Photos from Mario Kart

Hey Nintendo. How silly is it that I have to point a camera at my TV to try to get screenshots of the great Mii integration in Mario Kart? You know, like you allowed to do in Smash Bros and then even saved to the Wii Message Board in Metroid Prime 3? I talk to you a lot, and you never answer.

Clark likes to tool around in Time Trial mode. Just unlocked the Quacker this weekend.

In Dry Dry Ruins, your Miis show up on the Sphinx heads! Like Josh here...

Or Steve, who looks very regal. I think you only get the hilarious mega-Mii environs if you use your Mii as a driver. Otherwise it's the regular Mario cast on the statues and whatnot (although you always get the crowd Miis and the mall poster Miis). Racing with your Mii is like turning on a switch that tells the game you're okay with your Miis busting up the Mario canon.

Who's that up ahead on Daisy Circuit? Why, that's Mommy and Daddy? Let's get a closer look...

Unlocked Mirror Mode, which means I have gold medals on all eight Grand Prix series on all three difficulties. That last one - the hardest one, with Bowser's Castle and Rainbow Road - was a little easier than I thought; I only had to play it twice to get the gold. And I lost the first time chiefly due to my own incompetence on the hairpin turns, not so much the AI item barrage. So I got exceptionally lucky. Now it's off to Mirror Mode.