Nintendo is celebrating 35 years of Super Mario Brothers, and with the company being notorious for inventive ways to have fun, they’ve given us a look at this new gimmick with the Switch called Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit.
Check out the trailer:
The game basically lets you drive a tiny kart IRL and lets you turn your home into its own race track. Buying the set gives you a cart and four gates. You place the four gates to mark spots in your track, and you drive the cart through the four gates in order to establish the shape.
Once the track is set, you’re ready to go. While it looks like you can play by yourself, there is also the option to play with up to four people. What’s great is, the real kart is affected by what happens in-game, so it goes faster when you get a boost, and goes slower when you get hit with a turtle shell.
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It seems like a fun thing to play for a few hours, but I think the set-up is going to eventually eat at the players. Then again, you still get a nice kart that you can display next to your console. You also have to hand it to how creative Nintendo can get with their expansions. You don’t see gimmicks like this with the Xbox.
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit will be available for the Nintendo Switch come October 16.