X-Play reviews Mario Kart Wii (Prepared to be offended)

[exindguy]

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amp316 said:
It's not the score that bothers me. It's the complaints against the game. Mario Kart wii is being punished because it's not easy. This is pretty much the only complaint that I'm seeing about the game and it shouldn't be a complaint. The hardest difficulty is hard. Imagine that.

It's only hard because it punishes being in first place. It just makes the game frustrating and there's absolutely no reason for things like the blue shell, other than to cater for ****ing casuals.

Speaking as someone who has been putting up with this quirk since the dawn of karting on the SNES, I'd just like to add: it makes it all the sweeter when you win even with such blandishments for the newcomers.