I'm gonna just start off by saying that I love this game, mostly. I played the original when I was a kid, but I didn't do it incredibly often, so I'm not a total expert. I've really just been playing two player with a friend, just having fun, and I haven't really tried for all of the cups and stuff. So today I decided to do that. I was absolutely infuriated. At one point I had to put the game down.
When I'm in first place and get hit by a blue shell, I get aggravated. but when I'm in first place, with the finish line in sight, and get hit by a blue shell, a red shell, a pow box and a lightening bolt in succession, and subsequently, finish the race in third, I just get mad.
There are serious flaws in this game. Item distribution is insane and sometimes stupid, the courses are too short, and the courses that I remember as a kid are so adapted for the wii that I can't even recognize them anymore.
Nintendo really needs to step it up.