludwig Von Koopa	3	2.5	3	2.25	4	3.5
Roy Koopa	2.5	3	4	2.75	3.5	4.25
Morton Koopa Jr.	1.5	2.5	5	4.25	3.5	4.5
Wendy O' Koopa	3.25	2.25	2	3	3.25	2.5
Dry Bowser	3.25	2.25	5	2.5	2.75	4.25
Princess Bowser	3.5	2	4	3	2.25	3.5
Lakitu	3	2.5	1	2	4.25	2.5
Villager	2	2.5	3	3	4.25	3.5
Isabelle	2	1.5	1	4	4.25	2.5
Ike	2.5	1.5	4	3.5	4.25	5
Corrin	3	2.75	3	3	3	3.75
Pit	4.25	1.25	2	2.75	3.5	2.75
Palutena	3.25	2.25	1	3.5	1.75	2.75
King Bob-Omb	1.5	4	5	1	4.25	3.5
Taj the Genie	4	1.5	5	2.25	4	4.5
Wizpig	4.5	1	5	2	4.25	4.5
Timber	4	3.5	3	1.75	1.5	3.5
Mary O.	2.5	3.5	3	1.5	3.25	3.25
King Watinga	2.25	2.75	5	3.75	3	4.50
Builder Mario	2.5	2.5	3	3.25	2.5	3.75
White Mage	2.5	2.5	3	3.5	3.25	3
Black Mage	2	3	3	3.75	3	3
Slime	1	2.25	1	5	3	3
Jade	2.5	2.25	3	3.5	4	3
Sonic	5	3.25	3	2	2	3.75
Shadow	4.75	3.25	3	2.25	2	3.75
Don Bongo	1.5	2.25	5	4.5	4.5	4.25
Pak E. Derm	4.25	3.25	3	2.75	2	4
Aqualea	3.5	3.25	3	2.5	3	3.25
Dr. Wright	1.25	2.5	4	4.25	4.75	4
Vampire Wario	3.25	2.25	3	2.25	3	3.75
Wart	2.5	3.25	5	3.25	3.25	3.25

Image + Name	Info
Super Circuit	Super Circuit is your standard Mario Kart track, featuring a couple bends here and there. It is a redone version of Peach Circuit from Mario Kart: Super Circuit but features splits in the track that loop back to the main course. These alternate paths contain anti gravity shifts but are much tighter and more dangerous to take.
Wario Castle	Wario Castle takes you across a grassy atoll populated by Spritelings from Wario World before eventually coming into the gold coated castle. There is two paths during the grassy atoll and a shortcut inside the mansion for those with high steering stats. The mansion is tighter than the grassy atoll but opens back up to the finish line. There is barely any coins outside the mansion, but plenty inside.
Gusty Gardens	Gusty Gardens starts you on a round disc planet and has you shoot through a star-dust/flowers road with several glider and antigravity segments. You will go through the Pear Planets, the Curve Planet, the Question Mark planets, the hedge ring planet, and Major Burrow's planet before making your way back to the finish line, going through a disk planet as you do. The only obstacle here is Flipbugs, which run away from the race if they're in the way and don't stun the driver on impact.
Bowser's Blossom Bastille	Bowser's Blossom Bastille is an expansive map full of tight turns on a giant battleship that is littered with sakura blossom trees. Tox Boms litter the wider turns of the stage, exploding in a posion that slows drivers down for a short time after they get stopped by the blast. An alternate glider route can be found early on in the track.

Image + Name	Info
New Donk Sewers	New Donk Sewers is based off the sewers of New Donk City and feature a variety of spinning walls that you will have to slow or speed through to get through the map safely. Additionally, Urban Stingbys appear during the thin road segments of this map, requiring speedy dodging to avoid getting hit by them.
Bullet Bill Battlegrounds	Bullet Bill Battlegrounds is a expansive course featuring giant stone bullet bill launchers and dart bills that shoot out if your car drives over certain tiles embedded into the ground. Avoid the Bullet Bills and watch out as the latter half of the course begins to squeeze into a tighter section. A giant mountain stands in the center of the track, acting as a wall.
Boo Library	Boo Library is a tight and intricate track that opens up early on and branches into three paths, with two giant Boohemoths pacing between the paths. A tight turn into a much more compact part of the track follows, which requires the racers to watch out for flying Bookends until the first turn of this segment, which is also another tight turn.
Rudy's Circus	Rudy's Circus is a fairly standard circular map until it turns into a wide expansive area shaped like a skull. Watch out for Omodons, Mr. Moons, and Suns, who appear as obstacles in the map; Mr. Moons appear as you come from the finish line while Suns punctuate the end of the track. Omodons appear inside the skull area.

Image + Name	Info
Foulwater Falls	Foulwater Falls is based off the canyon of the same name from Wario Land: Shake It!!!. It is a giant ravine with two branching paths- one of a wider and shorter route but requires tight turns, while the longer way around is tighter and features a underwater section. It lacks real hazards, although it is the introduction to underwater portions in the courses.
Tostarena Canyon	TBA
Steam Greenhouse	TBA
S.S. Teacup	TBA

Image + Name	Info
Shellcreeper Speedway	TBA
Waluigi's Aquarium	TBA
Mona's Pizza Route	TBA
Rainbow Road	TBA

Image + Name	Info
Bowser's Seizures Palace Hotel	TBA
TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA

Image + Name	Info
Wario's Shipyard Mario Kart 7	TBA
Wario Stadium Mario Kart 64	TBA
Wario Colosseum Mario Kart: Double Dash!!	TBA
Mount Wario Mario Kart 8	TBA

Image + Name	Info
Donut Plains 1 Super Mario Kart	TBA
Sky Garden Mario Kart: Super Circuit	TBA
Banshee Boardwalk Mario Kart 64	TBA
Bowser Castle 1 Super Mario Kart	TBA

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Gameplay

Grand Prix

Master's Prix

Vesus Mode

Double Mode

Time Mode

Cosmic Clone Trials

Frog Trials

Battle Mode

Adventure Mode

Playable Characters

Default Characters

Featherweight

Mediumweight

Heavyweight

Unlockable Characters

Featherweight

Mediumweight

Heavyweight

Mii

Downloadable Characters

Unlocking Criteria

Base Character Stats

Color Variants

Race Courses

Mushroom Cup

Flower Cup

Moon Cup

Star Cup

Punch Ball Cup

Garlic Cup

Horostar Cup

Battle Courses

Items

Race Items