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Catherine Lewis

Mario Kart World geniuses are already using the racing game's new mechanics to create incredible shortcuts and land some nefarious green shell snipes

Screenshot from Mario Kart World's reveal trailer showing a Moo Moo Meadows cow on a bike.

Mario Kart World has barely been out for a full day, but genius players are already working out some seriously impressive ways to use the Switch 2 racing game's parkour-style wall riding and tricks to pull off some incredible shortcuts that the most competitive racers will no doubt be implementing going forward.

You don't just have to take my word for it, as Twitter is currently packed with people using the mechanics in ways I could have never imagined. Just behold this Mario Kart streamer cutting a massive corner in the new Great? Block Ruins track by drift boosting into a palm tree that you'd think was just scenery on the side of the track, only to bounce off it and back onto the road. "OH YES, BABY," the streamer triumphantly yells, and I get it.

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