Mario Skaters

Mario Skaters is a reboot of the Mario Kart Franchise. It will come out alongside "Mario Kart Final" on April 20th 2025 for Nintendo's Next Generation Game Console. It takes the standard Mario Kart formula and twists it by adding influence from Mirrors Edge, Sonic Riders and Sonic and Sega Racing Transformed. It will the amount of tracks Mario Kart 8 Deluxe had; 48, and it will also run on the same engine. However, the engine has been revamped to deliver a more modern lighting system. 24 of the tracks will be taken from previous entries of the series, yet it will differentiate from Mario Kart Final as the tracks have been made completely different in order to fit the new gameplay.

New Gameplay Features In Mario Skaters, all characters will race on roller skates. In addition to regular features such as tricking, drifting, turning and using items, skates will give access to the following gameplay elements: Vault Characters can vault over items by pressing the drift/hop button while in front of them. This will cause a speed boost. Tic-Tac Characters can run on certain marked walls for a short time which will be necessary to traverse certain courses. Characters can also jump between walls. A character starts to fall down exponentially the more time they tic-tac, but they pause their fall animation by coming into contact with a boost panel on the object they are tic-tacking on. Wallrun Certain marked walls can be climbed up and vaulted over for new paths or extra speed boosts. Grind Characters can grind on rails, such as the guard rails on the escalators in Coconut Mall. Players will have to keep their balance on the rail, but using a rail makes the course go faster. Returning Features The underwater driving, gliding, anti-gravity, boost rings and half pipes from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will return. The game will also have the same special item feature as Mario Kart Final. Characters and Special Items Mario - Fire Flower Luigi - Fire Flower Peach - Heart Daisy - Heart Rosalina - Dash Ring Pauline - Lucky 7 Peachette - Mushroom Cannon Toad - Golden Mushroom Toadette - Golden Mushroom Koopa Troopa