Vookcast Episode #99 – Mario Kart Sucks: Triple Deluxe

Mario Kart MAYhem officially closes with the teams thoughts on Mario Kart 8 and Kirby Triple Deluxe.

To finalise our celebrations for Mario Kart MAYhem, and yes, we realise it’s June, here’s a brand new episode of the Vookcast! This episode goes through all of the latest news that we’ve yet to cover on the Vookcast, including controversial topics like Nintendo’s plans for near field communication figurines (known as NFP) as well as their contentious YouTube revenue splitting scheme. Of course, to keep things light, we talk about the latest news in the realm of Nintendo including the latest Smash Bros. news – both the announcement of fan favourite Ike and the controller adapter and a discussion on the blow out of information we received in the last fortnight about Hyrule Warriors.

Of course, Mario Kart 8 also came out only last weekend, and Kirby Triple Deluxe in the last week or so too. The team dives into both the games discussing what they thought of both games.

To close the episode, we tease our 100th episode as well as our season finale, which will be another in-depth critique episode. We’re doing another Gamecube title this time, and we’ve got a feeling many fans will have played this one. Can you guess what it is?

Of course, as promised, we also announce the Mario Kart MAYhem winners who participates in our roundtables the last month, officially closing off Mario Kart MAYhem. We appreciate all entries and thank everyone for entering. Winners will be contacted shortly.

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The cast can be reached for any questions or comments on their Twitter profiles: –

James – @Nemesis556
Steven – @NinjaCatfish
Daniel – @flamecondor

This episode was produced by James and features the following music in order of appearance: –

Electrodrome (from Mario Kart 8)
by Shiho Fujii, Atsuko Asahi, Ryo Nagamatsu & Yasuaki Iwata

Thwomp Ruins (from Mario Kart 8)
by Shiho Fujii, Atsuko Asahi, Ryo Nagamatsu & Yasuaki Iwata

Bone Dry Dunes (from Mario Kart 8)
by Shiho Fujii, Atsuko Asahi, Ryo Nagamatsu & Yasuaki Iwata

James Mitchell

Avid gamer since I was as young as three years old when I received my first NES. Currently studying full time and consider myself a balanced gamer. Enjoy games on all systems, from all genres, on all platforms. Sometimes feels like he's too optimistic for this industry.