Mario Kart World review: Getting there is half the game

Free Roam mode shines, but long, chaotic straightaways get a bit grating.

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[Hilarius]

Mario Kart still has a lot of racing and skill involved people who say Mario Kart is mostly luck either don't know what they're talking about or aren't very good. Obviously there's luck involved and randomness, that's where a lot of the fun comes from, but even purposely handicapping myself by using motion controls and not drifting I can still beat my casual family members most of the time.

My family started playing Mario Kart when my 7yo niece started getting into video games. I would beat them so badly that I started coming up with ways to handicap myself to try and keep it interesting. I stopped drifting, I stopped using items defensively, I would even sit at the start of every race until I was in last place, but none of that helped. Eventually I learned that I could play one-handed using a single Joy-Con with motion controls and auto-accelerate. Doing that while playing on my phone with my other hand at least kept things interesting.