![]() ![]() I enjoyed wracking my brain to come up with clever configurations for my space. After moving to my more-open basement, I could flex my creative muscles a bit more, but the carpet slowed the kart down enough that I quickly returned to the hardwood surface of my living room. Even in my relatively open main floor, I struggled to come up with ideas that would fit within the space. To have any sort of creative freedom, you need a sizeable open area, which could make this difficult for people in smaller houses or apartments to enjoy. To get started, I had to make significant adjustments to my living room, moving the coffee table against the wall and rolling up my rug because it was too thick for the kart’s wheels. This frustration is further accentuated by in-game items and environments that are designed to push you off course the sandstorm environment is neat because it blows the physical kart all over the place, but it also caused me to run into a gate more than a couple of times. The game recommends you lay something heavy on each foot to keep it in place, but unless you happen to have a bunch of compact, heavy objects (I used 16 soda cans, two on each gate foot), this is something you have to put up with or compensate for when you design your stages. I often ran into the sides of gates, which distorts the track your option is to either deal with the changing conditions or pause mid-race to fix them. This issue played tricks on my eyes and made me think turns were sooner than they were, and on rare occasions, a gate didn’t recognize that I passed through it. However, the virtual track sometimes doesn’t overlay the floor perfectly. I dodged goombas while drifting into a sharp turn by my coat rack, then blasted an enemy with a red shell. Once you’re in a race, the mixed-reality experience works remarkably well most of the time, and it kept me entertained. Then it’s off to the races against A.I.-controlled Bowser Jr. Once your gates are laid out and customized, you draw the road by steering your kart through the gates to paint the track. You can customize each gate onscreen with unlockable elements, including item blocks, boosts, piranha plants that grab you, and chain chomps that pull you in random directions. Using these pieces, you can build whatever course you can fit in the space you have. Mario Kart Live gives you one go-kart (featuring either Mario or Luigi), four gates, and two arrow signboards in the box. The concept of configuring your room as a racetrack and speeding through it as Mario is an exciting prospect, and while it’s often novel and enjoyable, a few noteworthy speedbumps prevent it from taking home the gold trophy. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit invites you to bring the action into the real world, using your Switch and a physical remote-controlled car with a camera to bridge the gap between reality and your screen. Since its debut on the SNES, the Mario Kart series has been one of Nintendo’s most consistently fun franchises.
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