nintendo's answer when prompted with the question: "what is an evil mario game?" slow, methodical movement yet immensely powerful powerups. the player's greed is enabled and exploited with treasures that are lost at a game over and the option to gamble your hard earned cash. interestingly enough the end game reward system would get reused for Luigi's Mansion, which now that I think about it Luigi's Mansion could have totally been a game starring Wario about him cleaning up his Mario Land 2 mansion, but i digress. definitely my favorite of the Mario Land trilogy, levels work so well here at this resolution, whereas Land 2 could have had more space to breathe, and i just don't find Land 1 fun. leave the fast games on the SNES and also at the door, because we mosey in this household.