Wario's GREATEST Achievement | Wario Land 4 - The Lonely Goomba
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2023
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Wario just don't quit. And neither do I! So it's time to re-revisit Wario Land 4 and see what all the fuss is about.
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Wario Land 4 is great, but you know what's better? URBAN YETI!
Wow
Urban Yeti is the highest quality of perfection.
A masterpiece above all others.
nope, pizza tower
@@sonicexe66613Truer words have never been said.
A 3 days old comment? This video just released (wait I think it's different time zones).
Remember everyone, this game is what made Pizza Tower and AntonBlast a thing.
Yeah the whole run back to the start of the level gimmick is definitely what inspired Pizza Tower.
@@chadgorosaurus4898Pizza Tower's description immediately claims to be inspired by Wario Land. The escapes have similar mechanics, and everything...
I remember suggesting it in the Ask Goomba short
Would love to see him reviewing pizza tower
Lonely Goomba is excited for Anton blast. 😊
People say Wario Land 4 is one of the greatest achievements.
But Wario Land in general is one of the greatest achievements if you ask me
He did say it's "one" of my greatest achievements
OH YEAH! ITS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF HISTORY!!!
Obamba?
One thing about Lonely Goomba videos that I love which no one brings up a lot is when he puts his face over stock images. It really adds a lot of charm.
Never would have thought about that...
You gotta admit, it’s pretty funny.
now I've been playing alot of Pizza Tower recently, which takes its main inspiration from this game. And rightfully so, Wario Land 4 is great. I do think its greatest strength is not overstaying its welcome. It's tight pacing is so great that it never once stops being fun. I will agree that a handful of levels more, even just making the Golden Passage a full world instead of one level, would've helped a lot.
Regardless, it's a great game. Before I had played it, I thought it would be an ok experience, but this game is truly Wario's greatest achievement, in my eyes.
Though, after playing Pizza Tower, I do quite wish that the escape from the Golden Pyramid after the final fight against the golden Diva would've been playable as well. A game like this just lends itself perfectly to culminate in a Metroid-style escape sequence.
this games ost is insane, how the hell they fit that on the gba is beyond me
Probably super compressed samples. The same team also did the equally impressive Rhythm Heaven and WarioWare soundtracks
Someone made a whole video about the ost. Lots of music and sound effects are chopped up and put back together to save space. Like the "Hu-hu-hu-hurry up" is just one "hurry up" pitch bended and played a few times. And the karaoke song is actually just a few syllables stitched together to make the illusion of a full song
Considering that really bad audio quality is hard-coded into the rendering so it can't be improved by any kind of better speaker, I assume GBA does some magic with sample bitrates. It's not that it's bad, it's like carving art out of the end of a matchstick.
@@MusicMan32K yeah some are defenitly compressed samples lile the bell noise at the begining of hurry up appears to be a super compresed sample of the opening of pink floyd time and i beleive the tension synths during the intro sections are compressred samples of pink floyd on the run albeit edited
It is incredible to think that a franchise with so much potential is just left to rot sadly.
Having full lyrics in Palm Tree Paradise, taking into account that GBA sound is based on MIDI, is really impressive
There’s also a backwards version of the song, and iirc the GBA has only 2 sample channels and the original gameboy’s stuff (ie. 2 square wave channels, one wavetable synthesiser and a noise generator). So making both the full lyrics and the backwards ones sound passable is a feat
The only other GBA game that has a song with lyrics in it is Klonoa Heroes (Sign of a Hero), except it divides the lyrics in phrases and it has a fully streamed CD quality version of it in the official soundtrack (part of which was used in the game's commercial).
@@Emery_Pallas, it has multiple sample channels that work more similarly to MIDI, but they're mixed into two DAC channels by the CPU (often for stereo sound; so if only one channel is used, it'll be in mono).
The original four Game Boy sound channels (2 pulse waves, one waveform/rarely samples, and one noise) re included as well, but like the sample sound they're generated through the CPU.
All of the GBA's sound isn't handled by a dedicated sound chip, but by the CPU. This is why the sound is often low quality.
I can no longer think of the Wario Land series without remembering the dream I had where I installed "Wario Land 5: No More Butts +" onto all the computers at college (among other things.)
Warioland deserves more games.
Indeed... maybe then, Wario would get better represented in Smash...
Man it's a good day whenever Goomba uploads
True dat
The bosses on S-Hard basically require performing the speedrun strategies to beat them in time. It really forces you to get good at skipping their waiting phases.
13:18: I think Donkey Kong country tropical freeze had a factory covered in snow level
Did you know that the funny ballsack scientist is from a Gameboy game exclusive to Japan, "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls".
This probably saw the most playtime on my GBA. Fantastic game.
I have a feeling the music on those CD's is actually the music that plays constantly on a loop in Wario's head.
Or its relics of this starange temple
this modest indie game paying homage to the master piece that's Urban Yeti warmed my heart up ngl
Dude, I am working on a Wario Land Review Series for two years now and your review for Wario Land 3 even changed my overall opinion of it. You really have a quaint and unique way of presenting a game. I really enjoy your classifiying comments here and there. Glad you adressed the hard mode as well. You really enrich my youtube-experience!
One of my favorite Wario games. I still find it odd that Shokora's true form was her adult form and not the cheeky one because of the artwork.
The Yuko Ogura looking thing?
No the ending depending on how many treasures you get.
13:17 Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze has a Frozen Factory level near the end of the game
YES WE’RE BACK TO WARIO LAND 4
This game is like a perfect balance of Wario Land 1 as well as 2 and 3. it has the traditional platformer gameplay of 1 and the transformations of 2 and 3.
That's why I love this game and it's I think the best in the series (haven't played shake it yet and 2 is my favorite not objectively best tho).
Its Shokora's song about the evil queen's reign coming to an end. 1:11 Also that game & watch is actually Shokora's other form incase you guys were wondering.
Truly this is wario's greatest achievement
*Ugly people don't deserves basic rights.*
•The Lonely Goombanick G.Goombowski-2023.
This is the episode that introduced me to your videos. It’s great to see you remaster it, since this is a piece of my childhood. Thanks again goomba!
Another masterpiece. Truly firing on all cylinders here goomba. The humor and animation are on point. One of the few youtubers I still like to watch, keep up the good work legend! 👊👍❤️
12:49 You won't believe how happy I was when you brought back this joke from the old review lol
While I prefer the Wario Land II and especially 3 gameplay, 4 is overall fantastic in its own way!
2:50 Somehow I've never noticed those, pretty cool detail! As for why there are two, I guess Spoiled Rotten plays Double Dash in LAN Mode.
7:04 I see what you did here, nice word play!
13:34 I promise I'll eventually watch your Urban Yeti video, but this one had a higher priority. By the way, it's worth mentioning that these Yetis technically inflict the Frozen Wario status from previous Wario Land games although if I recall correctly it's not used for any puzzles here unlike in 3, it's just .
15:42 Pretty sure I had one of those mats or at least have seen one of them as a kid, too.
16:59 True, but even more like something out of a horror movie is the background at 16:05
26:18 Speaking of, there's a rom hack of this game which I definitely recommend if you want more Wario Land 4 goodness, Parallel World!
Speaking of ROM hacks, it’s also nice to see that people creating new content with this game, whether it’s new levels, new mechanics, or, get this, a hack that changes Wario’s move set to feel like a Pizza Tower. It’s a full circle! And I love it.
Would kill to see speed runs with the movement hack
Man it’s criminal this guy doesn’t get more views. Another top tier video. What a watch - might have to play it for myself now
Where It all began and the main Inspiration to both Pizza Tower and Anton Blast!!!!
I'm a lonely scientist
With a brain tumor
Guess I'll play this Gameboy
For the rest of my short life!
The legendary saga has been completed
Now all that’s left is wario blast
and warioware twisted
@@feIonand wario land virtual boy
That karaoke performance at the end was marvelous
not gonna lie ever since i first started watching you about 8-9 years ago now, this is a game i've been waiting to see you play...
also really glad you've not been disappointing with these longer uploads lately! they really make a LonelyGoomba upload night feel akin to a movie night and always brightens up my days
WAAAARIO! I adore this game's immaculate bizarre vibes, it's such wonderful inspiration both for spriting AND audio!
Game's so dang good that it inadvertently became its own genre of platformer- with Pizza Tower and Anton Blast existing as proof!
Hearing LG sing in Japanese is something I didn't know I want or need until he graced with such rich vocals.
1:02 you say that but every time I play a game I think “huh! I wonder what The Lonely Gonna thinks of this game”
Wario Land 4 was my first Wario Land game. I never played neither Wario Land 1, 2 or 3 (legitimately), nor even know about VB Wario Land, when i was a kid. I got this for Christmas back in 2001 along with Super Mario Advance. It has been my favorite GBA games to play, even if i wasn't that good at it. It's a weird game, but that's what gives it the chram!
I like the toy stages actually, idk I think that they are pretty charming.
Also your karaoke wasn't so bad.
"My moustache declares that you get my Wario Steam!"
Sometimes, there are Things That Never Change. Like the Virtual Boy being an Ultimate Classic System.
I have been waiting so long for this video where you go even further in depth with this classic gem! The original video was great, but no that I have now played the game on Wii U for the first time and loved it for so many different reasons, I needed a new-styled Goomba video about it.
Can I just say that time limit theme is absolutely terrifying. It’s gives the vibe that reality itself is crumbling around you and your beyond screwed if you don’t get to that portal in time.
great video man, really enjoyed it :)
i know you've been going hard on the wario content lately so i just wanted to say that i'd love to see a warioware twisted video at some point!
13:17 Surprisingly, Sonic Lost World uses a factory as its snow/ ice level. In fact, it even shares the same exact name
Fun fact: That game and watch looking fellow is actually Princess Shokora (the princess in the ending of this game for those unaware)
I know this because I watched a 45 minute video on the lore of this game
If you want more Wario Land 4 and don't mind emulating, play the romhack *"Wario Land 4: Parallel World".* Pretty much Wario Land 4-2, and it's _not_ kaizo-level difficulty at all. It's great and on par with the original game.
I remember watching your old Wario land 4 video when i was a kid. It was one of my favorites
This is my favorite Wario Land game and I've played it so many times I could remember some of the bosses' names after a long time since my last playthrough, but I never checked hard mode, I thought it would be play the game again with less health or the enemies would need two hits to beat them or something, thanks Goomba, now I know there's more Wario Land 4 to play.
It was awesome of you to revisit this game and make a another review! (remastered review?)
Ignoring the CD music, almost all of the level music are bangers.
Some of my favorites are:
Hall of Hieroglyphs (so funky!)
Palm Tree Paradise
Monsoon Jungle (goes great with rain, also those guitar 'chirps'!)
The Toxic Landfill (at one point in my life, I hadn't played the game anymore for years and then out of nowhere I get this rockin' song in my head)
Toy Block Tower (so groovy!)
Crescent Moon Village (goes pretty hard in its' second part)
Hotel Horror
the "Hurry Up" song during the end of a level
and of course the intro itself.
The CD music is also great just on a comedic level, you expect to unlock the songs in the levels and instead you get mostly a bunch of experimental ambient noise tracks made with 2 sample channels and a gameboy, with little to nothing to do with the actual game.
I bought Wario Land 4 with GBA, and it blew my little kid's minds, seeing such graphics on a handheld. No other GBA game after that came close to the standards Wario Land 4 set, and it still is one of my favorites:
I thought it was just nostalgia, but I played it recently again, 100%ed it for the first time, and it feels like it was released yesterday. An absolutely timeless gem.
Nice work man as always
This is THE gba game as far as I'm concerned.
13:22 _Shantae and the Pirate's Curse_ also had a frozen factory as one of the dungeons.
Great vid! I love Wario Land 4 and I love how you went back to re-review it more in-depth! Any plans to review the last Wario Land game?
13:20 Kirby 64 technically did this. The factory stage appeared on Shiver Star, the game's ice world.
3:49
Butt-head: “Uh-huh-huh. Hey, Beavis. That mushroom just said ‘do the worlds.’ “
Great video goomba your wario vids have all been amazing keep up the hard work chap😊
I admit, I downloaded Wario Land 4 from the Wii U eShop because of Living with Wario's iconic scene being a meme at the time (and I'm glad you brought that clip up here XD).
I was pretty excited to see you review it when I saw that teaser.
This video makes me laugh, especially your comedy. Shhiiiizzzz, the urban yeti nod, and wacky jokes when something weird in the title such as that music track room. The urban yeti video link towards the end and the wooden kindom remix is just icing on top of everything 0/
4:07 My Pizza Tower instincts sense that it's about to get funky, as it always does after a "Hello There!"
3:14 inspirational words from the one and only goomba
As a child I played and beat this game numerous times. You can't just add a hard mode to get good replay value for me. The game has to be consistently fun, and that was one of this game's strengths. Just like Lonely Goomba said, never a dull moment.
I’m really glad you commented on my videos cos it’s now lead me to your channel and I’m loving it. It’s actually something I can enjoy and watch with my kids. Most they stuff they watch gives me an aneurysm.
Just wanted to thank you for still making content iv been watching for ten years and your videos are the best part of my day
I love thé references to the old video it really makes me smile and nostalgic. It’s cool that you talk about the full game this time
One of these days, Nintendo will realize the literal gold mine they have on their hands, only to for it to be too late... because it had been pilfered by Wario.
This was one of the first games I bought for my GBA and it was well worth every penny
The 2nd best ending is the best ending
Gotta give props to Goomba, he tried his best on that karaoke
You are everywhere
6:19
Scary Fish Jumpscare!
(Nice use of the FNAF Golden Freddy Jumpscare sound)
I love your content! Keep it up!
22:31 I had the exact same thought but I couldn’t believe you actually said that
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13:18 Lego batman has it's Mr freeze level set in an ice cream factory, and it's awesome!
I'm going to add "shish" to my vocabulary for no other reason than it sounding funny.
25:15 holy shit! It’s Wario’s iconic truck from Game & Watch Gallery 3’s Mario Bros game!
Another game that did a Frozen Level mixed with a Factory Level was Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. It's more of an old, abandoned weapons factory, but it works out pretty well. Even has a giant Metal Slug homage boss battle (And some KickAss music, both prior to the factory and inside it).
"I'm pretty sure I had that tree as a kid" yes you did that's a classic style Lego tree
You could honestly take the same thing you said about Wario Land 4 coming off of an already perfect game and being just as perfect and apply it to this video, coming off of your last Wario Land 4 video, Goomba.
It’s like you just took everything that we already loved about your last video and cleaned it up and made it much more formal and detailed, which we really like a lot.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The original review of Wario Land 4 from years ago has a special place in my heart nostalgia wise. And this review is great too.
You even kept the disease ridden water joke in Toxic Landfill, a joke that’s stuck with me for years. Seeing it again got me pretty happy.
Edit: This review doesn’t feel the same as the original without the Sapphire Passage musical number I’m not gonna lie.
I once had a dream where I was playing wario land 4 and there was this level with a bunch of giant bells in the background.
Nothing really eventful until I found the frog switch.
As soon as I hit it all those damn bells turned around with demented grins on their faces.
I recommend that everyone watch Automatic Pause's Wario Land series retrospective, very good channel and videos.
13:20 Sonic Lost World
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that"
It's amazing that this game and the other games in the Wario Land series is what created Antonblast and Pizza Tower a thing
When you said “Shiss”, I knew that was a throwback to your previous Wario Land 4 video. That was a nice touch.
Can we request Goomba singing the beach song for Wario 4 fully please? Your singing was severely underrated.
A great video for the great last portable Wario game before we go back to mediocrity and a somewhat fun albeit short Wii game.
Hey, I like the subversion of the pinball stage...Though it's a personal thing. There's just something about classic pinball tables that invoke feelings of childish nostalgia. Like the few times I ever got to go to a play-place or arcade-like place as a young child, I'd always see machines like these around.
And a lot of times, I'd be the only one in that section and I'd enjoy the serenity. The best memory is when I was put in a play-place at a beach resort and I'd be in the play area relaxing and looking around while others were playing star wars games (which I wasn't good at) in the main area. The sound of the ocean waves, the beautiful day and the bright colours of the play-place and the toys/machines around me. I don't know, something just felt right about it. And the pinball zone from Wario Land 4 brings that memory back.
New video! Thank you gumba
Omg this was the first Wario game I've played, what an amazing game it was so wierd and bizarre and different and it was so good! I was getting tired of the same Nintendo platformer formulas, this was a breath of fresh air for me and to think it was out for about 20 years now.
10/10 would recommend, thank you Goomba for reviewing this!
Just wanted to say I love your content and I'll always watch your videos been hear scince your first few videos
Banger video as always
I guess this horror pirate level would explain Wario’s Ghost Ship in Mario Kart in the future. Great work on the video. Keep up your good work in future videos.
13:17 There was that area in Shantae and The Pirates Curse.
i somehow remember the entire game just from when you played it years ago and rewatching the video so many times
When I played this game back when I was a kid/teenager, listening to the songs in the sound room always filled me with dread. It made me feel like the world was about to end.
Wonder if you are going to cover Wario Land Shake it!
Great video!
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