{"id":102865,"date":"2019-10-31T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/random_fan_makes_amazing_mario_kart_mod_where_waluigi_races_by_running_on_foot"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:30:00","slug":"random-fan-makes-amazing-mario-kart-mod-where-waluigi-races-by-running-on-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/random-fan-makes-amazing-mario-kart-mod-where-waluigi-races-by-running-on-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Fan Makes Amazing Mario Kart Mod Where Waluigi Races By Running On Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/06acf938976b3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/06acf938976b3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Waluigi Mario Kart mod\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/06acf938976b3\/waluigi-mario-kart-mod.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/06acf938976b3\/waluigi-mario-kart-mod.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Waluigi Mario Kart mod\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s something special about Waluigi. Something that makes fans have particularly strong feelings either for or against him, something that saw him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/random_waluigi_wins_nintendos_official_valentines_day_poll\">win an official Valentine&#8217;s Day poll<\/a>, and something that makes people want to see him run around a <strong>Mario Kart<\/strong> circuit without being in a car apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Mod developer <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamebanana.com\/skins\/172885\">Niment<\/a> has transformed the character in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/mario_kart_wii\"><strong>Mario Kart Wii<\/strong><\/a>, stripping away his vehicle and having him charge around the track like the absolute champion we all know him to be. To do it, Niment actually used Waluigi&#8217;s model and animations from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/mario_party_9\"><strong>Mario Party 9<\/strong><\/a>, and you&#8217;ll notice that he even reacts to certain situations like going over speed boosts and running into obstacles. It&#8217;s a pretty solid effort.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h7XfCDG7P0s?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The very same person has also released similar versions of the mod for Luigi and Wario (you&#8217;ll spot Wario at the start of the video), seemingly being intent on creating some kind of &#8216;Mario Kart: But Not Actually In Karts Deluxe&#8217;. To be fair, we could happily sit and watch Waluigi sprinting by his bemused opponents all day long.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes you just don&#8217;t know you want something until you see it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something special about Waluigi. Something that makes fans have particularly strong feelings either for or against him, something that saw him win an official Valentine&#8217;s Day poll, and something that makes people want to see him run around a Mario Kart circuit without being in a car apparently. Mod developer Niment has transformed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}