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Revision as of 12:08, March 28, 2022

This article is about the race course that appears in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. For the race course from Mario Kart: Super Circuit with the same Japanese name, see GBA Sky Garden.

Template:Racecourse Cloudtop Cruise is the first course of the Special Cup of Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. This course mainly takes place on clouds, a giant beanstalk (similar to Sky Garden), and on an airship (like Airship Fortress). Several of Bowser's airships are seen flying in the background. It shares several names in other languages with Sky Garden.

Course layout

Cloudtop Cruise, from Mario Kart 8.
The course as seen from the starting line

The race starts on a giant beanstalk. Shortly after there is a ramp with some Item Boxes on it, and there is a Bowser Balloon that characters can bounce on, similar to the mushrooms in Mushroom Gorge from Mario Kart Wii. The racers will then continue racing on a cloud. Later, they come onto an airship, where the player encounters two paths, both of which meet up right before a cannon, which launches the player to a anti-gravity metal track inside a storm cloud. On the track, there are many Dash Panels, but once in a while, lightning will strike them, which the racers have to avoid or else they will get knocked out. This section then ends to start a gliding section, which touches down on a giant stone ? Block, a reference to how Beanstalks grow out of ? Blocks in Mario games. There is just one more right turn before the finish line.

Shortcuts

  • Players can bounce on the second Bowser Balloon without using a Mushroom.
  • Near the end of the lap, players can jump off two big leaves, cutting off the final corner.

Staff ghost

The staff ghost for this course uses Baby Rosalina in the Biddybuggy. The times to beat are 2:26.347 in Mario Kart 8 and 2:19.568 in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 200cc, the staff ghost is Bowser Jr. with a time of 1:44.120.

Music

Like several other courses, the music for this course has two different variations: the first variation is orchestral and plays when the players drive on the cloud and beanstalk sections, while the second variation is a rock arrangement that plays when reaching the thundercloud section. The ending portion of both variations uses parts of Sky Station Galaxy and Gusty Garden Galaxy's music from the Super Mario Galaxy games. The course's music also reappears as a new arrangement, which combines the two variations, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U on the Mario Circuit stage and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on any Mario Kart stage.

The first portion of the course's music plays on amiibo screens in select retail stores.

Audio.svg Cloudtop Cruise - The Gusty Garden Galaxy section of the music
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Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack liner notes

"On this title, we set ourselves on a challenge of creating melodies we'd never come up with before, and we put a huge amount of effort into this track. We thought that a full orchestra would be perfect for creating that sense of a vast world in the clouds. We've included the thundercloud version of the track, as well as a medley."

Gallery

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese スカイガーデン[?]
Sukai Gāden
Sky Garden
Chinese 空中花園 (Traditional)
空中花园 (Simplified)
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Kōngzhōng Huāyuán
Sky Garden
Dutch Wildewolkenweg[?] Wild Cloudway
German Wolkenstraße[?] Cloudstreet
Italian Vascello Nuvolante[?] "Cloudflying" Vessel – "Nuvolante" is a pun of "nuvola" (cloud) and "volante" (flying)
Korean 스카이 가든[?]
Seukai Gadeun
Sky Garden
Portuguese Via Nublada[?] Cloudy Way
Russian Заоблачный круиз[?]
Zaoblachnyy kruiz
Cloudstrider Cruise
Spanish Ruta Celeste[?] Celestial Road

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