Mario Kart Crystal[]
Mario Kart Crystal is the latest installment in the Mario Kart Franchise. It has the same controls and Kart Custimization controls as Mario Kart 8, and is for the Nintendo NX. It features two cups returning from Mario Kart 8 DLC, the Egg Cup, and the Bell Cup, as well as the crystal item.
Controls[]
A = Accelerate
B = Brake\Reverse
Joystick\D-pad\Tilt Gamepad = Steer
R = Hop\Drift\Trick
L = Use Item\ Honk
+ = Pause
- = Onscreen Map
Home Button = Home Menu
X = Look Backwards
Characters[]
The Racers are the characters that the player plays as in the game. They come in different weight classes to differ their racing style. The Game contains 90 characters with DLC and Code characters. The characters in the game are from Mario, Yoshi, Wario, Donkey Kong, Mario RPG, and the DLC features Zelda, Starfox, Kirby, and Sonic.
Starting[]
Mario | Middle Weight | Our Hero is back, and ready to race! | ||
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Luigi | Middle Weight | The Younger Brother is back to win! | ||
Peach | Middle Weight | The Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom is ready to shine! | ||
Daisy | Middle Weight | The Princess of Sarasaland is ready to take on the challange! | ||
Baby Mario | Light Weight | Baby Mario is back from the past! | ||
Baby Luigi | Light Weight | Baby Luigi is ready to grow up! | ||
Baby Peach | Light Weight | The Future Ruler is here to prove her power! | ||
Baby Daisy | Light Weight | Even as a baby, Daisy is a tough opponent! | ||
Bowser | Heavy Weight | The Big baddy is here to crush the competition! | ||
Bowser Jr. | Middle Weight | Bowser Jr. knows how to win! | ||
Koopa Troopa | Feather | Koopa Troopa is back and ready to compete! | ||
Toad | Feather | Toad is really a fun-gi! | ||
Donkey Kong | Heavy Weight | Donkey Kong is ready to bash his way to the finish line! | ||
Diddy Kong | Light Weight | He's a mean, green, peanut machine! | ||
Shy Guy | Feather | Shy Guy's no shy guy when it comes to racing! | ||
Goomba* | Feather | Goomba joins the racing competition! | ||
Fawful* | Middle Weight | The Beanbean baddie joins the race! | ||
Prince Dreambert* | Light Weight | The Prince of P'illo Island is ready to race! | ||
Paper Mario* | Paperthin | Dimensions collide for the Mario World! | ||
Paper Luigi* | Paperthin | Paper Luigi is no longer Mr. L! | ||
Paper Peach* | Paperthin | The Princess is ready to meet her counterpart! | ||
Paper Daisy** | Paperthin | A new addition to the seires, is here from the paper world! | ||
Paper Bowser* | Paperthin | Bowser is in for a thin suprise! | ||
Dimentio* | Paperthin | The Evil minion has returned! | ||
Lakitu | Feather | The Race Starter is here! | ||
Wiggler | Cruiser | Don't let Wiggler bug you! | ||
Honey Queen | Cruiser | Long Live The Queen! | ||
Wario | Cruiser | Mario's Evil Counterpart is here! | ||
Waluigi | Cruiser | Luigi's Evil Counterpart is also here! | ||
Lubba* | Cruiser |
The big luma, of the starship mario is here to battle! | ||
Yoshi | Light Weight |
Mario's Dinosaur friend has returned! | ||
Birdo | Light Weight | Yoshi's Evil friend is here! | ||
Petey Piranha | Heavy Weight | The Big Dino Plant is here to win! | ||
Paratroopa | Feather | It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a frog! No! It's Paratroopa! | ||
Monty Mole* | Cruiser | Dig! Dig! Dig! |
Unlockable[]
To unlock these characters the player must complete certain tasks, like winning certain cups, in different engine classes.
Rosalina | Cruiser | 1st Place 100 CC Special Cup | The Protector of the universe is racing! | |
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Baby Rosalina | Light Weight | 1st Place 100 CC Lightning Cup | The Future Protector of the Universe is here to win! | |
Baby Donkey Kong* | Middle Weight | 1st Place 150 CC Banana Cup | Baby Donkey Kong may be small, but he has a laarge appetite for victory! | |
King Boo | Cruiser | 1st Place 150 CC Flower Cup | Boo! | |
Baby Bowser* | Light Weight | 1st place 200 CC Mushroom Cup | The baby bruiser is ready to bash! | |
Kamek* | Light Weight | 1st place 150 CC leaf Cup | Kamek is ready to cast the spell of victory! | |
Cakletta* | Heavy Weight | 1st Place 150 CC Bell Cup | The Evil Beanbean is back! | |
Antasma* | Heavy Weight | 1st Place 150 CC Lightning Cup | The Terror of P'illo island has returned! | |
Toadette | Feather | 1st place Shell Cup | Toad's female counterpart returns! | |
Count Bleck* | Paperthin | 1st Place 150 CC Star Cup | The Evil being of the Paper world is back! | |
Paper Goomba* | Paperthin | 1st Place 150 CC Mushroom Cup | Paper Goomba is ready to challange his counterpart! | |
Dry Bowser | Heavy Weight | 1st Place 200 CC Shell Cup | Bowser is back from the lava! | |
Cat Peach | Middle Weight | 1st Place 200 CC Flower Cup | The Princess got a power-up! | |
Tanooki Mario | Middle Weight | 1st Place 200 CC Leaf Cup | Our Hero grabbed a special leaf! | |
Dry Bones | Feather | 1st Place 200 CC Banana Cup | Thats one dry bone! |
- =New to the Mario Kart Series **=New to the Mario Series
DLC[]
DLC packs containing characters, and courses, can be purchased in the DLC shop for $9.99 each.
Zelda Pack
Link | Middle Weight | The Hero Of Hyrule is Here! | |
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Zelda | Middle Weight | The Princess of Hyrule comes to compete! | |
Ganondorf | Heavy Weight | Ganondorf is here to take the crown! |
Star Fox Pack
Fox McCloud | Middle Weight | Fox flies into the finish line! | |
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Falco Lombardi | Middle Weight | Falco makes a dash for the prize! | |
Slippy Toad | Middle Weight | Slippy finds the coordinates for victory! |
Kirby Pack
Kirby | Light Weight | The Pink Puffball is no copycat! | |
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Meta Knight | Middle Weight | Meta Knight is here to slash out competeters. | |
King Dedede | Heavy Weight | King Dedede is hungry for battle! |
Koopaling Pack
Larry Koopa | Light Weight | Larry Powers up! | |
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Roy Koopa | Cruiser | Roy Stomps the competition! | |
Wendy O Koopa | Light Weight | Wendy skates herself to the finish line! | |
Iggy Koopa | Middle Weight | Iggy rides to victory! | |
Morton Koopa Jr. | Heavy Weight | Morton Rolls into the race! | |
Lemmy Koopa | Feather | Lemmy bounces in to win! | |
Ludwig Von Koopa | Middle Weight | Ludwig races on key! |
Sonic Pack
Sonic | Middle Weight | Sonic Speeds in! | |
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Tails | Middle Weight | Tails spins his way to the finish line! | |
Amy | Light Weight | Amy hammers down the race! | |
Shadow | Middle Weight | Shadow darkens the course! | |
Dr. Eggman | Heavy Weight | Eggman brings the brains! | |
Knuckles | Middle Weight | Knuckles smashes the competiion! | |
Sticks | Middle Weight | Sticks comes right back at ya! | |
Blaze | Light Weight | Blaze fires up! | |
Silver | Middle Weight | Silver shines for victory! | |
Metal Sonic | Cruiser | Metal Sonic gears up! |
Code Characters[]
Code Characters are a new feature to Mario Kart. At different times during the time the game is out, there will be different "events." For very short periods of time there will be pairs of characters available to unlock through a free code from a local game store.
Pack Name | Character 1 | Name | Character 2 | Name | ||
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Metal Madness | Metal Mario | Heavy Weight | Pink Gold Peach | Heavy Weight | ||
Minor Mischief | Nabbit | Middle Weight | Pianta | Cruiser | ||
Kooky Kart | Ballyhoo and Big Top | Light Weight | Sprixie Princess | Feather | ||
Baddie Bunch | Boom Boom | Middle Weight | Pom Pom | Middle Weight | ||
Toad Time | Toadsworth | Feather | Toadbert | Feather | ||
Kong Khaos | Dixie Kong | Light Weight | Funky Kong | Heavy Weight | ||
Rodent Rampage | Mouser | Light Weight | Mowz | Feather |
Courses[]
The courses are the racing tracks that the racers compete on. They are split into cups, as groups of four. There are five nitro cups, with new courses, and five retro cups, with old courses.
Paper Path |
Wedge Island |
P'illo Island |
Luigi's Mansion | |
Bowser |
3D World |
Paper Desert |
Wuhu Glide | |
Plack Beach |
Castle Bleck |
Bubble Lake |
Floating Castle | |
Golden Pyramid |
Comet Observatory |
Airship |
Rainbow Road | |
Wii Coconut mall |
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Wii Daisy Circuit |
GCN Wario Colloseum | |
3DS Cheep Cheep Lagoon |
64 Frapee Snowland |
3DS DK Jungle |
3DS Rosalina's Ice World | |
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DS DK Pass |
DS Peach Gardens |
64 Banshee Boardwalk | |
Wii Toad's Factory |
GCN Daisy Cruiser |
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Wii U Rainbow Road | |
The Dreamworld |
GCN Baby Park |
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Star Path |
Wii U Water Park |
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Tropical Freeze |
SNES Koopa Beach |
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Wooly World |
GBA Cheeseland |
Cup Unlocking Criteria[]
Star Cup=1st or second place in mushroom and flower cups.
Special Cup=1st place in mushroom, flower, and star cups.
Egg Cup=three stars on all nitro cups.
Leaf Cup=1st or second place in shell and banana cups.
Lightning Cup=1st place in shell, banana, and leaf cups.
Bell Cup=three stars in all retro cups.
Engine Class Unlocking Criteria[]
100 CC=Get 1st or second place on all 50 CC cups.
150 CC=Get 1st or second place on all 100 CC cups.
200 CC=Get 1st place on all 150 CC cups.
Mirror=Get three stars on all 150 CC cups.
DLC[]
Zelda Pack
Shine Cup |
Triforce Cup |
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Wii U Excitebike Arena |
Spirit Tracks |
Skyloft |
SNES Vanilla Lake |
GCN Mushroom City |
Wii Grumble Volcano |
Wii U Big Blue |
Wii U Hyrule Circuit |
Star Fox Pack
Coin Cup |
Fox Cup |
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3DS Daisy Hills |
3DS Rock Rock Mountain |
DS Figure-eight Circuit |
DS Tick-tock Clock |
DS Yoshi Falls |
3DS Wario's Shipyard |
GP Rainbow Coaster |
G-Zero Grand Prix |
Kirby Pack
Acorn Cup |
Warp Star Cup |
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---The Koopaling Pack and Sonic Pack Do Not Contain Any Courses---
Items[]
Items are objects found in mystery boxes scattered around the track. They give the players holding them advantages through the items, like speed boosting, fire balls, or shells etc.
Double Dash!! Special Items[]
In Double Dash!! Mode there's a special item unique to each driver pair.
Double Dash!! Mode[]
After unlocking all the characters in the game, the player may compete in Double Dash!! Mode. In this mode each kart has 2 characters on at once. One for driving, and one for items. While playing you may switch between players. This can be done single player, or cooperatively, with multiplayer. Each character has another character as their partner, if you choose a character your partner will be an assigned character. In this mode the player(s) can hold, and collect 2 mystery boxes at a time. Each pair of characters has a special item, that only they can get from the boxes.
Pairs
Partner 1 | Partner 2 | Weight Class | Special Item |
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Middle Weight | Mega Mushroom | ||
Middle Weight | Super Flower | ||
Light Weight | Chain Chomp | ||
Light Weight | Flower Hammer | ||
Cruiser | Giant Koopa Shell | ||
Feather | five green shells | ||
Feather | 2x Golden Mushroom | ||
Cruiser | five bananas | ||
Middle Weight | triple oil spills | ||
Middle Weight | Drill | ||
Cruiser | Bean Bag | ||
Middle Weight | Dream Blaster | ||
Paperthin | Paper hammer | ||
Paperthin | Paper Flower | ||
paper- | Paperthin | Paper Koopa Shell | |
Paperthin | five paper bananas | ||
Cruiser | Spinies | ||
Cruiser | three trick mystery boxes | ||
Cruiser | Star bits | ||
Light Weight | Giant Egg | ||
Heavy Weight | Ghost Bullet Bill | ||
Middle Weight | Star bits and bananas | ||
Middle Weight | five red shells | ||
Cruiser | Bones | ||
Middle Weight | Speed Flower | ||
Middle Weight | Double Blue Shell | ||
Middle Weight | Rings | ||
Light Weight | Triple Bombs | ||
Heavy Weight | Crash Boost | ||
Middle Weight | Triforce | ||
Middle Weight | Landmaster | ||
Middle Weight | Inhale | ||
Cruiser | Star Hammer | ||
Middle Weight | Sonic Speed | ||
Middle Weight | Power Speed | ||
Middle Weight | Boomerang Hammer | ||
Heavy Weight | Robo bots | ||
Middle Weight | Crazy Fire | ||
Heavy | Metal Bananas | ||
Cruiser | 7 mushrooms | ||
Light Weight | Unlucky Prize Box | ||
Middle Weight | Spiky Shell-Boomerang Flower Combo | ||
Feather | Poison Mushroom | ||
Middle Weight | Barrel | ||
Light Weight | Mouser Bomb |