Don't Expect Zelda, Animal Crossing or Other Nintendo Franchises to Pop Up in Mario Kart World, Producer Suggests — 'It Would Have Seemed Incongruous'

Nintendo looks acceptable to support Mario Kart World's absorption firmly connected the Mushroom Kingdom — truthful don't expect the instrumentality of cameos from Zelda, Splatoon oregon Animal Crossing.

Whereas Mario Kart 8 welcomed Link, Zelda, Isabelle and the Inklings to its quality roster, the adjacent longer formed database recovered successful Mario Kart World lacks immoderate faces from extracurricular the Mario universe. Even the quality to contention arsenic your Mii, a staple since Mario Kart Wii, is besides gone.

Now, Nintendo has addressed its U-turn connected characters from beyond the Mushroom Kingdom's borders, and noted that it was a deliberate prime to support Mario Kart World's, er, world, from feeling "incongruous".

"As developers, it would person seemed incongruous to america to adhd characters from different games to this universe," Mario Kart World shaper Kosuke Yabuki told Ouest-France. "And it didn't look indispensable to us, fixed everything we could already bash with Mario."

When asked specifically whether Yabuki had considered adding characters from different of 1 of his Nintendo projects, Arms, the shaper replied: "Absolutely not!"

"We inevitably wonderment however the players volition comprehend this casting," Yabuki concluded. "But determination are truthful galore characters and truthful galore costumes that each subordinate is definite to find what they are looking for."

While the deficiency of characters from different Nintendo games mightiness look similar a backstep for the franchise, it's possibly not a astonishment to spot Mario Kart World instrumentality this way considering its steadfast instauration arsenic an open-world rendition of the Mushroom Kingdom.

From Peach's Castle to Bowser's Fortress, Mario Kart World's unfastened representation is designed to marque you consciousness similar you're connected a roadtrip done Mario's backyard. Explaining wherefore Samus oregon Tom Nook was abruptly determination successful this script becomes much difficult.

Likewise with tracks focused connected non-Mario areas. Mario Kart 8 offered areas themed astir Hyrule, and courses that paid tribute to F-Zero and Excitebike. It's hard to spot however thing akin could enactment successful Mario Kart World.

And past there's the wider absorption for Nintendo — which done its Super Nintendo Land taxable parkland and Super Mario Bros. Movie is creating a much discrete individuality for its beloved and lucrative Mario characters to basal isolated from different franchises.

Take, for instance, the illustration of the company's movie efforts, with an animated Mario sequel successful improvement that's not expected to subordinate successful immoderate mode to its live-action movie plans to accommodate The Legend of Zelda.

Nintendo fans hoping for a large Switch 2 crossover rubric inactive person the anticipation of a caller Super Smash Bros. — though creator Masahiro Sakurai is presently engaged gathering a caller Kirby crippled instead.

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