Mario Kart World sports tons of items with an ideal mixture of recent inclusions just like the Golden Shell, classics just like the Blue Shell, and even some objects just like the Feather which were lacking from the collection for a very long time. Maybe as a result of it is so chock-a-block with merchandise variations, I could not assist however discover that one among my all-time favourite objects is nowhere to be discovered as soon as once more: the Pretend Merchandise Field.
The Pretend Merchandise Field debuted in Mario Kart 64 and continued into Double Sprint, Mario Kart DS, and Mario Kart Wii. It was, prefer it says on the tin, a doppelganger of the common merchandise field, however it could knock you over extra like a shell. The faux field would look completely different sufficient from an everyday field that you may spot it–the query mark could be upside-down, and generally it could be a barely completely different colour. However the variations had been refined. You might simply miss the excellence when speeding via a observe and be caught unaware.
That gave the Pretend Merchandise Field a excessive talent ceiling, each for deploying and avoiding it. Merchandise Containers are a prized commodity in Mario Kart, so your intuition is to go straight for it whenever you see one. Deploying the Pretend Merchandise Field was a layer of thoughts video games on this in any other case raucous kart racer, difficult you to fastidiously lay it round blind corners or hidden amongst official merchandise bins. It offered a sneakier defensive choice than the lowly Banana for these main the pack. Likewise, avoiding it required you to remain in your toes. You may discover that a regular merchandise field seems a bit bit unsuitable and solely discover as you go it {that a} faux field was hiding simply behind it.
Mario Kart World provides one other everlasting power-up, just like the Merchandise Field and simply as tempting for gamers: the Sprint Meals, as represented by a golden glowing bagged lunch. These tasty snacks not solely provide you with a velocity enhance, they’ll additionally unlock new costumes for lots of the racers. If Nintendo had chosen to carry again the Pretend Merchandise Field, it may have additionally made a Pretend Sprint Meals, letting you scatter explosive snacks across the race course.
However alas, it was to not be. The Pretend Merchandise Field was lacking from Mario Kart 7, Mario Kart 8, and even the cellular Mario Kart Tour. It appears as if Nintendo has moved on from the refined trickery facet of Mario Kart in favor of extra broadly comprehensible objects. However there’s hope but that sometime the Pretend Merchandise Field will return. In any case, it has been greater than three a long time since a Mario Kart recreation gave us a Feather.
