Mario Kart World's Costumes Unlock Via Its New "Dash Food" Cuisine

No wonder Yoshi keeps commiting tax fraud. Must be making a mint from all these fast food joints.

I wonder if any of these costumes will make it into the next Smash, or later, the Smash alternate costume makes it into MKWd?

This I saw multiple different cultures from their cuisines.
I saw USA, Japan, Italy, India so far.
Which else countries in this game?

If they don't add Lederhosn Luigi with his sausage cart I'll be disappointed

Fun costumes. I like the little throwbacks to games like Game & Wario and 3D Hot Rally.

That said, can someone tell Nintendo's UI designers about the concept of sub-menus, please?

I approve of Matsuri Yoshi, and I'm happy to see Aurora Rosalina confirmed. Now I REALLY hope Nintendo can organize their character select screen. No excuse for not hiding costumes in sub-menus when 8 DX did just that!

@Jam777
Literally the only people complaining about the price are those in the West. Japan is actually happy and excited about the Switch 2 and Mario Kart World because they aren't miserable like people elsewhere

Since each costume has a different character slot, I wonder if they will each have different stats to spice things up?

Amiibo costumes?

Judging from the 13 character pages on the character select screen.. there seems to be a total of 156 playable characters with a lot of them being costume characters.

@Willo567

I heard the opposite,
that some Japanese people are daunted by cost, despite the lower price of the console in Japan.

I do NOT like how they specifically mentioned that you will NEVER get good items if you are in the lead!
1: I know it's been that way since either the 64 of Cube, but for them to come out and say it this time... That sucks and means they refined it even more against the first two racers!

2: Costumes should NOT have a separate character slot!

3: Still NOT worth more than $50!

This is a really creative way to unlock costumes, unlike just ponying up enough coins. Been there, done that.

Pirate Wario will be mine.

Mario kart tour deluxe edition

@Willo567

Well, a couple of my students in Japan.

Also heard from this guy:
https://youtu.be/3YsUfFInnf4?t=290

@MS7000 dont forget wario committing bank robberies as well.

@Willo567 umm, I'm from the West and I don't spam "DROP THE PRICE." I'm just as excited as everyone else to buy this game, regardless of the price. So does that mean that I suck?

What a cute way to promote exploration and engagement.

I do wonder if amiibo can be used.

I know someone out there is making accusations of this dash food being being casually racist out there. But it fits with the globe trotting adventure much like Mario Odyssey. Mario and Luigi having a Pizza for the Italian costume is kind of weird when they're already Italian.

@Jam777 Yeah imagine if they made these through micro transactions.

@GinMiguel The Mario Bros are from Brooklyn. So it makes sense that to get an outfit from Italy, they would have to unlock it. No different than any other American tracing their roots (those that can anyway).

How many tracks this game will have? The way I see, it will have way less than mario kart 8 (plus course pack). And If they add more tracks in the future, will they expand the world map? Or make more continents?

@Willo567 You sound like just another person speaking for Japanese fans that aren’t actually sharing that opinion. But I’m also sure you’re young and don’t have financial responsibility so you don’t understand why these prices are abhorrent.

@GinMiguel Literally no one is doing that.

Giving each of these a separate character slot and having 13 pages on the selection screen is one of those Nintendo decisions that everyone assumes is a placeholder, or surely there will be another display option. But no, I’m starting to think it’s actually that stupid.

@tobsesta99
Someone literally told me they were in the Japanese chat for today's stream and most people were excited and not complaining like Western fans are. I'm not speaking for all of them

When I get this game the first thing i'll do is unlock everyone and then drive everyone around to get their costumes!

All I care about is Halloween Rosalina.

Yoshi better sell cookies too.

@GinMiguel It's not weird if it's viewed as a more traditional Italian garb, or at least matching food with the outfit's general country of origin. Nothing racist about that, and anyone who claims otherwise must be ragebait.

@swoose
Yeah 8 had a submenu for the few characters that had costumes this is them trying to use a massive character select screen with lots of pages as marketing to the crowd that think bloat like that is a positive sign of where your 80 bucks is going, the crowd that thinks a game being 50 or even 20GB is a negative because it must mean less or inferior content.

After a couple months of playing each outfit taking a character slot is going to make picking characters in a specific look borderline insufferable. I really hope you can at least filter by character to make it less painful long-term.

@Ulysses I wasn't talking about the outfit. Its just Mario and Luigi who are already Italian suddenly get the outfit because of a food. What I find strange is Mario and Luigi becoming something they already are because of a food.

@GinMiguel Italian people aren't defined by a pizza outfit any more than Japanese people are defined by their kimonos or samurai swords. It's a piece of their culture, but it's never all-encompassing.

Yes, certain outfits hold cultural significance and even reverence, but putting on a kimono doesn't suddenly make Peach Japanese. Just like putting on a pizza outfit doesn't suddenly make Luigi more Italian. They're just fabric ultimately, and the tone and context of the game is more of a lighthearted festival where people put on all sorts of outfits, emblematic of various themes or aesthetics. It's not supposed to be taken literally.

@Ulysses I know nationality isn't defined by the clothes or that is cultural. But when you remember Mario and Luigi have garb by eating a food are now in their culture. Its the perception I guess. Mario already being Italian is common knowledge and he doesn't need those clothes for people to know that is what I'm saying.

@GinMiguel Sure, but again, it's kind of stereotyping to say an Italian person shouldn't wear a pizza outfit. We know a cowboy hat and cowboy boots is stereotypically American, but Luigi wearing the outfit doesn't signal to people that he has become American. Similarly with the Japanese outfits. Why is the pizza outfit the only one making him become something?

Fundamentally, the food outfits don't make a character "become" anything. It's just a lighthearted callout to a general aesthetic or theme.