{"id":1767,"date":"2026-07-06T01:26:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:26:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:26:40","slug":"my-mario-kart-world-video-clips-nonsense-and-frustration-in-mkw-knockout-tour-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"My Mario Kart World Video Clips &#8211; Nonsense and Frustration in MKW Knockout Tour, Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As readers of this site may know, I am still very addicted to Mario Kart World.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not any good, though, and never have learned the routes for jumping up walls and such.\u00a0 No, I just play simple old knockout tour online, with one of the slowest-accelerating combos in the game, and sometimes have fun and other times get incredibly frustrated at how random and unfair this mostly great game can be.<\/p>\n<p>Before I begin with the clips, though, for some background information, I mostly play as Rosalina on the Stellar Sled.\u00a0 This snowmobile perfectly fits her, but it&#8217;s the slowest-accelerating vehicle in the game, and Rosalina is a heavyweight character, which means that when I get hit I fall far behind, quickly.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t get hit it&#8217;s a great combo for Knockout Tour&#8217;s long straight roads, but that&#8217;s always a big &#8220;if&#8221; in THIS chaos-filled game.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if you hold down the Camera button on the Switch 2 controller, the console records a 30 second clip of the last 30 seconds.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the only built-in way to take videos, though, as these 30 second clips.\u00a0 I have thought about setting up a capture setup to be able to record actual gameplay from my TV but still haven&#8217;t done it, so these out of context clips will have to do for now to show what this game is like&#8230; at its worst, when I&#8217;m getting hit or lag is ruining games and I record the nonsense out of irritation.\u00a0 In some other games like Starcraft or Dead or Alive 6 I mostly record games I win, but this one it&#8217;s mostly the opposite; I do finish in the top four sometimes and once in a rare while actually win a tour, but you won&#8217;t see much of that here.\u00a0 These clips are mostly the other half of my games, the ones that go less well.\u00a0 There is a mix of stuff though, with some better moments.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, hopefully these amuse or entertain.\u00a0 I only occasionally record clips, so despite having played several hundred hours of this game I&#8217;ve only got 23 recordings as of today.\u00a0 Also note that since these are all recorded by the Switch 2&#8217;s internal recorder, even though I have my Switch 2 outputting in 4k to my TV, these are only recorded in 1080p since that is what the system does.\u00a0 I&#8217;d need a capture setup in order to record full resolution videos.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8emRe4xH2s\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first video I recorded is this one, from October 2025.\u00a0 I play about as stupidly as you can and immediately get punished hard for it.\u00a0 It was very frustrating at the time but looking at it again, really, what was I expecting?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rDJBXfbaoBA\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is from December &#8217;25.\u00a0 With this combo, getting hit near the end of a segment ends my race almost every time it happens.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K1JzWMogPAM\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also from December, this race was particularly frustrating.\u00a0 How did that Spike pass me, I still don&#8217;t get it. I should have been in 4th here!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avSVsWi9iMs\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the last of the three December videos.\u00a0 Why is the lag in this game so bad sometimes? There is no other &#8220;explanation&#8221; for whatever happens in this video. Just tell me how I&#8217;m supposed to dodge the boomerang when the other player is kind of warping around like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNdGvEIYHMA\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is from January.\u00a0 Late shocks like this also basically always end my game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4aSVKle0YQA\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another January video.\u00a0 I passed the person in 12th at the line, right?\u00a0 It sure looked like it to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37Loq4Wrrs8\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the last of the January clips.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not always bad, though!\u00a0 Victory is possible if you try&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1z58O0ACLQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is from April &#8217;26.\u00a0 I started recording more videos after this, most of my videos are from May and June.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember how this race ended, but this clip is pretty insane, I was so lucky!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KaRUnMDfEgs\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is from May &#8217;26. Where did that guy in first go? They just fell off the track&#8230; well, all the better for me then!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fO579sCUYSU\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is from May &#8217;26. Get Mariokarted! This game is so random, but while often that ends badly for me, once in a while it&#8217;s me making others frustrated at being eliminated at the line&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v73D7cf1eiw\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the last of the videos from May &#8217;26. Whew, it couldn&#8217;t be closer&#8230; getting hit late is REALLY bad with a low acceleration combo. Things like this happen often in MKW; I had two 20th place &#8216;just barely made it!&#8217; rallies today, in fact.\u00a0 I also had one 21st place today, argh.\u00a0 Ah well, it happens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s 11 videos, just under half of what I have.\u00a0 The next 12 are all from June.\u00a0 I will upload those in a separate article another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As readers of this site may know, I am still very addicted to Mario Kart World.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not any good, though, and never have learned the routes for jumping up walls and such.\u00a0 No, I just play simple old knockout &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,6,572,619],"tags":[574,554,45,620],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-modern-games","category-nintendo-switch-2","category-videos","tag-mario-kart-world","tag-my-content","tag-nintendo","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}