Mario Kart 8 Deluxe connected Switch received its 2nd question of Booster Course Pass DLC today, which adds 8 caller courses and yet fixes an aged one. Let’s conscionable accidental Coconut Mall’s Shy Guys aren’t truthful shy anymore, and if you get excessively adjacent you volition get merc’d.

The archetypal acceptable of caller courses arrived backmost successful March, 1 of the astir anticipated among them being Coconut Mall, a breezy classical from Mario Kart Wii remastered for the modern game. But determination was conscionable 1 problem: the Miis that ram players adjacent the extremity of the people were replaced with Shy Guys. Adding insult to wounded was the information that the Shy Guys nary longer drove. Their cars remained stationary. Mario Kart fans were disturbed.

Well, successful an highly uncommon crook of events, Nintendo listened to fans and restored Coconut Mall’s decease alley to immoderate of its erstwhile glory. The Miis are inactive Shy Guys, but they present ratchet somewhat guardant and commencement spinning astir successful a spiral of vehicular carnage.

Today’s DLC besides adds New York Minute (Tour), Mario Circuit 3 (SNES), Kalimari Desert (N64), Waluigi Pinball (DS), Sydney Sprint (Tour), Snow Land (GBA), Mushroom Gorge (Wii), and Sky-High Sundae, an wholly caller level exclusive to MK8. Waluigi Pinball is simply a cult-favorite deep-cut. Mushroom Gorge returns with its infamous Gap Cut intact. Sky-High Sundae is simply a visual feast. But Coconut Mall’s Shy Guys are inactive stealing the show.

Today’s update isn’t conscionable a contented drop, though. Nintendo is besides inactive tweaking the underlying game. With the accomplishment of March’s DLC, it patched Item Boxes to marque them regenerate faster aft players prime them up. Today it did truthful again. The developers besides accrued the fig of clip proceedings ghosts players tin download from 16 to 32 and adjusted however acold vehicles get thrown based connected their weight.

It’s acold and distant the astir Nintendo has ever updated a crippled 5 years into its lifecycle, fto unsocial 1 that was primitively released connected the Wii U backmost successful 2014. While immoderate analysts assertion Mario Kart 9 is already successful the works, determination are inactive different 24 courses coming to MK8 done the extremity of 2023. No uncertainty by that constituent the Shy Guys volition beryllium tearing up much than conscionable Coconut Mall and the Item Boxes volition regenerate faster than Nintendo’s lawyers tin nonstop a DMCA notice.