Snagged an early copy of Mario Kart DS

[Teuthida]

I HATE THESE RED SHELLS!

I carry a shell, banana, fake box behind me and then red shell zips around to my side and hits me. So I try planting whatever I'm carrying right before it hits me and again it circles around and hits me. Plus when I have the 3 circling shells I still get hit sometimes by a red shell without one of the 3 doing anything. It wasn't like this in any of the other games... *sigh*

I'm scarred from ever playing online again. It's just...it makes no sense.