{"id":1227535,"date":"2026-02-24T21:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=606770"},"modified":"2026-02-24T21:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:38:59","slug":"mario-kart-world-wouldnt-be-in-the-running-for-game-of-the-year-even-if-it-was-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mario-kart-world-wouldnt-be-in-the-running-for-game-of-the-year-even-if-it-was-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart World wouldn\u2019t be in the running for Game of the Year even if it was perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mario-kart-world-wouldnt-be-in-the-running-for-game-of-the-year-even-if-it-was-perfect.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Following <em>Grand Theft Auto 6<\/em>\u2019s retreat into 2026, last week\u2019s launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will likely stand as the gaming event of 2025. And at the center of that launch is <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game\/m\/552651\">Mario Kart World<\/a><\/em>, an ambitious sequel to one of the best-selling games of all time from perhaps the single most revered game studio in the world: Nintendo Entertainment Planning &amp; Development (to give Nintendo\u2019s game development arm its full title).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">You\u2019d think such an auspicious title would be a near-automatic contender for Game of the Year at The Game Awards in December. Not so. <em>Mario Kart World<\/em> has gone down well with critics, if not as well as its predecessor or as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/599594\/goty-2025-clair-obscur-split-fiction-aa\">some other 2025 games<\/a>. But the fact is that even if it had a Metacritic rating of 96, trouncing all its competition, it still wouldn\u2019t be a credible contender, and probably wouldn\u2019t even get nominated. That\u2019s because it\u2019s a racing game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/450688\/what-makes-game-of-the-year-tgas\">discussed The Game Awards jury\u2019s genre bias before<\/a>: the short version is that action-adventures and role-playing games are strongly favored, especially if they have a strong focus on story. Sports, sim, strategy, fighting, and racing games are clean out of luck. It doesn\u2019t matter how good they are and how much reviewers loved them \u2014 they will not get nominated in the GOTY category. It has never happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As far as racing games are concerned, there are two cases that provide conclusive precedent for their status as absolute no-hopers in the Game of the Year competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The first is, appropriately enough, <em>Mario Kart 8<\/em>, widely considered the perfect expression of this vastly popular series. Its original Wii U incarnation was released in 2014, the first year of The Game Awards. It reviewed well, with a rating of 88 on both Metacritic and Opencritic \u2014 not as high as some of that year\u2019s games, like <em>Bayonetta 2<\/em> and <em>Dark Souls 2<\/em>, but at least on a par with the eventual winner, <em>Dragon Age: Inquisition<\/em>. It won both the Best Family and Best Sports\/Racing Game categories handily, but wasn\u2019t nominated for Game of the Year. (Neither was Nintendo\u2019s other big game that year, <em>Super Smash Bros. for Wii U\/3DS<\/em>, which <em>did<\/em> have a 92 Metascore, better than any of the nominated games.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mario-kart-world-wouldnt-be-in-the-running-for-game-of-the-year-even-if-it-was-perfect-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"&lt;em&gt;Forza Horizon 5&lt;\/em&gt;.\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">An even more damning example is <em>Forza Horizon 5<\/em>. It was one of the best-reviewed games of 2021, if not the very best. And that was a pretty soft year for new releases, resulting in one of the weakest Game of the Year fields in The Game Awards\u2019 history, and a surprise win for Hazelight\u2019s co-op adventure, <em>It Takes Two<\/em>. <em>Forza Horizon 5<\/em>, as the only game in contention with a 90-plus Metascore, should have walked it. But again, it wasn\u2019t even nominated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sealing <em>Mario Kart World<\/em>\u2019s fate is the fact that it\u2019s not in <em>Forza Horizon 5<\/em>\u2019s class, critically speaking. Reviews have appeared gradually \u2014 no early access was provided to press \u2014 but have now settled at 87 on Metacritic and 86 on Opencritic. Reviewers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/605637\/mario-kart-world-review-nintendo-switch-2\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/review\/605637\/mario-kart-world-review-nintendo-switch-2\">like me<\/a>) admire it, but have some criticisms of the implementation of an open world in a game that turns over a new page for Mario Kart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Nintendo\u2019s slim hope for repeating its GOTY triumph in the Switch\u2019s launch year with <em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> now rests with <em>Donkey Kong Bananza<\/em> or perhaps <em>Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/em>. If they turn out well, either could score a nomination; last year, winner <em>Astro Bot<\/em> opened the GOTY door to family-friendly platform games, and Metroid has been nominated before (<em>Metroid Dread<\/em> in 2021).<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But <em>Mario Kart World<\/em>\u2019s chances of a GOTY nomination or win were zero before anyone had played it. The strange genre blindness of the GOTY jury sees to that. It could be argued that genres like racing games are too niche to be considered, or at least too niche to be widely played enough among The Game Awards\u2019 large jury. But <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em>\u2019s 68 million sales put the lie to that; everybody plays Mario Kart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Instead, the uncomfortable truth is that the critical community for video games, of which The Game Awards\u2019 jury is a pretty broad sample, does not consider racing games \u2014 or fighting games, or sims, or the rest \u2014 to be capable of greatness or a true representation of the art. That\u2019s surely an assumption worth challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/awards\/606770\/mario-kart-world-goty-game-of-the-year\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Grand Theft Auto 6\u2019s retreat into 2026, last week\u2019s launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will likely stand as the gaming event of 2025. And at the center of that launch is Mario Kart World, an ambitious sequel to one of the best-selling games of all time from perhaps the single most revered game studio in the world: Nintendo Entertainment Planning &amp; Development (to give Nintendo\u2019s game development arm its full title). You\u2019d think such an auspicious title would be a near-automatic contender for Game of the Year at The Game Awards in December. Not so. Mario Kart World has gone down well with critics, if not as well as its predecessor or as some other 2025 games. But the fact is that even if&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/mario-kart-world-wouldnt-be-in-the-running-for-game-of-the-year-even-if-it-was-perfect\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mario Kart World wouldn\u2019t be in the running for Game of the Year even if it was perfect | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following Grand Theft Auto 6\u2019s retreat into 2026, last week\u2019s launch of Nintendo Switch 2 will likely stand as the gaming event of 2025. 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