Another Nintendo console, another Mario Kart. Ever since the SNES this has been one of the most anticipated series every time Nintendo release a new console. Why is this? Perhaps because there is only one game in the series for each console, perhaps because the quality of the series is kept very high, perhaps because it’s one of the best multiplayer titles Nintendo make. But mostly because it is fun. Like the Mario games it’s inspired by, Mario Kart is as light-hearted as gaming can get and reminds us that games are all about fun. Jesse Schell in “The Art of Game Design” proposed a definition of fun as “pleasure with surprises.” By that definition Mario Kart 7, like all the Mario Kart games before it, is above all else, fun.

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