Rool would’ve been and is far more relevant. Now we could bring the argument of balance back into this as neither of those characters would be tall like him, but King K. He’s been around since the first Donkey Kong Country but has had less or a presence as Dixie Kong or Cranky Kong. Funky Kong is a bizarre choice as he’s been playable before this in Donkey Kong Jungle Climber, Konga 3 and Barrel Blast but that is usually to be the fourth player. Just like Toadette before, Baby Daisy is an original character who exists to be the Baby Luigi to Baby Peach. We also got the introduction of Baby Daisy. Mario Kart Wii does it’s best to balance the roster with an equal amount of small, medium and large characters which likely influenced the roster. Baby Peach is the first character from the Mario & Luigi series added into Mario Kart and may have been done for balance. She got a second appearance in Yoshi’s Island DS shortly after. Baby Peach also debuted between DS and Wii with Mario & Luigi Partners in Time. The only newcomer that was available at the start of the game was Baby Peach. She’s definitely a unique newcomer in this game, but you had to unlock her. She was a very popular character among fans and it was almost assured Nintendo would push her for future games. Her debut appearance was in Super Mario Galaxy, half a year before this Mario Kart. Rosalina was a new character introduced in the series between Mario Kart DS and Wii. Let’s see if you can notice with these character choices. Now onto the newcomers, Mario Kart Double Dash!! and DS are key titles in character selection for the series as they subtlety began trends in the character choices that would get more prevalent as the games went on. There is also the inclusion of Motor Bikes that may not have gone well with Petey’s model. Due to the nature of Double Dash!! the Karts were much larger overall but in Mario Kart Wii they went back to the small, single size. The most likely reason for their exclusion is the inclusion of both Koopa Troopa and Dry Bones makes Paratroopa a little redundant and for Petey Piranha it might be possible that he was too big. The only missing characters from Double Dash!! were Paratroopa and Petey Piranha, however, there is evidence the files that both of these two were planned to appear. Nearly every single character from Double Dash!! is back including Dry Bones from Mario Kart DS. Mario Kart Wii had the biggest roster by far at this point, with 25 racers in total. Thankfully though, Wii would rectify all of this. Now in part 2 we are going to go from Mario Kart Wii to the present day and beyond! So last we left, Mario Kart DS had removed a majority of the newcomers added in Double Dash!! and only added in three newcomers, Shy Guy, Dry Bones and the first guest racer in ROB. In the first part of this series, we covered all of the Mario Kart games from Super to DS (+ the Arcade games). Welcome back to part 2 of On Character Selection Mario Kart.
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