Yep that's fair enough, I understand why for a minority it could be a deal breaker. Personally it doesn't bother me too much, and I understand why a game like MNR has to have longer load times.
It loads a whole load of assets, compared to other racers which are typically relatively bland loading and mapping the same low resolution textures over and over. MNR is certainly the best looking kart racer on the market so it's pretty understandable, yet still I understand why that might not be what some people are looking for from a Kart Racer.
Personally, I have a few other racers such as Pure which suffer from the same kind of loading times, or Killzone which leaves me waiting ~3minutes just to play a map on multiplayer. So I'm not too bothered.







