Mario Kart Wii

After skipping out on a few other games (Okami, The World Ends with You, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates - don't worry my little games, someday, i'll get to you guys), I picked up Mario Kart Wii last week and is currently having a blast with the same. I actually picked up another SRPG game, Rondo of Swords, a week or two before MK:Wii came out, but i'll leave that to another post.



Overall, I would give the game a solid 8. It's Mario Kart so you should know all the mechanics to it. The game tries to refreshen up a bit by adding bikes to the mix - which at times were quite fun but sometimes frustrates me because I uses light bikes that get knock off pretty easily.

Races are sometimes crazy/hectic - getting hit by a red shell, followed by a blue shell and then a bomb probably would drive you crazy. But hey, if you get a Bullet Bill, that should make up for it.

Online game play is phenomenal. There is essentially no lag at all even when I am playing a worldwide match (unfortunately can't say the same for Smash Bros. That's why I mainly stick to offline mode for that game). Although I did get disconnected from the Nintendo WFC network for a couple times, it's a smooth sail most of the time. In fact, other than the time it takes to prepare the match, I can't really tell between an on-line and off-line game. People online aren't too bad either - I've had my wins/losses, but they were all fun. It's also nice that you can join games in which your friends are playing. One of my friends in HK and I are trying to see if we can get enough people to create our own 12-player room (so far we have 4).

If you're a Wii owner, I don't see the reason not to get this game. And when you do, leave me a message in this post with your Friend Code so I can add you. Mine is 3866-8414-7951