{"video_id":"xk9zEu6FDzo","title":"Real Life Mario Kart First Impressions","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":614,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.52,"text":"before we even began david's first question to me was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.439,"end_s":8.16,"text":"a hundred us dollars that's for two carts right","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.8,"end_s":13.36,"text":"oh david you're so silly cause you gotta","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.16,"end_s":16.72,"text":"remember guys all right this is nintendo we're talking","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.16,"end_s":23.359,"text":"about nintendo wants they're 60 to what like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.4,"end_s":26.08,"text":"80 us dollars for a software title yeah okay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.0,"end_s":30.08,"text":"and there's a software title included 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enthusiast perspective i would say there's not a whole lot to this puppy you got your rear wheel drive uh there is no differential so you're pretty much just uh you're just turning those wheels on the front yeah there you go you got a servo probably nothing special i would assume i mean i probably could crack it open and have a look at it but long story short we actually need this for an LTT video very shortly so i'm going to try not to break it too hard so you've got a servo mounted to two non-driven front tires tires are removable if you are into that sort of thing i suppose well what look you want me to do you want me to unbox an rc car or not david this is my first time i thought you did a fire truck one time okay i did technically unbox a fire truck but nobody watched that the second tier luigi portion of this unboxing is brought to you by private internet access pia is the vpn that encrypts your web traffic and makes websites when combined with safe browsing practices make you seem like you are in a different country it encrypts all your internet traffic and uses a safe protected ip you can connect up to five devices at once with a single account and they've got clients for Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux buy a one year plan for 39.95 and get three months free at the link in the video description yep that's luigi it's basically the same thing but luigi okay then to nintendo's credit just like their amiibos or any other figures that they've done over the years the quality of the mario figurine here is actually really good like does he not look awesome up here we've got your camera so this is where you're getting your live well hence the name of the product live feed of mario's point of view effectively as he's ripping around on your floor or on your porch or outside or wherever the case may be actually i wouldn't recommend using it outside because a you can see that the carts have extremely low clearance from the ground and b they have no water resistance whatsoever and the last thing you want to do is ruin this thing because to my knowledge there is no way to get a new cart other than to buy the entire kit the last notable things about the cart are the type c charger port that is revealed by flipping up the side as well as the power button that also acts as a like pairing button so you can see yep held it down we've got a couple indicator lights on the back up here and that's pretty much it that's the cart so what else do we get some instructions you download the mario kart live home circuit game just for free on the switch as far as i can tell some environmentally friendly mostly packaging and finally uh yes the augmented reality gates so the mario kart game would have no way of knowing you know what kind of track you want to run around on inside your home so what it uses in order to blend the video game version of what you're playing on your switch and the reality of your home is these gates i actually spent a fair bit of time this weekend playing around with it so it's if you guys were wondering what the tl dr is it's it is really really fun but i would never play it by myself and i will explain why in a moment let's set up this gate so just like nintendo's uh labo lineup of sort of cardboard toys that they've created in the past you fold together your racing gates just by putting these tabs in here spreading out these ones here and then per the nintendo instructions putting something heavy on the edges this is actually far more important than even they let on because i pretty much guarantee you as you're ripping around on the track you're going to RAM into these things and if you hit them well this is an augmented reality game so the way that the cart actually determines what it's looking at is it looks at the relative position of this graphic here on the front of the gate to the objects around it to determine where the course is supposed to be so if you hit it and then back up your course is going to be a little bit wonky now so you want to anchor those down real good these are much easier to fold the second time you can print out your own nintendo does provide templates but obviously it's going to be a fair bit of work to create something that's quite as nice looking as the stock gates oh you can buy them too all right thanks james you get a total of four gates and the way that you configure your track is you go park yourself in front of gate number one and you'll get a prompt to press x and then what you do is a little likey too late toku it comes put some paint on your wheels in an obnoxiously long animation like nintendo come on have you played the nintendo switch mario party the endless animations and explanations for things you already know just complete anyway the animation put some paint on your wheels and then you roll through gate one and then map out whatever kind of course you like and you can decide okay look i want my course to be obstruction free i'm just going to do a simple loop or you can kind of you know wind your way between shoes and chair legs and all kinds of cool stuff that by the way is worth it because it ends up being a ton of fun the one thing to watch out for is after you complete your course with all four gates unfortunately no there is no way to add more than four gates even if you have more than one kit is that if you have physical obstacles the ai players who are augmented reality inserted into your field of view uh do not have to respect them and they will go through them giving them a bit of an unfair advantage now that's not to say that you can't use multiple kits if you want you can actually play with up to four players we'll talk about that in a minute the last augmented reality pieces we have here are these arrows and it's actually really cool the way that they they light up in front of you when you're you know ripping around on the course and they indicate of course which way to go now let's talk about multiplayer there's only two different versions available and from my perspective i'm sitting there going like nintendo you're a how many like billion dollar company obviously you'd have to have bowser and then yoshi yeah like peach yeah yeah how do they not have okay maybe that's their problem they've got too many iconic characters okay i probably would have gone mario luigi peach yoshi and feel free to fight in the comments if you disagree um so there's only two versions of the cards and you can play with up to four players in real time now we haven't actually tried it yet but what i'm imagining is that based on my experience racing against the ai players there is pretty much no reason to use this instead of just playing a normal mario kart game but based on my experience just using the the camera mounted like what is this like three inches off the ground just ripping around my house with that camera view it looks surprisingly good and like it is so fun it's exactly like what i said it was like back when we rigged a an action cam to an rc car and then like a racing wheel it is it is just a blast the car moves about like this like it's not fast but it feels like you are flying along the floor because you're so close to the ground and the way that nintendo mixes in augmented reality screen effects like you know when you use a mushroom for example yeah there's items when you use a mushroom it like kind of whooshes past you makes it feel way faster than it actually is there's three separate race speeds 50 cc 100 cc and 150 cc initial verdict for me is wow is this ever not worth 100 for the single player experience but if you happen to be able to this is the problem with nintendo man they create these amazing gaming experiences that are like for who like when you know you think back to like even trading in the original pokemon games okay so i have to have the game i have to be super into it my friend has to have the game they have to be super into it one of us has to get a link cable we have to have coordinated ahead of time to like buy the opposite version of the game we have to go get all the pokemon the other one like who are you designing this stuff for out of the box doesn't make a ton of sense if you happen to have a bunch of people who also own it who also own switches i mean we are talking like two grand worth of investment by the time you've got enough to have a four-player race it looks like it's gonna be a lot of fun so i'm gonna go do that now make sure you subscribe to ShortCircuit and don't miss the Linus tech tips video where we're gonna have a winner takes all four player battle to the death mario kart race what's that to the death well not to the death but like hey vacation time james wants it to be to the death all right see you later"}