Sweet Sweet Canyon
- Not to be confused with Sweet Sweet Galaxy or Sweet Sweet Kingdom.
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| Appears in | Mario Kart 8 (2014) Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (2017) | ||||||||||||||
| Cup(s) | Mushroom Cup | ||||||||||||||
| Online play | Available (Wii U until April 8, 2024, Switch) | ||||||||||||||
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Sweet Sweet Canyon is the third race course of the Mushroom Cup in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Similar to Cookie Land from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Tart Top from Mario Kart DS, this course takes place in a land filled with pastry confections and desserts, including cakes, cookies, ice creams, candies, donuts, macarons, and chocolates. Gingerbread Toads can be seen cheering at the start/finish line, and waffle-cone windmills with blades made out of different-colored wafer cookies appear in the background. There are twenty-five Coins located on this track. This course can be seen on some of the posters for Galaxy Air.
Course layout
The course starts out in a place where gingerbread cookie characters are watching, while Yoshis are situated on the other side, cheering for the racers. The track then enters a cave made out of cookies, followed by a glider cannon that launches the racers onto a cake tower with a soda waterfall. Here, there are traffic cones made out of ice cream cones on a large right turn, and the racers then drive inside orange soda. As the soda section ends, the racers can either choose a blue path or a pink path, both of which are anti-gravity routes that spiral around each other. After the anti-gravity paths meet up again, drivers encounter a number of pink Piranha Plants, hiding inside green Pipes. After a few turns, the racers hit a drop-off before reaching the start-finish line.
Shortcuts
- Just before the tunnel at the start of the course, there is a small section of pink frosting on the right that players can cut through using a Mushroom.
- On the blue anti-gravity route, players can fall off the track at the chocolate part, and land on the pink anti-gravity route. This shortcut is best performed with a Mushroom.
- Both of the anti-gravity paths feature a small patch of chocolate frosting where players can use a Mushroom to cut a corner.
- If one uses a Mushroom, it is possible to drive through the chocolate donut and cut off the final turn before the start-finish line.
Sponsors
- Peach & Daisy Royal Patisserie (Cookies, cookie boxes, logos)
- Princess Orange (Bottles)
Mario Kart 8 Original Soundtrack liner note
"We wanted a cute and cuddly feel for this candy-filled world, so we wanted to use toy-like sounds along with a light and breezy violin."
Gallery
The course icon
Game sprite of the course icon
Overview of the entrance to the glider cannon
Audience at the starting line
Toadette, driving around the course
Baby Mario in the underwater section
An anti-gravity section of the course
Panorama of Sweet Sweet Canyon
Piranha Plants are also present on the course
The off-road shortcut
A released screenshot, revealing the name of the course
The stamp obtained for beating the staff ghost at this course
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | スイーツキャニオン[?] Suītsu Kyanion |
Sweets Canyon | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 甜点峡谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ |
Dessert Canyon | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 甜點峽谷[?] Tiándiǎn Xiágǔ |
Dessert Canyon | |
| Dutch | Zoetekauwcanyon[?] | Sweet Tooth Canyon | |
| French (NOA) | Canyon Gourmand[?] | Greedy Canyon | |
| French (NOE) | Piste aux délices[?] | Track of Delights | |
| German | Zuckersüßer Canyon[?] | Sugar-Sweet Canyon | |
| Italian | Dolce Dolce Canyon[?] | Sweet Sweet Canyon | |
| Korean | 스위트 캐니언[?] Seuwiteu Kaenieon |
Sweet Canyon | |
| Portuguese | Desfiladeiro Doce[?] | Sweet Canyon | |
| Russian | Каньон сладостей[?] Kan'on sladostey |
Sweets Canyon | |
| Spanish | Barranco Goloso[?] | Sweet Tooth Gorge |
Trivia
- One of the Yoshis near the starting line occasionally hums Totaka's Song.[1] This also occurs in other courses featuring Yoshi spectators.
- This is the only Mushroom Cup course in the Mario Kart series to have a cannon.
References
- ^ GameXplain. (January 12, 2015). Totaka's Song in Mario Kart 8 (Secret). YouTube. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
