Mario Kart World

[Mr EliteL]

Ah, so in an alternate reality MKW could've been simply a Mario Kart 9, but this time they decided to do a bold move of an interconnected world and 24 racers. Though they believed to have already perfected the previous formula of Mario Kart's separate tracks, they wanted to attempt something bigger.

Baby Park needs to return again purely for the chaos of 24 racers, and the laps should totally be 10. Or a new short track similar to Baby Park anyway.

[Moonface]

Ah, so in an alternate reality MKW could've been simply a Mario Kart 9, but this time they decided to do a bold move of an interconnected world and 24 racers.  Though they believed to have already perfected the previous formula of Mario Kart's separate tracks, they wanted to attempt something bigger.

Baby Park needs to return again purely for the chaos of 24 racers, and the laps should totally be 10. Or a new short track similar to Baby Park anyway.

It makes me wonder what gimmick we could have got if MK9 had been the game we're getting instead. The wall and rail jumping wouldn't probably show up because that only came about when the developers were trying to figure out how to make the straighter sections of intermission tracks more engaging. Maybe the karts transforming between car/boat/plane would have been the gimmick, although that to me would only work if the tracks had multiple routes tailored to each vehicle type like Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed does it, which would be fine by me because that game is easily one of my top kart racers of all time. On that note, I haven't seen any footage where racers have a choice to stay on a road or go onto water like Sonic Transformed does, so it doesn't seem the transform system in this game will have the depth that one does.

Baby Park showing up as a DLC track would immediately make me buy it without hesitation. Besides changing the size of the track, the only other change I can think it would get is rails along the outer edge to grind on, and maybe the same for the inside edge but only on the straights since being able to hug the U-bend corners with a rail on the inside would likely be broken balance wise.

[Mr EliteL]

Different transformations would've been cool like you said, it was either that or the Open World-like they're doing. The gliders have been fine so far but would be greater if it were a flying transformation instead. Can't think of anything else that could or hasn't already been done in MK really.

Oh dang didn't think about the grinding on rails aspect, that could happen for Baby Park. Now I'm wondering Rainbow Road having rails, but the risk of falling is removed...! OK obviously there won't be rails the entire time, but I was just thinking that anyway. Wario Colosseum would be great with grinding rails as most of that track already has barriers/rails. Though that track was also in MK8 and may not make it, especially with how the track is inside an arena, like some other "Stadium" tracks are.