Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (2020)

You'll be fully immersed so it's easy to forget that there's an actual kart driving around your room. The price of this game is not exactly low, especially if you'd like to race with more players. Despite some real world limitations or relatively low variety of game modes, this is still a very entertaining concept that will cheer up any RC car enthusiast. Just keep in mind this is not a typical game but a toy using AR. Whether Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit will keep you entertained for a long time is up to you.

At its best, Mario Kart Live Home Circuit can be a truly novel and unique experience for young and old gamers to enjoy together. The way the augmented reality aspects help bring the real-world elements to life is incredible; and it stands as a brilliant ‘first generation’ product that will, no doubt, get better with time. Despite one or two caveats; the overall experience is decent and paints a bright future for what Nintendo might have in store for gamers going forward!

Mario Kart Live - Home Circuit is a new version of the classic racing game. The AR features are refreshing and a lot of fun. Bringing the aspect of the race track into the living room was a clever move by Nintendo. With the right size there are no limits to your fantasy. The co-op mode is unfortunately not possible online. You are limited here to the local version. Why Nintendo considered this step, I did not understand. I imagine it to be especially funny to play with players all over the world in their living rooms.

The game is ideally suited to enthrall the younger generation, but older gamers are not immune to the charm of the idea either. Mario Kart: Home Circuit is a really fun affair that allows Nintendo to play the creative muscles again. Self-made courses, multiplayer functions and, last but not least, the portability of the Switch enable the game to become a toolset with which a creative mind can have a lot of fun.

It’s an expensive gadget that becomes boring quickly, but I appreciate the risk Nintendo takes. Mari Kart Live is far from perfect, but in a few years… Maybe we’re witnessing the birth of a new type of toy? As many innovations before, there are problems in the beginning.