Paste Magazine have published their thorough review of Mario Kart 8. However, during the review the author Casey Malone decides to take some time out to criticise the game’s character roster due to a lack of skin colour diversity. Malone notes that after 30 years there’s still no Mario characters of colour, with the overwhelming majority of characters being white. Here’s what he had to say.

“The other notable omission is in the cast of characters’ diversity. After 30 years there are still zero Mario characters of color, a problem that Mario Kart 8 highlights by lining up all the characters on a single screen. When it comes to human characters, Mario Kart 8 is overwhelmingly white. Of the 29 drivers, 14 are human (including Toad and Toadette), and every single one of them is white. While it’d be atypical of Nintendo to introduce new characters into a Mario Kart game, it’s also where the deficit is the most obvious, and during play I found myself disappointed that Nintendo’s stable of characters so painfully fails to reflect the diversity of its audience.”