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Mario Kart World review
Eurogamer's review of Nintendo Switch 2 launch exclusive, Mario Kart World - Nintendo's open-world entry in the Mario Kart series.
Don't get me wrong, I adore the series and have pumped thousands of hours into it over the decades (apart from Double Dash - spit.emoji), but I've always seen Mario Kart as the game you have to play with friends or to time trial if you're at a loose end. With the whole of the game's map to explore, this is akin to being blindfolded and then taken to a remote location and dumped out the side of the black van (but in a cute way, probably by people that offered chilled beverages and wore crevats). Knockout Tour, with its stress-inducing eliminations, puts you through multiple moments like this in every rally, but the elation felt when winning is worth the misery of a last-second triple-shell onslaught that somehow sends you from five seconds to victory to eighth place.
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