A very underlooked and pretty fun Wario 3D platformer!
Your classic Wario stuff, greediness and all. I'm really starting to think how funny it is throughout all these games with whole societies seeing Wario as this hero, when he's just a greedy son of a bitch who's just in it for the money. I love it!
This game was way more fun than I thought it would be. It only has 8 levels, but the levels are BIG with tons of things to collect in them. Each have 5 Spritelings which give you useful tips and different endings depending on how many you collect. There's also red crystals which allow you to fight bosses of levels (not WORLDS, there are like 13 bosses it's wonderful), gold statues which get you half a heart per level, and treasures! Apparently, all treasures in a level allows you to send some microgames from the original WarioWare and demo them on your GBA with the Link Cable, which is neat! Besides all the collectables, the game just feels good. Wario controls nice, there's no health or anything, and if you fall down a pit you get into a purgatory-like zone where you can lose some of your coins, which felt more annoying than anything but overall the game is pretty fun!
The music is pretty banging, all things considered. Especially the first few levels, which I can remember the music the most from, are wonderful. It was so good that Greenhorn Ruins' theme was remixed as Glittertown in Wario Land Shake It!
And thus concludes my Wario journey (so far). I'm very glad for it to end on a good note, as this game was much better than I expected! I hope this game gets some type of rerelease or sequel soon, I feel like if given the chance this game could go far for our favorite man, Wario.

Reviewed on Oct 20, 2023


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