DO NOT BUY Mario Kart World - VERY disappointing!

Hello, welcome back to a new video.

So today we're talking about Mario Kart

World on the Switch 2 and why it's kind of

lacking in luster.

And as an avid fan of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe,

which I played many, many hundreds of

hours on, I thought I was going to get

Mario Kart World and really enjoy it.

Unfortunately, I feel like I've kind of

wasted my money buying this because, to be

honest and frank, there's not a lot of

difference between Mario Kart World and

Mario Kart 8.

The main difference would be the graphical

fidelity has seen an obvious major boost

in graphical power, and that can be a good

thing, but it also can be a bad thing in

the way that the battery life takes a big

hit.

Because now that the game requires more

power, you're going to be using more

battery, and that makes the battery go

down.

So the battery life is not as good now

because of the increased graphics.

So if you like increased graphics, then

you'll like this game.

But if the gameplay is important to you,

then honestly there's not really a lot of

difference with the gameplay compared to

the previous Miracle Kart 8, and when I

got my Switch 2, I booted up Mario Kart 8

since I had already bought it, and I

played it and I thought, yeah, this is

pretty fun and everything, and yeah, I

would like it if I had the better graphics

of Mario Kart World.

But then I thought to myself, but does it

really make the game better?

Am I really playing the game because of

the graphics, or is it because of the

gameplay?

So I thought to myself, actually, I'm

quite happy with the gameplay of Mario

Kart 8, and I don't really feel like Mario

Kart World gameplay would be any

different.

I mean, why would they change it much if

it's already pretty good.

And it looks pretty much the same as Mario

Kart 8, you know, you've got same boosts,

same items, same kind of gameplay.

They've got different maps obviously, but

there's quite a lot of maps in Mario Kart

8 that I haven't even played yet because

they came out with some new maps at some

point I guess in the last few years which

I didn't realize.

And the game's quite expensive, I mean

£66.99, that's quite a weird number for a

kids game, you know, the, the innuendo of

69, I don't think that's appropriate to be

showing to kids.

Probably they don't understand what it

means, but yeah, kind of a weird choice.

Why don't they just make it $69.99 instead

of— well, that'd be the same, wouldn't it?

Why don't they just make it $70?

I never understand why they always do this

$0.99 pricing system.

Does it really make people think it's

cheaper than it actually is?

So then we've also got the open world.

I don't really care about the open world

because I'm in interested in Mario Kart

because I want to play the competitive

racing and I want to become first place.

I'm not really interested in like GTA open

world driving.

That's not really why I play Mario Kart

for, and I don't think a lot of people

play it for that reason either.

Yeah, there's exploration, but again, I'm

not really interested in exploration when

I play a racing game.

I want to race and battle against other

racers and test my skills.

So again, the open world doesn't really

interest me.

It would be interesting if you could have

a house and like a garage and then you

could maybe collect vehicles and then

drive them around and park them in the

garage and then customize the vehicles.

That would be interesting, but I don't

think they went that far with the open

world idea.

I think they just made a very low effort

open world, and I don't think Nintendo is

that great at doing open world, so I

wouldn't be very interested in the open

world of a Mario Kart game.

That'd be weird.

That'd be like being interested in racing

in a GTA game.

Yeah, so I was just thinking, um, I do

like Mario Kart 8, but I don't really—

are the graphics really that amazing that

it makes the game that much more fun?

I'm not really sold on it.

I don't really know what else they could

have done to make this game better apart

from the graphics, because I was already

quite happy with the gameplay

in the previous game.

I mean, it looks the same.

You've got the golden mushroom, you got

the speed mushroom,

Um, why wouldn't it?

Uh,

maybe there's a video.

It'd be cool if you could, uh, upgrade

your vehicle with different parts.

Maybe there's like a shop.

Like, you know what would be cool?

If it was like Gran Turismo where when you

win races you earn money.

And then you can spend the money to pimp

out your vehicle and improve it or

customize it.

That would be very— that would make the

game so addictive.

I love it in games when you get rewarded

with currency and then there's actually

things in the game that you want to buy

with the currency, so then you're

motivated to actually play the game and

get something out of it other than trying

to win.

So yeah, unfortunately for those reasons,

I don't really feel like at this price

point I can really recommend Mario Kart

World, I would recommend Mario Kart 8

because it's cheaper and it's basically

the same thing but without stuff like open

world, which I don't think people care

about really.

And I've also got V-Rally 4, which is—

hmm,

wouldn't really recommend it over Mario

Kart.

It's got drifting and stuff, but it feels

very unresponsive because it's more of a

realistic simulator than an arcadey game.

So yeah, I mean, it's the only game that's

new on Switch 2 that's actually a Switch 2

game, I guess.

So you don't really have much choice.

Fusion— Fast Fusion, I guess, is a Switch

2 game, but

it's only £13 as well.

Is it any good though?

Graphics look good.

It just looks a bit dull.

And then you got this Split Fiction game.

I don't know what that is.

What is it?

I can't even tell from the pictures what

kind of game this is supposed to be.

I have no idea.

Fortnite 2025.

Are people still playing Fortnite?

Is that Sabrina Carpenter?

Is that supposed to be Sabrina Carpenter

in Fortnite?

She kind of looks like her.

And then you got Zelda games, Minecraft.

Imagine people still play Minecraft.

Hogwarts Legacy.

Yeah, not a lot to choose from.

I end up just playing Mario Kart 8 all the

time.

I could redownload Smash Bros, but I never

really liked it.

It was just really annoying getting pinged

off the map and having to float back to

the center.

What's on the sale?

Wobbly Life.

Wow, Wobbly Life looks so good.

No Man's Sky is on sale.

I used to play this.

I remember attacking the ships in space

and just blowing them up and stealing all

their money.

I don't know what this GTA game is.

Oh, the GTA 3.

Come on, we could do better than that.

GTA 5 would easily run on

this.

Skyrim?

Never played Skyrim.

Boring.

Doom?

£3.40?

It's pretty cheap.

What's this?

Mario+ Rabbids?

Undertale.

When Hades 2 comes out, I might get that

because I've played it on PC and it's

quite fun.

Oh, they got Doom Eternal,

Assassin's Creed,

Pro Skater 1 and 2.

I was impressed that Metal Gear Solid is

on it.

Grounded.

I remember that ginger girl I dated in

2022 was really into Grounded.

Looks rubbish though.

Seafood.

I don't know, I guess I'll just stick to,

uh, Mario Kart 8 for now.

I played a bit of Mortal Kombat.

Yeah.