At least in Mario Kart 8 the punishment for falling off the track isn't quite as harsh as it was in the past. If you got those just right you were set but it was so easy to overdrift and end up in the water.
For example, you can select Yoshi, Green Cheap Charger, and Starchute as your driver, kart, and glider combination. Note: You can shuffle these drivers, karts, or gliders if you do not have the others yet. They can give you a high score in this course. KitGuru Says: Yoshi's Island was always a bit of tense track due to all those back and forth wiggles in its second half. The good combinations of drivers, karts, and gliders are in the table below. The underground path has been removed, but the creek shortcut is still. GCN Yoshi Circuit has the secret tunnel shortcut removed, but the jump across the moat remains intact. The first Mario Kart 8 DLC pack is coming in November, priced at £7, or £11 if you pre-order the one from next May too. Yoshi Circuit is the third track of the Star Cup in Mario Kart: Double Dash. There also looks to be a little shortcut through a waterfall for those willing to risk it. Power items can be used after the second set to get through the grass by the Piranhas. Yoshi Circuit is a good bagging track due to the usefulness of power items. After the top hump, you can hop over the grass section to skip the turn. Of course it retains its classic shape, with that nasty hairpin by Yoshi's tail, but there is a little more going on with the map now, including a small town where his feet are supposed to be. You can use a mushroom to drive through the waterfall by Yoshis arms. While we don't know what the other tracks or the final kart is going to be, Nintendo has released a nice trailer for Yoshi's Island, giving us a better idea of what the revamped track will look like.
The track comes along with new colour variants for Yoshi and Shy Guy new characters like Tanooki Mario, Cat Peach and Link and new karts like the classic B-Dasher, Blue Falcon and Master Cycle. Still, if you never had a chance to race around the extremities of the little prehistoric fella' then you will soon have a new chance, as it's coming as part of the first DLC pack for Mario Kart 8. Remember Yoshi's Circuit? If you ever played Mario Kart Double Dash on the Gamecube then you should.