 Hey everyone, this is a special video because we have Mario Kart live, and I'm doing it here with my son. What's your name buddy? That's Aiden. That's right. How old are you? Seven years old the perfect age. I think to experience Mario Kart live now We only have one cart because we only have one switch in the house right now But hey in the future, maybe we'll do an update video do a multiplayer So this is me kind of like a look at it a review I know you guys already know all about this right from last year, but I'm gonna do it with my son I think that's kind of unique. Well, I haven't seen too many videos of people doing it with with children and getting their impressions on it So we're gonna open this up take a look at it There's the back kind of gives you some course ideas stuff like that to start with And hey, here's the switch. We're gonna be using It looks kind of dirty there So we're actually gonna clean it up and put on a new screen protector today as well But you guys will see that I'll do that off-camera. Let's get this thing Opened up. Shall we? All right, so we start on the back here How so the flap opens everybody and then this pulls open like that. Oh boy. Here we go. Get ready you ready for the presentation on and Oh, we have some paperwork on top. So to get started it says to get started download Mario Kart live home circuit So we have to go on here, buddy. And all right, and we have to go to the e-shop with dad's account And we got to download Mario Kart live home circuit game. All right, so search so we can play it. Yeah. Yeah So that's one thing is the software does not come with it You do have to download it It is free to download you can literally go download it right now. You just won't have the cart To play with it. I'm sure someone by now might have figured out a way to jerry rig it But there is a Mario Kart live home circuit. So let's get that started here All right, we got the free download going So let's see here Free download All right close and As you guys will see here it is now Installing all right As Aiden races ahead of me here. So this is so this is the paperwork you see at first tells you how to download it Uh, when the download is complete, you're ready to go. All right. It tells you how to download it We'll set that aside Aiden pull the cart out like you just did So this is the cart. Let's hold on before we grab anything else one thing at a time But let's get this cart opened up. What are you guys thinking here? Oh, oh here we go. Oh, here you go Oh He's so excited. He can't wait Oh, there it is Look at that. So there's our Mario Kart Pretty cool. It's got the camera right here. Look at that. You want to hold that buddy? I know you've been so excited about this. All right Uh, it says to download the game. This is the charger cart. So we are going to get the okay. So this is a usbc Okay, this is the charger. It comes with the comes with a really short usbc cable It hasn't plugged into the nintendo switch dock. We're not going to charge it with the nintendo switch dock, of course Uh, but let's get the rest of this on by anything else or is that it? Nope. There's more Oh, oh You know what these are All right, these are where you set up the track. So Uh, I believe these fold out like this Look at how big those are and then we we do some additional folding here and we get to set these up. This is number four Uh, we got uh number three Number two number one. Uh, and this is how you get the track set up Then we have a couple arrows here, uh as well that we can set up So this is going to be a lot of fun I think the first thing we gotta do is get this bad boy charged and then get building a mario car track and we'll go through how that works and uh Yeah, get playing. So first up. Let's get this charged as aiden and I go try to build a track Uh, we're gonna need some space for this buddy, aren't we? Where do you where do you think we should build it? Over the playroom. Yeah, the playroom. The playroom. All right. We're we're gonna go try to build the track on carpet We'll see how this goes and The playroom so uh, let's zoom on that away. All right. This is the room. We're gonna be building the track in I got uh, mario kart live here. Let's go boot this up That's my son there. All right. Uh, it says press l and r so All right It says Start game or watch trailer. We're we're gonna start game Let's connect your cart. We'll grab the cart bud Just go grab it. It's dead. It's not dead just grab it. Trust me He means it's not fully charged. It doesn't need to be fully charged to use it Uh, so let's connect your cart go to next Please press your cart's ignition button to turn the cart on. All right bud Let's bring it here and let's see what we got. All right Here we got the cart All right, let's see here. Um Ignition button must be this maybe Oh, there it goes There it goes. All right. We hit the ignition button All right Oh, it's flashing hold it hold this one All right. Let's see what it says to do next We did that Now point the camera at the qr code. All right. It says connecting here Nope. Nope. It's good It's updating it bud. It says updating firmware So it says don't touch it set it down It's updating the cart great place your card on the ground. All right put the card on the ground Put a set out on the ground So as you'll see our cart is You know in there All right. See what it says to do Okay Huh? Well, I have no idea what it says gonna do bud. Let's see Oh start your engine. Let's see if it even moves. All right He's knocking Put the thumb up You made i'm here to help you earn your official license to drive a cart Take a quick look around to make sure it's all clear and start driving All right, it officially works Here's what it looks like again on the screen here How to continue Let's take a quick picture for your driver's license All right In front of your face You want to be the face? All right All right. Come here. You want to be the face. Get ready? Don't look at this camera Don't look at this look at the camera smile Look Here we go. Here's the beautiful All right now that my son has his driver's license done Done Congratulations. You're officially licensed Honk your horn. You're ready to learn about gates You know All right, it's not the horn Gates are used to mark your course. Let's set them up together Take out the gates. We've already done that. We've already done that Yeah, all right. It wants to make a course All right place the gates in order one two three four. All right Let's do this together bud All right, why no, no, let's go like this. Let's go. Let's go like this. Let's set them on here. Let's go like one No, no, no, no, no you drive through them. So let's go like two. Let's set two up like right here Maybe so we can be over here over here Yeah, and then four that you just stepped on Let's go like four like right here Okay, okay, I'll try Oh, we want the arrows Get the arrow set up here Like this like this how about like this? How about arrow right here? All right, let's move him All right, so there's our course Let's see how it works shall we? Make sure the gates are facing the correct direction All right Meet me in front of gate one. All righty create course it says Here we go Drive through each of the gates in the correct order. Here we go Got paint on our wheels. Ooh There we go. There's our course All right done I'm trying out Oh, here we go What's happening? What's that Koopa? It's Bowser Jr. The Koopalings followed you here. All right. Here we go. First race Oh, no All right, so we put our first race we get the builder outfits we're gonna equip that We're gonna equip the construction horn We're gonna equip the big scoop All right How do I do all right my son Aiden is now going to play a race here See if you can figure it out. I'm already seven years old So Yep, go around You know how to use an item. Yep, there you go All right, go to the starting spot Which is right there right there. Yep. Now you got it's back up. You got to face the gate All right, so here's how here's Aiden doing his first race And see what's going on here. Here's the car. Let's follow it around the track Uh-oh, is he stuck? Oh, no, he couldn't even make his first turn All right, so here goes my son's first race Here's the car So this is what the course looks like guys now It's going really slow. It looks like it Oh, no back up B. Here's what it looks like on the screen here He's going under the couch Oh, no Yeah, look it's fixed it's fixed Hey, the buddy All right folks, I'm back here by myself. My children are in the under room continuing to play Mario Kart live Hopefully the video turned out. I don't know. We're in that crisp that crisp 4k 60 fps Um, I've done a bit of a rough one getting my kids to understand it I will say that the kids are having a bit of a trouble navigating into getting into the drive I think over time they're going to get used to it This to me is a brilliant product The problem Is always going to be the barrier to entry. So Right now we only have one of these and I heard it's a lot more fun If you have two but think about it, you need two switches So bare minimum you're spending $400 because you need at least switch lights, right? Then you got to buy two of these. You got to buy the luigi one and the mario one That's another hundred bucks. So to have the best setup for this you need to spend at least 600 $600 That is quite a bit of money just to play some ar RC action mario kart It's pricey Now if you already own a couple switches and you want to just go spend a couple hundred bucks I I guess it's not too bad But again, uh, it's just a very interesting product See the RC car looks like it's moving really slow in real life But the intended a great job of making that slowness look extra quick when you're uh When you're actually playing the game and then when you use power ups Whether you're the bullet bill or using like a mushroom or something like that It ends up that the car in real life is going a heck of a lot faster It doesn't just appear faster. It's going faster and surprisingly on my carpet Which by the way isn't like some shaggy carpet. It's you know, it's it's pretty low maintenance carpet It seems to actually work quite well. I know other people have had issues with carpet We're not having that kind of issue. So, uh, this to me is actually really really neat Again, it's expensive to get into and I think the barrier to entry for most families is going to be That this isn't a cheap thing But if you think about some of the other products that have had cardboard involved like this is cardboard involved Like labo labo isn't cheap either So I guess this is not meant for cheap entertainment This is meant for more advanced entertainment definitely meant for kids to use it with parents Or having slightly older kids that could figure it out on their own Um, I have a seven year old and the five year old playing it right now I think it's just a really really neat uh experience and definitely something that uh, we've seen some really creative So in fact, you know, I'm going to show a few of the super creative tracks I've seen so far already on youtube. Uh, you can get as creative as you want with this I I just think it's a blast. You can have up to four people playing at once. I think that's cool Obviously two marios, uh, you can custom theme your marios in the game obviously not in real life Two luigi's, uh, I just it's fun. Is it a full mario kart game? No, but there are cups. There are tournaments. There is multiplayer It is fun and I think for the money It's about as good as it's going to get when it comes to ar mario kart Nintendo you nailed it. You are onto something here. Uh, and this is an amazing experience I hope this isn't the last mario kart live we get I would like to see new karts introduced having a bowser kart Having a toad a peat jet etc. Let's keep building up the kart repertoire here And I I kind of hope that this takes off I know it's probably not going to because it's so expensive and you could just go buy mario kart 8 deluxe And have all the players you want and and just be good. This isn't that but you know what for what it is? Yes, absolutely fantastic product. I like it. I'm enjoying it And my kids are off having a blast right now. I mean Seriously, this is some good. This is some good good stuff right here