Mario Kart Tour

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These Bowser Shells never break, they bounce forever. Just to ensure yours never despawn when the ground is touched.
 
the Bowser's Shells in Mario Kart Tour have the additional quality of tending to drivers as they approach them--a sort of homing ability--while sliding along the middle of the track.

however, when you couple that with the janky physics of an unpolished mobile racing title, you get a potentially useless item.

I have never tried Double Dash myself but I've seen footage of that game's Bowser Shell in action and lemme tell you, that shit seems worse than the Blue Shell.
 
It came to my surprise today that the Blue Shell will redirect to another player if someone passes you while it's honing in on you. I haven't seen it do this in any previous MK (haven't played 8)
 
When the Blue Shell comes, use the horn or frenzy and it is made useless. The blueshell is longer the threat it once was
 
Party Princess said:
It came to my surprise today that the Blue Shell will redirect to another player if someone passes you while it's honing in on you. I haven't seen it do this in any previous MK (haven't played 8)
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but not vice versa (CPU player to you).
and iirc the blue shell in multiplayer mode still functions like in previous mk games.
 
I just tried the new course and I'm impressed with what it pulls off! I think it's the first course in Mario Kart history to be entirely built with an alternate route gimmick. Before it, Yoshi Valley from N64 had that infamous section with branching paths that not many liked, but this time you're always pleasantly surprised as you turn around another corner in a building with many hallways and different storeys. I like the obstacles—there's a spike ceiling moving up and down and there are Ninja Shy Guys that turn into slippery bananas and other such things that are normally found from Item Boxes. The music and atmosphere are nice. Too bad there aren't any actual Wario references as I predicted (went out of my way to scour the background for them, losing focus on the track), though I guess we got our due Yoshi's Crafted World recognition with those Ninja Guys? There are also a couple wallpapers depicting Mario enemies like Chain Chomp.
 
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