Mario Kart Wii

Mario Kart has returned, and for this intrepid voyager, it has come the full 180 needed to make it a good game. I've never been a big fan of the Mario Kart series, sure I played the SNES one here and there at parties and sleepovers, but I just never really got into it. Now comes the motion controller steering and Ah-ha! we have a winner. One of the best things about Nintendo, and you'll see this echoed in later posts, is their built in sense of nostalgia. They realize that a lot of their games are now classics to us, and they give us nice nods in that direction, i.e. throwing a bunch of classic tracks from other past Mario Karts into the mix along with the brilliant new levels.
It does, of course, come with a certain amount of frustration built in: leading by half the track for the whole race and right before the finish line you get blue-shelled, then red shelled, which knocks you off the track and suddenly you're struggling to get 10th. Or Rainbow Road. The classic killer of hopes and dreams. Now I personally like the course, but I've heard enough "Fuck Rainbow Road!"s in my short time to get the general consensus.