10 Mario Kart 9 Features Fans Would Love
Story Mode: This is pretty obvious but it would never be a bad idea to have a story mode in Mario Kart. It could also potentially be a great way to make characters unlockable similarly to how Smash Bros has done in the past. It makes me think of Crash Team Racing or Nitro Kart because of how they had great story modes included in them. Another thing is that maybe each character has their own story mode with a unique adventure.
Characters I think the character roster will be very large due to the races most likely being up to 24 racers based on the switch 2 trailer video. Knowing that, I think the character roster will be the largest yet to date including all characters from older games, smaller characters like Nabbit and Spike as well as possibly expanding into other franchises like maybe Captain Falcon, Kirby, Samus, maybe even Sonic.
Unique tracks I think this game will create new and longer tracks just based on the one that we saw in the Switch 2 trailer. I’m expecting there to be returning fan favorite tracks, but I’m also hoping that most of them are unique to this game. And also possibly align each track for each character so they each have their own ”home” course.
Elimination Race Mode (Battle Royale): I know people are tired of the Battle Royale game mode in almost every game nowadays and I am as well especially for shooters, but seeing it come to Mario kart where a handful of racers get eliminated each lap until one is left would make the game so much more intense for the people in the back. For example, after lap one racers 12-8th would be out then lap two 7-4th are out and the final lap would be 1 2 and 3 racing for first. I’ve seen it in other games like Cartoon Network racing back on PS2 and I was obsessed with the mode. I think it would be a great addition.
Items The item selection pretty much changes every Mario kart game and I expect it to for MK9. All I can think of them adding is maybe some other power ups from Mario Odyssey like Cappy, 3D world like the cat, and the wonder fruit from Mario Wonder.
Skins If each character has a skin selection that people can unlock (for free) it would make the game much more rewarding and it would also open up more character slots. I personally don’t understand the reason that pick gold peach, gold Mario or tanooki Mario have their own slots at all when they could’ve been added to a menu like the Yoshi color schemes are. If they do that same thing but with different outfits it would be awesome.
Flying mechanics, hovercraft, ability to swim, etc: This might be a reach and I know that they some what have this in MK8 but if they changed the means of racing and added different mechanics of actual flight or navigating water it could be pretty cool depending on how they do it. Sort of like how Diddy Kong racing did it.
Better unlock system I think that it is important to make the game have a system to unlock new characters because it makes the game feel so rewarding and also make the player try harder to unlock the character they want. I remember in Mario Kart Wii it was such a challenge for me to get Dry Bowser but when I finally did it I felt so accomplished.
Track creator I personally wouldn’t use this very much because I’m not creative, but if they had a cool track creator like they had in Mario Maker people would cook up some amazing tracks. Then if they add the ability to share them online would make the game timeless.
Tournament where people can win particular karts or cosmetics If they include a better tournament system online and the winner gets a special seasonal cosmetic it would bring a great competitive scene to the game. I don’t know how the format could work for this and would probably require a lot of people to join but I think if they could pull it off the game would be a lot to fun and make players consistently come back each time they include a new reward.
What else do you guys think should be added?