They drive fine on carpet or hard flooring, and on-screen you see a view from behind the character’s head, letting you guide the racer around the room. The RC cars, driven by a little Mario or Luigi with a little camera positioned behind their heads, are cute and sturdy, and happily withstood frequent collisions around my living room and kitchen and one run-in with the cat. That’s got to be some incentive to tidy up.) Parents, look at it this way: if the kids want to play Mario Kart Live, then the floor has to be clear. (This might sound horrifying to parents already struggling to beat back the endless tide of toys, crayons and abandoned shoes that engulfs the typical family living room, but look at it this way: if the kids want to play Mario Kart Live then the floor has to be clear. That circuit is then displayed on the Switch screen, and you could go the whole hog and build your own track on the floor out of blocks or cardboard boxes or empty water bottles or whatever else you have around the house as well. After folding out some cardboard arches and placing them down on the floor, you drive the kart through them to define the boundaries of the track. On the screen are all the things you’d expect from Mario Kart: power-ups, sandstorms that blow the kart around and make it harder to control, and other characters to race against.
In reality, the car is zipping around on the floor, weaving between table legs and under cardboard arches. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is a “mixed-reality” game, meaning that what you see on the Switch screen is an enhanced version of what’s actually going on in your living room.
Instead of confining all the action to a screen, this lets you race a little car around your living room, using a Nintendo Switch to control it. Nintendo’s latest experiment in the toy world, made in collaboration with Velan Studios, is an actual Mario remote-controlled kart that comes with a game. Mario Kart has been a family favourite since the early 1990s thanks to its potent combination of cute characters, speedy but simple racing and an array of red shells, banana skins and other eye-wateringly unfair tools of playful sabotage.
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