I've been playing the US version of this inbetween bouts of other games. It's not exactly the greatest piece of software ever committed to a disc, but it's great fun nonetheless. The fighting element is better than I imagined it would be and although there are only a few moves, they are all satisfying to use. Especially the move where you pick up an enemy and spin him around, clobbering everything else on the screen.
There's a lot more exploring to do within the tight levels than I thought there would be. When I completed stage one, I realised I'd only picked up about 20% of the total treasure for the level. Each stage has loads of secrets and they can be revisited as often as you like, but collected items remain collected and anything you do that changes the design of the levels (like opening up new pathways) stays the same. The difficulty setting is very easy, but the fun is more in finding all the secests.
There's some nice original touches like the glue balls and the graphics are very pleasant and smooth. Enemies are fairly basic in terms of polygon count, but are endearing. Which makes beating them up even better.
The story is utterly dire, but who cares? The best thing about it is Wario himself. The game is constantly filled with his musings and Treasure have wisely kept his "E-E-Excellent!" from Made in Wario. Even the pause screen has Wario going "Nar-nar-nar" at the player
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Not essential, but great fun between bouts of Joe and VF4 Evo.
There's a lot more exploring to do within the tight levels than I thought there would be. When I completed stage one, I realised I'd only picked up about 20% of the total treasure for the level. Each stage has loads of secrets and they can be revisited as often as you like, but collected items remain collected and anything you do that changes the design of the levels (like opening up new pathways) stays the same. The difficulty setting is very easy, but the fun is more in finding all the secests.
There's some nice original touches like the glue balls and the graphics are very pleasant and smooth. Enemies are fairly basic in terms of polygon count, but are endearing. Which makes beating them up even better.
The story is utterly dire, but who cares? The best thing about it is Wario himself. The game is constantly filled with his musings and Treasure have wisely kept his "E-E-Excellent!" from Made in Wario. Even the pause screen has Wario going "Nar-nar-nar" at the player
.Not essential, but great fun between bouts of Joe and VF4 Evo.
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