I feel like I’m about to say something unforgivable. I played a couple of hours of Mario Kart World recently, including a good amount of time with its new features like Knockout Tour and the open world, and came away having only had, well, quite a nice time. There were moments of hilarity – mostly involving gurning at my peers with the Switch 2‘s new camera while mercilessly blue-shelling them – and moments of typical kart-racer tension. But also, a little surprisingly, moments when I felt I’d maybe rather be playing something else (the strangely alluring Welcome Tour perhaps being one option).
