I think its more so that there's currently no one willing to make a Wario Land game, as opposed to WarioWare that has Intelligent System behind them The og devs are either no longer there or busy with other projects, and Good-Feel doesn't seem that interested in working on another WL either
my first wario game was wario land 3 (still love it) and as a kid I always assumed that Wario does not get really hurt by enemies, cause he himself is a villain. You know, the kind of child logic like invisable people can see other invisible people XD
I do think him being a villain is part of the reason, just in a different way. In the average Nintendo game, main antagonists typically always come back in the next entry. So, Wario can’t truly die. Unless he gets patty-caked to death by the world’s ugliest clown.
I remember that back in the early-to-mid 2010s, I read the article about Wario Land: Shake It on the Mario Wiki (NOT Wikia/Fandom), when that article pointed out the fact that Wario Land 4 & Shake It marks an extremely long gap of new Wario Land games between 2001 & 2008... Boy, did they not see anything yet! 😂
lol yeah no kidding. But hey I mean for a while it felt like a new 2D Metroid wasn't going to happen and there was this really huge gap before Dread was finally released. Never know what they might surprise us with one day.
If there’s ever a new Wario Land entry than for heaven’s sake Wario invite your partner Waluigi as your player 2 if there's a two player story mode. Since I feel bad for this purple underdog with the lanky scarecrow like body who's been around for 20ish years of his life with the Mario cast. Heck have the two team up with or against Captain Syrup. Speaking of her she should be brought to the spin off Mario entries as well like what Pauline got.
@seasonembrace3624 If Daisy can appear in an official mainline Super Mario game, then there might be hope that Waluigi could appear in a future game with Wario. :)
It does seem a little unfair on Nintendo’s behalf to give Toadette who made her debut in Mario Kart Double Dash simply to be Toad’s partner but was given more love by them simply because for what I assume is because they made her, Which feels a little petty on Nintendo's part. No offense to Toadette she's alright just would of been nice for both of them to be in the mainline entries.
For Wario World you could say that it's short and sweet and it doesn't overstay it's welcome, it doesn't add extra stuff that makes the game go on forever.
i would also mention that pizza tower recived a free update that added a New playable character with different moveset, it adds even more replayability to the game
Super well done man!! I'm glad the algorithm blessed me today with this one. My first and only Wario game was Wario Land 4 -- I just picked it up from a bargain bin and vividly remember it being so strange and whimsical as a kid. It was so unhinged and different from anything else at the time, and I loved it! Those dominoes still haunt my dreams, though... Anyway, you've done a great job cataloguing the series! Keep up the good work man. Much love.
Yeah very similar with me and the original Wario Land, random flea market buy and just loved how unhinged the game was compared to Mario. 4 is really great :D Thanks for watching!
@@tildeshambles Wario was created because R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, so Wario Land was created so that Nintendo can have Mario like games on handheld. However R and D 1 was shutdown, so Wario Land can't be made in house anymore. Wario Shake was made because programer of 6 Golden Coins Takahiro Harada asked Good Feel to make another one. Most likely because Nintendo needed more time to make New Super Mario Bros. Wii. So Nintendo no longer needs Wario, now that Nintendo has an easier time making 2d Mario.
With Nintendo currently going through a phase of remakes / bringing back old series, I'd love to see a new entry, or a remake bundle of the first four games.
43:30 Anton has had in my opinion a very memorable voice ever since Antonball Deluxe. It's in a way a bit surprising you say that since he is constantly yelling in the demos
Wario Land 4 gets much more difficult and stressful in Hard mode, and especially Super Hard mode. Super Hard Mode is pretty much a Kaizo-esque game. You gotta try that out.
@@MaxOakland There's tons of changes. * the gem chests are moved to trickier / more tricky locations, eliminating the "they're just always along the way" nitpick * enemies are changed up - more are added, and some are replaced with harder to defeat ones. In fact, there are a few enemies that are exclusive to the harder difficulties * the Frog timers are much lower, including Boss timers * the items that damage bosses cost a lot more Frog Medals * In S-Hard mode, you always start every level with just 1 Heart! So you better find a way to heal fast, or else you die and start the level over. There's a lot of effort put into making every difficulty unique.
The real problem with standard Wario games not returning is that Nintendo won't let go of the Wario-Ware Minigame series. They're short but are meant to be played in short bursts. Now he's in Smash Bros, Mario Kart minigame hell and odd extra spin-off's
Yeah I was gonna say we had Mario Wonder, Paper Mario, Mario RPG and Mario & Luigi. Nintendos brought back every form of RPG Mario despite mainline Mario's existence. So I don't think Warioware existing is an issue.
@@orangeslash1667 I'm not buying any of this theory. Nintendo had no new 2D Mario on Switch until 2023 and they didn't get anyone to make Wario Land for them to fill the gap.
Hey! I'm a game dev, here! I'm not making a Wario-Like exactly, but I am featuring a lot of aspects of one in the Metroidvania-ish Paper Mario clone I've been working on for a while!
Funnily enough, I've seen Wario Land 3 referred to as a "Wariovania". Not sure if that will catch on the same way Metroidvania or even "Wario-Like" will.
A personal hope is the next Wario Land starting as a treasure hunting expedition to fund the next Warioware which gives an excuse to have the others tag along, even if only for a stage or two. Or they could even do a Warioware RPG since there’s now a Mario RPG Renaissance with SMRPG, Paper Mario TTYD and the recently announced Mario & Luigi Brothership all coming back within the span of a year!
The great thing about the Wario formula is that it doesn't have to be exclusive to platformers. Treasure Tech (a Doom mod) and Captain Wayne are FPS games that take various degrees of inspiration from Wario, and with some creativity you can Wario up all sorts of genres. How about a Wario style kart racer, where instead of picking up power-ups you get all sorts of effects out of crashing into stage hazards and other players?
Is Captain Wayne a Wario-Like? No doubt it looks really cool, and it definitely has that "punk" edge that Wario Land kind of has that got cranked up with Pizza Tower, but aside from that, I'm having trouble placing what else about it is "Wario-like".
I think the problem is that Nintendo lacks a developer to make the games. Nintendo R&D1, the original developer for the Wario Land series from the original to Wario Land 4, dissolved in 2004 due to corporate re-structuring. Wario Land: Shake It! is the only Wario Land game to be developed by a different developer, Good-Feel, who also developed Princess Peach: Showtime!. So in the end, it really comes down to whether or not Good-Feel wants to make another Wario Land game, or if Nintendo can find another developer to make a new Wario Land game, similar to how they found a new developer to develop Mario & Luigi: Brothership after AlphaDream's bankruptcy.
7:14, I mean, Nintendo hasn't completely ignored the Virtual Boy. It's been referenced in several Nintendo games; Luigi's Mansion 3, the Labor VR thing, Tomodachi Life, and probably some others.
Right but those are harmless references that go over the heads of most. It’d be a different story if at anything where there was a marketing budget involved they were like “hey guys the virtual boy games are available for purchase! What’s that? you don’t know what a virtual boy is? Well In 1995…” just don’t see that happening.
As much as I like the WarioWare games, I never felt like they should replace Wario Land as Wario's main series of games. After all, I feel like there's a side to Wario you get out of Wario Land that you don't out of WarioWare, like yeah, he's a goofball, but he's also kind of a badass too, so seeing him beat up enemies by charging into them and using his girth and beefy arms to crush whoever's in his way, that's just really satisfying to see. The Wario Land games felt like a good mix of both sides of Wario, showcasing how tough he is while also showing him as the butt of jokes. My hope is that someone, somewhere within Nintendo remembers and likes the Wario Land series enough to try and kickstart development of a new Wairo Land. As cool as the rise of Wario-Likes are, I still really like Wario specifically and would love to see a return to form for him. Speaking of Wario-Likes, though, the fact that there are an increasing amount of games based on Wario Land makes me very happy. Pizza Tower is absolutely fantastic, one of my favorite games of all time even, and ANTONBLAST is looking to be another great one, but believe it or not there are still plenty of other Wario Land-inspired games out there, both currently released and in-development. Here's a list of the ones I've found, if you want to check them out: -Sugary Spire, a Pizza Tower fan-game that's essentially Pizza Tower but if the roles of Peppino and The Noise were reversed -Antonball Deluxe from Summitsphere, a precursor to ANTONBLAST that's basically a unique combination of Wario Land, the Mario Bros. arcade game, and Breakout -Treasure Tech from SuperUltra64, a DOOM mod with gameplay elements from Wario Land 4. A full game, Treasure Tech Land, is planned after Treasure Tech is finished -Duke Dashington from Adventure Islands, where Wario Land 4's dashing and escape sequences is formatted into a room-by-room 10-second puzzle challenge -Shovel Knight: King of Cards from Yacht Club Games, where you play as King Knight, who uses a shoulder bash that I feel must be a reference to Wario Land... -Tembo the Badass Elephant from Game Freak, in which the game's director, James Turner, cites Wario Land as one of his main influences for the game -Susan Taxpayer from Punkitt, takes the Wario Land formula and put it in a white-collar office setting If you happen to be aware of other Wario-Like games in development or out there already, I'd love to know!
Wario Land on Virtual Boy is ironically a great master-piece; VB may not be a memorable system, but game was singlehandedly a standout. Though my favorite in the franchise has been a tossup between Wario Land 3 and 4. Both absolutely amazing titles. But I do hope we get another brand new Wario land game for sure.
Agreed. I was really amazed at the quality that VB Wario Land had given the time period it was from. Had Nintendo decided to not ditch the VB and actually bring it to Australia with a tour like they did with other consoles back then I would have had a similar moment like when I saw Mario 64 for the first time.
I grew up with Wario Land 2, 3 and 4. In fact, Wario Land 4 was the reason I begged my parents to get me a GBA. Had a great time with all of these, but 3 is my favorite, and the one I played the most. I just really loved the metroidvania system, of how you get treasures to change old levels, the way you effect the world, and the new powerups - it was a lot of fun. And eventually I played Wario Land 1 on an emulator. Loved that game as well. Wish Inhad the chance to grow up with it too.
I’d love for the Virtual Boy wario land to get remade out of that hideous red. I was one of the few owners of the virtual boy growing up, and Wario Land on it was amazing.
Yeah I was hoping for either a rerelease or a remake during the 3DS days, it just looked like a really fun game. I'm glad I got to experience it on the 3DS, but it would have been cooler if back in the day they gave it more of a chance and released it outside of North America and Japan.
Not that unrealistic when the Wario series had a crossover with Bomberman back when it was still fresh, and there was another brief one in a Starfy game, where a whole level was heavily inspired by WL4, where Wario teamed up with Starfy after he was sent there by one of WL4's portals
@@dustymcwari4468 With the exception of Metroid Dread and Pikmin 4, were seeing less third party collaborations of niche IPs. This is because back then Nintendo needed collaborations when making games, due to the fact that thirty party support for the Gamecube and Wii U were very limited. Now that the Switch has alot of third party support, Nintendo can both rely on their popular IPs and experiment to create new IPs.
Wario Land 3 is my favourite game of all time. The others are good too, but that one is the top. Wrote an essay on why it's the most unique metroidvania ever made, then did a reading of it on my channel. Actually created a design document for a Wario-Like myself, which also has a going-into-the-background mechanic but with a twist. Unlike Pizza Tower or Anton Blast, it would be more like Wario Land 3 than 4. If you're going to do another video about Wario Land, talk about 3 is the secret Metroid game between Super and Fusion. You can see a number of design elements from Wario Land 3 in Metroid Fusion if you know what to look for, so I hope you watch the reading of the essay I did and consider making such a video.
This is a high quality video, I really enjoyed it. I'm surprised you don't have a larger following after content like this, definitely checking out your other stuff
Wario land was a huge part of my childhood. WL2 was the first game I ever played extensively on my own. It was a great game for a beginner like me at that age, since you couldn't die in it and you would only lose small bits of progress for messing up. Weirdly, the game that would interest me the most, if Nintendo ever made one, is a sequel to Wario World. I think that formular has a lot of untapped potential. I'd love if they turned Wario's destructiveness up to 11 and made huge parts of each stage completely destructable. Not just a few boxes here and there, but entire walls, parts of buildings, boulders and trees and cars and anything you could imagine. Being destructive in games can be so much fun and I'd love to see a game where Wario can pick up a car and piledrive it into a building to make it crumble to pieces. Imagine if you could rip trees out of the ground and chuck 'em. Or fire hydrants, mailboxes and street lights. Imagine you could rip the anchor out of a ship and throw it like a yo-yo from its chain. Imagine you could simply grab things and keep them in your hand as a way to modify your punch. Like, if you grab a rock, it does more damage. If you grab an enemy, punching with it will knock coins out of it. If you punch while holding a torch, you can set things on fire. If you punch while holding a block of ice, you can freeze enemies, which you can then shatter into pieces. Usually when you grab things in Wario games, you can only throw them. But this way, simply picking up stuff could be ways to make clever puzzles and reward experimenting with your surroundings.
Forgot to mention how princess Shokora should never come back like Pauline, it would make no sense since she just disappeared and I’d like our beloved Neko princess to stay underrated and unknown.
What about Queen Merelda from Shake It? She’s from the Shake Dimension so it wouldn’t make sense for her to come back either as well. But man do I miss Captain Syrup… she had the best redesign in Shake It, only us to never see her again, at this point I wouldn’t mind her showing up in Warioware, Cractus from Wario Land 4 showed up in Move It in one of Kat & Ana’s cutscenes.
@@brandonwilliams6119 tbf, Cractus appearing in Move It kinda retcons WL4 because he's a ghost in that game, that Wario destroyed, yet here he is in Move It, fully alive and attached to the ground like your average plant monster, so Shokora and anyone from WL can just come back whenever the devs want to
That's actually kind of hilarious but tbh if i saw a mario game called mario's time machine as a kid and didn't know anything about it it would seem like the coolest game ever
I've played a bit of Virtual Boy Wario Land on my 3DS with the Virtual Boy emulator Red Viper which takes advantage of the 3DS's 3D to simulate the Virtual Boy's 3D and it's definitely the definitive way to play it along with every VB game in my opinion.
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I've been asking myself this exact same question for the last 20 years... WL4 is one of my all time fav games and Pizza Tower was such a fantastic treat last year, we need more WarioLand-likes.
the wario land shake it ad is burned into my brain. nintendo made a fake youtube site to watch the trailer of the game, when wario would shake or pound something the youtube page fell apart. blew my mind when i first saw it
the wario land games are my favorite nintendo series, played the hell out of WL3 and 4, and Shake It. Wario World unfortunately had the misfortune of being a project tossed at a 2nd party dev and told by Nintendo "hey quick make a thing for this" and the team having no clue who this weirdo was outside of he's mean gross Mario. And yea, happy to see a subgenre pick up the mantle since we ain't getting another Wario Land any time soon (and if we did it probably won't be just another 2D thing).
Oddly enough, I only ever played the original Game Boy and Virtual Boy games, and afterwards the WarioWare series. So while I played many games with Wario in them, none of them were "Wario-style" games.
The main problem I have with WL: Shake It is that because everything is hand-drawn, there are fewer enemy designs than in previous games and they are all very basic and same-y which is a shame. Compare the insane bosses from WL4 to the ones from Shake It, it's not even close
I got WarioLand 3 as a kid. My parents surprised me with a Nintendo game. I was hoping for a Mario game. I wasn’t able to read at the take age. I remember not quite understanding how the game worked… and the face character scared me. He was like a phantom of the opera
Cool video! I probably had some of the same experience with games growing up, and as a result I've also been missing Wario Land for a while. Not to throw shade on Wario Ware, which does have some games I like a lot, but that's not my favorite kinda Wario game or even take on the character - It was, for example, kinda frustrating to get Wario in Smash Bros. and have him act more like Wario Ware than Wario Land. I didn't wanna have Wario come in and fart, you know, I wanted him to come in and throw that poor explorer from Wario Land 4 at someone. Or get set on fire and run until he burned up. Wario Land 2 and 3(as well as Metroid 2, which I believe were the same guys) were definitely my favorite platformers on the game boy. As a kid I didn't have my own TV or anything, so having a handheld was great and I spent a lot of time digging into the Warios. Having said that, when I got a Game Boy Advance, I never looked back at the game boy. Wario Land 4, Metroid Fusion, I think those games blew their game boy prequels out of the water. It was incredible to get a new handheld and find such fun, improved takes on games that I already liked. Felt like the devs were finally freed from the constraints of that old gray brick and used all that new power for what it was worth, which resulted in games that felt very fresh despite both being the fourth in their series.
2:17 fr, he looked very crazy, specially in sml2 and wl4 6:31 the VB was actually meant to be lighter and portable initially, at the time there were concerns by conservative parents that processing units could emit radiation, then the designers cased the internals with heavy metal casing, which led it to become heavy, however there was a solution by giving it shoulder supports, but was turned down, because there were also concerns that kids could walk in random places with the headset on, and thus the chicken leg design was used 7:05 there was actually plans to have a vb wario land rerelease for 3ds, but was turned down 8:20 lmaoooo the red ain't that bad, specially in real hardware 15:50 absolutely agreed, that's exactly the reason why people don't like wl3 really much 19:03 interestinly enough, medamayaki used a method to get those voices in within small storage called setence mixing, which became popular over the years 20:53 apparently both wario world and land 4 share the same sets of voice clips, but wl4 is compressed and crazier, the voice clips most likely came from camelot's n64 mario spinoff games 30:26 tbh shake it's presentation was great, but it had its faults, wario was lankier than usual, and he was expressive as his 3d appearances outside of world (which means he wasn't) and on top of that most of the backgrounds in the stages were meh for me and btw, a remaster could actually be possible because in the japanese trailer for the game, a high quality version of his walk animation appeared, uncompressed versions of other animations might be somewhere at nintendo's vault another fact: wario land shake it was initially supposed to be 3d with cel shading, as evidenced with unused graphics of few enemies 36:49 HIS NAME IS SHINESPARK 37:46 truly, but at the same time i didn't really like p rank for one reason, there were many cool ideas scrapped through development and many of them wouldn't work with the p rank system 38:43 the toppins are not necessary, it's just for progression and points 40:18 interestinly enough, pizza tower's artstyle uses colors only from wario land 2 41:02 well i have some news, recently there has been leaks of the pt private server that revealed there'd be a mr stick update along with floor -1, along with 2 new games (pizza tower: an alien stole my pizza and noise's big break) with noise's big break being confirmed with a cryptic teaser in pizza tower twitter account and the noise update being leaked earlier in HD 44:27 i absolutely doubt it will come back, star fox is still dead and f zero only got a 99 game that is bound to die and kill f zero again, the only reasons why stuff such as pmttyd remake, smrpg remake and m&l RPG brothership exist, is because it's still the mario IP, and experimentation with mario has only come far as that, there's no interest in a new wario land game by nintendo or their 2nd parties aside that even if nintendo made a new wario land game, it would be very bland
A lot of games have gone in a different direction or got axed completely. Ecco the Dolphin is one such franchise I will never get over losing. They made a near complete sequel and just abandoned him completely. Are you freaking kidding me…? Earthbound? Why? WHY? There’s no good excuse.
You mentioned Wario Land 3's final boss cutscene being unskippable. To my knowledge, when losing only once to that fight, you can skip that cutscene by pressing Start to get right back into the fight without having to wait for it. Kinda wished you had talked more about Wario Land 3, about the additional levels that reward exploration, about the mini golf you gotta do that gets progressively more difficult and expensive over the course of the game, about the fact that the game has a hint system in case you haven't played in a while and don't know where to go next (although that one only hints at you the next locations that progress the "story" furteher) and also because it could have been your first Metroidvania you ever played or Search Action Game as they are also called so mentioning the familiarity with the genre would have been neat. A reason why also no new Wario title, besides WarioWare, coming out has to do with the failures of the last games. Wario World? Sold poorly comparatively. Wario Master of Disguise? From what I heard but I'm unsure it also didn't sell that well, nor did it review that greatly. And Wario: The Shake Dimension suffered from a heavily poor choice of a release window.. being close to Super Mario Galaxy which took all it's attention away from said Wario game. Funfact: Even Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn suffered from this and hurt the series so much it nearly went into a comatose state for it, as both Tellius Saga games (aka the GC and Wii one) didn't sell well, and FE Radiant Dawn came out in nearly the same time window as the Wario game and the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy, which explains what happened.
We need wario land series to return and they should just let someone else be the protagonist of wario ware so wario can go back to his treasure hunting adventures we need a new wario land
To tell you just HOW LITTLE Nintendo cares about this franchise, when they took down their stuff from Vimm, they left all games from the series except for Mario Land 3.
I fear the main issue with Wario land is how they did everything you can do with it. Any more change to the formula gives you the Wario likes, which honestly, aren't at all like 2-4.
True, I know its shown in a couple other games as well, but they're harmless references. I'd love for them to mention the Virtual Boy in a Nintendo Direct saying you can play the games now... but I just don't think they'll do it because it requires explaining what a virtual boy is for those that aren't big Nintendo fans or grew up in a part of the world where it never released. That's what I meant by acknowledging it.
I’m watching this while playing Super Mario deluxe on the Gameboy colour That has a modded backlit screen and im 48 so I was there at the beginning oh What a time to be alive 🙏🏽oh and this vid is worth a Sub…My best Warrio games are Warrio 4 Gameboy advance and Warrio shake it for the Wii🙏🏽I haven’t played the Gameboy or Gameboy colour Warrio games but I think they will be my next games to play 🙏🏽
Thanks! It all comes from the analogue pocket. It lets you apply filters to make it look like a close enough replica of the original devices screen. Pretty neat.
Yeah, VB wario land really surprised me by how good it was. For the other gameboy games, I'd recommend 2 and 3 as that's where all the cartoon fun is. 1 will just feel like a slower, less detailed VB Wario Land if you play it now. It's fun for sure, but not sure if it will hold up over the love for VB Wario.
Wario Land mostly existed in a time when there weren’t many 2D Mario games When 2D Mario returned Nintendo saw less reason to make Wario Land games and eventually stopped after Shake It
I think the second one is the best, third one was just not as good. But those two games were the absolute best in the series. I have zero nostalgia weighing in on what I feel for those games, since I only played the first one and shortly thereafter sold my Gameboy, and skipped the GBC entirely. Otherwise it can sometimes be hard to know how much nostalgia plays in to how you rate a game. But those games are top notch. It's also weird how they never did another game like Donkey Kong, the GB version. Great concepts that are just abandoned, maybe the sales didn't reflect how awesome those games were. But it's some of the best games Nintendo ever made.
I don't think it's really accurate to say the first Wario Land was just called Super Mario Land 3 to piggyback off the success of previous games. If you look at the game itself just as a game, ignoring the character sprite you happen to be playing as, it's incredibly similar to Super Mario Land 2 (as you pointed out) such that it's obviously the sequel to that game, at least in my opinion. It still follows mechanically the 2D Mario formula almost to a T, the biggest deviation it has is just the existence of Wario's new dash attack and...that's kinda it. It still pretty much plays almost exactly like a Mario game, especially Mario Land 2, just a bit slower-paced (unless you hold up while jumping, which basically just enables sprint-jumping where you move faster and jump a block higher like in other 2D Mario games, just without regular sprinting itself). Not to mention the story itself is directly continuing off the second Mario Land, which itself was directly building off the first Mario Land's story, making them all an interconnected trilogy narratively (which is rare for Mario) about the rivalry between Mario and Wario that ultimately ends with Wario finally getting his own castle and no longer coveting Mario's one. And even getting to the part where we're not literally playing as Mario, we're still playing as "Bad Mario" (which is what Wario means) and he's still an incredibly similar character to Mario, not to mention he's the major new character introduced in the game this is a sequel to, and from the beginning he was shown to basically be a "Bad Mario" who has similar abilities, being able to use the same kind of power-ups and go small when he takes damage and all (which remains true in Mario Land 3/Wario Land, heck on the subject of power-ups the classic Starman is still in the game and functions identically to other 2D Mario games), so him being playable in the next game is hardly a massive departure enough to make the next game not a proper sequel. Would Luigi U not be a Mario game because you're instead playing as a similar guy with slightly different abilities, aka Luigi, and Mario himself is nowhere to be found? I don't think so. And pretty much NONE of this is true of the later Wario Land games from Wario Land 2 onwards that don't have the Mario subtitle, they made massive changes to the gameplay such that they play very differently and don't have the Mario formula aspects mechanically much at all that the first Wario Land does, other than Wario Land 3 bringing back Warp Pipes I guess. Wario Land 1 (and the VB title) is the only one that still plays almost exactly like a Mario game in most ways, is very different in that respect from the later Wario Land games, is directly connected to the other Mario Land games narratively, and is the only one with the Mario Land subtitle (or main title in Japan, the names are swapped there). Meaning it seems clear to me that it IS really Super Mario Land 3 as a game, but its unique aspects it introduced and Wario as a character would also serve as the inspiration and starting ground for a new spin-off series that would develop its own kind of 2D platformer gameplay different from 2D Mario and the first Wario Land, and both of those things can be true at once. So analyzing the game mechanically and narratively, both in comparison to Super Mario Land 2 and more broadly to the 2D Mario formula, and the later Wario Land games that would follow, I can hardly say the "Super Mario Land 3" title is just a marketing slap on but rather that it is truly meant to be the third and final game in that series. And I don't think the fact that you're playing as "Bad Mario" instead of actual Mario is enough alone to say it's not, when talking about the game itself that's not a majorly important factor (otherwise Luigi U also wouldn't be a proper Mario game, or a game that plays nothing like a Mario game but you still play as Mario apparently is, the character sprite is not the most important aspect to classify whole games by). Wow...I can never stop rambling for WAY too long, my bad lol.
Same thing with Super Mario World being called Super Mario Brothers 4, now that was DEFINITELY not just to piggyback for marketing purposes, that game is OBVIOUSLY Super Mario Brothers 4 and the sequel to Mario 3 in every respect and was clearly intended to be from the very start of development. Just look at it, there's nothing in there to argue otherwise, it's clearly the 4th game. That's just an accurate title it had for most of development and they just dropped the subtitle at least in the West very very late near the end. Yoshi's Island is definitely the most different of these 3 games and easiest to say was piggybacking with the title, and takes a lot longer to argue is truly part of the series. Though it was called Super Mario Bros. 5 in development and both Miyamoto and Tezuka have maintained its core Mario status long after other Yoshi games came out, specifically stating that it is part of the series but the later Yoshi games aren't and are their own thing, and there are a ton of unnoticed aspects of Yoshi's Island that either come from all 4 previous SMB games (including World there as established) or would continue to be present in later Mario games, including the NSMB games but even to an extent the 3D games, mainly Mario 64, but still it is the hardest one to argue because it DOES play very differently in many respects.
@@legoboy7107 Wario was created because R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, so Wario Land was created so that Nintendo can have Mario like games on handheld. However R and D 1 was shutdown, so Wario Land can't be made in house anymore. Wario Shake was made because programer of 6 Golden Coins Takahiro Harada asked Good Feel to make another one. Most likely because Nintendo needed more time to make New Super Mario Bros. Wii. So Nintendo no longer needs Wario, now that Nintendo has an easier time making 2d Mario.
If nintendo has done anything it's they partially listen to their fans. "We want a new Mario RPG" REMAKE! "We didn't like sticker star can we get a game that like TTYD with new partners and a story and everything." NO PROBLEM SAY NO MORE JUST STOMACH THESE 2 OTHER GAMED WERE CONTRACTED TO MAKE AND SIT TIGHT.... REMAKE!! "OK nintendo we really think your just hearting what you wanna hear at this point...but can we get some love for the Wario Land Series?" OH...I'M SORRY I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING A GOOD JOB I GUESD YOU DON'T WANT WARIOS NEW LAND THEN....I GUESS ITS TIME FOR... WARIOWARE SMOOTHER MOVES! A REMASTER OF THAT WII TITLE WITH NEW MOVES AND HD TEXTURES! "..."
Yeah I'm not sure if it's just me, but I really don't remember 3 being talked about back in the day amongst my circle of friends. I remember talking about 1,2 and 4 and was surprised about learning about an existence of a 3. The game's really good and I was glad when they put it on NSO.
@@tildeshambles Yeah it’s the first one I played back on 3DS and thanks to its unique structure and atmosphere, despite being on GBC, it‘s still my fav
Virtual Boy Wario Land is the best game on the Virtual boy that was released in the US. If you ever get a chance to play a real virtual boy, it is a very neat piece of equipment. You just have to make sure you actually adjust the focus and interocular distance right, because not adjusting that when you start is a 1 way trip to migraine town. It's definitely understandable why the system didn't take off, it is still a very interesting piece of tech to play with.
I hope I do get to try a real VB one day. Though the odds aren't good as the only way to get one is to import one since they're non existent locally and yeah the cost of sending anything to Australia + how expensive the VB would be and then a game on top... It'd be a luxury collector buy for sure. Maybe one day if this youtube thing ever kicks off lol.
Virtual Boy Wario Land is a such a huge Monkey Paw, coming out on a doomed handheld/console or _whatever_ that wasn’t going to be a guaranteed success, honestly VB Wario Land should’ve been moved to the SNES which was already a big success (that’s what I would change if i can go back to 1995 haha lol), and it would’ve likely made Wario Land a mainstay franchise, a bit off topic but I also wish we got a Super Kid Icarus on SNES.
I'm with you. I can't stand the "modern" biker style on Wario. Was that difficult to create a different character? Wario platformers are fun and excellent, but they just took Wario, already known franchised character to boost minigames game sales. Wario was prostituted.
Not a fan of Shake it!/Shake Dimension. Between the slower pacing, coin grinding for the next worlds, lack of a regular super charge or shoulder charge sliding, coin grinding for the next worlds, overall sluggish feel, coin grinding for the next worlds, lack of transformations outside of some motion segments, and coin grinding for the next worlds, it’s such a step back from its predecessors.
Lol thanks. That's one thing I didn't mention in the video, I like the character so much I started doing Wario voices when I would play Mariokart or Mario Party with friends. As bootleg as it may be, it works XD.
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WarioWare overtaking Wario Land is as insane as the Mario Sports series overtaking 2D Mario.
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It's like Rabbids replacing Rayman
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@@randocalzone8772 That's exactly what I thought. Rest in peace sweet prince. Your owners hate you but fans will always love you.
I think its more so that there's currently no one willing to make a Wario Land game, as opposed to WarioWare that has Intelligent System behind them
The og devs are either no longer there or busy with other projects, and Good-Feel doesn't seem that interested in working on another WL either
Fun fact: The developers of Pizza Tower and Antonblast are friends, and Peppino is featured in one of Anton's previous games: Antonball Deluxe
Anton also has art that appears in the background of the sewer level, Oh Shit! in Pizza Tower.
It's very clear they're friends with how the Pizza Tower devs promoted Antonblast when it was first revealed xd
@@thunderbro7 Did they actually call a level "Oh Shit!"?
@@TRLEMPERORGARLIX That is the actual name of the sewer level, yes.
@@darkkirby714 Because there's... Ah.
my first wario game was wario land 3 (still love it) and as a kid I always assumed that Wario does not get really hurt by enemies, cause he himself is a villain. You know, the kind of child logic like invisable people can see other invisible people XD
That makes sense in a way. Isn’t that also why Nabbit isn’t able to be hurt in 2D Mario games, because he started as an antagonist?
I do think him being a villain is part of the reason, just in a different way. In the average Nintendo game, main antagonists typically always come back in the next entry. So, Wario can’t truly die. Unless he gets patty-caked to death by the world’s ugliest clown.
That makes perfect sense
I hope after the popularity of Pizza Tower Nintendo maybe recognizes the need for a new entry in the wario land series
I remember that back in the early-to-mid 2010s, I read the article about Wario Land: Shake It on the Mario Wiki (NOT Wikia/Fandom), when that article pointed out the fact that Wario Land 4 & Shake It marks an extremely long gap of new Wario Land games between 2001 & 2008... Boy, did they not see anything yet! 😂
lol yeah no kidding. But hey I mean for a while it felt like a new 2D Metroid wasn't going to happen and there was this really huge gap before Dread was finally released. Never know what they might surprise us with one day.
Warioland 4 is a masterpiece and it’s tragic we never got a follow up
If there’s ever a new Wario Land entry than for heaven’s sake Wario invite your partner Waluigi as your player 2 if there's a two player story mode. Since I feel bad for this purple underdog with the lanky scarecrow like body who's been around for 20ish years of his life with the Mario cast. Heck have the two team up with or against Captain Syrup. Speaking of her she should be brought to the spin off Mario entries as well like what Pauline got.
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If Daisy can appear in an official mainline Super Mario game, then there might be hope that Waluigi could appear in a future game with Wario. :)
Waluigi only exists in the sports mini game universe. Separate from mainline games and nowhere near as important as other side characters.
@@OdaSwifteye That's why I hope Nintendo changes on that. Even generic Toad got his own series I think. (Captain_Toad).
@@seasonembrace3624 Waluigi was only made to give Wario a partner in the sports games. Nintendo doesn't see a propose for him outside of that.
It does seem a little unfair on Nintendo’s behalf to give Toadette who made her debut in Mario Kart Double Dash simply to be Toad’s partner but was given more love by them simply because for what I assume is because they made her, Which feels a little petty on Nintendo's part. No offense to Toadette she's alright just would of been nice for both of them to be in the mainline entries.
For Wario World you could say that it's short and sweet and it doesn't overstay it's welcome, it doesn't add extra stuff that makes the game go on forever.
i would also mention that pizza tower recived a free update that added a New playable character with different moveset, it adds even more replayability to the game
Super well done man!! I'm glad the algorithm blessed me today with this one.
My first and only Wario game was Wario Land 4 -- I just picked it up from a bargain bin and vividly remember it being so strange and whimsical as a kid. It was so unhinged and different from anything else at the time, and I loved it!
Those dominoes still haunt my dreams, though...
Anyway, you've done a great job cataloguing the series! Keep up the good work man. Much love.
Yeah very similar with me and the original Wario Land, random flea market buy and just loved how unhinged the game was compared to Mario. 4 is really great :D
Thanks for watching!
@@tildeshambles Wario was created because R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, so Wario Land was created so that Nintendo can have Mario like games on handheld. However R and D 1 was shutdown, so Wario Land can't be made in house anymore.
Wario Shake was made because programer of 6 Golden Coins Takahiro Harada asked Good Feel to make another one. Most likely because Nintendo needed more time to make New Super Mario Bros. Wii. So Nintendo no longer needs Wario, now that Nintendo has an easier time making 2d Mario.
With Nintendo currently going through a phase of remakes / bringing back old series, I'd love to see a new entry, or a remake bundle of the first four games.
The moment you introduced Pizza Tower with Oregano Mirage, i knew you're a man of culture
It had to be done :D
43:30 Anton has had in my opinion a very memorable voice ever since Antonball Deluxe. It's in a way a bit surprising you say that since he is constantly yelling in the demos
Wario Land 4 gets much more difficult and stressful in Hard mode, and especially Super Hard mode.
Super Hard Mode is pretty much a Kaizo-esque game.
You gotta try that out.
What changes in the harder modes?
@@MaxOakland There's tons of changes.
* the gem chests are moved to trickier / more tricky locations, eliminating the "they're just always along the way" nitpick
* enemies are changed up - more are added, and some are replaced with harder to defeat ones. In fact, there are a few enemies that are exclusive to the harder difficulties
* the Frog timers are much lower, including Boss timers
* the items that damage bosses cost a lot more Frog Medals
* In S-Hard mode, you always start every level with just 1 Heart! So you better find a way to heal fast, or else you die and start the level over.
There's a lot of effort put into making every difficulty unique.
The real problem with standard Wario games not returning is that Nintendo won't let go of the Wario-Ware Minigame series. They're short but are meant to be played in short bursts. Now he's in Smash Bros, Mario Kart minigame hell and odd extra spin-off's
They don't have to. Saying you can't have both is like saying we can't have mainline Mario anymore because we have Mariokart
Yeah I was gonna say we had Mario Wonder, Paper Mario, Mario RPG and Mario & Luigi. Nintendos brought back every form of RPG Mario despite mainline Mario's existence. So I don't think Warioware existing is an issue.
We can have both. WarioWare and Wario Land’s teams are different. They can exist together
@@orangeslash1667 I'm not buying any of this theory. Nintendo had no new 2D Mario on Switch until 2023 and they didn't get anyone to make Wario Land for them to fill the gap.
Honestly reminds me of the reason why we dont have a new f-zero. Why make one? We have mario kart. Why make a new wario? We have a new 2d mario
Hey! I'm a game dev, here! I'm not making a Wario-Like exactly, but I am featuring a lot of aspects of one in the Metroidvania-ish Paper Mario clone I've been working on for a while!
Funnily enough, I've seen Wario Land 3 referred to as a "Wariovania". Not sure if that will catch on the same way Metroidvania or even "Wario-Like" will.
I pray for your success.
@@Rubberman202 The reason for that is that Wario was created by the same team that made Metroid.
Doesn't Wario Land 4 and Metroid fusion have a similar engine?
@@alejandrogutierrez3789 yes
A personal hope is the next Wario Land starting as a treasure hunting expedition to fund the next Warioware which gives an excuse to have the others tag along, even if only for a stage or two.
Or they could even do a Warioware RPG since there’s now a Mario RPG Renaissance with SMRPG, Paper Mario TTYD and the recently announced Mario & Luigi Brothership all coming back within the span of a year!
I’m a game dev and I miss Wario too. I’m inspired by Pizza Tower and games like that because they’re showing we don’t need to wait for Nintendo
The great thing about the Wario formula is that it doesn't have to be exclusive to platformers. Treasure Tech (a Doom mod) and Captain Wayne are FPS games that take various degrees of inspiration from Wario, and with some creativity you can Wario up all sorts of genres. How about a Wario style kart racer, where instead of picking up power-ups you get all sorts of effects out of crashing into stage hazards and other players?
Captain Wayne looks crazy. It looks like Wario and Serious Sam mixed together. Thanks for the recommend!
Is Captain Wayne a Wario-Like? No doubt it looks really cool, and it definitely has that "punk" edge that Wario Land kind of has that got cranked up with Pizza Tower, but aside from that, I'm having trouble placing what else about it is "Wario-like".
I think the problem is that Nintendo lacks a developer to make the games. Nintendo R&D1, the original developer for the Wario Land series from the original to Wario Land 4, dissolved in 2004 due to corporate re-structuring. Wario Land: Shake It! is the only Wario Land game to be developed by a different developer, Good-Feel, who also developed Princess Peach: Showtime!. So in the end, it really comes down to whether or not Good-Feel wants to make another Wario Land game, or if Nintendo can find another developer to make a new Wario Land game, similar to how they found a new developer to develop Mario & Luigi: Brothership after AlphaDream's bankruptcy.
7:14, I mean, Nintendo hasn't completely ignored the Virtual Boy. It's been referenced in several Nintendo games; Luigi's Mansion 3, the Labor VR thing, Tomodachi Life, and probably some others.
Right but those are harmless references that go over the heads of most. It’d be a different story if at anything where there was a marketing budget involved they were like “hey guys the virtual boy games are available for purchase! What’s that? you don’t know what a virtual boy is? Well In 1995…” just don’t see that happening.
@@tildeshamblesI guess that's a fair point
I think a new Wario land could do well if it was marketed as “Mario bros on crack”
@@keeby4 Which would also be accurate honestly
Palm Tree Paradise from Wario Land 4 gives me goosebumps. It's such a good song that made me shed a tear every now and then
As much as I like the WarioWare games, I never felt like they should replace Wario Land as Wario's main series of games. After all, I feel like there's a side to Wario you get out of Wario Land that you don't out of WarioWare, like yeah, he's a goofball, but he's also kind of a badass too, so seeing him beat up enemies by charging into them and using his girth and beefy arms to crush whoever's in his way, that's just really satisfying to see. The Wario Land games felt like a good mix of both sides of Wario, showcasing how tough he is while also showing him as the butt of jokes. My hope is that someone, somewhere within Nintendo remembers and likes the Wario Land series enough to try and kickstart development of a new Wairo Land. As cool as the rise of Wario-Likes are, I still really like Wario specifically and would love to see a return to form for him.
Speaking of Wario-Likes, though, the fact that there are an increasing amount of games based on Wario Land makes me very happy. Pizza Tower is absolutely fantastic, one of my favorite games of all time even, and ANTONBLAST is looking to be another great one, but believe it or not there are still plenty of other Wario Land-inspired games out there, both currently released and in-development. Here's a list of the ones I've found, if you want to check them out:
-Sugary Spire, a Pizza Tower fan-game that's essentially Pizza Tower but if the roles of Peppino and The Noise were reversed
-Antonball Deluxe from Summitsphere, a precursor to ANTONBLAST that's basically a unique combination of Wario Land, the Mario Bros. arcade game, and Breakout
-Treasure Tech from SuperUltra64, a DOOM mod with gameplay elements from Wario Land 4. A full game, Treasure Tech Land, is planned after Treasure Tech is finished
-Duke Dashington from Adventure Islands, where Wario Land 4's dashing and escape sequences is formatted into a room-by-room 10-second puzzle challenge
-Shovel Knight: King of Cards from Yacht Club Games, where you play as King Knight, who uses a shoulder bash that I feel must be a reference to Wario Land...
-Tembo the Badass Elephant from Game Freak, in which the game's director, James Turner, cites Wario Land as one of his main influences for the game
-Susan Taxpayer from Punkitt, takes the Wario Land formula and put it in a white-collar office setting
If you happen to be aware of other Wario-Like games in development or out there already, I'd love to know!
Wario Land on Virtual Boy is ironically a great master-piece; VB may not be a memorable system, but game was singlehandedly a standout. Though my favorite in the franchise has been a tossup between Wario Land 3 and 4. Both absolutely amazing titles. But I do hope we get another brand new Wario land game for sure.
Agreed. I was really amazed at the quality that VB Wario Land had given the time period it was from. Had Nintendo decided to not ditch the VB and actually bring it to Australia with a tour like they did with other consoles back then I would have had a similar moment like when I saw Mario 64 for the first time.
Oh, the Virtual Boy was memorable alright, just in a completely different way.
Man this Mario series is so creative. It can’t get any more delightfully bizarre than this.
Wario: Hold my garlic.
This is probably the last nostalgia nugget i haven't looted to death already lol. Memories flooding back
I grew up with Wario Land 2, 3 and 4.
In fact, Wario Land 4 was the reason I begged my parents to get me a GBA.
Had a great time with all of these, but 3 is my favorite, and the one I played the most.
I just really loved the metroidvania system, of how you get treasures to change old levels, the way you effect the world, and the new powerups - it was a lot of fun.
And eventually I played Wario Land 1 on an emulator. Loved that game as well. Wish Inhad the chance to grow up with it too.
I’d love for the Virtual Boy wario land to get remade out of that hideous red. I was one of the few owners of the virtual boy growing up, and Wario Land on it was amazing.
Yeah I was hoping for either a rerelease or a remake during the 3DS days, it just looked like a really fun game. I'm glad I got to experience it on the 3DS, but it would have been cooler if back in the day they gave it more of a chance and released it outside of North America and Japan.
Master of disguise feels like an educational game, the music even uses GM midi samples so that’s how you know the budget was very very low
lol now that you say that, I can’t unhear it XD
It also would be neat to have a Shantae & Wario crossover with there pirate captain antagonists teaming up. Just an idea 🤷♂️
Not that unrealistic when the Wario series had a crossover with Bomberman back when it was still fresh, and there was another brief one in a Starfy game, where a whole level was heavily inspired by WL4, where Wario teamed up with Starfy after he was sent there by one of WL4's portals
@@dustymcwari4468 With the exception of Metroid Dread and Pikmin 4, were seeing less third party collaborations of niche IPs. This is because back then Nintendo needed collaborations when making games, due to the fact that thirty party support for the Gamecube and Wii U were very limited.
Now that the Switch has alot of third party support, Nintendo can both rely on their popular IPs and experiment to create new IPs.
Wario Land 3 is my favourite game of all time. The others are good too, but that one is the top. Wrote an essay on why it's the most unique metroidvania ever made, then did a reading of it on my channel. Actually created a design document for a Wario-Like myself, which also has a going-into-the-background mechanic but with a twist. Unlike Pizza Tower or Anton Blast, it would be more like Wario Land 3 than 4. If you're going to do another video about Wario Land, talk about 3 is the secret Metroid game between Super and Fusion. You can see a number of design elements from Wario Land 3 in Metroid Fusion if you know what to look for, so I hope you watch the reading of the essay I did and consider making such a video.
Wario Land, mainly 2 and 3, are metroidvanias and that's the biggest difference to the mario platformer series
This is a high quality video, I really enjoyed it. I'm surprised you don't have a larger following after content like this, definitely checking out your other stuff
Wario land was a huge part of my childhood. WL2 was the first game I ever played extensively on my own. It was a great game for a beginner like me at that age, since you couldn't die in it and you would only lose small bits of progress for messing up.
Weirdly, the game that would interest me the most, if Nintendo ever made one, is a sequel to Wario World. I think that formular has a lot of untapped potential. I'd love if they turned Wario's destructiveness up to 11 and made huge parts of each stage completely destructable. Not just a few boxes here and there, but entire walls, parts of buildings, boulders and trees and cars and anything you could imagine.
Being destructive in games can be so much fun and I'd love to see a game where Wario can pick up a car and piledrive it into a building to make it crumble to pieces.
Imagine if you could rip trees out of the ground and chuck 'em. Or fire hydrants, mailboxes and street lights.
Imagine you could rip the anchor out of a ship and throw it like a yo-yo from its chain.
Imagine you could simply grab things and keep them in your hand as a way to modify your punch. Like, if you grab a rock, it does more damage. If you grab an enemy, punching with it will knock coins out of it. If you punch while holding a torch, you can set things on fire. If you punch while holding a block of ice, you can freeze enemies, which you can then shatter into pieces.
Usually when you grab things in Wario games, you can only throw them. But this way, simply picking up stuff could be ways to make clever puzzles and reward experimenting with your surroundings.
My hat goes off to you random internet man
you're the fattest wario land fan i've seen on small corners of youtube and i'm not judging by actual size
Nintendo didn't make wario world. Treasure made that game.
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Forgot to mention how princess Shokora should never come back like Pauline, it would make no sense since she just disappeared and I’d like our beloved Neko princess to stay underrated and unknown.
What about Queen Merelda from Shake It?
She’s from the Shake Dimension so it wouldn’t make sense for her to come back either as well.
But man do I miss Captain Syrup… she had the best redesign in Shake It, only us to never see her again, at this point I wouldn’t mind her showing up in Warioware, Cractus from Wario Land 4 showed up in Move It in one of Kat & Ana’s cutscenes.
@@brandonwilliams6119 tbf, Cractus appearing in Move It kinda retcons WL4 because he's a ghost in that game, that Wario destroyed, yet here he is in Move It, fully alive and attached to the ground like your average plant monster, so Shokora and anyone from WL can just come back whenever the devs want to
A Virtual Boy with a screen would have been a killer handheld. Way better than “color.”
I miss those zany and simplistic GameBoy games.
That's actually kind of hilarious but tbh if i saw a mario game called mario's time machine as a kid and didn't know anything about it it would seem like the coolest game ever
I've played Pizza Tower but I kinda slept on it. Been meaning to try playing it again.
Go for it! It's a great game and they recently updated it with a 2nd playable character. So there's even more replay value now.
This video was excelent (very much intended), I would love to see you and Vinny just shouting in your Wario voices.
I've played a bit of Virtual Boy Wario Land on my 3DS with the Virtual Boy emulator Red Viper which takes advantage of the 3DS's 3D to simulate the Virtual Boy's 3D and it's definitely the definitive way to play it along with every VB game in my opinion.
Couldn’t agree more!
Pretty sure there's also a VB emulator for Oculus if you have one of those
@@evdestroy5304 I don't have one but I do plan to buy one eventually 👍
You've got yourself a new subscriber. You deserve so much more attention and views than you're getting. I hope the algorithm blesses you with a huge bump soon.
Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words it a lot. The algorithm has been pretty hit and miss for me but such is the grind lol.
I've been asking myself this exact same question for the last 20 years...
WL4 is one of my all time fav games and Pizza Tower was such a fantastic treat last year, we need more WarioLand-likes.
the wario land shake it ad is burned into my brain. nintendo made a fake youtube site to watch the trailer of the game, when wario would shake or pound something the youtube page fell apart. blew my mind when i first saw it
Warioland 4 is one of my favourite games.
get the Chaotix mod and play as Heavy in SRB2 there's your Wario game you're welcome.
Warioland 4 was so effing good that's it tough to appreciate other games
Actually, Wario Land II was released in 1998 on the original Game Boy. It was the Color version that was released in 1999.
the wario land games are my favorite nintendo series, played the hell out of WL3 and 4, and Shake It.
Wario World unfortunately had the misfortune of being a project tossed at a 2nd party dev and told by Nintendo "hey quick make a thing for this" and the team having no clue who this weirdo was outside of he's mean gross Mario.
And yea, happy to see a subgenre pick up the mantle since we ain't getting another Wario Land any time soon (and if we did it probably won't be just another 2D thing).
the story you tell seems very similar to mine
gotta love wario and his games
Oddly enough, I only ever played the original Game Boy and Virtual Boy games, and afterwards the WarioWare series. So while I played many games with Wario in them, none of them were "Wario-style" games.
He is a few wario land remakes away.
The main problem I have with WL: Shake It is that because everything is hand-drawn, there are fewer enemy designs than in previous games and they are all very basic and same-y which is a shame. Compare the insane bosses from WL4 to the ones from Shake It, it's not even close
The hand-drawn art is personally the best part for me
3 was the first game I ever beat. How did that go, young me?
“…that’s an ugly clown.”
I find pretty random that the cast from Wario Land 3 show up in the 64 entry of the Doctor Mario series.
I got WarioLand 3 as a kid. My parents surprised me with a Nintendo game. I was hoping for a Mario game. I wasn’t able to read at the take age. I remember not quite understanding how the game worked… and the face character scared me. He was like a phantom of the opera
I remember just stumbling around. I figured stuff out along the way but it never quite clicked
Cool video! I probably had some of the same experience with games growing up, and as a result I've also been missing Wario Land for a while. Not to throw shade on Wario Ware, which does have some games I like a lot, but that's not my favorite kinda Wario game or even take on the character - It was, for example, kinda frustrating to get Wario in Smash Bros. and have him act more like Wario Ware than Wario Land. I didn't wanna have Wario come in and fart, you know, I wanted him to come in and throw that poor explorer from Wario Land 4 at someone. Or get set on fire and run until he burned up.
Wario Land 2 and 3(as well as Metroid 2, which I believe were the same guys) were definitely my favorite platformers on the game boy. As a kid I didn't have my own TV or anything, so having a handheld was great and I spent a lot of time digging into the Warios. Having said that, when I got a Game Boy Advance, I never looked back at the game boy. Wario Land 4, Metroid Fusion, I think those games blew their game boy prequels out of the water. It was incredible to get a new handheld and find such fun, improved takes on games that I already liked. Felt like the devs were finally freed from the constraints of that old gray brick and used all that new power for what it was worth, which resulted in games that felt very fresh despite both being the fourth in their series.
2:17 fr, he looked very crazy, specially in sml2 and wl4
6:31 the VB was actually meant to be lighter and portable initially, at the time there were concerns by conservative parents that processing units could emit radiation, then the designers cased the internals with heavy metal casing, which led it to become heavy, however there was a solution by giving it shoulder supports, but was turned down, because there were also concerns that kids could walk in random places with the headset on, and thus the chicken leg design was used
7:05 there was actually plans to have a vb wario land rerelease for 3ds, but was turned down
8:20 lmaoooo the red ain't that bad, specially in real hardware
15:50 absolutely agreed, that's exactly the reason why people don't like wl3 really much
19:03 interestinly enough, medamayaki used a method to get those voices in within small storage called setence mixing, which became popular over the years
20:53 apparently both wario world and land 4 share the same sets of voice clips, but wl4 is compressed and crazier, the voice clips most likely came from camelot's n64 mario spinoff games
30:26 tbh shake it's presentation was great, but it had its faults, wario was lankier than usual, and he was expressive as his 3d appearances outside of world (which means he wasn't) and on top of that most of the backgrounds in the stages were meh for me
and btw, a remaster could actually be possible because in the japanese trailer for the game, a high quality version of his walk animation appeared, uncompressed versions of other animations might be somewhere at nintendo's vault
another fact: wario land shake it was initially supposed to be 3d with cel shading, as evidenced with unused graphics of few enemies
36:49 HIS NAME IS SHINESPARK
37:46 truly, but at the same time i didn't really like p rank for one reason, there were many cool ideas scrapped through development and many of them wouldn't work with the p rank system
38:43 the toppins are not necessary, it's just for progression and points
40:18 interestinly enough, pizza tower's artstyle uses colors only from wario land 2
41:02 well i have some news, recently there has been leaks of the pt private server that revealed there'd be a mr stick update along with floor -1, along with 2 new games (pizza tower: an alien stole my pizza and noise's big break) with noise's big break being confirmed with a cryptic teaser in pizza tower twitter account and the noise update being leaked earlier in HD
44:27 i absolutely doubt it will come back, star fox is still dead and f zero only got a 99 game that is bound to die and kill f zero again, the only reasons why stuff such as pmttyd remake, smrpg remake and m&l RPG brothership exist, is because it's still the mario IP, and experimentation with mario has only come far as that, there's no interest in a new wario land game by nintendo or their 2nd parties
aside that even if nintendo made a new wario land game, it would be very bland
Another Wario-like for you - Treasure Tech. It's basically Doom, but Wario Land.
Omg i love all these games
Did you voice Wario in this video? If so, EXCELLENT! WAHNDERFUL! GOOD LUCK with future videos!
Yup, the bootleg Wario voice in the video is my own lol.
A lot of games have gone in a different direction or got axed completely. Ecco the Dolphin is one such franchise I will never get over losing. They made a near complete sequel and just abandoned him completely. Are you freaking kidding me…? Earthbound? Why? WHY? There’s no good excuse.
Great job. Wario looks similar to sonic with speed and force.
On a side note, I still can't believe Nintendo released the virtual boy.
I still say Wario Land II is the greatest 2D platformer of all time.
I got wario land 2 on the game boy color nearly 25 years ago. That game was freaking hard as a child.
You mentioned Wario Land 3's final boss cutscene being unskippable. To my knowledge, when losing only once to that fight, you can skip that cutscene by pressing Start to get right back into the fight without having to wait for it. Kinda wished you had talked more about Wario Land 3, about the additional levels that reward exploration, about the mini golf you gotta do that gets progressively more difficult and expensive over the course of the game, about the fact that the game has a hint system in case you haven't played in a while and don't know where to go next (although that one only hints at you the next locations that progress the "story" furteher) and also because it could have been your first Metroidvania you ever played or Search Action Game as they are also called so mentioning the familiarity with the genre would have been neat.
A reason why also no new Wario title, besides WarioWare, coming out has to do with the failures of the last games. Wario World? Sold poorly comparatively. Wario Master of Disguise? From what I heard but I'm unsure it also didn't sell that well, nor did it review that greatly. And Wario: The Shake Dimension suffered from a heavily poor choice of a release window.. being close to Super Mario Galaxy which took all it's attention away from said Wario game.
Funfact: Even Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn suffered from this and hurt the series so much it nearly went into a comatose state for it, as both Tellius Saga games (aka the GC and Wii one) didn't sell well, and FE Radiant Dawn came out in nearly the same time window as the Wario game and the upcoming Super Mario Galaxy, which explains what happened.
Great video man 👍 Thank you
No worries 👍 glad you enjoyed
I LOVE VIDEOS OVER 30MINS ABOUT WARIO RAHHH
I played VB Wario Land through an emulator I got through my modded quest 2, probably the most faithful way to play VB games.
Theory: Wario is an alter created by Bowser view of Mario
Just stop.
Wario's story has already been told years ago, and it's not that
@TRLEmperorGarlix It clear these kids are not real mario or wario fans.
We need wario land series to return and they should just let someone else be the protagonist of wario ware so wario can go back to his treasure hunting adventures we need a new wario land
That stupid. Warioware is for wario fans. You can't replace him whar wrong whit you?
Wario Land 1, 2, 3 and VB have very memorable (and overlooked) soundtracks
To tell you just HOW LITTLE Nintendo cares about this franchise, when they took down their stuff from Vimm, they left all games from the series except for Mario Land 3.
This Channel is suuuuuuuper underrated! Nice Video!
Thanks! really appreciate that!
I fear the main issue with Wario land is how they did everything you can do with it.
Any more change to the formula gives you the Wario likes, which honestly, aren't at all like 2-4.
you forgot about AntonBall
That game has a lot of charm especially if you loved the GBA era of Nintendo games
Nintendo has acknowledged the virtual boy in games like tamodachi life
True, I know its shown in a couple other games as well, but they're harmless references. I'd love for them to mention the Virtual Boy in a Nintendo Direct saying you can play the games now... but I just don't think they'll do it because it requires explaining what a virtual boy is for those that aren't big Nintendo fans or grew up in a part of the world where it never released. That's what I meant by acknowledging it.
I’m watching this while playing Super Mario deluxe on the Gameboy colour That has a modded backlit screen and im 48 so I was there at the beginning oh What a time to be alive 🙏🏽oh and this vid is worth a Sub…My best Warrio games are Warrio 4 Gameboy advance and Warrio shake it for the Wii🙏🏽I haven’t played the Gameboy or Gameboy colour Warrio games but I think they will be my next games to play 🙏🏽
i love the filter you have over the Game Boy footage
Thanks! It all comes from the analogue pocket. It lets you apply filters to make it look like a close enough replica of the original devices screen. Pretty neat.
Virtual Boy Wario Land is genuinely my favorite Wario Land (although I have not played much of 1 through 3)
Yeah, VB wario land really surprised me by how good it was. For the other gameboy games, I'd recommend 2 and 3 as that's where all the cartoon fun is. 1 will just feel like a slower, less detailed VB Wario Land if you play it now. It's fun for sure, but not sure if it will hold up over the love for VB Wario.
I LOOOOOOOVE WARIO LAND 4!!!!!! THEY NEED TO GIVE US A NEW 1!!!
Smash Ultimate has like a dozen Warioware songs but only one Wario Land song, and no Wario Land stage
Wario Land mostly existed in a time when there weren’t many 2D Mario games
When 2D Mario returned Nintendo saw less reason to make Wario Land games and eventually stopped after Shake It
I think the second one is the best, third one was just not as good. But those two games were the absolute best in the series.
I have zero nostalgia weighing in on what I feel for those games, since I only played the first one and shortly thereafter sold my Gameboy, and skipped the GBC entirely. Otherwise it can sometimes be hard to know how much nostalgia plays in to how you rate a game. But those games are top notch.
It's also weird how they never did another game like Donkey Kong, the GB version. Great concepts that are just abandoned, maybe the sales didn't reflect how awesome those games were. But it's some of the best games Nintendo ever made.
I miss it too.
My first wario land was the virtual boy game. After playing 1 And 4 the virtual boy game is the best.
I don't think it's really accurate to say the first Wario Land was just called Super Mario Land 3 to piggyback off the success of previous games. If you look at the game itself just as a game, ignoring the character sprite you happen to be playing as, it's incredibly similar to Super Mario Land 2 (as you pointed out) such that it's obviously the sequel to that game, at least in my opinion. It still follows mechanically the 2D Mario formula almost to a T, the biggest deviation it has is just the existence of Wario's new dash attack and...that's kinda it. It still pretty much plays almost exactly like a Mario game, especially Mario Land 2, just a bit slower-paced (unless you hold up while jumping, which basically just enables sprint-jumping where you move faster and jump a block higher like in other 2D Mario games, just without regular sprinting itself). Not to mention the story itself is directly continuing off the second Mario Land, which itself was directly building off the first Mario Land's story, making them all an interconnected trilogy narratively (which is rare for Mario) about the rivalry between Mario and Wario that ultimately ends with Wario finally getting his own castle and no longer coveting Mario's one.
And even getting to the part where we're not literally playing as Mario, we're still playing as "Bad Mario" (which is what Wario means) and he's still an incredibly similar character to Mario, not to mention he's the major new character introduced in the game this is a sequel to, and from the beginning he was shown to basically be a "Bad Mario" who has similar abilities, being able to use the same kind of power-ups and go small when he takes damage and all (which remains true in Mario Land 3/Wario Land, heck on the subject of power-ups the classic Starman is still in the game and functions identically to other 2D Mario games), so him being playable in the next game is hardly a massive departure enough to make the next game not a proper sequel. Would Luigi U not be a Mario game because you're instead playing as a similar guy with slightly different abilities, aka Luigi, and Mario himself is nowhere to be found? I don't think so.
And pretty much NONE of this is true of the later Wario Land games from Wario Land 2 onwards that don't have the Mario subtitle, they made massive changes to the gameplay such that they play very differently and don't have the Mario formula aspects mechanically much at all that the first Wario Land does, other than Wario Land 3 bringing back Warp Pipes I guess. Wario Land 1 (and the VB title) is the only one that still plays almost exactly like a Mario game in most ways, is very different in that respect from the later Wario Land games, is directly connected to the other Mario Land games narratively, and is the only one with the Mario Land subtitle (or main title in Japan, the names are swapped there). Meaning it seems clear to me that it IS really Super Mario Land 3 as a game, but its unique aspects it introduced and Wario as a character would also serve as the inspiration and starting ground for a new spin-off series that would develop its own kind of 2D platformer gameplay different from 2D Mario and the first Wario Land, and both of those things can be true at once.
So analyzing the game mechanically and narratively, both in comparison to Super Mario Land 2 and more broadly to the 2D Mario formula, and the later Wario Land games that would follow, I can hardly say the "Super Mario Land 3" title is just a marketing slap on but rather that it is truly meant to be the third and final game in that series. And I don't think the fact that you're playing as "Bad Mario" instead of actual Mario is enough alone to say it's not, when talking about the game itself that's not a majorly important factor (otherwise Luigi U also wouldn't be a proper Mario game, or a game that plays nothing like a Mario game but you still play as Mario apparently is, the character sprite is not the most important aspect to classify whole games by).
Wow...I can never stop rambling for WAY too long, my bad lol.
Same thing with Super Mario World being called Super Mario Brothers 4, now that was DEFINITELY not just to piggyback for marketing purposes, that game is OBVIOUSLY Super Mario Brothers 4 and the sequel to Mario 3 in every respect and was clearly intended to be from the very start of development. Just look at it, there's nothing in there to argue otherwise, it's clearly the 4th game. That's just an accurate title it had for most of development and they just dropped the subtitle at least in the West very very late near the end.
Yoshi's Island is definitely the most different of these 3 games and easiest to say was piggybacking with the title, and takes a lot longer to argue is truly part of the series. Though it was called Super Mario Bros. 5 in development and both Miyamoto and Tezuka have maintained its core Mario status long after other Yoshi games came out, specifically stating that it is part of the series but the later Yoshi games aren't and are their own thing, and there are a ton of unnoticed aspects of Yoshi's Island that either come from all 4 previous SMB games (including World there as established) or would continue to be present in later Mario games, including the NSMB games but even to an extent the 3D games, mainly Mario 64, but still it is the hardest one to argue because it DOES play very differently in many respects.
@@legoboy7107 Wario was created because R and D 1 runout of ideas for Mario Land, so Wario Land was created so that Nintendo can have Mario like games on handheld. However R and D 1 was shutdown, so Wario Land can't be made in house anymore.
Wario Shake was made because programer of 6 Golden Coins Takahiro Harada asked Good Feel to make another one. Most likely because Nintendo needed more time to make New Super Mario Bros. Wii. So Nintendo no longer needs Wario, now that Nintendo has an easier time making 2d Mario.
@@orangeslash1667damn that’s sad
If nintendo has done anything it's they partially listen to their fans.
"We want a new Mario RPG"
REMAKE!
"We didn't like sticker star can we get a game that like TTYD with new partners and a story and everything."
NO PROBLEM SAY NO MORE JUST STOMACH THESE 2 OTHER GAMED WERE CONTRACTED TO MAKE AND SIT TIGHT....
REMAKE!!
"OK nintendo we really think your just hearting what you wanna hear at this point...but can we get some love for the Wario Land Series?"
OH...I'M SORRY I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING A GOOD JOB I GUESD YOU DON'T WANT WARIOS NEW LAND THEN....I GUESS ITS TIME FOR...
WARIOWARE SMOOTHER MOVES! A REMASTER OF THAT WII TITLE WITH NEW MOVES AND HD TEXTURES!
"..."
The Wario fanbase isn’t nearly as vocal as the Paper Mario fanbase
WarioLand 3 is underrated as fuck tbh
Yeah I'm not sure if it's just me, but I really don't remember 3 being talked about back in the day amongst my circle of friends. I remember talking about 1,2 and 4 and was surprised about learning about an existence of a 3. The game's really good and I was glad when they put it on NSO.
@@tildeshambles Yeah it’s the first one I played back on 3DS and thanks to its unique structure and atmosphere, despite being on GBC, it‘s still my fav
fr, many people don't like it since it's not fast like wl4
I miss Wario land too I remember when I play the first game is amazing an indigo submit to the the best character Nintendo character
Virtual Boy Wario Land is the best game on the Virtual boy that was released in the US. If you ever get a chance to play a real virtual boy, it is a very neat piece of equipment. You just have to make sure you actually adjust the focus and interocular distance right, because not adjusting that when you start is a 1 way trip to migraine town.
It's definitely understandable why the system didn't take off, it is still a very interesting piece of tech to play with.
I hope I do get to try a real VB one day. Though the odds aren't good as the only way to get one is to import one since they're non existent locally and yeah the cost of sending anything to Australia + how expensive the VB would be and then a game on top... It'd be a luxury collector buy for sure. Maybe one day if this youtube thing ever kicks off lol.
Virtual Boy Wario Land is a such a huge Monkey Paw, coming out on a doomed handheld/console or _whatever_ that wasn’t going to be a guaranteed success, honestly VB Wario Land should’ve been moved to the SNES which was already a big success (that’s what I would change if i can go back to 1995 haha lol), and it would’ve likely made Wario Land a mainstay franchise, a bit off topic but I also wish we got a Super Kid Icarus on SNES.
I'm with you. I can't stand the "modern" biker style on Wario. Was that difficult to create a different character? Wario platformers are fun and excellent, but they just took Wario, already known franchised character to boost minigames game sales. Wario was prostituted.
16:31 this dialogue is skippable with the B button.
Not a fan of Shake it!/Shake Dimension. Between the slower pacing, coin grinding for the next worlds, lack of a regular super charge or shoulder charge sliding, coin grinding for the next worlds, overall sluggish feel, coin grinding for the next worlds, lack of transformations outside of some motion segments, and coin grinding for the next worlds, it’s such a step back from its predecessors.
You forgot antonBALL which is breakout but you’re wario. (It also has peppino as a guest character!)
Hey youre wario voice is top notch!
Whahahahahaaa
Lol thanks. That's one thing I didn't mention in the video, I like the character so much I started doing Wario voices when I would play Mariokart or Mario Party with friends. As bootleg as it may be, it works XD.