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23. Bowser's Castle

With as many Mario Circuits and Rainbow Roads as this game has, it strikes me as sort of surprising that it only has two Bowser's Castles - I guess most of them basically hit kind of the same ideas, so they're be a little bit on the redundant end, but still, this game has surprisingly few tracks that 'feel' like this, since it's also missing stuff like Airship Fortress. Anyway, it's a Bowser's Castle. It rocks. The soundtrack owns and it gives that familiar Bowser's Castle vibe of driving through fire rings and around spike balls and shit. I like how, per tradition, the track paths are very 'square' and involve a lot of 90 degree turns. The Bowser statue is obviously the really big gimmicky setpiece here, and I think it's great - it's fun to try to predict which way you have to go to not get punched, especially if you find yourself wanting to go another way to avoid obstacles or other racers. And tricking off the wavy road is awesome. I wish this track had just a LITTLE bit more in the way of exciting Bowser Castle-style features, so I can't quite rank it higher than this, but it's a crowdpleaser nontheless.