Thank you so much for having me on! This was fun as hell, I can't wait for next time. (;

MKWII gives so many great memories: “No I want to be player one!” “Fuck you for picking rainbow road!” -searching for batteries-

man, this game is really incredible. i played this game every afternoon and since i didn’t have a wii u and got a switch in 2018, i played this game for about 7 years straight.

Dry bones was my favorite character when I was 10. He was the only character I used in this game and mkds

you can't imagine how grateful I am for Rosalina's inclusion in mario kart wii! thx to that she became a main character who's playable in all recent karts and parties! she was even playable in a main game and in smash

I hate clone characters as much as the next guy, but daaaammn baby purple amethyst waluigi sounds amazing.

I like how Mario Kart Wii is the only Mario Kart which has Friendly Fire off in teams mode, which in my opinion is so much better than your teammates trying to hit you for some reason. I guess this is the reason why Nintendo decided to try utilizing teams in battle mode.

If the new Mario Kart has MKWii mechanics my life will be complete

great vid, this really explains mario kart wii's awesome playstyle and community!

You won't lose your items from the POW Block if you're in the air while it goes off.

"baby purple amethyst waluigi" i support this

I almost died when I unlocked baby luigi

I'll be honest: I never really got into this game. Sure, I have fond memories staying up real late and unlocking stuff like Diddy Kong and the Leaf Cup, but I never really felt that great at the game. It's probably because I only played with the Wiimote in the wheel, which was just too awkward (as I didn't know you could play with the Nunchuck, nor did I have a Pro Controller).

I love that this feels like a live interview - it's almost seamless but I bet a lot of work went into it.

2020 just got shrunk by a thundercloud, that's all that happened

1:33 that kind of jumpscared me °-°

This game is the best! I'm a big fan of the custom tracks and have started making some myself!

15:15 personally, I am perfectly fine with the whole effort thing, I wouldn’t PREFER to have it come back but I think for what it is in Mario kart Wii, it’s pretty good, it gets me competitive sometimes and that’s cool

I play Mario Kart ever since the SNES but this entry... damn. I wasted so much time in it offline and online with excitement! The Wii Wheel was fun, personally even the character models looked good to me. Really not into modding console games but still, I love that the community keeps MKW alive.

never heard of 64ios and i'm really in the mkw community. troy is the king of mkw

10 years old I had Mario Kart when I was 1 years old.

I remember Unlocking everything, it took so long to do but man it was satisfying

No kidding about the title. I knew this game was going to devolve into the Melee of Mario Kart. The difference is the Mario Kart community isn't nearly as toxic. Thankfully.

I like the fresh take of the thunder cloud being a risk vs reward scenario, there have been scenarios where Ive benefitted greatly and passed on the cloud right before it goes off. However it is frustrating getting it frequently and especially when no racers or shortcuts are nearby.

um no... TWD98 is the TRUE god of Mario Kart Wii!

"Mario Kart Wii is the best selling Mario Kart game of all time!" Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!?

Race around the world outro? Nice!

Ah yes, Mario Kart Wii. Also known as Funky/Daisy/Baby Luigi Bike Wii.

Thanks for being me back to 2008

the best episode yet you didnt disappoint

The game that refuses to die

one of my favourite parts in Mario kart wii is the easter eggs, from the thwomp behind the cage in BC64 to Bower's Castle's music being a slow-down version of Maple Treeway's music. Another thing I love about Mario Kart Wii is how some of the retro tracks were update, some of them such as Bowser Castle 3 and Peach Gardens got better textures but other tracks such as Shy Guy Beach and Battle Course 4 kept the old school pixelated textures

Imagine if you brought TWD98 on here. That would be awesome.

The tracks were the reason it succeeded. The selection was amazing

A high school friend of mine own this game and brought it over to my place for us to play. From what I've remembered, it was a pretty fun experience playing Mario Kart Wii. I might have played this before then, but I might have forgotten.

Fun fact: The músic for this Rainbow Road is a remix of Good Egg Galaxy

12:45 It's funny you mention that, considering Namco Bandai did help the development of Mario Kart 8.

I love everything at that game. Even after i fell of from the track at rainbow road that i am still on lap one while evryone is at last ones. Not to mention you can get out of the bound pretty easy. And it's daisy curcuit confirms Luigi X Daisy as official ship.

Ive been playing mario kart wii since it came out, being introduced to the larger community via mario kart black and the original ctgp (i had it on a disc, bruh). I still play ctgp with my dad when a new update comes out, and online on my own.

Seriously the best Mario Kart there is imo

Thank you for talking about my favourite Mario kart game I’ve always loved this game

Oh, and I don't know why it didn't occur to me until now, but your outro theme is banging amazing!

I thought TWD98 was the pioneer of Mario Kart Wii? Oh well, guess i'm wrong

a lot of world records in this game were done using wiimote and nunchuck. The are 3 good control styles in this game. because motion controls have 3 extra frames to do stuff

I call MKWii the Melee of Mario Kart because of how brutal the meta is

I personally have had more blue shells in mk8 than mkwii. Also every 30-40 seconds in mkwii somebody gets a shock, so there is more strategy of knowing when a shock may happen, and once someone gets one, then you have to wait 30-40 more seconds for another, meanwhile in mk8 I remember getting shocked, and as I was small, I got shocked again.

Mario Kart Wii is easily my favourite. First, Rosalina, a character that I loved back then, is added and looks really cool in that bikesuit. Second, it plays way better for me than Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe). Third, the Mii's are fun to play as well, especially because they don't wear helmets. There's more what I love about Mario Kart Wii. It's just amazing. I agree about the dated graphics, but the item balance is what restricts my fun with this game. I always play against easy CPU's in 150 ccm, yet I lost some races because of the blue nuke shell of doom. That was frustrating.

“Funky Kong uses the Flame Runner and brakes the game!!” -Justin Berti

Yes. The best Mario kart

Rosalina in a biker outfit is hot lmao

For Mario Kart 9, I'd like to see an easier version of Wii's unlockable system. I like the idea of having to do specific things to unlock various characters and vehicles, but I wasn't good enough at Mario Kart to unlock everything when I played Wii, mainly due to being a child.

most people just claw grip to get around the dpad tricking on classic and gamecube controllers

Wanna know why its the best? Because it has funky kong, forget everything else

1:06 dude I expected TWD98

0:45 now it’s was since 8/Deluxe surpassed wii which was kinda surprising ngl.

Did he just say “Weem-fee”? 😂 It’s “Fi” like wi-fi.

9:16 this didnt age very well...

I still remember that moment I first unlocked my first character King Boo. I used it all the time until I got later characters because it felt special even if it was one of the easiest unlocks overall

This was my first wii game I ever played, I played it with my sister at a wii kiosk in best buy in 2007 it was what made my sister and I want a wii

Mario kart wii with double dash graphics is my dream

Great video even though I'm really disappointed that you didn't talk about MKWii's competitive scene.

64iOS god of Mario Kart Wii? I think god of Mario Kart Wii is MrBean35000vr or NMeade or TWD98.

Best roster is Mario Kart DS for R.O.B.. The oddball pick makes it complete. R.O.B. is from another franchise making him exotic, he is the only character from another franchise in the roster of the game making it unique and special instead of worn out, he was the first out-of-franchise character to be included in the roster making it surprising, and he was exclusive to a dead franchise meaning that many people did not recognise him and were as confused when seeing him as tDonkey Kong was in the ending screen. That alongside the fact that he looks and sounds awesome is what made him great. Funky Kong is just a normal character from a Mario Spin-Off, he is cool but he cannot even come close to being is special and amazing as R.O.B.. And of course, after getting to know R.O.B. in MKDs SSBB also included him making him even more well-known. Those were the days, racing with R.O.B. on my handheld and fighting with R.O.B. on my home console.

A balloon has so much nostalgia from mario kart Wii

I still have my copy of Mario Kart Wii and one of my favorite Wii games

This game is far from my favorite, but I do appreciate what it’s done with most people! Also, Funky Kong is a true god

Mario Kart Wii was the first Mario Kart I ever owned too

Yeah this was a great Mario Kart game and still is but I'm one of those people who just got annoyed by Funky Kong. Due to him being the fastest, you'd see him everywhere, and even though I didn't play him myself, I still heard him everywhere all the time and his voice got incredibly annoying to me as a result. Bikes also were immensely annoying because of their wheelie mechanic, meaning you had to either choose the Bowser Bike or Mach Bike or you might as well just not even play if you wanted to stand a chance. Sure sometimes karts could still win but bikes still had an unfair advantage and I didn't like that at all. I do very much prefer how Mario Kart 8 does it for that reason alone. That said I still do love this game, and I haven't even modded it myself. And at the very least it was, sometimes, kind of fun to challenge the barage of Funky Kongs with Yoshi. I did make a lot of 'em eat my dust.

Am I the only one who had no idea the tournaments were special missions?? :O I played this game nonstop growing up, but rarely ever online…

Dry Bones Supremacy~

14:40 They should give the option to turn off respawning. Last team standing or last man standing (or both) is so much more fun than that stupid point system

The way Mario Kart Wii handled unlockables kept me engaged for literally months (single player or local multiplayer only!) I bought Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a few weeks ago (when I got a switch) and I haven't even passed 15 hours on it because I've just done everything I can with it, except Mirror and 200 CC, but I don't care anymore because I got bored. I have no IRL friends I can easily play with, can't afford Switch Online, and because you only get kart parts by playing, I already got bored, because I can race with the things I have now. If I had to work to get the characters I would at LEAST keep playing until I would have them all because my brain can't simply leave a question mark there. The removal of the unlocking system made me spend almost full price for a game I am already bored with after like 12 hours. It's really a travesty.

Mario Kart DS introduced a bike

My first video game ever!

New funky mode would make sense

Looking at a few reviews, no one talk about that they give you the option to drift manual or automatic. Automatic drifting was my favorite option to pick.

This was the worst battle mode at the time thanks to the endless balloons. Sadly we never got classic battle mode back til this day.

Me: oh boy can't wait to get some mushrooms Mario Kart Wii: hello Me: umm your in the way move Mario Kart Wii: no Mario kart wii truly can't be stopped

11:59 For all these years I've had my TV Color on 85%.

I was pretty disappointed that the only unlockable character in MK8D was Gold Mario a CLONE character, it least he’s somewhat cool but I would have liked more. MKW on the other hand was a thrill to unlock all the characters!

Its my favorite Mario Kart OMG

I forgot Rosalina had the Luma ☆

i reckon in the next mario kart game they should make you have to race a character to unlock them after reaching a certain amount of coins

I knew 64IOS because of his custom amiibo videos which from what I’ve seen most are no longer available

Wii has the best gameplay easily, in terms of the controls. It feels so smooth and flawless to stunt while 8 feels clunkier. Sure, retro tracks, balancing, graphics etc might be bad but gameplay wise, it's one of the best Mario Karts.

I remember going to my uncle's houce and playing this alot I played it so mutch when I was younger i wish I culd play it agen but the disc is pretty scrached up now

And here we have Mario Kart Wii. I got into this game in summer 2008. After renting it for a bit, I would properly own Mario Kart Wii the following year. To this day, I see it as having the greatest roster in the Mario Kart series. A perfect balance of light, medium, and heavy racers brimming with diversity from the Mario universe. With Diddy and Funky Kong, the DK sub-series got some love too. My favorite player is Dry Bowser. As for the tracks, they are great. As you said, some of the coolest courses originate from Wii. I love Mushroom Gorge, but Coconut Mall, Daisy Circuit, Maple Treeway, and Rainbow Road are fun. I am also a huge fan of the music. Visually, the game isn't the best. Even upon playing it, I felt that the reused shiny models from Double Dash!! were meh in this game. Double Dash!! itself has a better use of color compared to this game, but it's by no means a deal breaker. All in all, I happily see Mario Kart Wii as my third favorite game in this series. It's fun to revisit it now and then.

I would disagree with the item balance. Mario Kart Wii is very fair with the power items. Bullet bills, shocks, stars, and blue shells can only be held by one person at a time in a race and have a cooldown when used. In later games such as Mario Kart 8, you can see like five bullet bills coming at you all at once.

great video but you like the thundercloud?

Mario Kart wii is so good!

You forgot DX at 19:07.

I never owned MK Wii I bought a Wii vary late so I missed out on allot of Wii games. Double dash was the first MK game I owned but I played 64 and SNES at my friend's house when I was a kid.

I dont really experience the blue shell problem, maybe u have aggresive on then its pure chaos and blue shells, my problem is the item distribution, the fact that you can get s blooper in the same position where u can golden shrooms stars and mega shrooms is baffling

Best roster

The episode we've all been waiting for... Edit: Mario Kart Wii has the best unlocking system and I'd love to see more unlockables be similar to what you have to do in MKWii.

The year is 20XX, #FreeWii and #SaveMarioKart are trending

Hyped=Me the big plot

I didn't like battle mode, except for coin battles and only, ONLY Funky Stadium. I would play funky stadium by myself over and over idk why.

Mario Kart Wii is like the Sonic Riders of Mario Kart Wii. And before anyone complains, Sonic Riders Zero Gravity is amazing, but Sonic Riders 1 is the better in my opinion. Then there's Sonic Free Riders....

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