Why Wario NEEDS More Games
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
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Oddly enough, I've got a weird soft spot for Wario and his games, specifically his platforming games on the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance. With Game & Wario under performing along with the Wii U, the future of Wario games is uncertain. Much like most of Nintendo's dormant IP, there's so many ideas they could pull from for a new Wario game. In this video I talk about Wario's character design, his introduction to the Game Boy with Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, it's follow ups on the Game Boy; Wario Land 2 and Wario Land 3, the magnum opus of the series in Wario Land 4 for the Game Boy Advance, and what is the perfect jumping off point for a new Wario game, Wario World on the Gamecube. Wario Land 4 is one of my favorite games, and seeing that Wario World, a pretty solid game in it's own right with some minor hiccups, takes a lot of it's inspirations from the GBA title, it's the perfect foundation for a new Wario game, and I cap off the video by discussing some ideas for a potential sequel.
Chapters:
0:00 The Appeal of Nintendo's Many Franchises
1:41 Wario - The Innovative Antithesis
2:41 Wario Land - Wario's Less than Humble Beginning
4:02 Wario Land 2 & 3 - The Start of Something Special
6:35 Wario Land 4 - His Greatest Achievement
11:08 Wario World - A Mixed Bag with Flashes of Brilliance
15:22 Imagining Wario's Next Step
16:31 It's Okay to Want Better
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Retro Studios would be a good candidate for making a new Wario Land.
Honestly, Retro would be a good fit for a lot of Nintendo franchises, gimme more Retro games!
Retro or Next Level would be awesome, Wayfoward is also a really good choice if you wanna go into Third-party
@@thegreygoblin5165 Retro Studios hasn't made anything new since 2014.
@@wizawhat If Captain Syrup were a mainstay rather than Waluigi, Captain Syrup would be akin to Natasha Fatale to Wario's Boris Badenoff; because honestly, Waluigi is just an empty vessel that happens to resemble Dick Dastardly; and Dick Dastardly has more personality than Waluigi.
Anyways, the reason I would choose Captain Syrup over Waluigi is that she actually has an identity: she's a Pirate Captain who's greed rivals that of Wario, and she once stole a Peach Statue for crying out loud, that's how impactful her character is.
With a touch of Mario Wonder art style
I dunno if you have played much or any of the King Knight campaign in Shovel Knight, but a lot of the movement in it is based on Wario Land. Obviously a lot of what you like about Wario games goes beyond basic mechanics, but it might scratch a little bit of that itch.
Honestly I'm way overdo completing shovel knight, it's about time I checked out Spectre and King Knight
@@wizawhat I read this in your video voice.
@@razbuten Same
@@wizawhat pls stream
You brought me to this channel. I fkn love Wario.
God, what a great point about the "fail state/power up" for when Wario gets hurt. I've always adored Warioland 4 ever since I played it as a kid and now it makes total sense as to why that game felt so different than other platformers.
Well done man, you earned this sub :)
Thanks Daryl! Since there hasn't been another Wario Land game in a while I wouldn't mind seeing something else adopt that mechanic, it's too great to fall in obscurity
Pizza Tower makes me realize how much more I would want a new Wario game
I genuinely loved Shake-It, but yeah, it’s a shame that after its apparent failure they’ve been scared to return to formula with Wario titles. This was an awesome video, by the way. Can’t wait to see what else you have in store.
I tell ya, Wario Land 1 was my best friend on road trips my whole childhood. Couldn't hope to count how many times i've beaten that game in my life. I had no idea the series progressed like this, i didn't even realize there were that many sequels. This video was fascinating to me, and i'm now interested in seeking these out.
EDIT: changing the "not" to "now"
Wario is pretty sweet man, at the very least you should check out Wario Land 4!
@@wizawhat lol, that "not" should have been a "now". The series looks awesome, i just had a disastrous typo.
@@VZed The Reason why Wario Land was created too being with is that Nintendo R and D 1 wanted to make a platformer that works on a Gameboy. However Nintendo R and D 1 was shutdown once the gameboy Advance was finished. Without R and D 1, Nintendo no longer sees a use for Wario Land compared to Mario.
I was in complete awe when you were describing Wario World and seeing the footage, and realized that its almost 1 to 1 how Werehog Sonic plays in Sonic Unleashed, all the way down to the gameplay flaws. :O
Dude I think this is the best put together video I've ever seen from you! Really great footage & editing. And it made me wanna play some Wario! Played a lot of Wario Land 2 as a kid but pretty recently found out about Land 4, sooo I gotta check that out now!
Thanks! Hope you enjoy The Greatest Achievement!
Wario definitely needs some More-io hehe. Great video man! I've only probably played some of Wario Land Shake it and Wario Land 4. I need to play more of the games!
Thank you! Out of the original 3, I think Wario Land 2 is widely considered the best one, might be worth peepin that one!
wah
I love the Wario Ware games but I wish Wario Land/World would get as much love. I hope we get another one one day soon. I feel like with a lot of dormant series coming back and being successful with the Switch this is a prime time to bring back Wario Land/World and it'll probably be very successful. Probably won't happen on the Switch at this point in it's life but hopefully on the Switch successor.
Have you heard of Pizza Tower? it's an indie spiritual successor to Wario's games
I have from some other commenters! Thinking about checking it out soon
This video is great and it makes me wish Nintendo would make smaller, experimental games more often. A new Warioland or a new 2D Metroid releases for $20-$30 would be welcome and wouldn’t require so much development time and budget. I appreciate the value present in their first party game, but there’s room for more than just AAA 20 hour experiences.
LARGE AGREE! Give their forgotten franchises the experimental and budget treatment. While Star Fox Guard was kind of weird I appreciate that they were willing to try something like that. Not every title has to be super spectacular and big budget! I think they did a good job of this in the Gamecube era then a lot of those franchises fell off.
next year is gonna be a good year for wario-likes
antonblast, pizza tower and lots of other games similar to those two
God this is such a well done video. I’ve never been a guy who’s played any of Wario’s games, but you convinced me that we should get a new wario game. A beat-em-up mixed with a puzzle platformer sounds absolutely awesome.
Glad you enjoyed it, try out Wario Land 4!
I've always LOVED Wario's design and wackyness lol, I grew up with only playing the WarioWare games tho! And I also rented WarioWorld from Blockbuster but was still too young to be good at it. So this video has been really eye opening to the rest of Warios games, and I'm really excited to play them!! Thanks Mistah Wiz!
Definitely check out Wario Land 4, that game is incredible!
I'd be fine with some more of the yellow Mario man. I LOVE the WarioWare games!! I hope they bring one to switch
The latest Wario Land game, “Shake It”/“The Shake Dimension”, came out in 2008.
I absolutely lost it at "Imagine Waluigi pile driving Wario's fat ass into the ground to reach secrets underneath." Awesome look at a series that doesn't get much love in the public eye
I had some laughs writing that down and recording it, glad you enjoyed it!
Tag team Wario game?
@@alexcat6685 Pizza Tower is pretty much Wario Land 4.
This is easily the best Wario history analysis on CZcams. Also, ur ideas on how to expand and refine the Wario World formula are brilliant. Phenomenal vid!!
Welp i know what to binge this weekend now. Thanks Razbuten
MAAAAN not talking about Wario Master of Disguise is sad, its really unique and funny (kinda hard to play sometimes, especially with early touchscreen controls).
I am more fired up than ever to play more Wario Land 4!!! Such a great video, the passion really shines through my dude! But I gotta say don't know who is doing the wario impression but they are very good!!!
Thanks Wario
Wow, fantastic video. Love listening!
Hey man I found your video on reddit it was great and informative!! got me wanting to play some Wario games
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! It makes me realize I haven’t played Wario Land 4 or World in some time. Both are short but that makes them fun to romp through every so often.
I remember enjoying WL Shake It but you kind of glossed over it. It might be interesting to see a follow up video with your thoughts on that if you ever replay it.
I've had quite a few people tell me it's actually pretty good! I'm definitely interested in giving it a proper shot, especially if Nintendo themselves don't want to make any more Wario games
I think people disregard Wario Land: Shake It way too quickly. Sure it's far from the best the series has to offer, but visually it looks INCREDIBLE. For some odd reason, very few games out there have a traditional animation art style. It's sincerely a shame, as it works surprisingly well, especially with 2D platformers (as proved by Shake It and Cuphead, for example). If a new Wario Land is ever made, I hope it's made with a similar art style, as well as a new Mario and Luigi game.
If I've learned anything from uploading this video, it's that I need to play Shake it
@@wizawhat Well, can't wait for your updated opinion on it when you do ! Great video :)
Found your channel from watching The Completionist's Origami King episode and decided to watch the rest of your content. I really enjoyed this video as I love the Wario Land series (including Shake It for how beautifully animated it is) and Wario World. That, and the way you edited this video is great, really enjoyed how you cut in the release dates around the world for the games; I can tell you put a lot of love into this video. I'm definitely subscribing for anything you post in the future.
By the way, have you heard of or played Pizza Tower? It looks like it's shaping up to be a very nice spiritual successor to the Land series.
Yo thank you for the kind words! I'm glad to see people appreciate the extra effort I put in :)
I have not heard of Pizza Tower until now, I'll look into it. Glad you liked the videos and I'll be putting out more soon!
reactions were genius and a lot of designers could take from those line blurring design choices
Great insight and production. I've never played ANY of the Wario Land games, but your account of them was perfect for somebody like me, who doesn't actually play video games. Not a single point rang hollow. Great work once again.
You mention the tightness of the design of Wario Land 4 quite a bit and it naturally brings other platformers such as Shantae, Yoshi's Island, Katana ZERO, Momodora 4, and Shovel Knight to mind. If you haven't played those, play them. I think you'd like them.
I'm definitely interested in completing Yoshi's Island, I have the cart but never got around to finishing it, and I'll have to check out the other ones especially Katana ZERO :)
Great video! Keep it up!
same on the whole growing up with Wario Land 3
definitely added to my big brain today
There’s a lot of fun indie games that are Wario-likes that really scratch my Wario itch. I would love a remaster of Wario land 4 or a sequel.
Wario land shake was so awesome and the cutscenes were so great.
I love you man, warioland 3 may be one of my favourite games
Everyone wants more Wario... but no one wants more Waluigi 💔🏆👑😭💜
I want more Waluigi!!!
It is unreasonable that this video only had around 800 views at the time of this comment. I hope this channel blows up! You deserve it!
2k now.
You have some great points my friend, it's 2023 and it's been a while, we didn't get a new or at least a remake of wario lands
We did get Pizza Tower however! I'm making a video on that which should be up on the channel soon
Awesome video! I totallt agree with you. Wario is an interesting character and he need more attention. He also needs more coins
I had the first Wario Land for my Super Gameboy back in the day (I never actually had a Gameboy, I just wanted to play GB games on my SNES) and I have very fond memories of being able to play that on the big screen along with Donkey Kong 94 and Kirby's Dream Land 2.
Awesome vid man! I always love me some Wario goodness
Same here, thanks!
Wario needs more games, Paper Mario needs to come back to its roots... You got yourself a new subscriber.
I appreciate it! Glad you liked the videos!
I would’ve loved your take on Wario Master of Disguise
I really love those Wario games, would like to hear more about the wii game, I remember having a great time with it when I was a kid, but maybe it's just memories. There was a couple of other games, that one for the virtual boy which might be the best virtual boy game, and another one for the DS, but I haven't played them. It's worth to mention Anton blast too, an indie game in development with all that felling of our beloved twisted mustache man.
3:39 Not exactly, sadly...
While I don't think he's necessarily a good fit for it, but I'm always surprised to see that Wario isn't in any of the New Super or 3D world games. At the very least it would help make people a fan of him in an actual platform instead of a spinoff, and be a good test to see if he still has the staying power
I think Wario and Waluigi would be a great fit for a new 2D Mario or a 3D World sequel. Maybe Captain Syrup too depending on how involved Wario is with the plot.
If he were in those games I'd be locking in Wario before anyone else can
Pizza Tower is a game inspired by the wario land platformers and it's pretty fun! You should try it!
I made a video on it 🤣
Here's what I believe they should do: It's clear their top studios are busy with higher profile games like the next 3D Mario, Zelda, Kirby, etc., so hand Wario over to their newest studio, Next Level Games. Why them? Because they're masters when it comes to animating Nintendo characters and giving them personality, on top of stellar gameplay experiences. Look at Luigi's Mansion 3 and just how expressive the characters in that game are. Now imagine if they animated Wario with such passion while retaining what made the older platformers work, but giving it a 3D facelift; a successor to Warioland, perhaps.
The one thing that WL4 does worse than 3 is the inconsistency of some enemies draining health and some transforming you, the line was a little more blurred there in 3 where experimenting with getting hit wasn’t really punished
Damn right I do!
Wario genuinely feels like the kind of copycat mascot that you would see in an indie or 3rd party game, like Mario's version of Palworld or something... But he's not. Its a little crazy to think that this character meant to be the anti-Mario is an actual Nintendo owned property.
While I'm happy that we have a new Wario Ware (woot), a new Wario Land would be very nice to see. IS WHAT I WOULD HAVE SAID IF IT WASN'T FOR THE EXISTENCE OF PIZZA TOWER!!! If you have no idea what it is, look it up and support it. Thank you for your time.
What wario (LAND!) may be lacking in content these days, the fans be picking up the torch and it shows
Finally! Somebody warrants a Wario World sequel! And that game was developed by Treasure games, and you know quality from that company (despite some generic baddies).
Wario deserves more platformers (not that there's anything wrong with WarioWare), and he's overdue. C'mon Nintendo!
That's what I'm talking about!
This guy at least when he made this video had no idea that his cries for games similar to Wario Land 4 was coming and going to happen. Wizawhat I hope you're happily playing Pizza Tower and I hope you've made a video discussing the game since I liked seeing you just gushing over how much you love the Wario land series especially Wario Land 4
Let's just say a video you might be interested in is coming soon 👀
Hey, my favorite game character! But holy forgot the DS game, Wario, a master in discuise. Loved it too.
I Absolutely Agree This Character has so much Potential he proved himself that he could deliver great games with the Wario Land Series especially Shake it and his 3d Game Wario World This Guy Deserves a 3d Open World Game.
Dude wario land 2 was on a multi cart I got with my first GBC and honestly outside of pokemon red was probably my most played game on it. I'd love to play a new Land or world game to be honest, I think the odd/quirkiness of Wario and Waluigi made me love them a lot more than their regular alternatives.
If you loved Wario Land 2, DEFINITELY recommend checking out Wario Land 4
I agree.
I need more Wario World in my life. I love that game so much
I haven't watched the video yet but FINALLY someone else who knows about Wario Land 4!!!! :D
I definitely only played a small amount of WarioWorld, I am now remembering, but never to own it properly. Man, I never realized how much I'd absolutely love the concept of a Beat 'Em Up + 3D Platformer until now, despite it seeming like the most logical progression of my younger self's tastes.
As a fellow Wario Land 4 stan, I think Wario World is worth playing. It's fairly short so you can beat it in around 10 to 15 hours. If you have the means of playing it I definitely recommend checking it out
@@wizawhat oh hell yeah! I was talking about it with some folks a few weeks back and nobody had heard of it. Told all of them that it is well worth the relatively small amount of time you'll invest in it, and I recently started playing back through it again in my spare time. ^-^
I'd love to see an indie studio try their hand at making something akin to a spiritual successor! The whole thing just hits that perfect spot that no other game seems to for me, and I'd be happy (just like you) if it was basically just "more of the same"
@@TheNerdySimulation The Reason why Wario Land was created too being with is that Nintendo R and D 1 wanted to make a platformer that works on a Gameboy. However Nintendo R and D 1 was shutdown once the gameboy Advance was finished. Without R and D 1, Nintendo no longer sees a use for Wario Land compared to Mario.
would love a game where peach gets kidnapped and thne mario gets too and then luigi has to step in only to also get captured only for a toad in a tranchcoat and glasses enter a shady tavern to recruit wario to save them all out of desperation yet he demands higher and higher payment
Someone should be paying this man for these ideas
Quick, someone @ Nintendo
dude the warioworld forest theme is so equivocally wario
2023 here, WE DID! LETS GO!
Found on tv tropes:
Anticlimax Boss: In all non-Japanese versions of the game, the Black Jewel only has one phase, and this phase can easily be exploited by outrunning the fire laser attack; unless it traps you in the fire, it won't use any of its other attacks, which results in a very bland and repetitive final battle.
Author's Saving Throw: The Japanese version of the game added another phase to the Black Jewel fight that not only broke up the repetition, but was just all around fun with the Black Jewel going all out with crazy attacks including firing treasure chests.
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Wow this version is so much better! What were they thinking with the international release?
you did wario land shake it so dirty. that game deserves better, and is in my opinion the best in the series.
One day I'll remake this video and give it what it deserves
I adore your idea of a Wario and Waluigi coop beat 'em up.
Would love to see that happen.
"[Wario Land 4] a sequel is made more of the same"
Wario Land 4 Parallel World, romhack reinventing all levels and even bosses. We have a S-Hard too
Tip for ya that I know is late but worth mentioning, the Temple in wario land 3 if you went to it would tell you where to go
Let the fans jump in: Anton ball is good old original mario arcade with original "mario/warioesque characters and a new game set to launch by the same people called Anton-Blast. Its pretty much Warioland 4
virtual boy wario land 4
Are you fucking kidding me. Had no idea Wario was so cool.
Real gem of a video dude, niceeee work!
Wario is super cool, thank you!
It always surprises me when people call Wario Land 4 the best Wario game- it's fantastic, don't get me wrong, but the gameplay felt like such a step back from the original trilogy, and the game is so damn short- I finished it in just a single evening as a kid when I first got it, and that was even back when I didn't have as many games and tried to really make them last, so it felt super disappointing after the absolutely incredible Wario Land 3. Also- you mention not knowing where to go in Wario Land 3- there's a literal hint system that tells you exactly which level to go to next for progression, so that one's kinda on you, and not really fair as a critisism. But yeah- we 1000% need more Wario Land games! I've been saying this for years!
As someone who never had a chance to play any of Wario's platform games, I'd LOVE it if they were available on the switch!!!
They're good. Trust me. WAHAHAHAHA!
@@austinwthompson45 We have Wario Land 3 but that's it.
@@orangeslash1667 i mean all Wario games in general
This guy needs more attention
The day I'll get to hear _"WELCOME TO WARIO WORLD... _*_TWO!_*_ WAHAHAHAHA!"_ is the day I can die happy
Wario and Waluigi both need games 😫
We really need more Wario Land games
Great video! I can't wait for more Wario Land already! Wario is to Mario like Donald Duck is to Mickey Mouse. He has more faults i.e. he's more human and as such much he's more funny and probably for many more relatable. Also the weird and funny creativity in the Wario games is so fantastic. There really needs to be counterparts like this were the artists/game devs can do something a bit more creative to the expected stuff in the biggest Nintendo franchises. Nintendo desperately needs some sort of budget line of games or some such where they can experiment more.
4 was great. but i loved all the gameboy versions
In my opinion Wario Land: Shake It!(or Shake Dimension) was proper sequel of Wario Land series, but i generally agree with everything else you said.
Wario as character will turn 30 in October this year and in Januray 2024 we will have the 30th anniversary of first Wario Land game. Lets hope that Nintendo will remember and will give us at least Switch port for those games.
Its a shame Wario was pushed only on gameboy and they didn't make a full on Wario World game in this style like Super mario world back then. The newer Warioware games are really fun but I would love a full on Wario World game. Yoshi and Luigi have their own games, its about time Wario got an actual action game on a big system. Switch would be PERFECT for a big Wario game. If not Super Mario World style than they should do a Wario game in Mario 64/Luigis Mansion style. Wario is one of the more interesting mario characters and they could really build on his story.
Waahhhh
Yes
he forgot Donkey Kong as a staple Nintendo franchise
I appreciate seeing someone praising Wario Land. To me, this franchise is better than Mario's franchise, overall, because of how original and creative and challenging it was. I was upset when Wario Ware was announced for Switch. I still got it but, like, I really wanted the next Wario platformer and this made me sad. Also, I was curious why Wario, Master of Disguise wasn't covered. Great vid!
I don't have much of an opinion on Master of Disguise, never played it and I've heard it was little more and a mediocre entry, but I have gotten a few comments about it since making this video. Thanks!
@@wizawhat No prob! I never played or heard of Master of Disguise myself until not long ago. I was just surprised, after locating this video, that it wasn't brought up here. But I guess I know why now. Again, thank you for this video. Me and a friend of mine as huge Wario Land fans, but especially me. I played them all. From buying Wario Land, to having been loaned 2 and 3 from other friends, to buying 4. I hope Nintendo can go back to Wario platformers. Or even just port the series to Switch. I'm such a Stan I'll buy them again.
@@QBFOJustin The Reason why Wario Land was created too being with is that Nintendo R and D 1 wanted to make a platformer that works on a Gameboy. However Nintendo R and D 1 was shutdown once the gameboy Advance was finished. Without R and D 1, Nintendo no longer sees a use for Wario Land compared to Mario.
@@orangeslash1667 tbh im not sure that makes any sense. I dont think wario was the only platformer for the system.
@@QBFOJustin yeah but weren't any original Mario games on the gameboy after Mario Land 2 the 6 golden Coins. Which is where Wario made his Debut. We didn't get an original Mario game till New Mario bros DS.
The other reason is that Nintendo R and D 1 was struggling when making Mario Land wanted focus on something they made. czcams.com/video/XOKa2GXiCgw/video.html
I think Waluigi needs to be in more games.
I had no idea Wario world existed, wow.
I’m here from the future with news.
I'm definitely getting that new Wario Ware game
Right at the start of the video, a line popped out at me
"If Nintendo were to direct their focus into solely pumping out new additions, these franchises would lose that luster and special feeling"
*looks at pokémon, one of your three examples
Oops! They have been doing exactly that, with their strict schedule of annual games
Yeah, not gonna lie, I haven't been too pleased with Nintendo's releases the past couple of years since I made this video
@@wizawhat unfortunately Game Freaks's annual-release-grind has always been this way and you can see the "things that should have had more work but we had no time" in all of em, even if the recent ones have more glaring issues
As for the rest of Nintendo, no notes, they don't have the same crunch issue
There's also master of disguise that you haven't mentioned
Pizza tower is an indie game much like the wario land games that I think y'all would love :)
Looks interesting, might have to check it out!
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Wario Land 2 actually had two releases worldwide there was also an original Game Boy Release in early 1998 then a Game Boy Color Version was released the next year. Also Check out Pizza Tower it's clearly inspired by Wario Land 4.
How you gon forget Wario land shake it? That shit, waggle controls aside, is pretty great iirc
I've learned through uploading this video that I need to play Wario Land Shake It
@@wizawhat hell yea lol
@@wizawhat I believe it's on wii u eshop for 20 if you wanna get it easy. Otherwise the game is around 15 bucks for a used physical copy. I rented it from blockbuster as a kid and played the hell outta it. One of the few games I remember renting a few times just to play more.
hey, you should try pizza tower and antonblast
Playing Pizza Tower right now!
❣️
The forgotten great game Virtual Boy Wario Land is the predecessor of 4.
Wario needs more games because he's the best.
That's it, that's the video.
YOU FORGOT WARIOLAND SHAKE IT & VIRTUAL BOY WARIOLAND
This is 2 years old
Wario Land 3 is a fucking masterpiece, I used to spend a LOT of time as a child away from home and apart from pokemon, no game has come close to how much I've played this gem.