Who thought Mario Kart Wii was hard?

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TWRoO said:

Goodlife said:
It's just a feature of the game, isn't it?

You either go far enough infront so that a blue shell won't effect your race position (and hope there isn't more than 1 in close succession!) or you stay will the pack and take your chances that way.

In my many many hours of MK Wii I have only once seen more than 2 blue shells in a single lap, usually there might be 1-3 in the whole race, sometimes 2 or those might be in the same lap but are rarely close together.

Once however on Dks Snowboard Cross, 150cc (in a 1 player grand prix) there were 6 blue shells in total,
1 on the first lap that hit me directly (but also got 2nd place).
1 on Lap 2 which hit me only.
4!!! on lap three, the first one hit me only, the second one hit me and 2nd place but some other racers passed me, the third hit 1st place and spun 2nd and third so I went back into 1st, and the last hit me only just before the finish line, but I still got 1st place just.

That's nothing. On one race towards the very end of the third lap I was cruising comfortably in first when someone got a POW block that made me slide into my banana peel.  The someone hit me with a blue turtle shell.  The second I was done recovering I was hit with a red shell.  The second I was done recovering from that I was hit by a person with a star.  The second I was done with that I was hit by a bullet bill.  After that someone got a lightning bolt and was finally finished off by someone with a large mushroom.

It sucked beyond belief but I was actually laughing when it was all through.