Editing DS Twilight House

|image=[[File:Twilight House MKDS preview.png|256px]]<br>''Mario Kart DS''<br>[[File:Twilight House.png|256px]]<br>''Mario Kart Wii''<br>[[File:MKT DS Twilight House Scene.jpg|256px]]<br>''Mario Kart Tour''

'''Twilight House''' is a battle course debuting in ''[[Mario Kart DS]]'' which takes place in and around a house located at the center of a forest during twilight, floating above a dark void. It also made appearances as a retro battle course in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' and in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]''.

==''Mario Kart DS''==

Twilight House is a battle course modeled after a 3x3 square grid in layout, featuring eight wide rooms surrounded by a narrow balcony in addition to an inaccessible center. The center, eastern and southeastern rooms make up the actual house, with a connected roof and three [[Item Box]]es inside. A good majority of these rooms are set outdoors, fenced off by brick walls with different openings leading to the balcony or to other rooms. These rooms also contain item boxes with the exception of the northeastern room. Finally, the northwestern room features a spacious, castle-like structure with entrances fitted with traditional portcullises.

As mentioned before, the entire course is surrounded by a narrow balcony, which has the risk of making players fall into the void should they not be careful. Its four corners feature small square-shaped areas, each of which features an Item Box. Notably, a dark [[Shine Sprite]] motif can be seen throughout this track, both on the archway designs and as emblems decorating some of the track's walls; the latter is much more prominent on the northwestern room which features large, dark Shine Sprite emblems above its entrances.

 

 

There is one [[Mario Kart DS#Missions|mission]] that takes place on Twilight House:

*'''Mission 3-8''': The player controls [[Mario]], who must collect 20 [[coin]]s scattered throughout the course within 65 seconds. During this mission, there are both barriers and [[Banana]]s all over the map, so the player has to plan their route.

Twilight House returns in ''Mario Kart Wii'' with graphical changes, including ambient lighting, better shading, and remixed music. The biggest change is that a thick forest filled with trees (similar to [[Moonview Highway]]) was added below the course where players can fall into, with tall pillars now holding the entire course up.

[[List of tournaments in Mario Kart Wii#July 2008 Tournament 2|July 2008's second tournament]] required players to complete a GP race on a version of Twilight House that has been turned into a race track: Players must drive five laps clockwise through the eight rooms (excluding the centermost room), with barriers blocking off the outer balcony edges. Controls were restricted to Wii Wheel users only. The tournament was later repeated as the second tournament of July 2010.

Twilight House reappears in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' debuting in the [[Halloween Tour (2022)|2022 Halloween Tour]]. The course has received a notable graphical overhaul - the rooftops are now a shade of maroon, the castle design has been made present throughout most of the track, and the dark Shine Sprite motif has been removed (with a more generic star design on the castle itself). Several of the rooftops have been removed to accommodate the battle mechanic for eliminated players in ''Mario Kart Tour'', allowing them to throw items at the remaining players. A [[Rocky Wrench]] now appears in the course's northern, eastern, southern, and western rooms, replacing the [[Item Box]]es there, while the north-western room has cyan lighting instead of orange like the rest of the rooms. A wall surrounding the entire course has also been added, allowing projectiles to rebound off of the course's boundaries, and the four corner platforms have been removed. Like other battle courses in this game, Twilight House uses {{classic link|SNES|Battle Course 1}}'s music from ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'' instead of its ''Mario Kart Wii'' arrangement. However, its original song is still present in the [[List of Mario Kart Tour pre-release and unused content#Sounds and music|files]] of ''Mario Kart Tour''.

MKT Icon TwilightHouseDS KingBoo.png|The course icon

 

===Names in other languages===

|Jpn=ゆうやみハウス

|JpnR=Yūyami Hausu

|JpnM=Twilight House

|Fre=Maison de l'Aube

|FreM=House of Dawn

|Ita=Casa Crepuscolare<br>Casa crepuscolare

|ItaN=prior to ''Mario Kart Tour''