Firstly i can see myself getting alot of abuse from this but i feel the points here are quite valid. I have played all the Mario Kart games, completed all them except Mario Kart for SNES which is ridiculously hard and have completed various other racing games with powerups etc. (whatever you would call them) Speed Freaks, Crash Team Racing Franchise. The reason i have mentioned the games above is because you may just discard my thoughts on this game as me being shit at it when on the contary (not to toot my own horn) i am good at games like this.

There are a number of reasons why i loathe this game. The first is when you get hit by weapons and what happens.

Mario Kart, Speed Freaks, CTR - You are in first position and get hit by a shell,rocket etc. what happens?

1. You get hit.
2. You spin out.
3. You get passed by person in 2nd
4. You maybe get passed by person in 3rd.
5. You start driving again in 2nd or maybe 3rd place.

This is not the case for Mario Kart Wii. Lets take the same idea that: You are in first position and get hit by a shell,rocket etc. What happens?

1. You get hit.
2. You spin out.
3. You get passed by person in 2nd who crashes into you.
3. You DO get passed by the person in 3rd who crashes into you.
4. You get hit by another shell.
5. The person in 5th passes you and crashes into you.
6. The person in 6th passes you and crashes into you.
7. You get bumped off the edge by person in 6th
8. You are getting lifted back onto the track whilst this happens 7th, 8th and 9th pass you.
9. You are back on the track to then get hit by another shell.
10. Person in 10th passes you crashing into you.
11. Person in 11th passes you and crashes into you.
12. You are now in last position.

Now i wouldn't give two shits if this happened once in a blue moon but this happens EVERY FUCKING TIME and this is only against the CPU, online it is 10000 times worse and in no other game i have played is it that bad or that fucking ridiculous.

Point 2: the wii remote/wheel. Now i know this is the whole point of the console to use the wheel but it is so fucking shit. The sensitivity of it is ridiculous its nearly impossible to drive in a perfectly straight line and this hasn't happened to me personally but i've seen other people playing who have tried turning and it has fucked up and they have ended up going the other way. Of course at this point i get out the gamecube controller and stick it in but of course it has limitations that you can't turbo power slide with it, you can't do tricks in the air with it and on the bike you can't do the wheelie which leaves you at an extreme disadvantage.

..and the whole tricks in the air is fucking stupid. Take for example i was playing bowsers castle 3 - GBA or whatever its called yesterday with the wheel. So you all know the bit with the yellow lined jumps. So i am coming up to it just driving i go over the jump hit the side of the track and fall into the lava...

Why can i not just go over i am going as fast as the game fucking allows me to go and i didnt feel like flinging my arms into the air like a fucking moron every time i come to one so i can get higher.

Also speaking of boosting earlier is it not slightly unfair when playing online that the people who use automatic and the people who use manual are lumped together? Automatic = no boosting
Manual = boosting.

So people who play manual automatically are at the advantage. I play on Automatic due to the fact that its a fucking chore to boost.

Seriously there is so many reasons why i think this game sucks but i couldn't be assed writing more.

Syd Lexia wrote:

It's been awhile since I played this, but aren't there 16 racers per race, making 16th last place? However many it is, it's too many. At any given point, someone always has the Star. At any given point, someone has lightning. At any given point, someone has a Blue Shell. What this means is that you are CONSTANTLY getting hit with stuff. On top of that, the AI is elastic, so even if you manage to avoid getting hit and take a huge lead, the computer will put the guy in second place right behind you at the last second, and you'll get hit by a blue turtle shell that the guy in 10th place had, spin out and end up in 5th place. On top of THAT, coming in first place in a circuit via points isn't enough. There's a bullshit ranking system based on your completion time, and that's what unlocks stuff. Oh yeah, and light characters are useless now, because they no longer get a speed advantage over non-track surfaces.

Yeah there is like 15/16 i honestly can't remember cause i haven't played against CPU in a while but i couldn't be bothered writing an explanation up to 15/16 places. I thought up to 12 sufficed at getting my point across.