{"id":363,"date":"2025-06-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:09:48","slug":"sega-knows-you-hate-mario-karts-blue-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/sega-knows-you-hate-mario-karts-blue-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Knows You Hate Mario Kart&#039;s Blue Shells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds removes &#8220;unfair&#8221; and &#8220;stressful&#8221; items.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A cornerstone of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart<\/a> experience is, for better or worse, the dreaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/random-mario-kart-world-players-take-heed-this-is-what-happens-when-you-throw-a-blue-shell-in-first-place\">Blue Shell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seen as a means of keeping the playing field (relatively) level, this item targets the player in first place, and has been the cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/mario_kart_8_deluxe_world_record_attempt_fittingly_destroyed_by_blue_shell\">much frustration over the decades<\/a>\u2014to the point where some people argue it&#8217;s actually a <em>disadvantage<\/em> to be in first position for much of each Mario Kart race.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/sega-knows-you-hate-mario-karts-blue-shells\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds removes &#8220;unfair&#8221; and &#8220;stressful&#8221; items. A cornerstone of the Mario Kart experience is, for better or worse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalconspiracy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}