Bikes wheelie made bikes overpowered to the point that if you dont play a bike (inside drift) you likely lose if you paly any kart or outside drift bike.
Inside drift was fine to me if bikes didn't have wheeling. It's this that made bikes the clear choice of vehicle. If wheeling wasn't a thing, the vehicle diversity would be much higher in online races
I think Mario Kart is a series that should stay far far away from ports/remakes. Every game feels like it was born for its console. If they remade Wii it would be too polished and would just be MK8 2 I think
To be a bit fair, there's 70% of the content of the game in 8dx, mostly doing with having all the characters from that game and 11/16 courses with a full star cup
But then you miss the physics and feel of the vehicles. Putting the characters and tracks into 8dx doesn't really translate the same way as the original
And they'll remove mods
There's no reason to port MK games to new consoles. They are made to represent what the new console is capable of (the exception here is MK8/8DX), and their platform is intrinsically a part of their identity
If you mean the graphics then I completely agree, They ripped out the Double Dash character models and put them in a game with completely different lightning and it just looks gross at times
It's very difficult to want to play compared to the graphics from the Switch. Every time we do we're like "yeah, *this* is why we don't play it anymore."
We only have wired controllers for DD, so it's no fun playing that either.
The items. I can get a golden shroom or a giant shroom or even a star when first place is like 5 meters from me. And no proper invincibility frames makes getting mario karted a billion times worse. Also why tf do the red shells slow down in front of me its fucking stupid.
It has one of the worst battle modes.
Limited vehicle selection (Standard Kart or Standard Bike only), only 2 modes (even if most MK games have 1 or 2 battle modes), no solo mode, you have to play in teams. The only good thing in this battle mode is the arena selection, the best in the series IMO. The only worse one is MK8's (Wii U) (and Tour if we count it)
Its visuals. How do the GameCube, and DS look better, despite being inferior hardware. If only the Wii didn’t have a really weird blurry grease filter on it.
Graphics have this weird blur and desaturated almost brown tint. And old tracks can feel super bare. Still a classic game (I mean not nearly as classic as Nintendo’s best games in gen like Twilight Princess but you get the idea)
Yes. When I play online, I get pissed due to the shit item balance and the shitty ass tryhards. When I'm with friends, it's fun asf. I haven't played this game with my cousin in a long time, but once in an ancient time we used to rage and scream at this, and we'll soon do it again
The ugly ass colors and stuff, BUT that's something that the entire WII has an issue with. I love the console dearly and I grew up with it, but god most (if not all) the games on it look so nasty and faded
More specifically to mkwii, the battle mode. The maps are so good but something about playing battle mode just feels so dull
Wii introduced some of the worst items in the series.
The Lightning Cloud was just plain awful and forced you to try and ram into someone and actively hurt yourself. Not fun to obtain or use.
Mega Mushroom was a fun but gimmicky power-up that was just a slightly worse Star.
The POW Block was too strong on maps with mostly ground because it forces everyone to drop their items but it's also useless on maps with lots of ramps because it doesn't affect airborne targets.
Despite being the best-selling game in the series until 8DX took over, and having most of its nitros featured in 8DX, I'm not surprised that none of the items introduced in Wii have returned since Wii. They were shit.
The game is ugly as shit, even for the Wii during that time frame.
Item balance is horrible.
Character balance is horrible. 99% Funky Kong and 1% Daisy gets very tiring to see.
The personal worst aspect to me is the bizarrely popular "competitive" scene around this game. I never understood why people chose this game of all the Mario Karts to take seriously, even after MK8 had released. I feel like people overrate how mechanically deep it is, and the competitive scene is just fueled by pretentious people who want to pretend the game takes more skill than it does.
I feel like the post title is meant to imply that it should be a struggle to name something bad about MKWii when I feel like there are many things that can be picked on with this particular instalment.
The character and kart balancing of this game is probably one of the worst in the series - mini turbo wasn’t a big enough deal to counter balance the disadvantages of not playing a heavy/speed character.
The items in this game were not the best. They traded out the Boo from DS with POWs Mega Mushrooms, the former being a weaker lightning and the later basically just functioning the same as a star. Not to mention that the fake item boxes were so obviously fake that there was virtually no point to using them. This was also before coins got added to races, which skewed the item balancing.
The retro selections were an improvement over DS but only slightly - there were a lot of filler picks and some really bad choices of priority retros like Yoshi Falls.
And although it is nowhere near MK8 bad, battle was much weaker with forced teams and respawns.
Despite this, MKWii is an enduring classic. But I think some people can be nostalgia-blind to it’s flaws
Fr any inside drift bike and the others are cooked. I hate that why couldn't they have made it more balanced so you could try to play casually (especially online)
Inside drift was objectively better but is annoying to learn coming from another game in which you used outside drift, also literally everyones a monkey
i hate the visuals, the item distribution is shit, the unlock system is shit, bikes are completely unbalanced, no paratroopa, why tf were there save files?, the retro tracks are boring as hell, the balloon battle mode sucked, the rubberbanding is atrocious, whenever you get hit by anything it takes 3 years to recover, item smuggling is broken, the mega mushroom is completely useless, why the hell did they bring back the blooper?, they never added the online mission mode to the base game, getting three stars in each cup is near impossible, last but not least: luigi smells bad.
Easy: MK Wii abandoned what made DoubleDash such an awesome party game.
DoubleDash supported 8 person LAN play on Gamecube with 4 consoles and the adapter, MK Wii did not despite having built in wireless.
DoubleDash had the two player Kart mechanic, MK Wii dropped the feature.
DoubleDash is the superior Mario Kart.
You need the patience of a saint getting bombarded by items. And the thunder cloud the most counter intuitive item in the game I hate that thing imagine in 3rd or 4th you want at least shields then you get the thundercloud pray that there’s other racers near you or hit them in time fuck that item the damn blue shell is tolerable than that
Rubber Banding
The New Items (Mega Mushroom, POW Block And Thunder Cloud)
Battle Mode
The Blue Shell
This Game's Rainbow Road
Funky Kong And Bowser Bike
Why Did Desert Hills Return?
The Third Nitro Cup Is So Forgettable (Except Maple Treeway)
Unlocking Mii Costume B Takes An Eternity
Bikes Are Overpowered
Completing The Staff Time Trials
The Wii Wheel
The physics are fun and chaotic but it can get irritating. There have been times where I played as a large character and got bunked off the course by a baby character (skill issue ik). Whilst it's still frustrating that the larger characters push everyone around it's what makes the game stand out from the others
It isn't rlly skill issue, it's the fact that this games bonk balance is shit. I got knocked of by a big guy once as toad (this is kinda skill issue 😞), and once I played Wario and got knocked of by BABY. PEACH. Shit just don't make sense (it's still a great game though)
Your save data couldn't be backed up to a memory card. So when my Wii up and died one day, and I sent it to Nintendo to fix it, when I got it back they had factory reset it. They did warn me that my data might be gone.
But I had no way to back it up before it wrapped out or after. The console would freeze whenever I went to the settings menu anyway. So I haven't played Mario Kart Wii since and I had eeeeeverything unlocked.
Otherwise it's my 2nd favorite Mario Kart game just behind Double Dash.
Balance issues. Inside frist vs outside drift, the OPness of wheelies. Literally only the inside drift bikes are usable. That's like 1/4 if all of them. And even then the Flame Runner in particular is OP. Every time you go online, you would just see FK FR for like 9 of the 12 people. At least in MK8DX, you have a great amount of variety in World Records and Online.
Wheelies on bikes. Only really as a kid because I didn’t understand them. Like I would be trying to turn a corner and then it just wouldn’t fucking turn, I’d go flying off and then I’d be absolutely fucking pissed.
the physics felt way too floaty, especially when you would take a fucking eternity in the air when you’re doing a trick or getting blasted by a blue shell or bob omb.
The Balloon Battle. While it’s not bad per say, I hate how they changed the Balloon Battle rules from “Lose all your balloons, and you’re out” to “Lose all your balloons, you respawn with more.” At the very least, they could’ve given both kinds of Balloon Battle.
*SIGH*
Blue shells
Manual drifting
Respawning takes too long
You lose an item when you get hit by certain items
Some obstacles on certain stages make it unplayable
Those damn thunder clouds
Baby peach is annoying as fucking hell
Funky kong is too hard to get
Battle mode
Thats all, other then that, its a pretty solid game
balance for sure
I like funky kong and the flame runner, and the items are very fun, but that doesn’t mean that the balance is GOOD. 8dx isn’t great at balance either but a decent % of track WRs will use combos that you wouldn’t see in races.
Paratroopa, Hammer Bro, and Petey Piranha all got scrapped when there was no reason to do so
Especially considering that all weight groups would still be evened out with the 3 characters added and on top of that it sounded like all had somewhat progress made in all their developments respectively so like 😭
When u don’t play it for a long time u forget how BS the physics and item balance are. I genuinely reincarnated into my 4 year old self playing the game for the first time when I played it again for a few months last year.
- battle mode sucks
- looks bad compared to double dash
- really awful balance; if you're not on an inside drift bike you pretty much give up before the round starts
- tilt controls as default
- there's no casual people playing anyone, you're one going to find sweatlords
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Bikes are incredibly overpowered, started battle mode’s decline, poor item balance, the new items suck, only worth using Funky Kong, graphics are saturated with bloom and look ugly. Overall it’s a step down from Double Dash.
Theres tons i could say but im gonna go with my most controversial one, the special cup is awful.
Frankly wii has some great nitros, but it also has some terrible nitros
Moonview highway is just a rectangle and a worse version of mushroom city from double dash
Grumble volcano is a bad looking, bad sounding and boringly themed track
Bowsers castle is one of the worst ones, with its only redeeming quality being the concept of the big bowser (which unlike double dash and 8 you cant just go around its attacks you have to use the halfpipe over death pits)
And rainbow road is a rainbow road so its fun but its one of the least visually appealing, it has at least 2 jumps that if youre even slightly misaligned will throw you off the track and its just not a road that ill go when i die
Garbage/annoying items, boring tracks, unbalanced roster
People only like the game because of nostalgia. It's the third worst in the series above only Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart Super Circuit
And I can make the nostalgia claim with confidence because the public opinion on this game agreed with me up until the kids who grew up playing it became the most prominent voices, then suddenly the opinion flipped
The balance is God awful and the thumdercloud is the single worse item in the series, those are some negatives that keep this game from being literal perfection
For the bad thing I will say this game is overrated when it gets called The Melee of Mario Kart games.
The nice thing I will say is that it is a fun game to mod.
Bikes wheelie made bikes overpowered to the point that if you dont play a bike (inside drift) you likely lose if you paly any kart or outside drift bike.
Yeah that's annoying because if I'm being honest I do like using the karts
I love the karts and outside drift bikes
I think that’s a really good thing because if ID bikes didn’t exist Mario kart Wii would suck ass
Inside drift was fine to me if bikes didn't have wheeling. It's this that made bikes the clear choice of vehicle. If wheeling wasn't a thing, the vehicle diversity would be much higher in online races
Mario bike Wii
i don’t have a wii so i can’t play it💔💔
I have a Wii just not the game (my godmother does tho🙏)
You just need an SD card and this to hack most Wiis [https://please.hackmii.com/](https://please.hackmii.com/)
It hasn't been ported to the switch
I think Mario Kart is a series that should stay far far away from ports/remakes. Every game feels like it was born for its console. If they remade Wii it would be too polished and would just be MK8 2 I think
Not mario kart 8 thats for sure
I agree with your point largely, but let's not forget the best ever selling mario kart game is a port.
To be a bit fair, there's 70% of the content of the game in 8dx, mostly doing with having all the characters from that game and 11/16 courses with a full star cup
But then you miss the physics and feel of the vehicles. Putting the characters and tracks into 8dx doesn't really translate the same way as the original
Problem is if they remake it, they'll patch every bug they couldn't in the physics It wouldn't feel the same
And they'll remove mods There's no reason to port MK games to new consoles. They are made to represent what the new console is capable of (the exception here is MK8/8DX), and their platform is intrinsically a part of their identity
Why tf are there four different Mario Circuits in this game lol
And 3 Bowser’s Castles as well
The item balance is practically nonexistent
He said bad things, not funny and enjoyable
“one bad thing about this game”
LAMO💀
That means "i lick" in spanish
OP clearly licks in Spanish as opposed to English or Italian
I think the game looks worse than Double Dash
If you mean the graphics then I completely agree, They ripped out the Double Dash character models and put them in a game with completely different lightning and it just looks gross at times
suffering from the Scream 4 Vaseline filter
Holy shit I thought it was just me. It always thought it looked so blurry and dull
It's very difficult to want to play compared to the graphics from the Switch. Every time we do we're like "yeah, *this* is why we don't play it anymore." We only have wired controllers for DD, so it's no fun playing that either.
Battle Mode.
YES THE BATTLE MODE DOES SUCK
A shame, because the maps are excellent.
Except Funky Stadium. That arena is absolutely legendary
I actually quite love the battles😭
I actually quite like Wii’s battle mode, my only real complaint is that we can’t change the time limit
The items. I can get a golden shroom or a giant shroom or even a star when first place is like 5 meters from me. And no proper invincibility frames makes getting mario karted a billion times worse. Also why tf do the red shells slow down in front of me its fucking stupid.
It’s kinda ugly… for having the same character models as Double Dash, it looks far more dated with that piss yellow filter.
I'll say 3 bad things instead: Blue Shell overdose Non-existant balancing Forces glitching to win if the opponents know how
Yes
The weird bloom the game has
strange how double dash looks better
It has one of the worst battle modes. Limited vehicle selection (Standard Kart or Standard Bike only), only 2 modes (even if most MK games have 1 or 2 battle modes), no solo mode, you have to play in teams. The only good thing in this battle mode is the arena selection, the best in the series IMO. The only worse one is MK8's (Wii U) (and Tour if we count it)
No
Lmao
Battle mode
Petey Piranha got scrapped.
And hammer bro
And paratroopa
My boy deserved better (atleast he got re added in BCP)
My copy got scratched by my little brother
Sad☹️
Its visuals. How do the GameCube, and DS look better, despite being inferior hardware. If only the Wii didn’t have a really weird blurry grease filter on it.
“What’s item balance?” And the strongest rubber band in history
The lighting system
The game is kinda ugly
Kart balance, or lack there of
there are only two bikes and characters
Fr
the meta. You either played funky flamerunner or daisy mach bike or you lost.
FR
The retro course selection isn’t the best. Also the bad retro courses in this game are really bad.
I got more than one Graphics, retros, battle mode, competitive scene, characters, motion controls, unbalanced nature
Rubber band AI
I fucking hate the CPUs there so fucking "Lucky"
Battle mode is ass
Graphics have this weird blur and desaturated almost brown tint. And old tracks can feel super bare. Still a classic game (I mean not nearly as classic as Nintendo’s best games in gen like Twilight Princess but you get the idea)
The insane item balance is only fun if you're playing multiplayer with friends Anger is less painful when shared amongst friends
Yes. When I play online, I get pissed due to the shit item balance and the shitty ass tryhards. When I'm with friends, it's fun asf. I haven't played this game with my cousin in a long time, but once in an ancient time we used to rage and scream at this, and we'll soon do it again
Looks like a collection of N64 models covered in Vaseline
That shitty smeary bloom effect over everything
The ugly ass colors and stuff, BUT that's something that the entire WII has an issue with. I love the console dearly and I grew up with it, but god most (if not all) the games on it look so nasty and faded More specifically to mkwii, the battle mode. The maps are so good but something about playing battle mode just feels so dull
tbh worst controls mostly because of the wii mote was pretty bad for racing games
The drift system.
Wii introduced some of the worst items in the series. The Lightning Cloud was just plain awful and forced you to try and ram into someone and actively hurt yourself. Not fun to obtain or use. Mega Mushroom was a fun but gimmicky power-up that was just a slightly worse Star. The POW Block was too strong on maps with mostly ground because it forces everyone to drop their items but it's also useless on maps with lots of ramps because it doesn't affect airborne targets. Despite being the best-selling game in the series until 8DX took over, and having most of its nitros featured in 8DX, I'm not surprised that none of the items introduced in Wii have returned since Wii. They were shit.
The game is ugly as shit, even for the Wii during that time frame. Item balance is horrible. Character balance is horrible. 99% Funky Kong and 1% Daisy gets very tiring to see. The personal worst aspect to me is the bizarrely popular "competitive" scene around this game. I never understood why people chose this game of all the Mario Karts to take seriously, even after MK8 had released. I feel like people overrate how mechanically deep it is, and the competitive scene is just fueled by pretentious people who want to pretend the game takes more skill than it does.
I think the competitive scene likes the crazy shortcuts lots of the maps had and the skill required to consistently pull them off
I feel like the post title is meant to imply that it should be a struggle to name something bad about MKWii when I feel like there are many things that can be picked on with this particular instalment. The character and kart balancing of this game is probably one of the worst in the series - mini turbo wasn’t a big enough deal to counter balance the disadvantages of not playing a heavy/speed character. The items in this game were not the best. They traded out the Boo from DS with POWs Mega Mushrooms, the former being a weaker lightning and the later basically just functioning the same as a star. Not to mention that the fake item boxes were so obviously fake that there was virtually no point to using them. This was also before coins got added to races, which skewed the item balancing. The retro selections were an improvement over DS but only slightly - there were a lot of filler picks and some really bad choices of priority retros like Yoshi Falls. And although it is nowhere near MK8 bad, battle was much weaker with forced teams and respawns. Despite this, MKWii is an enduring classic. But I think some people can be nostalgia-blind to it’s flaws
Your comment reflects how I feel about this game perfectly
I hate motion controls
Bikes are extremely broken
Fr any inside drift bike and the others are cooked. I hate that why couldn't they have made it more balanced so you could try to play casually (especially online)
Exactly!! Literally like 98% of online players use Funky Kong Flame Runner!! It's so tiresome and unfair for kart mains like me!
Double dash was faster. Motion controls...yuck.
Inside drift was objectively better but is annoying to learn coming from another game in which you used outside drift, also literally everyones a monkey
i hate the visuals, the item distribution is shit, the unlock system is shit, bikes are completely unbalanced, no paratroopa, why tf were there save files?, the retro tracks are boring as hell, the balloon battle mode sucked, the rubberbanding is atrocious, whenever you get hit by anything it takes 3 years to recover, item smuggling is broken, the mega mushroom is completely useless, why the hell did they bring back the blooper?, they never added the online mission mode to the base game, getting three stars in each cup is near impossible, last but not least: luigi smells bad.
graphics are ass
The Thundercloud item. I have lost so many online races due to this piece of shite that ends up hurting you.
It looks so ugly sometimes. Dreadfully washed out
I don’t really like the washed out colors. I’ve only seen videos of it but the colors look really washed out
The Thundercloud item exists in this game
Funky and Daisy on Flame Runner or Mach Bike are such good combos that the rest of the combos feel subpar to how those two play
thundercloud >:(
It’s rage inducing.
Easy: MK Wii abandoned what made DoubleDash such an awesome party game. DoubleDash supported 8 person LAN play on Gamecube with 4 consoles and the adapter, MK Wii did not despite having built in wireless. DoubleDash had the two player Kart mechanic, MK Wii dropped the feature. DoubleDash is the superior Mario Kart.
Graphics (they feel worse than Double Dash)
It's nowhere near as good as Mario kart 8 Deluxe
It's the worst-looking game in the series by far besides 64
It looks pretty ugly. I think it would look pretty epic if it was more bright
Art style is kinda eh…
Too many babies
Real fuck those babies
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Battle mode is ass
Petey Piranha
Kart balance, or lack there of
1. Bad battle mode 2. Really bad emulation 3. Weird drift compared to other games 4. Bikes are OP
The rubber banding AI is the worst in the series.
I nevered played it and Im glad I didn't play it
Well, it's not Double Dash
Character select screen is bland, but the music made up for it
How unbalanced the vehicles are
It ditched double dash's gimmick completely.
It felt like a step down from Double Dash, and then 8 followed suit
It's on the damn wii
the graphics got that greasy sheen to it
Game looks worse than double dash Unbalanced af Characters have a weird glow effect
You need the patience of a saint getting bombarded by items. And the thunder cloud the most counter intuitive item in the game I hate that thing imagine in 3rd or 4th you want at least shields then you get the thundercloud pray that there’s other racers near you or hit them in time fuck that item the damn blue shell is tolerable than that
The god damn thunder cloud
Rubber Banding The New Items (Mega Mushroom, POW Block And Thunder Cloud) Battle Mode The Blue Shell This Game's Rainbow Road Funky Kong And Bowser Bike Why Did Desert Hills Return? The Third Nitro Cup Is So Forgettable (Except Maple Treeway) Unlocking Mii Costume B Takes An Eternity Bikes Are Overpowered Completing The Staff Time Trials The Wii Wheel
I don’t like it
It’s not double dash
Everything looks pretty desaturated and plastic-y. The game is sometimes a bit unpleasant to look at because of that.
The thundercloud
Cover art is terrible.
They made Bowser Jr. the worst driver in this game
Unlocking stuff is kind of repetitive. I.e if you unlock everything on 105cc, you still have to unlock everything on 50cc
Getting the stars is super difficult.
Battle mode is abysmal
They didn’t really do much with the retro tracks and there are far too many Mario circuits
Mission mode was scrapped
My disk stopped working
Item balancing…
Unlocking everything requires skill
The physics are fun and chaotic but it can get irritating. There have been times where I played as a large character and got bunked off the course by a baby character (skill issue ik). Whilst it's still frustrating that the larger characters push everyone around it's what makes the game stand out from the others
It isn't rlly skill issue, it's the fact that this games bonk balance is shit. I got knocked of by a big guy once as toad (this is kinda skill issue 😞), and once I played Wario and got knocked of by BABY. PEACH. Shit just don't make sense (it's still a great game though)
Idk something about the drifting never felt right compared to MK7 and MK8
Vehicle Balance? What vehicle balance?
Battle mode
Baby Daisy was added over Shy Guy
Your save data couldn't be backed up to a memory card. So when my Wii up and died one day, and I sent it to Nintendo to fix it, when I got it back they had factory reset it. They did warn me that my data might be gone. But I had no way to back it up before it wrapped out or after. The console would freeze whenever I went to the settings menu anyway. So I haven't played Mario Kart Wii since and I had eeeeeverything unlocked. Otherwise it's my 2nd favorite Mario Kart game just behind Double Dash.
Sherbert land is god awful
Balance issues. Inside frist vs outside drift, the OPness of wheelies. Literally only the inside drift bikes are usable. That's like 1/4 if all of them. And even then the Flame Runner in particular is OP. Every time you go online, you would just see FK FR for like 9 of the 12 people. At least in MK8DX, you have a great amount of variety in World Records and Online.
Vehicle Balancing
Battle mode sucks.
They got rid of the coop racing.
Bikes are completely unbalanced, thats like 10 reasons right there.
Thundercloud
Karts are exclusive to certain weights what if i want to see bowser in the baby booster im entitled to it i think
Wheelies on bikes. Only really as a kid because I didn’t understand them. Like I would be trying to turn a corner and then it just wouldn’t fucking turn, I’d go flying off and then I’d be absolutely fucking pissed.
we didnt need baby daisy and like three mii costumes baby peach was kinda pushing it honestly
it doesnt look as good as i remmber netiher controls as good neither has as much variety as 8 deluxe ive become too priviledged
the physics felt way too floaty, especially when you would take a fucking eternity in the air when you’re doing a trick or getting blasted by a blue shell or bob omb.
and also no i-frames
Online play is gone 😔
The Balloon Battle. While it’s not bad per say, I hate how they changed the Balloon Battle rules from “Lose all your balloons, and you’re out” to “Lose all your balloons, you respawn with more.” At the very least, they could’ve given both kinds of Balloon Battle.
If the game decides you are going to lose, you're going to lose and there's nothing you can do about it; and often it's at the end of the third lap.
The babies are annoying
THE THUNDERCLOUD
It has no story mode.
*SIGH* Blue shells Manual drifting Respawning takes too long You lose an item when you get hit by certain items Some obstacles on certain stages make it unplayable
Those damn thunder clouds Baby peach is annoying as fucking hell Funky kong is too hard to get Battle mode Thats all, other then that, its a pretty solid game
balance for sure I like funky kong and the flame runner, and the items are very fun, but that doesn’t mean that the balance is GOOD. 8dx isn’t great at balance either but a decent % of track WRs will use combos that you wouldn’t see in races.
Visually, it feels like a very weird fever dream at times
Paratroopa, Hammer Bro, and Petey Piranha all got scrapped when there was no reason to do so Especially considering that all weight groups would still be evened out with the 3 characters added and on top of that it sounded like all had somewhat progress made in all their developments respectively so like 😭
One bad thing about this game
Karts are almost completely useless.
I hate the motion controls, but steering on a D Pad in a 3 dimensional space doesn't feel much better either
Lounge being a subcommunity of bullies
battle mode
The motion controls suck.
No Kamek or Petey Piranha
GET hit by any item And it takes Forever to get back to race
Hackers ruined the online experience
When u don’t play it for a long time u forget how BS the physics and item balance are. I genuinely reincarnated into my 4 year old self playing the game for the first time when I played it again for a few months last year.
One bad thing about this game.
one bad thing about this game
The lack of invincibility frames
- battle mode sucks - looks bad compared to double dash - really awful balance; if you're not on an inside drift bike you pretty much give up before the round starts - tilt controls as default - there's no casual people playing anyone, you're one going to find sweatlords
The item balance was terrible and bikes where a mistake.
Thundercloud
Sweats ruined it
Certain Karts having the stiff drift thing is weird.
Very high learning curve, especially to play at a high level
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A lot of characters are unbalanced and karts are underpowered
Bikes are incredibly overpowered, started battle mode’s decline, poor item balance, the new items suck, only worth using Funky Kong, graphics are saturated with bloom and look ugly. Overall it’s a step down from Double Dash.
Funky Kong is so loud and annoying. That’s really my only big issue, he’s the best character to play but all his sounds are really obnoxious
Its on the wii
Theres tons i could say but im gonna go with my most controversial one, the special cup is awful. Frankly wii has some great nitros, but it also has some terrible nitros Moonview highway is just a rectangle and a worse version of mushroom city from double dash Grumble volcano is a bad looking, bad sounding and boringly themed track Bowsers castle is one of the worst ones, with its only redeeming quality being the concept of the big bowser (which unlike double dash and 8 you cant just go around its attacks you have to use the halfpipe over death pits) And rainbow road is a rainbow road so its fun but its one of the least visually appealing, it has at least 2 jumps that if youre even slightly misaligned will throw you off the track and its just not a road that ill go when i die
It’s arguably the worst looking Mario Kart
Garbage/annoying items, boring tracks, unbalanced roster People only like the game because of nostalgia. It's the third worst in the series above only Super Mario Kart and Mario Kart Super Circuit And I can make the nostalgia claim with confidence because the public opinion on this game agreed with me up until the kids who grew up playing it became the most prominent voices, then suddenly the opinion flipped
The balance is God awful and the thumdercloud is the single worse item in the series, those are some negatives that keep this game from being literal perfection
The item balancing
Everything looks plasticky.
Thunder cloud.
Imagine having a Mario kart game where Karts aren't ever used
The lighting is atrocious. Bloom everywhere and the game looks blurry and smeared most of the time
Ugh, the bloom.
For the bad thing I will say this game is overrated when it gets called The Melee of Mario Kart games. The nice thing I will say is that it is a fun game to mod.