T4w0JjaF0 There’s a lot of newfangled Switch 2 music I love already, but Mario Kart really hits home for me. As a listener of some prog rock out of Japan— Masayoshi Takanaka, I’m speaking to you directly—this feels like some kind of lab-grown earworm that I’d let take up residence in my brain rent-free.

Mario Kart World breaks away from series tradition to great success, even if it is slowed down by an interconnected yet world.

And at the center of that launch is Mario Kart World, an ambitious sequel to one of the best-selling games of all time from perhaps the single most revered game studio in the world: Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (to give Nintendo’s game development arm its full title).