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This game is at its heart an exploration of both Mario's personal and cultural themes, exposing our exploitative relationship with our environment on a personal level and, by extension, as a society or species. The kart racing in this sense is a symbol of the by-products of our capitalist consumerism, with Mario reflecting the role of the media; alerting us, ridiculing us, perhaps even judging us - the media becomes a collective conscience that binds us to our own environmental mortality. The refrain of titchmarsh is answered by our inability as a global society to take a truly global responsibilty; as we continue to race at such high speeds we are nevertheless reminded that the racing is in fact very much situated in our own Mushroom Village.
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This game is very unweildy, the texures are weird and at times messed up, the title screen is poorly made, all the characters are obviously mario characters, the tracks are poorly made, and the music is like someone threw the Super Mario World theme into a woodchipper and glued it back together.