One of the most annoying things about the Wii version is the severe item imbalance. More racers per game = more racers in lower positions = more game breaking items = much more luck dependent than any of the other games. So many people in lower positions means there's an almost constant stream of blue shells, pow blocks, lightning, squids, bullet bills, and other things that ***** you up, and there's nothing you can do but sit there and take it and hope you don't get blown too far back in the positioning. Mario kart has always had that item based element of luck, but with so many more racers per race it's much more obvious and annoying in this version.
I wish there was an item select option like in smash bros. Losing a race because the other guy was better or because he hit you with a well placed banana or mushroom is fine. He was the better racer, that's how it goes. Losing because you keep getting hit with blue shells/pow blocks/lightning while the people in 5th/6th/7th place zoom past you in the aftermath is just stupid.
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75 Rabbit/75 Sheep/75 Coeurl/75 Eft/75 Raptor/75 Hippogryph/75 Puk
75 Scorpion/75 Wamoura/75 Pixie/75 Peiste/64 Sabotender
51 Bird/41 Mandragora/40 Bee/37 Crawler/37 Bat
Items no one cares about: O
Missions no one cares about: O
Crafts no one cares about: O