Nintendo Reveals How Mario Kart World's Best Character Came To The Game

Nintendo Reveals How Mario Kart World's Best Character Came To The Game

From TheGamer (Written by Vaspaan Dastoor) on | OpenCritic

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When you think of Mario Kart World, you're probably thinking about the massive open world, all the new courses, or even the $80 price tag that everyone has been criticising. However, if you're over all those things, you're probably wondering about the massive roster that the game will feature, including some new faces.

Mario Kart World is part Forza Horizon, part Crash Team Racing, and part Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.

These new faces aren't exactly original characters, but Nintendo has decided to let NPCs like Goombas and Hammer Bros take the wheel in Mario Kart World. However, everybody has already decided who their favourite character is – Moo Moo the cow. Nintendo has now revealed how it came to be.

Speaking at a roundtable interview for Nintendo, developer Masaaki Ishikawa revealed how these NPCs became drivers, and how the cow was the one who made it happen. “Each new Mario Kart game features new characters to race with, but since we added so many to the previous game, we wondered where we could go from there,” said Ishikawa.

“And then one of the designers came up with that silly sketch of Cow cruising along, and I thought to myself, ‘This...

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