One of the stranger things about playing Home Circuit solo is the lack of physicality. Photo: Nintendo Read next: Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit review The game then augments this by adding virtual power-ups, obstacles, and visual effects to turn your living room into something out of the Mushroom Kingdom. You create a course by setting up four cardboard gates around your house, which form the outline of your track. Home Circuit multiplayer works the same as the base game. That said, if you can gather up all the necessary hardware, it’s a much better experience with friends. There’s no form of split-screen play or any other kind of more approachable multiplayer solution. Each player requires not only a physical kart, which cost $99.99 each, but also their own Switch to control it. The game - which has players controlling RC karts with their Switch, while driving through a real-life obstacle course - is expensive to play with friends. It’s not something you can enjoy out of the box.
In my review of Home Circuit, my biggest issue was how inaccessible multiplayer can be. Here, the chaos is more physical - and it can be a lot of fun if you don’t mind the mess. And I don’t mean the typical chaos associated with Mario Kart, like frustratingly timed blue shells or the nightmare of speeding through Rainbow Road. In order to enjoy playing Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit with friends, you need to embrace chaos.