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|title=Bowser Castle 4<br><small>Bowser's Castle 4</small> | |title=Bowser Castle 4<br><small>Bowser's Castle 4</small> | ||
|image=[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 4 Starting Line.png|240px|center]] | |image={{tabber|title1=''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''|content1=[[File:MKSC Bowser Castle 4 Starting Line.png|240px|center]]|title2=''Mario Kart Tour''|content2=[[File:MKT GBA Bowser's Castle 4 Starting Line.jpg|250px]]}} | ||
|appears_in=''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]'' ([[List of games by date#2001|2001]])<br>''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' (2023) | |appears_in=''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]'' ([[List of games by date#2001|2001]])<br>''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' (2023) | ||
|cups=[[Special Cup]] | |cups=[[Special Cup]] | ||
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Bowser's Castle 4 makes its [[classic course]] debut in ''Mario Kart Tour'', starting with the [[Bowser Tour (2023)|2023 Bowser Tour]], making this the first Special Cup course from ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' to return in another ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' game. Though it is visually fashioned after the aesthetic of [[GBA Bowser's Castle 1]] instead of keeping its original visuals, the castle is now depicted as ruined, with the castle situated within a lava lake bordered by two volcanoes, and the lava inside the castle now flows into a large chasm in the middle. A large throne area has been added near the bottom section of the course, though players cannot reach it. The track has been given elevation and regular road portions, bringing it closer to other GBA courses in ''Tour''. While the layout remains relatively faithful to the original, some of the turns are simplified, the section with the holes of lava has fewer holes (all of which have ramps in front of them allowing them to be jumped over), and the section involving jumping between platforms is streamlined. New obstacles and elements have been added, like [[metal ball]]s which are dropped from dispensers with propellers keeping them afloat and bounce down a stretch of road that was previously a small split path. The [[Mechakoopa]]s are removed in this version. Two new gliding sections have been added, with one leading into a new split route in the bottom section of the course with pillars that can be tricked off of and a second one along the final stretch on the other route. | Bowser's Castle 4 makes its [[classic course]] debut in ''Mario Kart Tour'', starting with the [[Bowser Tour (2023)|2023 Bowser Tour]], making this the first Special Cup course from ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'' to return in another ''[[Mario Kart (series)|Mario Kart]]'' game. Though it is visually fashioned after the aesthetic of [[GBA Bowser's Castle 1]] instead of keeping its original visuals, the castle is now depicted as ruined, with the castle situated within a lava lake bordered by two volcanoes, and the lava inside the castle now flows into a large chasm in the middle. A large throne area has been added near the bottom section of the course, though players cannot reach it. The track has been given elevation and regular road portions, bringing it closer to other GBA courses in ''Tour''. While the layout remains relatively faithful to the original, some of the turns are simplified, the section with the holes of lava has fewer holes (all of which have ramps in front of them allowing them to be jumped over), and the section involving jumping between platforms is streamlined. New obstacles and elements have been added, like [[metal ball]]s which are dropped from dispensers with propellers keeping them afloat and bounce down a stretch of road that was previously a small split path. The [[Mechakoopa]]s are removed in this version. Two new gliding sections have been added, with one leading into a new split route in the bottom section of the course with pillars that can be tricked off of and a second one along the final stretch on the other route. | ||
The course is also now a section-based course, similar to [[Wii Rainbow Road]]. Unlike that course, the beginning of | The course is also now a section-based course, similar to [[Wii Rainbow Road]]. Unlike that course, the beginning of section 2 is clearly marked with a banner, which rests along the horizontal path in the upper-left portion of the course. This is the first section-based Bowser's Castle course in the series. Two parts of the road that overlap each other are depicted as connecting on the minimap. | ||
The course also appears as '''Bowser's Castle 4R''' (reversed), in which the metal balls are gone, and there are instead [[Bone Piranha Plant]]s throughout the course. Bowser's Castle 4 was not only the first track since the [[Battle Tour]] to not have an R/T variant upon launch, but also the first track overall to not feature a T variant at launch. It is one of 2 courses overall to never receive an R/T variant, alongside [[3DS Rock Rock Mountain]]. It is also the only course to have never received a T variant. | The course also appears as '''Bowser's Castle 4R''' (reversed), in which the metal balls are gone, and there are instead [[Bone Piranha Plant]]s throughout the course. Bowser's Castle 4 was not only the first track since the [[Battle Tour]] to not have an R/T variant upon launch, but also the first track overall to not feature a T variant at launch. It is one of 2 courses overall to never receive an R/T variant, alongside [[3DS Rock Rock Mountain]]. It is also the only course to have never received a T variant. | ||