Holy shit this game is a fucking masterpiece

link?

My cousin had this and when I tried it it was literally like playing a fucking nightmare. I remember very little about it except the feeling of intense dread while playing it.

it's a 600 page print book

I love the game but I know this feel.

>complains that hard mode is too difficult so he isn't going to talk about it
what a casual

why would you write this
it sounds good, I guess, but it's saying literally nothing

is this actually worth buying? i'm very interersted in a book about game mechanics.

wario land 2 is superior, its okay but not great. people only suck it off because some faggot wrote a book about it.

This game is basically injecting the truest, purest, most concentrated ulillillia-level autism imaginable directly into your brain, but contained for one game.
It's fucking amazing.

I'm rummaging around to see if I can find the pdf

Nah it was easy to find online before, I'll see what I can do.

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So, most book nowadays.

>people only suck it off because
No? People in this thread literally didn't know or care about that? Stop being retarded and contrarian and give specific reference to the game. Unless, of course, you didn't play any of them.

it's fine, I probably wouldn't really read it anyway

4 is amazing but I personally like 3 more due to it’s open ended nature

I'm an actual indie dev

Read "A Theory of Fun" if you want something light and easy to read, that is also VERY insightful
If you want the hard shit read "Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design"

Giving up, sorry dudes.
Didn't even find it on b-ok.org even though that site usually has it all.

Reminds me of the 5000 word analysis somebody once wrote about Princess Shokora.

Wario Land 4 always impressed me in how distinctive its aesthetic was. Every level outside of the Emerald Zone (and I guess that lava/ice one too) was so unique that it'd be near impossible to mistake where it came from.

How does it compared to Brick By Brick though?

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comfy
youtube.com/watch?v=vQuK6nwq__E

I prefer the third game

Kek

I don't get why this board loves 4 so much, it's good but I'd put it on par with Shake It. Imo 2 is best because of all the secrets, its the first game I ever felt compelled to 100%.

I loved it as a kid but I replayed it not too long and it honestly felt like a bit of a slog.

>This amazing character will never appear again and is doomed to irrelevance until the end of time.

Why live?

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>amazing character

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I love 3 but it feels to much like a puzzle game for me compared to 4

no its wario

youtube.com/watch?v=kwp1B_IlVXc&list=PLgIaslDc3IBsdbo1Hlrxhsr9oS3ZEjcKf&index=3

You like the fat version don't you ?

Those Sound Room CDs were pretty weird
youtube.com/watch?v=GxC4rGd6pAw

Mr. Ether's song was catchy, though.

How are any of them amazing characters they're barely characters at all

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>True Form and Canonical Form are different

You can easily see how this team went on to make WarioWare

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That's not even the first time that's happened in the Wario Land series

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youtube.com/watch?v=tvBoj1xIuFI

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>that one with a guy sleeping and a door opening/closing

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One second, I have a PDF. Will upload

Well they were composed by ghost.

>he didn't decipher the secret message in the songs
Hint: start with the Short Futon.

>5000 word analysis somebody once wrote about Princess Shokora

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>That one with the two people whispering

What the fuck were most of these even supposed to be?

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Kino

youtu.be/0XTnrWvDa7A

I can't remember where the page for the analysis was, but This video's basically just a reading of it
youtube.com/watch?v=XmD84U5HWHo

4 was the one that was really able to bring the stylistic aspirations the series had to reality. The prior games were good but they just weren't as aesthetic

>Wario is dead and Miyamoto's hate towards anything not Mario, Tanabe's interference, and Sakamoto's autism are all to blame for this
I miss this series a lot

I've heard varying interpretations that it's either two robbers checking out various rooms in a house, or two people on either end of a hallway full of doors opening one at a time as they get closer to each other

Should I skip 2 and 3 to play this? Loved 1, but I didn't really like the first hour or so of 2

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eh, I'm still on 3. Haven't actually started because I'm too busy with current games.

>finally get the courage to beat one of the worlds
>short lived comfy feel
>gotta brave those other scary realms

fuck the haunted world

2 and 3 are both kind of nontraditional platformers, since Wario can't die and all that. If you're not into that sort of thing you can just play 4.

I've loved the game ever since I fucking played it. I end up replaying it every year or so but I only recently tried out hard mode.

2 and 3 are fantastic in their own right

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you should get some taste and play through both of them

Here's the book, (also included Art of Game Design, which some of you may find interesting). They are both ePub files, but easy to convert to pdf.

gofile.io/?c=UdXLwy

not to mention R&D 1 is dead

jesus I don't remember this one

how autistic can you get over one single game? 5,000 words on a character, 600 pages on the game
like I love every bit of it but how did this game manage to garner THIS

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I've seen more people do more autistic things over games and game characters.

what's the fucking deal with the fake mr game and watch?

Also, best mini game?

R&D1 hasn't existed for over 15 years but the people still work at Nintendo.
Unfortunately Wario Land sort of fell through the cracks and is probably not big enough to be developed internally anymore, which is why we got literal garbage like Master of Disguise

You can easily write 600 pages about a game like Warioland 4.

>what's the fucking deal with the fake mr game and watch?
That's the princess' cursed form

that's the cat

wario is better than mario in every way, so it's obvious

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All of them are her user

They're both forms of the same character. You can see the shopkeeper turn into the cat if you buy an item for the final boss

it's all her

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Thanks user.

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Th-thanks Wario

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Especially how a lot of the first WarioWare sounds and other stuff is ripped straight off of it, which is one of the reasons it was so great. With every subsequent WarioWare game, though, more and more of that spirit got ripped away, ending with the disaster that is Gold.

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How was Gold a disaster

what is this gay nerd shit

Its good, but i prefer 2 and 3 significantly more.

It IS really good. I'm torn on how it pared down the enormous level count from the earlier games but ultimately the increase in distinct level elements and better bosses felt worth it.

>tfw "Wario Princesses" is an actual phrase

Wow! Was there a CD release or is this a played back from the midi?

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Technically isn't the teal one a queen?

Where's the PDF, fag

please

Ah, "Wario royalty", then.

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See

It's interesting that Western fan artists almost always draw adult Shokora while Japanese ones draw the teen.

People draw Shokora ever? Memeing aside fuck the Jap taste in girls. True form Shokora is the best and a good match for Wario aesthetically

That's nothing.
Here's what insanity looks like.

goodreads.com/book/show/25815615-on-cross-channel

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Which is which again?

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I think the longest written work in the English language is still a fan fiction story of Super Smash Bros.

I've literally only ever seen the top one and I must've played through WL4 like 80 times as a kid

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Having an argument over what futon your house needs can get like this

>Smash ultimate chose base princess Shokoro for the spirit

GAY

Yes, that's what I remember. Was that poster positing the first version was the best fit?

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I remember being extremely disappointed after beating this in only 3 hours.
What's the deal? Did you zoomers not have 1-3?

Teen is the default representation of Shokora and will probably be what she looks like if she returns.

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Her and Syrup would be great for smash, im so fucking mad nintendo left the Wario Land characters in the dump for the Ware ones.

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I remember playing the game (and Wario Land 2 and 3, which I adore as well) when I was younger. The game's way too fun and it has one of the most beautiful OSTs ever.

youtube.com/watch?v=vQuK6nwq__E
youtube.com/watch?v=jocrNBs09Ao

Rent Free

You can tell the care and atmospheric work they did on WL4 was transitioned into making atmospheric and local community that is diamond city in the WW series.

>im an actual indie dev
isnt everyone

It's a Kancolle fanfic now. Ambience: A Fleet Symphony is at 4.5 million words while The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest is at 4.1 million words.

Yep! enjoyy

Sounds like "Wario Land" is Wario's "Paper Mario".

For me it’s Shokora alt Syrup

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user, she dead.

There are lots of dead things that walk around in the greater Mario series.

Hu-hu-Hurry Up!

It might be a short trip, but dang it is one of the best out there.

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Underrated as fuck.

Wario Land series remaster when?

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Come to think of it, Rudy the clown didn't really act like a clown or do anything clown-related. He just sort of happened to be a clown.

I think 3 is the masterclass. Sure the bosses are still wonky but they found a way to work the invulnerability gimmick into levels that make it feel like you're actually losing progress due to how maze-like they are.

Alos the map system is amazing.

It's emphasizing modularity

Rudy has a pretty great design but him being a clown doesn't have any impact on the game whatsoever. There wasn't any kind of hidden circus or "clown" theme in the game to build up that something was off, and that the face isn't what he seems to be.

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>3
>Backtracking:The game
>Fantastic

The OST is great but fucking wake up will you

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It's a Metroidvania you clown

playing it right now with real gba colours and increased audio quality

youtube.com/watch?v=fihc2ONQ5v0

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I assume the clown part was done just to make the final boss feel more creepy compared to the rest of the game

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yup. this is one of the highlights of my childhood.
playing this on the elementary school playground, no fucking friends, no one that would play pokemon with me at the time or anything.
fuck 'em. i have a true masterpiece in my hands.
i should replay it sometime soon.

Also that he's the only enemy in the game who can actually defeat Wario.

>tfw Wario went from being a fucking incredible platforming series, to a mildly amusing minigame series, to nothing but a fucking lame gross-out character in Smash that DUDE HE FARTS LMAO for all the kids to enjoy in their game

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I wonder what the lyrics mean
I never realized they were actual words

Its shit

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from the video description, it sounds like he custom made each song from the ground up trying to make it identical to the original but with uncompressed bases

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Fucking 3 had some annoying as fuck levels later on like the City one that busted my balls as a kid. Still is a difficult game for me but I can actually see how to complete the puzzles for more treasure.

Yes the first one in that image is the true form. The second one that looks more similar to other princesses is the one the Japan seems to prefer

I prefer Wario Land 2. Never got into the whole thing of, "you've reached the end of the level now run back with a timer"

that means you loose one treasure chest or more for 80 times.

Reminder that you haven’t played all the Wario Lands if you skipped over Wario Land Virtual Boy

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I'd respond to this post agreeing with it but I can't read it because I'm blind and bleeding from my eyeballs

There's a few cases where you start on top of Frog Switch or it shifts into an earlier than usual location, although most of those are on Super Hard while Golden Passage is always on the timer. A pity the devs didn't go all the way with it, but I guess it'll fuck with some of the stages like the Fire/Ice one.

>that last year rumor that one of the last official 3ds games was gonna be a remake of virtual wario
>it ended up being just a collection of wario ware
It is a neat collection but i would really liked a remake or collection of all wario lands.

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It's just a personal preference but I tend to hate timers in games. I much prefer the idea for 2 where you're going back and forth in different levels, getting new powers allowing for new routes.

Virtual Boy Virtual console for 3DS would have been perfect, even if it were just for a handful of titles with screen recoloring

Even Ware is looking kind of fucked right now.

I want my Ashley and Orbulon merch Nintendo!

What's so good about it?

Thank you sir, much appreciated.

>timed sections
Trash. Warioland 3 is better.

I need to replay it but I remember having to do a lot of wondering around trying to find the next area to move through after getting a new power up. They're just completely different styles and hard to compare

I think that's a minor issue. It does tell you what areas unlocked but you need to memorize them after getting the power up. It would've been a bit better if there was some permanent indicator on the map to say which old areas have unlocked something.

You don't even have to memorize them, there is an option to replay the animation after getting an item.

>Best ending version isn't the best version

I literally don't get it,her teen and young version looks definitely better than the "real" one I mean wtf is this shit? She literally lost her soul

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I knew I was missing something! I remember not having this issue when I was a kid but when I replayed it recently on an emulator, I was going through each level because I forgot which areas they had shown to have unlocked.

Her teen version is how she looked before she died.
Her "best" version is how she would look if she was still alive.

>mfw first 5 seconds or Wario Land 4 title song

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4's music is weird. Good weird but still weird aside from a few exceptions like Toxic Landfill appropiatley turning heavy metal.

Though one thing I miss from Ware is the games using the game's soundfront. The music is not the same without that instrument that goes Da Bum Bum Bum

Thank you based user

I like 3

Cringe

I like how you can still see Wario Land 4's DNA in Metroid Fusion since the games used the same engine and shared a lot of the same staff.

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>Tutorial character is actually the final boss
>Is strong enough to kill the otherwise immortal player in a single hit

Wah wah waaa

SOUL

When Wario goes through the wormhole. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Warioland 3 was so fucking hard
>Hey, you unlocked a new item!
>Here's a 2 seconds cryptic cinematic to tell you what it changed in the world
>Good luck!

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Bob Chipman? That retarded, fat, small penised, Sjw Jew that's forever a virgin?

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>perfect soundtrack and memorable sound design
>each level has an individual identity
>those bizarre boss designs
Probably my favourite GBA game

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The one and only

R&D 1 > EAD

How?

I want her back please, also I can't believe that she turns into a giant Peach of all things during the finale, what does it mean?

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I thought it was neat but kinda shallow.

youtube.com/watch?v=wbosSSAb_JI&t=72s

Why is the princess called Shokora in English and not Chocolate?

Because Shokora sounds more like a name to English speakers.

What about Peach?

Warioware for Switch fucking when?