Wario Land Series Retrospective 

Pizza tower is out, you should play it if you haven't

1:04:00 where the heck did the footage here come from? Kinda wanna watch it.

@@whybother5741 That clip is from my recording of the game where my friends are in the background. I thought about uploading edited down versions of these playthroughs, but decided against it. I might reconsider if enough people wanted it.

@@automaticpause I’m the type of person who’ll watch hours worth of game playthroughs, I’d probably watch it, edited down or otherwise.

This complex video creation! I commend you for that.

where sherbet land tho

Uh, correction: MULTIPLE childrens' games!

@@raulnaldo5939 children game is still children game

Lmao

"White man with ADHD" is more correct. Imagine complaining about a core mechanic being annoying in a slow-paced game when you're rushing like an idiot through bosses and enemies without taking into account their patterns. He even manages to complain about a WL4 enemy's function not being too easy to grasp at 1st glance, proposing some underline to differentiate from the rest ... ! Just kill the damn enemy and you'll see if he's made to hurt or transform you : devs made sure necessary enemies for puzzles and progression respawn when reentering the room, and enemies that are just there to drop coins or damages don't (for score reason). Games were made for children not toddlers, jesus.

See Dollboy from WL3 (1st boss). Pattern is always the same 4 successive hammer throws from short distance to long distance. (If you're at the same vertical position as him, he'll stop this sequence and do a horizontal hammer throw. Watch it out when he gets lower.) Between each hit, the boss tends to take a pause. Anticipate which type of hammer throw the boss gonna select to retreat and exploit the pause to charge the flashing barrel, so the earthquake effect it does while falling doesn't move you into an hammer. Repeat until last barrel is knocked. 2nd stage is a walk so no need to comment. It's a super short fight when you make the effort to understand what's going on, and frankly it doesn't require a lot of brain power. Then if you happen to fail the first times, what's the matter ? It takes 10 seconds to get back to boss entrance, and boss only has 2 stages, first being the "hardest". Most bosses take you out in 1 hit (with few exception, like Muddee and Shoot), but the developers were kind enough to make them slow or predictable, so it easy for the player to escape the dreaded attack. Though it does make some of them dull (like Scowler, a total joke). Except Pesce where the alignment of occurrences can drag out the fight if you’re unlucky (excusable since the idea of this fight is really funny - it’s not everyday you’re feeding a shark with cheese in a videogame to use his fat*ss as a plug), the implementation of gimmicks is good. You’re ranting on other « critics » being superficial, not digging into the raw mud of the game design itself, but you’re doing the same. Half of your complaints just aim at general concepts and mechanics you don’t like or understand. The developers at the Nintendo headquarters would raise their eyebrows seeing that tiny dude getting hot about tunnel vision in a game made to play on a 6.6 cm (7.3 for gba) screen where levels contain huge open rooms with several branches and hidden secrets. You can’t just walk from right to left and consider it done like your traditional mario platformer : you will have to backtrack and turn around a lot to see little details, suspicious walls, etc, and you don’t want the player to wait 2 seconds for the camera to position itself correctly each time you turn. Tweaking the camera’s speed to make it faster is not good either, unless you want the player to vomit on the carpet after 30 min of gameplay. (Plus the wario land series after WL1 makes wario moves significately faster.) So choosing a locked camera for these games was a good design. Then who cares about these « technicalities » ? Unless you’re a game developer or modder, just play the game. You don’t need to explain thoroughly to sloppy videogame companies why their game is bad : stop buying their shitty product and they’ll suddenly care about quality. If you still want to criticize a game’s flaws and make a video about it, don’t waste your time arguing about details you have no idea why they exist and pretend to be some knowledgable guy. Being self-aware won’t make you more clever either : everyone does it and honestly it’s tiresome. I’d rather see some dumbass stay true to his ideas than trying really hard to make himself look objective in front of his audience. It works on kids, not adults. Frankly you should just find a better hobby instead, cause it’s nothing to be proud of ...

That's exactly right

I've never played the game, but that was my immediate thought upon seeing that clip. Made it frustrating to watch lol.

I love when someone who is bad at video games says level design sucks lmao

Awesome, had no clue it was separated between 4 layers. I know it's possible to simulate the same effect when playing the game on VR emulators. Thank you for clearing up my speculation that it was an emulation thing!

is there any way to get the 3d effects aside from vr

@@sonicphoenix7 It should theoretically be possible on a regular 3d display like the 3DS or a 3D television but that's out of my depth. I don't know if any emulators support such a thing.

@@automaticpause Idk if you still care but there's a 3DS emulator for virtualboy now called Red Viper.

I think there's three distinct duologies(?) of Wario games, which the later developing the former's ideas: 1 and Virtual (Mario-like), 2 and 3 (immortality and more exploration-based), then 4 and Shake it (dashing)... if you compare these games in duos, they have very similar movement and shit. Unfortunately, I think Virtual is the only one of these games that really managed to deliver a better experience compared to the previous. Not that any of them are really bad, but still.

@@springssprangyard8278 imo wario land 3 is amazing

He doesn't even love half the games here wdym.

Didn't know this and it's cool, but my criticism isn't "wrong" because I was criticizing what I played, not what I didn't. It's not a stretch of the imagination to say most people played Normal mode and never touched Hard. I haven't beat the game on Hard but I get what you're sayin'

@@automaticpause That's fair. It was like three years between me beating the game on Normal and then on Hard. But I'm pretty sure that the Big Board suffers the most for it. Random dice would screw up players being able to control how they traverse the board so they can get to the space they need to get to to beat the puzzle. With regard to the whole "Get a Goal" thing, the game needs you to tie together the "Get" signs near all the other dice blocks with the big ones in the final room.

​@@automaticpause Come on man! In a level with the roulette button as it's main gimmick, if they put you in a room (directly after pressing the frog switch) and the only thing in that room is the roulette button and every time before that, it said "GET X" at a roulette button and in that room it says "GET A GOAL" and the roulette button doesn't disappear after pressing it, then the only logical thing to do in that room is to press the button until you get what you need to progress. A bit later, you even explained yourself how the game tells you to "GET X" or "GET Y" for treasure. So if it says "GET A GOAL" and it's the only symbol you haven't seen throughout the whole level (and there really aren't that many different symbols to land on), then it's just logical to press the button until you "GET A GOAL". And even if you assume the line is endless, what prevents you from just mindlessly hitting the button? The whole level revolves around pressing that button, so the solution seems pretty obvious to me. You were a dummy in that section , just admit it 😜

@@GVirusG calm down nerd

@@automaticpause never been more chill after watching this very well made video. Great fun to watch. Keep it going mate, good job. Just pointing out why your reasoning is flawed. Have a great day.

It's the best one

Now it's 2,500 views.