| Leynos said: Mario Kart Wii is utter dogshit. With the exception of Mario Kart DS, The series became mediocre starting with Double Dash, and didn't become great again until MK8. Wii is an unbalanced mess. |
This. All of this. Karts are clearly inferior to bikes, making more than half of the available rides useless. Heavy characters are far and away superior to light and medium characters, making more than half of the racers useless. Never has a racing game punished you so hard for being good. "Oh, you've dominated the race based on your skill and knowledge of the track? Can't have that, let's give every single person in last place a blue shell for the final two minutes."
Seriously, in online races, I developed a strategy to hang out near the top of the pack for for first 80 percent of a race while trying to hold onto mushrooms, then using them to either get into first place during the last half of the final lap, or praying that I could get the timing down not to get ganked by a couple of blue shells by using mushrooms to barely dodge them. If I spend most of a race/lap in first, then I'm pulling blue shell shrapnel out of my ass by the end.
Last edited by burninmylight - on 16 December 2021
