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After spending the last 30 years to graze the fields of Moo Moo Farm and Moo Moo Meadows, The cow took the spotlight Like the largest Breakout star of the huge list of characters from the world of Mario Kart. So when Nintendo invited us to a round table with the world manufacturer of Mario Kart Kosuke Yabuki, we knew we had to ask him about the beloved cattle.
“Thanks for that question about the cow”, Yabuki began, which is one of the best openings I’ve ever heard in an interview. “The decision to include the cow was something we considered in terms of if we had added it, I think people would be really happy. And so we did. But honestly, the reaction to that of the public was much bigger than we could predict. So it was a wonderful surprise. Thanks.”
Yabuki’s surprise for Cow’s popularity corresponds to what we have heard from the Bill Trinen of Nintendo dell’America, Who told us in an interview That their internal expectations for the cow were not “perhaps not as big as the cow”.
The history of the origin of Cow makes it even better the inclusion. In the series of developers last month on Mario Kart World, Yabuki confirmed that it was The “stupid sketch” of a cow of a developer who guides a truck This convinced him and the rest of the team to add cow as a playable character. I asked Yabuki for evolution during the development of what they now call “Driver NPC”, which grew to include characters such as Snowman, Penguin, Swooper and many others.
“I must say that, adding a cow, he really opened his doors for us because once you have a character in that way, you start thinking: ‘Well, maybe we should just add who we can’,” Yabuki continued. “And so that was the point at whath the designers Got Really Excited. Once they realized all of these Characters Were Possibly up for Grabs, That’s When you start to see Penguin as in, Pokey Comes In, One After Another, These New Designs For Characters Keep Coming. All of These Characters Came in Such A Rush as the designers Were Getting Kind of Carried Away, It’s Actually a Little Hard for Me to Remember Which Specific Character Wounde as Immediately Next in the sequence after Cow.
There is also a potential dark side of this story, since one of the other new additions of the world of Mario Kart is the Food Dash, which the characters collect from the Yoshi drone-thro around the open world. Shortly after the unveiled Mario Kart World, Brian Altan of Ies noticed in a preview event that The cow has been able to eat products that traditionally include beefLike the Kabobs steak and hamburgers. So, we asked Yabuki the ultimate question: are those vegetarian hamburgers or what is happening there?
Yes, the cow can eat a steak in the world of Mario Kart. pic.twitter.com/qn5pz9iim4
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“Sorry, it’s top secret,” Kabuki said with a laugh. “I can’t say.”
Well, the mystery remains, as well as the question If Diddy Kong will appear in Mario Kart World who shows off his new redesignTo which Yabuki simply said: “I fear that I could not say anything right now”. But the rest of the world mysteries of Mario Kart will soon be resolved, since we are only two days from the release date of Nintendo Switch 2 and his flagship launch game. For more information, take a look at ours Mario Kart World Final Practice previewWhere we were struck by the races, but they have not yet been sold to free roaming. And, take a look at ours Preview of that $ 10 launch game, Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour.
Logan Plant is the guest of Nintendo Voice Chat and Database Manager & Playlist of IGN. The Legend of Zelda is his favorite video game franchise of all time and is patiently waiting for the day on which Nintendo announces a brand new F-Zero. You can find it online @loganjplant.
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