An interesting detail about the Mega Mushroom is that if you get hit by lightning while it is active, you simply go back to normal size instead of shrinking down!
Also that if you get hit by someone in a star whilst in a mega, you actually get hit like any other player. So its not “just a star rebranded”, its still worse than a star, it’s its own little middle groundbetween normal and star
A community that's still going strong to this day? Check. A fun, fast-paced game with that classic Mario Kart chaos? Check. Insanely busted Shortcuts and Mechanics? Check. Yeah. 8 Deluxe may be the Smash Ultimate of Mario Kart, but this is the Smash Melee of the series. It's one of the best games in the series, and I grew up with short bursts of 7 and 8.
MK-Wii really just feels right because it's so snappy... with 8 it really feels like they tried to push more "realistic" driving controls... but for the Wii it feels more responsive making for a more enjoyable game... you feel like you're playing the game in Wii, but in 8 you're fighting the game
driving in mario kart 8 is (if i'm exaggerating) nearly unbearable when i compare it to mario kart wii. yes i need to get good, but i think it just feels so much worse, particularly drifting. i'm a great drifter in wii i swear 😭
Mario kart wiis mechanics and controls are my favourite part about it! I love how it controls, how tight you can go with an inside drift, how you need to time your wheelies so you don’t get bumped by another player, it’s just all so fun.
In the Wii you can actually push people off the track. In 8 its pointless trying, because they spawn right back in. Takes away from the whole “wacky races” aspect.
The FIB did come back… kind of. They smashed the FIB and banana together into one shitty item, so now it has the spin out of a FIB (2ish spins + almost complete slowdown, compared to a banana's 1 + only 65%ish slowdown), but is tangible to items like a banana. One of my least favorite things about 8. Removed a whole bunch of gameplay intricacy with that lazy ass move
Man, I still remember that fateful Christmas morning 2009 getting MKwii and playing with my three older brothers. It was one of the first video games I have ever played and I couldn’t ask for a better one. The magic of the Wii wheel and the pure chaos That game was. Along with new super Wii and ocarina of time those games raised me.
@@JackJack-bs4ij faithful wouldn't make any sense, and fate doesn't automatically mean something bad is going to happen. The context given does away with that. Also, I was joking about the whole "no need to thank me 😌" was acting cocky on purpose.
@@bighand1530so you just gonna say nostalgia without any reasoning or..? Anyone who just pulls the nostalgia card without any reasoning are just dumb tbh
Mario kart wii is my Goat, amazing character roster,cool kart and bike designs,great collection of tracks, awesome ost, fun and chaotic Items. seriously this game has it all
I still have my Wii and original copy of Mario Kart to this day, and it continuously pulls a lot of cries of joy and screams of panic from my friends and I whenever we race each other on split screen. The characters and tracks never get boring, and we're always finding new challenges to do just because we think they're funny - the most recent being all of us using Cheep Charger. I'm forever thankful that I grew up on both this and Mario Kart DS, which I absolutely adore due to their difficult yet fair CPU coding. I didn't know it at the time when we got our Nintendo Wii for Christmas, but my dad informed me that they were selling so fast that the one he purchased was hidden in the back of a GameStop, likely stashed by one of the employees for themselves and given to my father by their oblivious coworker. Funny to think that some dumb luck brought me one of my favorite games and consoles of all time.
this will, i assume, always be my favorite mario kart, mainly because of the physics and the vibes of this game. great course selection, banging music, fun and chaotic items, fun to play competitively or not, great online system, great community with mods like retrorewind and ctgp for a bunch of quality custom courses, sick and fun to perform ultra shortcuts and other tech, what's not to like about this game? also FUNKY KONG is the best character in this game, too goated.
I used to play mario kart wii with my older brother all the time as a 9 year old, getting so engrossed with unlocking characters and watching youtube videos about super shortcuts and competing with each other. My brother passed away suddenly and tragically when i was 14 in 2016 and i became suicidal 2 months after, and was admitted to a psych ward for 2 weeks. During our recreational time, there was a Wii that everyone would agree to play mario kart together on, even having a pretend system of "the mario kart king" where the title would be passed on by those leaving to whoever was able to beat them. Playing this every day was a lovely break and really helped me find any joy in life again while dealing with my grief. It reminded me to enjoy the simple things in order to continue on. Its a very special game indeed. And i totally was the mario kart king during my time there.
This game is the single reason I became such a a big Nintendo fan. After playing this I went out and got Mario Galaxy and boy that was it I was hooked. Awesome video dude!
Maybe I’m biased because it was the only Mario game I had as a kid, but I love Mario Kart Wii. Even though I didn’t understand it and came in 12th a lot at first, I’ve since rediscovered the game and found so many things I love about it. The aesthetic feels very late 2000s in a good way, the track selection is good with a mix of solid new tracks and a great combination of retro tracks, the score is amazing, and I actually really like the battle mode for the map selection. If anything, I wish the character roster was bigger (with the cut racers), and I suppose the game has a notorious difficulty spike. But either way, nothing beats picking up the Wii wheel and having some good old racing. I’d say it’s my favourite Mario game of all time.
Love this game. Really like the plannable more complicated item system. Love the mega as a middle ground power item. Love the ability to selectively bag. Love the out of bounds system . Love having both FIBs and bananas since they function quite differently in different situations
What an awesome video!!! Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. I've been waiting so long for someone to make a video about the importance and all the great details and strengths of Mario Kart Wii! Especially things like unlocking the individual karts and characters is something that I really missed in Mario Kart 8 - the Wii version realises this just perfectly. Thanks to your video in particular, I became aware once again of how many great tracks and how many beautiful pieces of music have been integrated into this game... simply awesome!
Fantastic video! I’m so glad that this popped up on my recommendation. I was getting burnt out on all of the games that I’ve been playing recently and booted up Mario kart Wii and have been pretty much trying to unlock everything and it’s been such a blast from the past! Much love to this game
You should have mentioned the unique drift mechanics of inside and outside drift and how they affected gameplay. With inside drift, you can turn sharper but with outside drift you can store a bigger mini turbo after the drift.
i grew up in the perfect era for when video games were becomming the next big thing. I'm a sophomore in college and I can vividly remember when I got my first Wii and the mariokart wii box from my grandpa probably a decade ago. I love this game a lot, and despite playing battles a handful of times, I still was able to remember those waluigi stadium and the soundtracks; dont get me started on the soundtracks. Amazing video to go back to memory lane and relive the feeling of playing mario kart wii the first time.
I think another great track that you didn't talk about was Delfino Pier in the battling mode. It was so iconic due to the water rising up by time and the roof and the cellar that you're able to access after some time. It's such a pity that we never got to see this track again...
I sucked soo bad at Mario Kart and so when I got it for Christmas in 2008 I knew I would be able to get better and let me tell you… they couldn’t TAKE me! This game was my fondest memories. I miss this time. I wish I could go back
I remember being apart of a community when I was 13 that would just find those ultra shortcuts. I was there when they found the grumble volcano glitch and uploaded it to MKWii forum. I was in the top world record for like a day before everyone figured it out. Same with the rainbow road glitch. Miss those times!
I remember glitching through coconut mall and being able to explore parts of the map that are blocked off. Honestly one of my favorite MKWii memories to this day
I remember when my cousins got the game when it came out. I remember long nights, my hours, and lots of fun. If the wii could track hours played on this game, I think it would be close to 3500 hours that I've played.
I grew up on this mario kart it might be my favorite. I completely forgot about the storm cloud item, and I wouldn't be mad if it came back as an item for a battle mode.
I think the video is missing the point on what makes it a great playing experience, and for me it's the game mechanics. Game mechanics are so complex in that game that the leaning curve is steep and goes far. But the rewards are incredible, chaining wheelies, slip drifts, low jumps, delayed tricks, there is soooo much tech. It makes the game experience complex, and it stays interesting even for really experienced gamers. While MK8 is more "arcade", and less tech based. Another aspect is the amount of positive feedback in this game, which allows to really break away, while on MK8 randomness had a bigger place. This is evident in falling out of map time, wall bumping, the coin, item selection, etc etc...
the thundercloud has a really simple fix, on the ctgp mod it makes you mega instead of shrink so people are trying to take the cloud from you instead of avoid you, iv always loved this it makes it really intense when your middle the pack edit-it might be a diff wii mod im only like 60% sure its ctgp
I had a lil book of video game cheat codes for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 which told you how to unlock all characters and karts in Mario kart Wii. So many fond memories of me and my brother GRINDING the game to unlock all characters and karts. Even my Dad would play with us (he only liked moo moo Meadows)
As a 99‘ kid, I grew up with Mario Kart DS, but MK Wii was my favorite game of them all. From the multiplayer mode to the ultra shortcuts, it was just so much fun.
Y'know I really like playing the princess characters on Motorbikes in Mariokart. Theres something about the motorbike outfits they give them thats lacking on the other characters because they're wearing they're normal clothes
One day, my dad had work off and decided to visit me. He brought over a copy of MKWii from his girlfriend's house and we played it on my Wii. I was hooked, it was a little teaser for what I'd be getting for christmas. Everytime it was my dad's weekend, we'd always stay up playing Mario Kart Wii. My dad & I spent a lot of time with outdoor activities, especially hiking, but the weather was pretty rough that winter so we stayed indoors. Lucky for us, Mario Kart Wii existed. I still remember the cold grey snowy atmosphere outside, and the warm inside with the two of us trying to find all the shortcuts. Funny enough, the Wii is when child-me really started understanding foreign concepts. I was a Godzilla fan in 2nd grade, and I watched a lot of the movies, yet somehow just didn't understand they were filmed in Japan & not the US. The Wii is when I started to realize the difference, especially with Mii-centric games like Wii Sports resort. Well looking back on it, Coconut Mall reminds me heavily of the Aeon Mall Rycom in Okinawa Japan. I remember when I first got sent to Okinawa, my first time in the mall, I took a bunch of photos then called my dad .
This game has my absolute favorite driving physics in this series. Simply driving around feels just right, even on the easier tracks. Whenever I play 8DX the driving just isn't as satisfying.
I know people who don’t like minecraft (me lmao), I know people who don’t enjoy Celeste, but I never heard of anyone not liking mario kart wii, and that’s not even surprising
Used to play it online everyday before school, the battle mode was so fun, and yeah seeing where people were from too! makes me miss the Wii as a whole
Great vid. Thought i feel like you forgot to mention the huge modding community of MKWii. Yes wimmfi is part of that but there is so much more. Starting with CTGP. A collection of hundreds of custom tracks from the community. It launched in 2011 over 13 years ago and still gets updated every few months with new tracks or updated to existing tracks. It also introduced 200cc to MKWii in 2019. This is only one mod for it but there are so so many more!
Back then, I sometimes used to just abandon the race and drive around looking for narrow and harder paths on a map. Driving back and forth against the current, finding short cuts I didn't know existed. I loved to drive ontop of tall bridges, trying to be very careful with the joystick, even though it wasn't necessary. Only because it looked cool.. and that I just found big value in silly things like that. That was one of these things I didn't realize how much I would miss so much later on in the franchise. Bruh, it took me so many years playing Deluxe to realize that auto-steering could be turned off (It wasn't by default on the Wii?), but I was so glad it could! Because it made the whole driving experience and courses feel less restricted and simple. Although, the maps still feel more like roads with invincible fences than full-on environments.
I think 8 deluxe is the better game; just because of how much content and characters there are. But Mario kart Wii is BY FARRRR the most fun game to me. You can play online for free (or like $10 if you don’t have stuff) and playing this game with friends is by far the most fun experience I’ve had on any Nintendo console
I'd personally argue a better game is the more fun one! If it was just a personal opinion only that Mario Kart Wii is better, I'd agree with you it's not the best. But it's pretty much highly regarded as the best version of the game by everyone whose even played it. Even those without extreme nostalgia for it. I mean, who cares if the game has more content and characters if it's simply more fun to play with half the characters and tracks in a different game.
If you think a game is more fun than the other then it's the better game. Why should we care if a game has more content than the other if it's less fun?
I was really bummed out when i found out that mario kart for the switch had everything unlocked already. It's probably the main reason i almost haven't played it
The skill/luck balance is the best in the series. There were multiple times I got blue shelled 2-4 times and still won, because you didn’t just get hammered 3 times in a row when getting hit like Mario Kart 8.
I think this game’s longevity is due to a couple reasons. 1. Responsive and satisfying controls, which make driving, drifting and tricking much more fun. 2. Good CPU programming, making it so you can have tight exciting races even on your own. 3: Unpredictable yet balance items, to make comebacks always a chance, but never feeling VERY unfair. 4: Dynamic track design, with wider sections and multiple paths that make staying at first harder and easier to make comebacks and surprise opponents.
yeap i cant stop going back to this game i love the players custom track mods like Retro Rewind you can play online on you Wii/vWii/ PC Dolphin Emulator free love this game, now i play Mario Kart Wii with my subscribers and its super fun i love every momment of it
my family was always too broke to get new games and consoles so we bought a second hand WII and a few second hand games. I have 3 siblings so being able to play with ALL of us was the best. I have so many fond memories of playing with my siblings and Mario cart was a big part of that.
Hey! Love your videos! Buuuuuuut I watched this video with my stereo for audio... Consider filtering out low hums in your vocal track! My subwoofers were having a good time 😂
I also don't like it, on top of the default controls on MK8 Deluxe. Stick, no auto accelerate and no assistance should be default. The defaults are disruptive even to beginners. All of it adds so many extra steps to actually start the game and that time adds up when you are introducing people to Mario Kart.
My main issue with MK Wii is the lack of I-Frames after you get with an item, along with the fact that there are WAY TOO many items. Other gripes I have with MK Wii is mostly due to the QoL updates that MK8 added, such as Latiku saving you SECONDS after you fall off the course, the increased focus on skillful driving (as opposed GRAB ALL THE ITEMS), and the fact that item boxes respawn almost instantly. I also find the MK8 version of the Wii Rainbow Road to be easier, as for the Mega Mushroom not being back since Wii…that’s probably due to balancing issues
"skillful driving (as opposed to grab all the items)" umm, did we play the same game? because mario kart 8 is much more item based than wii. wii has more chaotic items, sure, but it's so much more technical than 8 which is more arcade and item based heck most of the competition in mk8 resides in timing your position to have better items, mario kart wii has a more defensive play with a focus on keeping momentum, one of the reasons the bikes' wheelie top speed is so precious in the first place. the item box delay also prevents the garbage bagging strategy introduced in 8. it was "patched" but not entirely.
damn, this is the second video i watched from you now and i love this kind of content already! keep it up, you have my sub! btw, if you have done the gameplay on actual hardware, what adapter/capture card did you use? it looks so good!
One thing i dont see touched on enough is the fact that the standards for getting 3 Stars in Mario Kart Wii were alot higher than they are now. In Mario Kart 8 you can just win every race and get 3 stars but in Wii you couldn't die or go off road too much and if you did you had to make it up by getting other characters with items like bananas and green shells.
An interesting detail about the Mega Mushroom is that if you get hit by lightning while it is active, you simply go back to normal size instead of shrinking down!
True same thing hitting a Koopa cape zapper with a mega will immediately make u turn back to normal size
Also that if you get hit by someone in a star whilst in a mega, you actually get hit like any other player. So its not “just a star rebranded”, its still worse than a star, it’s its own little middle groundbetween normal and star
@@AmalieLinden true at least the mega effect does immediately end when getting hit by something in a star or bullet
Nice
You're right although it did offer some help. You get less knock back and accelerate faster, so just better than nothing. It's poor man's star
I miss unlockables being tied to specific requirements. Now you just collect coins...
for some reason in mkwii the worst kart & bike are unlockable while the best kart & bike are available from the start
how did you figure out how to get what though? I looked in the manual but it literally didn't say anything of importance
@@tzargthat's the element of surprise
@@gamecubeplayeryeah but funky kong and daisy
@@ej_makesvideos I want Funky Kong to appear in more games.
Mario Kart Wii is the melee of the Mario Kart franchise
A community that's still going strong to this day? Check.
A fun, fast-paced game with that classic Mario Kart chaos? Check.
Insanely busted Shortcuts and Mechanics? Check.
Yeah. 8 Deluxe may be the Smash Ultimate of Mario Kart, but this is the Smash Melee of the series. It's one of the best games in the series, and I grew up with short bursts of 7 and 8.
Accurate.
Nah DD, same platform even
It’s an overrated unbalanced buggy mess
@@Evil-Olive Nice
Let's not forget the coolest end credits ever
Use to look forward to that every single time
MK-Wii really just feels right because it's so snappy... with 8 it really feels like they tried to push more "realistic" driving controls... but for the Wii it feels more responsive making for a more enjoyable game... you feel like you're playing the game in Wii, but in 8 you're fighting the game
driving in mario kart 8 is (if i'm exaggerating) nearly unbearable when i compare it to mario kart wii. yes i need to get good, but i think it just feels so much worse, particularly drifting. i'm a great drifter in wii i swear 😭
Mario kart wiis mechanics and controls are my favourite part about it! I love how it controls, how tight you can go with an inside drift, how you need to time your wheelies so you don’t get bumped by another player, it’s just all so fun.
@@caranook I hear ya.
In the Wii you can actually push people off the track. In 8 its pointless trying, because they spawn right back in. Takes away from the whole “wacky races” aspect.
yeah in mk8 everything feels so floaty but not in a good way imo.
Speaking of items in Mario Kart Wii that didn't come back, the Fake Item Box
The Fake Item Box was introduced back in Mario Kart 64. It also appears in Double Dash and DS before its most recent appearance in Wii.
Thunder cloud too
@@JaysYoshiYT In fact, none of the items introduced in Wii have returned, and that's good, because I despise all of them.
@@JaysYoshiYT Thunder Cloud was mentioned in the video, which is why I didn't mention it
The FIB did come back… kind of. They smashed the FIB and banana together into one shitty item, so now it has the spin out of a FIB (2ish spins + almost complete slowdown, compared to a banana's 1 + only 65%ish slowdown), but is tangible to items like a banana. One of my least favorite things about 8. Removed a whole bunch of gameplay intricacy with that lazy ass move
Man, I still remember that fateful Christmas morning 2009 getting MKwii and playing with my three older brothers. It was one of the first video games I have ever played and I couldn’t ask for a better one. The magic of the Wii wheel and the pure chaos That game was. Along with new super Wii and ocarina of time those games raised me.
"faithful" 💀
I'm pretty sure you meant 'fateful'. You're welcome, no need to thank me 😌
@@sikosonix901yeah he shouldn’t thank you.. fateful has a negative connotation 😭
@@JackJack-bs4ij faithful wouldn't make any sense, and fate doesn't automatically mean something bad is going to happen. The context given does away with that.
Also, I was joking about the whole "no need to thank me 😌" was acting cocky on purpose.
@@sikosonix901 fate doesn’t mean mean anything bad, but fateful does. fateful: having far-reaching and often disastrous consequences or implications.
@@JackJack-bs4ij keyword, "often". It can mean something good, it's just used negatively most times.
4:18 chills.
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It's purely because the Wii is just the best console ever made
Most valid comment right after mine (this one)
@@DiamondOrPoor78 Nostalgia
Good console for sure
@@bighand1530so you just gonna say nostalgia without any reasoning or..? Anyone who just pulls the nostalgia card without any reasoning are just dumb tbh
Mario kart wii is my Goat, amazing character roster,cool kart and bike designs,great collection of tracks, awesome ost, fun and chaotic Items.
seriously this game has it all
Best control/gameplay. None of the other games in series feel as smooth as MKWii, especially when you use an inside drift bike
Rosalina losing Luma was the biggest dissapointment in MK deluxe u.u
One of my favourite battle tracks in Wii is Delfino Pier. It’s so iconic to me!
my favorite map was grumble volcano! delfino square was really good too especially the 2 way entry out of the building mid track.
Mine is Coconut Mall
I still have my Wii and original copy of Mario Kart to this day, and it continuously pulls a lot of cries of joy and screams of panic from my friends and I whenever we race each other on split screen. The characters and tracks never get boring, and we're always finding new challenges to do just because we think they're funny - the most recent being all of us using Cheep Charger. I'm forever thankful that I grew up on both this and Mario Kart DS, which I absolutely adore due to their difficult yet fair CPU coding. I didn't know it at the time when we got our Nintendo Wii for Christmas, but my dad informed me that they were selling so fast that the one he purchased was hidden in the back of a GameStop, likely stashed by one of the employees for themselves and given to my father by their oblivious coworker. Funny to think that some dumb luck brought me one of my favorite games and consoles of all time.
Great video! Mario Kart Wii, alongside Super Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, and Mario Party 8 were such amazing games from this era of nintendo
Off topic but I love how this guys voice gets randomly flirtatious throughout the vid
What?
He/ sounds like sapnap
Lol its mad random but kinda funny to notice
@@KAYOSISPINK Huh?
1:26
this will, i assume, always be my favorite mario kart, mainly because of the physics and the vibes of this game. great course selection, banging music, fun and chaotic items, fun to play competitively or not, great online system, great community with mods like retrorewind and ctgp for a bunch of quality custom courses, sick and fun to perform ultra shortcuts and other tech, what's not to like about this game? also FUNKY KONG is the best character in this game, too goated.
The soundtrack is soooo good
I got litteral chills at the unlock sound. I did not expect that.
love searching for niche video game video essays while I eat dinner, this one was great
I used to play mario kart wii with my older brother all the time as a 9 year old, getting so engrossed with unlocking characters and watching youtube videos about super shortcuts and competing with each other. My brother passed away suddenly and tragically when i was 14 in 2016 and i became suicidal 2 months after, and was admitted to a psych ward for 2 weeks.
During our recreational time, there was a Wii that everyone would agree to play mario kart together on, even having a pretend system of "the mario kart king" where the title would be passed on by those leaving to whoever was able to beat them. Playing this every day was a lovely break and really helped me find any joy in life again while dealing with my grief. It reminded me to enjoy the simple things in order to continue on. Its a very special game indeed. And i totally was the mario kart king during my time there.
This game is the single reason I became such a a big Nintendo fan. After playing this I went out and got Mario Galaxy and boy that was it I was hooked. Awesome video dude!
Maybe I’m biased because it was the only Mario game I had as a kid, but I love Mario Kart Wii. Even though I didn’t understand it and came in 12th a lot at first, I’ve since rediscovered the game and found so many things I love about it. The aesthetic feels very late 2000s in a good way, the track selection is good with a mix of solid new tracks and a great combination of retro tracks, the score is amazing, and I actually really like the battle mode for the map selection. If anything, I wish the character roster was bigger (with the cut racers), and I suppose the game has a notorious difficulty spike. But either way, nothing beats picking up the Wii wheel and having some good old racing. I’d say it’s my favourite Mario game of all time.
moonview highway is like my favorite level in video game history. cant explain why it just ticks all the boxes for me
Love this game. Really like the plannable more complicated item system. Love the mega as a middle ground power item. Love the ability to selectively bag. Love the out of bounds system . Love having both FIBs and bananas since they function quite differently in different situations
I swear those last 40 seconds gave me so much goosebumps with the music and the cutscenes 🥹
What an awesome video!!! Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. I've been waiting so long for someone to make a video about the importance and all the great details and strengths of Mario Kart Wii! Especially things like unlocking the individual karts and characters is something that I really missed in Mario Kart 8 - the Wii version realises this just perfectly. Thanks to your video in particular, I became aware once again of how many great tracks and how many beautiful pieces of music have been integrated into this game... simply awesome!
Fantastic video! I’m so glad that this popped up on my recommendation. I was getting burnt out on all of the games that I’ve been playing recently and booted up Mario kart Wii and have been pretty much trying to unlock everything and it’s been such a blast from the past! Much love to this game
Wii bowser castle is my favorite bowser castle in the entire series it’s just perfect
Double dash on the gamecube was my jam
The Baby versions was introduced on the game cube
Same, you get hit with one item in MK Wii and you lose. It’s so annoying
That's what I'm talking about. Daisy was peak lmao
My balls itch
Probably my favorite old one. If it was remade that for sure would be my favorite one. Might still be, I haven’t owned any Nintendo stuff in years
I love Mario Kart Wii, i have CTGP Revolution on my Wii just for it
This shiit is fire haha i have it too 🙏🏾
@Bigoldcupofdirtysprite That's awesome! I have around 7000 VR
@@codemisterz whats this? The only i have to say is i dont play often so every time there is a update lol
@@Bigoldcupofdirtysprite VR is your point system
I love your videos on Nintendo games man, they're like comfort food to me.
Btw Yoshi falls is under rated
You should have mentioned the unique drift mechanics of inside and outside drift and how they affected gameplay. With inside drift, you can turn sharper but with outside drift you can store a bigger mini turbo after the drift.
Watching this as I’m eating in my uni food hall, reminiscing on good times. Great video! Makes me wanna hop on dolphin and do a few races :)
Get the retro rewind mod! Let's you play online on dolphin!
i grew up in the perfect era for when video games were becomming the next big thing. I'm a sophomore in college and I can vividly remember when I got my first Wii and the mariokart wii box from my grandpa probably a decade ago. I love this game a lot, and despite playing battles a handful of times, I still was able to remember those waluigi stadium and the soundtracks; dont get me started on the soundtracks. Amazing video to go back to memory lane and relive the feeling of playing mario kart wii the first time.
I love a video where the creator really loves what hes talking about. Brought back a lot of good memories about MK Wii. Great editing.
11:43 Actually, those Star Bits aren’t there unless you have a Mario Galaxy save file on your Wii.
And the soundtrack is so good in Mario kart Wii the main menu music is so good and the different tracks are so good and I love all of the characters
Really good video. Im still play mkw every week. Love wiimmfi haha
i wanna get straight to the point.. Great video my wii gets here tommorrow and ur the reason the mkwii community has grown. 1+ sub
I think another great track that you didn't talk about was Delfino Pier in the battling mode. It was so iconic due to the water rising up by time and the roof and the cellar that you're able to access after some time. It's such a pity that we never got to see this track again...
as a person who grew up on the Wii with Mario Kart Wii this absolutely hit's every detail that is beloved
I sucked soo bad at Mario Kart and so when I got it for Christmas in 2008 I knew I would be able to get better and let me tell you… they couldn’t TAKE me! This game was my fondest memories. I miss this time. I wish I could go back
Starting this game as a kid around when it first came out…
and I’ve never stopped since
bro your videos are the best. thank you for keeping them serious. so good.
great video! i genuinely regret not getting a Wii back in like 2009 ngl, lets see how good Mario kart 9 will be
I remember being apart of a community when I was 13 that would just find those ultra shortcuts. I was there when they found the grumble volcano glitch and uploaded it to MKWii forum. I was in the top world record for like a day before everyone figured it out. Same with the rainbow road glitch. Miss those times!
Good video. Commenting just to push it out to other people who haven't seen your channel (like me, until today!)
Mario kart wii is still hands down the best mario kart game in history
good work, thank you for the art!
i've played mario kart wii for around 4 1/2 hours today and then i proceeded to watch this video and now want to play it even more lmao
I remember glitching through coconut mall and being able to explore parts of the map that are blocked off. Honestly one of my favorite MKWii memories to this day
I remember when my cousins got the game when it came out. I remember long nights, my hours, and lots of fun. If the wii could track hours played on this game, I think it would be close to 3500 hours that I've played.
I grew up on this mario kart it might be my favorite. I completely forgot about the storm cloud item, and I wouldn't be mad if it came back as an item for a battle mode.
I think the video is missing the point on what makes it a great playing experience, and for me it's the game mechanics.
Game mechanics are so complex in that game that the leaning curve is steep and goes far. But the rewards are incredible, chaining wheelies, slip drifts, low jumps, delayed tricks, there is soooo much tech. It makes the game experience complex, and it stays interesting even for really experienced gamers. While MK8 is more "arcade", and less tech based.
Another aspect is the amount of positive feedback in this game, which allows to really break away, while on MK8 randomness had a bigger place. This is evident in falling out of map time, wall bumping, the coin, item selection, etc etc...
the thundercloud has a really simple fix, on the ctgp mod it makes you mega instead of shrink so people are trying to take the cloud from you instead of avoid you, iv always loved this it makes it really intense when your middle the pack
edit-it might be a diff wii mod im only like 60% sure its ctgp
it's an option in ctgp but it's on by default in retro rewind!
You forgot to mention that mkwii was the first mario kart to introduce tricks.
I had a lil book of video game cheat codes for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 which told you how to unlock all characters and karts in Mario kart Wii. So many fond memories of me and my brother GRINDING the game to unlock all characters and karts. Even my Dad would play with us (he only liked moo moo Meadows)
As a 99‘ kid, I grew up with Mario Kart DS, but MK Wii was my favorite game of them all. From the multiplayer mode to the ultra shortcuts, it was just so much fun.
Y'know I really like playing the princess characters on Motorbikes in Mariokart. Theres something about the motorbike outfits they give them thats lacking on the other characters because they're wearing they're normal clothes
I think it's that the other characters are too bulky
I feel like a boomer when I say this but I unlocked Rosalina the hard way with the stars on mirror mode.
Wii and double dash are my favorite.
Not me wanting vampire waluigi as a playable character in the next home console Mario kart game 😅
I have a black Wii Wheel and I honestly like it more than the white variation.
That's me!
I'm the guy with the awful connection who made others wait for in online races XD
Seriously, soooo many awesome memories with this game !
The jumping and drifting in the game is the best feeling out of all the games
One day, my dad had work off and decided to visit me. He brought over a copy of MKWii from his girlfriend's house and we played it on my Wii. I was hooked, it was a little teaser for what I'd be getting for christmas. Everytime it was my dad's weekend, we'd always stay up playing Mario Kart Wii. My dad & I spent a lot of time with outdoor activities, especially hiking, but the weather was pretty rough that winter so we stayed indoors. Lucky for us, Mario Kart Wii existed. I still remember the cold grey snowy atmosphere outside, and the warm inside with the two of us trying to find all the shortcuts.
Funny enough, the Wii is when child-me really started understanding foreign concepts. I was a Godzilla fan in 2nd grade, and I watched a lot of the movies, yet somehow just didn't understand they were filmed in Japan & not the US. The Wii is when I started to realize the difference, especially with Mii-centric games like Wii Sports resort. Well looking back on it, Coconut Mall reminds me heavily of the Aeon Mall Rycom in Okinawa Japan. I remember when I first got sent to Okinawa, my first time in the mall, I took a bunch of photos then called my dad .
Mkwii, without a doubt, is mario kart at its best, if you ignore battle mode entirely
This game has my absolute favorite driving physics in this series. Simply driving around feels just right, even on the easier tracks. Whenever I play 8DX the driving just isn't as satisfying.
I know people who don’t like minecraft (me lmao), I know people who don’t enjoy Celeste, but I never heard of anyone not liking mario kart wii, and that’s not even surprising
same although I have no idea what Celeste is
@@tzarg cool but insanely hard platformer
Why don’t you like Minecraft (genuine question) 😭
@@violetemerald606 when i launch minecraft, my friends force me to play with them for 3 hours
Great video! Make me want to go back and play the game again
Mario kart Wii was my childhood favorite game
Used to play it online everyday before school, the battle mode was so fun, and yeah seeing where people were from too! makes me miss the Wii as a whole
Great vid. Thought i feel like you forgot to mention the huge modding community of MKWii. Yes wimmfi is part of that but there is so much more. Starting with CTGP. A collection of hundreds of custom tracks from the community. It launched in 2011 over 13 years ago and still gets updated every few months with new tracks or updated to existing tracks. It also introduced 200cc to MKWii in 2019. This is only one mod for it but there are so so many more!
Mario Kart 08' Will Always Be One Of My Favorite Racing Games. My Cousin & I Still Race Each Other To This Day lol. 🏎
Back then, I sometimes used to just abandon the race and drive around looking for narrow and harder paths on a map. Driving back and forth against the current, finding short cuts I didn't know existed. I loved to drive ontop of tall bridges, trying to be very careful with the joystick, even though it wasn't necessary. Only because it looked cool.. and that I just found big value in silly things like that.
That was one of these things I didn't realize how much I would miss so much later on in the franchise.
Bruh, it took me so many years playing Deluxe to realize that auto-steering could be turned off (It wasn't by default on the Wii?), but I was so glad it could! Because it made the whole driving experience and courses feel less restricted and simple. Although, the maps still feel more like roads with invincible fences than full-on environments.
I think 8 deluxe is the better game; just because of how much content and characters there are. But Mario kart Wii is BY FARRRR the most fun game to me. You can play online for free (or like $10 if you don’t have stuff) and playing this game with friends is by far the most fun experience I’ve had on any Nintendo console
I'd personally argue a better game is the more fun one! If it was just a personal opinion only that Mario Kart Wii is better, I'd agree with you it's not the best. But it's pretty much highly regarded as the best version of the game by everyone whose even played it. Even those without extreme nostalgia for it. I mean, who cares if the game has more content and characters if it's simply more fun to play with half the characters and tracks in a different game.
If you think a game is more fun than the other then it's the better game.
Why should we care if a game has more content than the other if it's less fun?
@ yeah, you’re right! Mkwii is the best one! Nothing will ever beat it
Mario Kart Wii is the best game oat. It was the first game I ever played and i still play it today (13 years later)
another mariomikester review letsgoooo
I was really bummed out when i found out that mario kart for the switch had everything unlocked already. It's probably the main reason i almost haven't played it
You are so underrated and I’m waiting for the day I can say I was part of the first 30k of an over 500k channel
Gotta come back to this video later!
Gonna play tonight. Thanks for the inspiration
The skill/luck balance is the best in the series. There were multiple times I got blue shelled 2-4 times and still won, because you didn’t just get hammered 3 times in a row when getting hit like Mario Kart 8.
I think this game’s longevity is due to a couple reasons.
1. Responsive and satisfying controls, which make driving, drifting and tricking much more fun.
2. Good CPU programming, making it so you can have tight exciting races even on your own.
3: Unpredictable yet balance items, to make comebacks always a chance, but never feeling VERY unfair.
4: Dynamic track design, with wider sections and multiple paths that make staying at first harder and easier to make comebacks and surprise opponents.
yeap i cant stop going back to this game i love the players custom track mods like Retro Rewind you can play online on you Wii/vWii/ PC Dolphin Emulator free love this game, now i play Mario Kart Wii with my subscribers and its super fun i love every momment of it
Please lets also not forget the AMAZING music of all the tracks and also for the menu's
my family was always too broke to get new games and consoles so we bought a second hand WII and a few second hand games. I have 3 siblings so being able to play with ALL of us was the best. I have so many fond memories of playing with my siblings and Mario cart was a big part of that.
The only drawback of mario kart wii is the time it takes to get back on track after you fall off
Hey! Love your videos! Buuuuuuut I watched this video with my stereo for audio... Consider filtering out low hums in your vocal track! My subwoofers were having a good time 😂
Mario Kart Wii will always have a special place in my heart🫶🏻 Thank you for being a part of my childhood :3
Sometimes I feel like the only person to not like the over customization of karts in 7 and 8
I also don't like it, on top of the default controls on MK8 Deluxe. Stick, no auto accelerate and no assistance should be default. The defaults are disruptive even to beginners.
All of it adds so many extra steps to actually start the game and that time adds up when you are introducing people to Mario Kart.
I don’t know if any other unlock screen in a game gave me the amount of joy Mario kart Wii did
10:16 MK7&8 Coconut Mall are good enough, but Wii got it so right, especially with the escalators and cars in the parking lot
I never actually had a Wii, but sheesh I want one now XD
My first Nintendo console was a Wii Classic. The first Wii game I played was Mario Kart Wii. My all-time favorite video game is Mario Kart Wii👑
My main issue with MK Wii is the lack of I-Frames after you get with an item, along with the fact that there are WAY TOO many items.
Other gripes I have with MK Wii is mostly due to the QoL updates that MK8 added, such as Latiku saving you SECONDS after you fall off the course, the increased focus on skillful driving (as opposed GRAB ALL THE ITEMS), and the fact that item boxes respawn almost instantly. I also find the MK8 version of the Wii Rainbow Road to be easier, as for the Mega Mushroom not being back since Wii…that’s probably due to balancing issues
I agree Mk8 is the better game....but MK Wii is more fun. Somehow...
"skillful driving (as opposed to grab all the items)" umm, did we play the same game?
because mario kart 8 is much more item based than wii. wii has more chaotic items, sure, but it's so much more technical than 8 which is more arcade and item based
heck most of the competition in mk8 resides in timing your position to have better items, mario kart wii has a more defensive play with a focus on keeping momentum, one of the reasons the bikes' wheelie top speed is so precious in the first place.
the item box delay also prevents the garbage bagging strategy introduced in 8. it was "patched" but not entirely.
damn, this is the second video i watched from you now and i love this kind of content already! keep it up, you have my sub!
btw, if you have done the gameplay on actual hardware, what adapter/capture card did you use? it looks so good!
I absolutely love this game with my very being ❤
Bro ranting about the Shock Cloud when it's one of my favorite items haha. The quality of its execution is left to the player
I love how you have homebrew on your Wii menu
One thing i dont see touched on enough is the fact that the standards for getting 3 Stars in Mario Kart Wii were alot higher than they are now. In Mario Kart 8 you can just win every race and get 3 stars
but in Wii you couldn't die or go off road too much and if you did you had to make it up by getting other characters with items like bananas and green shells.