{"id":402,"date":"2025-06-23T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:10:48","slug":"where-are-mario-kart-worlds-non-mario-racers-producer-kosuke-yabuki-has-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/where-are-mario-kart-worlds-non-mario-racers-producer-kosuke-yabuki-has-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are Mario Kart World&#039;s Non-Mario Racers? Producer Kosuke Yabuki Has The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Missing Link.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a> packs a pretty impressive roster of racers (come on, 50 characters, <em>plus<\/em> costumes ain&#8217;t bad), but we&#8217;d be foolish if we didn&#8217;t pour one out for the familiar faces that were lost along the way. We&#8217;re talking, of course, about the <del>Koopalings<\/del> wider Nintendo characters that got cosy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a>, but missed out on the starting line this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Link, Isabelle, the Villagers and the Inklings no longer grace the character select screen in World, and in a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/gaming\/super-mario\/mario-kart\/exclusif-mario-kart-world-le-producteur-kosuke-yabuki-devoile-les-secrets-de-sa-creation-0650c104-3ba2-11f0-88b0-943c4d024772\">Ouest-France<\/a>, producer Kosuke Yabuki explained why (thanks for the heads up, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/mario-kart-world-nintendo-characters\/\">Nintendo Everything<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/where-are-mario-kart-worlds-non-mario-racers-producer-kosuke-yabuki-has-the-answer\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missing Link. There&#8217;s no denying that Mario Kart World packs a pretty impressive roster of racers (come on, 50 characters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}