GBA Boo Lake: Difference between revisions

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|title=Boo Lake

|appears_in=''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]'' ([[List of games by date#2001|2001]])<br>''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' (2022)<br>''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' (''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass|Booster Course Pass]]'', Wave 3) (2022)

|online_play=Available ([[Nintendo Switch|Switch]])

'''Boo Lake''' is the second race of the [[Flower Cup]] in ''[[Mario Kart: Super Circuit]]''. It is, unlike the name would imply, a pier with a lot of gaps, like the [[Ghost Valley]] courses from ''[[Super Mario Kart]]''. Boo Lake contains a considerable amount of [[Coin]]s and [[Item Box]]es. There are [[Boo]]s which hold lanterns on this course. If the player falls off of the track, contrary to what the course's name indicates, they do not fall into water and instead into a pit. There is a bridge that flickers, making it hard to see on the part where the path splits around a hole with the bump on it, to the right of this area. The course shares its music with [[Broken Pier]], part of which is an arrangement of the music used for the Ghost Valley courses from ''Super Mario Kart''.

==''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''==

==''Mario Kart Tour''==

Boo Lake makes its classic course debut in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' starting from the [[Halloween Tour (2022)|2022 Halloween Tour]]. The course now resembles the [[Ghost Valley|SNES Ghost Valley]] courses even more, and there are also more walls around the course compared to the original version. In addition to the manor and dead forest from the original, a few dilapidated fortress structures have been added into the background, along with clouds being added to the sky. Rather than taking place over a pit, the course now takes place on a large lake (as its name implies there always was), which is driven into, making this the second classic course in ''Mario Kart Tour'' to feature a newly added [[underwater driving|underwater]] section, the first one being [[GBA Cheep-Cheep Island]]. [[Fish Bone]]s act as obstacles in the lake section. The starting line is now accompanied by two posts holding a ''Mario Kart'' sign, which was absent in all ''Super Circuit'' courses. Many lamp posts have also been added to the course, replacing the candle-holding Boos in the original version.  

The course also appears as '''Boo Lake R''' (reverse), '''Boo Lake T''' (with ramps), and '''Boo Lake R/T''' (reverse and with ramps). In all three variants, racers drive on an alternate path which is unused in the default variant despite appearing on the minimap. In the R/T variant, there is a [[Glide Ramp|glide ramp]] shortly after racers exit the water.

==''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe''==

Boo Lake is the first course in the Booster Course Pass to feature [[underwater driving]]. Additionally, the section beginning on the U-turn leading into the lake and the underwater portion of the course have been converted to an [[anti-gravity]] section. The Barrels blocking the shortcut have been replaced with the bush-shaped [[wooden cutout]]s from {{classic-link|3DS|Piranha Plant Slide}}, and the shortcut itself is now off-road.

The alternate path that appeared in ''Mario Kart Tour'' for its variants was removed from the layout of this version, but its now-deteriorated scaffolding remains as decoration. Boo Lake is the only course in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'' to mark the end of an anti-gravity section with an [[Antigravity Panel]].

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