Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!!

Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!!
Developer(s)	CCs Studios Nintendo EAD Disney Interactive Studios
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)
Genre(s)	Racing
Release Date(s)	March 22, 2013 March 24, 2013 March 23, 2013 March 26, 2013
Mode(s)	Single Player Multiplayer
Age Rating(s)
Media Included	Wii U Optical Disc

Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!! is an upcoming game for the Wii U console. It will be a new entry to the Mario Kart series and it will be the first Mario Kart to crossover with Sugar Rush Speedway, a fictional arcade racing game from the Disney film, Wreck-It Ralph, although starting with the first round of DLC, it starts to become more of a Mario Kart and Wreck-It Ralph crossover in general. The game is set to internationally release during March 2013, around the same time that Wreck-It Ralph premieres in Japan under the name Sugar Rush.

Gameplay

Features

In this Mario Kart installment, due to the fact that this is a crossover of Sugar Rush Speedway, this game features characters from the latter game including King Candy, Vanellope von Schweetz, and Taffyta Muttonfudge. Visually, almost everything in this game is virtually made out of desserts, breakfast food, and beverages, ranging from the karts themselves and even all Nitro Grand Prix tracks themselves.

The game also borrows elements seen in Mario Kart 7 such as the return of coins, customized karts, air gliding and underwater racing, doing a trick off a ramp, and the traditional 8 players per race.

New to this game, players can collect various items called Ingredients. Ingredients are items which help build (or bake in this matter) a kart piece which can be done in Bake a Kart Mode. Ingredients can be found all over all of the tracks and stages in this game.

Also introduced in the Mario Kart series in this game, are the addition of submarine fins. These fins replaces the use of gliders in underwater sections as these fins help players "glide" across gaps and trenches underwater.

Modes

Grand Prix

Like previous Mario Kart games, Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!! contains Grand Prix mode. This is where a single player competes AI-controlled racers in order to obtain trophies out of the eigh cups in the game. Grand Prix mode has four engine classes, them being 50cc, 100cc, 150cc, and Mirror Mode. For the first three engine classes, these act like a difficulty level for the mode, 50cc being the easy difficulty while 150cc being the hard difficulty. Mirror Mode is actually the 150cc engine class but with the tracks being mirrored.

Time Trials

Like previous Mario Kart games, Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!! contains Time Trials. Time Trials allows players to complete a race track as fast as possible. The players are given the option to save the players' records and creates a Ghost based on that record that other players can compete with.

VS

VS mode is a mode where players can customize how they play want to play Mario Kart, like personally choosing the race tracks players want to race on, the items they choose to have on the track, the difficulty level, etc.. This mode is available in single player and multiplayer mode.

Battle

In Battle Mode, players battle on a variety of different stages in various ways such as Balloon Poppers, Coin Collectors, Bob-omb Battle, and Shine Thief. There are six stages in this game, three are Nitro Stages while the other three are Retro Stages.

Balloon Poppers

In Balloon Poppers, everyone has three balloons attached to their kart and a time limit has been placed. Players try to pop other players' balloons by hitting their kart with various items. The last one(s) standing wins.

Coin Collectors

In Coin Collectors, coins are spread across the stage. Players try to collect as many coins as possible, whether by just literally collecting them or hitting other players to lose some of their coins. The player(s) who has the most amount of coins wins.

Bob-omb Blast

In Bob-omb Blast, the only items on the stage are Bob-ombs and players are able to hold five per kart. Players try to bomb each other throughout the battle. Those who are able to bomb a racer gets a point. The player who gets 5 points first wins.

Shine Thief

In Shine Thief, there is one Shine Sprite on the stage. Once a player collects it, a timer appears and the player must maintain that Shine Sprite under that time limit. Other players can steal that Shine Sprite by hitting the other player with the Sprite with an item and must collect it themselves. The timer restarts once it is recollected, but the timer starts at a lower time. The one who maintains the Shine Sprite under the time limit wins the round.

Mission Mode

In this mode, one player challenges themselves through Missions. Missions are various goals or tasks that the player must achieve on certain tracks or stages.

Bake a Kart Mode

This mode is similar to customizing karts in Mario Kart 7 and Bake a Car Mode in Sugar Rush Speedway. Karts in this game are literally made out of dessert. In this mode, players can create or bake kart pieces using Ingredients they have collected. Players can also create or bake a preset-made kart using the kart pieces they have baked. Players can send a "Recipe" of this kart across Nintendo Network, detailing which Ingredients other players need to replicate that kart.

Characters

Mario Kart: Sugar Rush!! includes a roster of 33 drivers (10 default drivers, 13 unlockable drivers, and 10 DLC drivers).

Default

Mario
Medium

Luigi
Medium

Princess Peach
Light

Yoshi
Medium

Bowser
Heavy

Donkey Kong
Cruiser

Toad
Feather

Koopa Troopa
Feather

King Candy
Medium

Vanellope von Schweetz
Light

Unlockable

Princess Daisy
Light

Wario
Cruiser

Waluigi
Medium

Rosalina
Cruiser

Taffyta Muttonfudge
Light

Shy Guy
Feather

Lakitu
Feather

Candlehead
Light

Crumbelina DiCaramello
Light

Gloyd Orangeboar
Light

Rancis Fluggerbutter
Light

Snowanna Rainbeau
Light

Mii
Varies

Downloadable

DLC "Round 1"

Bowser Jr.
Light

Diddy Kong
Medium

Birdo
Medium

Toadette
Feather

Baby Mario
Feather

Baby Luigi
Feather

Wreck-It Ralph
Heavy

Fix-It Felix, Jr.
Medium

Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun
Cruiser

Minor/Major(?) Wreck-It Ralph spoiler ahead!

• Turbo - Medium

Minor/Major(?) Wreck-It Ralph spoiler end.

Items

The game features a plethora of 25 different items.

Items on Track

Coin

Item Box

Items from Item Box

Banana

Triple Banana

Green Shell

Triple Green Shell

Red Shell

Triple Red Shell

Mushroom

Triple Mushroom

Golden Mushroom

Fire Flower

Ice Flower

Super Leaf

Fake Item Box

Cream Pie

Tacks

Bob-omb

Boo

Bullet Bill

Mega Mushroom

Mini Mushroom

Tweester

Lightning

Blue Spiny Shell

Star

Lucky 7

Courses

Grand Prix is split up into two different Grand Prix, similarly to Mario Kart DS, Wii, and 7. This game returns to having 20 tracks in a Grand Prix which has not been seen since Super Circuit. There are 4 cups, each containing 5 tracks, similarly to Super Mario Kart.

Nitro Grand Prix

Nitro Grand Prix features 20 new tracks split into 4 cups, full of twists and turns and all filled with color-coated desserts, beverages, and breakfast food.

* - 3 section track
** - 5 section track

Mushroom Cup

Name	Description
Mario Circuit	Race around this figure-8 circuit made out of gingerbread around a gingerbread version of Princess Peach's Castle!
Cherry Soda Fizzy Lagoon	Drive your senses into a lagoon of fizzy cherry soda, adorned with sprouting cherry blossoms!
Lemon-Lime Tropical Bay	This track is located in an undersea lemon-lime paradise. Drive over soda geysers for a speed boost and watch out for deep trenches!
Ice Cream Bounce Clouds	Bounce your way to the finish line when you bounce across ice cream bounce clouds in the middle of a vanilla sky.
Layer Cake Desert*	Blaze through this "desserted" desert as you hop across gingerbread moi statues.

Flower Cup

Name	Description
Frappe Snowland	TBA
Vanilla Chai Tea Valley	TBA
Yoshi's Lucky Fruit Smoothie Loop*	Yoshi's Island this time around is bursting with smoothies everywhere made out of lucky fruits! Just watch out for gigantic rolling watermelons.
DK's Banana Split Ruins	TBA
Pancake Platter Palace	TBA

Star Cup

Name	Description
Maple Treeway*	Make your way through this gigantic maple tree that is oozing out streams of maple syrup onto piles of bouncy pancakes and waffles that make your path to the finish line.
Wario's Caffeine Casino	TBA
Diet Cola Mountain	TBA
Chocolate Labyrinth*	Find a way out in this crumbling gigantic labyrinth cavern made out of chocolate. Pay attention that in this course, it does not show any map or who is in what rank.
Sherbert Land	TBA

Special Cup

Name	Description
Downtown Soft Drink City	TBA
Morning Breakfast Galaxy	TBA
Sugar Rush*	TBA
Bowser's Castle*	TBA
Rainbow Road**	TBA

All Nitro Cup Tour

In this cup, players race throughout all of the 20 nitro courses in a random order with exceptions being that Mario Circuit is always played first and Sugar Rush, Bowser's Castle, and Rainbow Road are always the last three in that order.

Name
Mushroom Cup
Flower Cup
Star Cup
Special Cup

Retro Grand Prix

Retro Grand Prix features a highly remixed version of 20 past tracks from the Mario Kart series and the online version of Sugar Rush Speedway. All of the remixed tracks now feature food-based landscapes.

Shell Cup	Banana Cup	Leaf Cup	Lightning Cup	All Retro Cup Tour
TBA	TBA	PC Frosted Rally 1	SNES Vanilla Lake 2	Shell Cup
GC Rainbow Road	Wii U Sweet Sweet Canyon	SNES Mario Circuit 4	TBA	Banana Cup
PC Sweet Ride 1	GBA Cheese Land	GCN Sherbet Land	PC Sugar Rush 3	Leaf Cup
TBA	PC Cakeway 2	TBA	GBA Bowser Castle 4	Lightning Cup
TBA	TBA	N64 Yoshi Valley	N64 Rainbow Road	N/A

Trivia

• A lot of players get hungry after playing this, even after the players ate already.
• The credits music for this game is a remixed version of the song Sugar Rush by AKB48 titled Sugar Rush -MUSHROOM REMIX-.