{"id":4657,"date":"2025-06-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:39:25","slug":"im-going-to-say-it-mario-kart-world-is-not-as-good-as-it-should-be-readers-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nichesitetool.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/15\/im-going-to-say-it-mario-kart-world-is-not-as-good-as-it-should-be-readers-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m going to say it: Mario Kart World is not as good as it should be \u2013 Reader\u2019s Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A reader is unimpressed by Mario Kart<\/a> World on the Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> and argues that the controversial free roam mode is not its only issue.<\/p>\n

As a day one Nintendo<\/a> Switch 2 owner I have to admit I\u2019m a little disappointed. Not with the console itself, which I think is pretty much prefect for the price and what it has to do, but with the only game worth getting at launch: Mario Kart World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s terrible, but I do think that not only is it not as good at Mario Kart 8<\/a> but that it\u2019s kind of a flawed experiment and one of the weakest entries in the whole series. But I\u2019ll talk about the positives first, just to show it\u2019s not all bad.<\/p>\n

Knockout Tour is great, I think everyone would agree. A bit boring in single-player, but fantastic online and the game\u2019s best feature. I also like all the weird extra characters, although how you unlock them<\/a> and the costumes is very random and unsatisfying. The open world is also very nicely designed in its own right, and very large, but\u2026 that\u2019s kind of all I\u2019ve got in terms of praise.<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019ll get the obvious thing out of the way: the open world is completely wasted. None of the challenges in it are interesting, if you can even find them, and a lot of them are overly hard and frustrating. There\u2019s no story or dialogue or anything. You just drive around at random in free roam and hope you come across something interesting, which you almost certainly won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

If any game was born to have fetch quests in it, it was this and yet there\u2019s nothing like that. It all feels like it\u2019s waiting for the actual game to be dropped onto the world but there\u2019s nothing there. Maybe it will come in DLC, but even if it\u2019s free why wasn\u2019t it there from the start? Why wouldn\u2019t you go all out for basically your only launch game? It\u2019s baffling.<\/p>\n

But for me that\u2019s not the real problem because, rightly or wrongly, free roam is really just a side show. My problem is that the actual racing in the two main modes is very dull. It may not seem that way when you\u2019ve got a dozen people firing shells at you at once, but that gets old very quickly, and it doesn\u2019t actually happen that much, especially in single-player.<\/p>\n

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