Mario Kart Wii (now with spoilers! Even in a racing game...)

[Drago]

I reckon you're right about Petey's noggin AVMA, it truly is an unwieldy thing, and you can't exactly reduce the size of it without removing the very Petey-ness of Petey.
Anyhow, bought it today and jeepers it's fun. Just finished all of 50cc; being something of a MK whiz I thought I'd be smart after clearing mushroom cup to try my hand at flower cup 100cc. And I sure suffered for that mistake. Using a wheel I was still getting to grips with, the feeling completely changed by a vehicle I hadn't tried yet, on tracks I'd never even seen before... Not pretty stuff. Ended up ranking 6th, which is pretty much laughable.

Haven't had a chance to try out much else... the online rankings is about as grand as I could have hoped for, I have no complaints with it whatsoever. Shows your ranking in relation to everyone else in your friends list/continent/planet, then allows you to try racing someone slightly better than you, a staff ghost or the #1 time. I learnt about the tracks pretty quickly by taking on those #1 times, I tell you.
Still yet to try out battle mode (or all-team mode, as I spitefully call it) or online... those will be for tonight, assuming I can squeeze all that in before work. ...Me... work... when there's Mario Kart to be done? Blasphemy!!

Incidentally, the way they've inserted Miis into the background is your usual stuff, except for Coconut Mall, where it's one of the funniest things I've seen so far on Wii, with Miis' faces up on posters and Miis poorly trying to park cars in your path in the parking lot. It's hilarious crashing into one of your mate's Miis as it grins at you dopily. Fantastic stuff there.