Treasure never misses. This game is a 2D action beat-em-up with a lot of exploratory elements to make ya run around and check every nook and cranny of the levels. In order to get to the end of the level there are these red crystal things that need to be collected, and they can be found in these single-room mystery challenge areas, which can be either pure platforming challenges or puzzles that need to be solved. So the game is a mixture of puzzle platformer, action platformer, and beat em up. Wario's moveset is certainly not expansive but still diverse enough to make defeating enemies fun. The level themes are unique and the music is very wario-sounding, for better or for worse. One thing that caught me off guard is the graphical fidelity of this game. The lighting engine used is very impressive for the gamecube, with characters chasting dynamic real-time shadows, and light properly illuminating each part of the character it should shine on. In a lot of ways, it looks like an original Xbox game, which is cool. The enemy designs are very strange, and certainly go against the mario series norm, so if ya like a more different style of mario game, this game is def for you.