Mario Kart World devs had to approach track changes with the entire world in mind, but "we don't call this world an open world"

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When you think of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mario Kart World, the first thing that probably pops into your he▨ad is "open world Mario Kart." Despite that, the game's developers say "we don't call this world an op🥂en world."

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Speaking to GamesRadar+ Kosuke Yabuki, the producer of Mario Kart World, was asked what 🉐the biggest challenges the team faced when turning Mario Kart into an open world were. Yabuki tells us, "We, on the development team siꦅde, we don't call this world an open world."

Why? He explains: "Because in our view we don't f𓆏eel that the term open world is clear in terms of its definition."

Furthermore, Yabuki adds: "We do have this expansive world, and we've placed therein the Ma♔rio Kart Circuit or the Bowser Castle, or the Choco Mountain, and tried to build a new Mario Kart."

So while the team don't consider it to be a typical open world game, Yabuki continues: "Looking back on the entire history of Mario Kart, we do feel that this is a major change." But he notes that despite the big changes, "we wanted to ensure that [at] its core the new Mario Kar🎃t would still retain the classic fun that you would gain from the 𝓰Mario Kart franchise."

Yabuki mentions that adjustments t𒀰o courses had to be approached differently this time around, due to having to accommodat🍌e the full world as opposed to just the map itself.

"In this installation of Mario Kart, all of the r💜oads are interconnected so if you were to tweak a certain route to make it easier to run through, it would impact all the other roads and routes," he says. "So we were aware that they're all interconnected and we would need to be mindful of the overall balance."

Mario Kart World is definitely the biggest of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Switch 2 launch games, but if you've been keeping up with all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2 news, you'll know we've still got some bangers on the way when it comes to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games.

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