I've surprisingly seen no one talk about this, so I wanted to bring it up:
What's this in the Mario Kart part of the trailer?
Here's a video of the item box zoomed in, once in full speed and once at 50% speed
I'd assume people to just say "that's what item boxes will look like in this game", but I noticed that you can see item boxes further away in the background, and they seem to change colours, not stay as this yellowish golden tone.
Here's the regular (very low quality) item boxes, in red (left) and in blue (right).
One more thing about the new box: it seems to have a different shape from the usual item boxes in Mario Kart. In the image below it almost looks to have the shape of a bag or maybe a rectangular bell of some sort? Who knows, really.
I'm not fully sure what this could do in the new Mario Kart, but I feel like it'll have a pretty significant role in gameplay. If anyone has any good guesses, I'd like to hear them!
by taigaoftundra
7 Comments
It’s a wonder seed
Wonder seed in Mario kart would be amazing
Pretty sure it’s some kind of level specific item. It’s a to-go bag. It’s literally at the yoshi drive thru.
Weren’t there a theory of boost fuel? It’s at a fuel station and Mario’s Kart looks a bit like it may have a noticeable tank in the design. Could be the new gimmick
Looks like a fuel canister to me which would make sense since it’s at a gas station. I think the gimmick in this game will be the cars having gas.
Looks like the tracks will be bigger or may take some sort of open-world approach like Project Cars or something so having to keep your vehicle fueled will be a mechanic.
It looks like a fast food restaurant and a stylized food bag.
I saw someone said it looked like a wonderseed, which I kind of see