"Mario Kart Live", at 200 km / h on the motorway of the show and the fun

"Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit" turns your living room into a circuit, and it's a mess -

Nintendo never gives up.

After the failure of his first hybrid Wii U console, he returned to the charge with the Switch, and with success: more than 60 million machines sold to date, more than the Super Nintendo, the GameCube or the Nintendo 64.

If

is above all a

game

and a gift for Super Mario's 35th birthday, it also resonates as a response to Nintendo Labo (and its cardboard games, in every sense of the word) and its Amiibo (whose success dulls his last years).

It is in its DNA, today a video game company but historically a toy company, Nintendo seeks to bring together the best of worlds, real and virtual.

Like at home

From this point of view,

is a success, whose main challenge will be not to run out of fuel and ideas to go the distance and avoid going off the road (let's go for the spun metaphor … or not).

Once the toy has been purchased (100 € anyway) and the game downloaded (free anyway), you are ready to race.

Or rather exploration.

Because we must admit that the first minutes behind the wheel of your kart (Mario or Luigi) are devoted to exploring your apartment or house.

It is only a remote-controlled car with an on-board camera, and yet there is already a beginning of a hold on reality and therefore a promise of play. It is also that the toy, neither too small nor too much. large, is quality, as is the camera.

Customize your #MarioKart circuits by adding weather conditions, special obstacles like Piranha Plants or Thwomps, or music from other Mario Kart games!

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- Super Mario France (@SuperMario_FRA) October 14, 2020

After slaloming between the legs of the dining table, chasing the cat, and waving to the camera, you're finally ready to hit the tracks, and build them.

Four cardboard gates are provided and allow you to mark out your tracks, the layout of which is done with the help of the kart and virtual paint, no worries.

The circuits are free, only limited by distance and WiFi connection, and you can add physical objects but also and above all virtual ones.

Thanks to augmented reality, mushrooms, banana peels and other (blue!) Shells are part of the game.

Shoe is the limit

The players will thus find the sensations of

.

A little.

The most surprising (and important?) Is the speed, because as soon as the cylinders increase, so does the speed, and in 200cc, you have to keep control of the kart so as not to crash it into the wall, or into a shoe (you do with what we have).

This is one of the first limits of this

 : space.

You need space to make the most of it.

The other limit is also a question of space, that of your imagination.

Because after having improvised a few simplistic circuits to feel the asphalt (tiles) as quickly as possible, you really have to take the time to create original routes.

And we are of course still far from the “real” circuits of 

.

Likewise, other runners are there (virtually) without being there (physically) and if they influence your run, it is not the same.

But that's okay, the fun and the potential are there, especially when you know that

is playable up to four locally.

You just have to move.

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