Wario Land vs. WarioWare - General Discussion Forum

John_Koshiro · 2019-02-09T05:46:23+00:00

Last WarioWare game released: 2018. Last Wario Land game released: 2008. A ten year difference between these series for this character and personally, in my opinion, I would have preferred that Nintendo continue the Wario Land series over WarioWare because it had the spirit of the Super Mario Land games by trying something unconventional in the platforming genre. These games took on something new with each title like light Metroidvania elements or a hand-drawn art style. Current 2D Mario platformers have been in the New Super Mario Bros. series, games that have recycled the same assets and ideas for over a decade. I'm getting sick of hearing that "bah, bah, bah" music while playing through an Winter/Ice themed world for the 4th time. Nintendo could have made up for this by releasing Wario Land alongside NSMB but instead we get nothing but a bunch of flash mini-game compilations a.k.a. WarioWare. It's just my personal taste here and I don't outright hate WarioWare or anyone that may enjoy it but they never held my interest for very long. I like playing games with a core design that is iterated or layered upon and that was something the "Land" games did so well. The "Ware" games are the exact opposite. Those games don't have a core design at all. What they do have are so called "stages" which are really nothing but difficulty settings for the same lot of mini games. The "Ware" games have become too prominent for the character and I feel it's starting to harm him as a whole by leaving him stuck with these shallow games and by changing his personality from his platforming titles. To elaborate, I'm saying that Nintendo is neglecting this series, just like the F-Zero and Advance Wars games, and they need to give this series another chance in the spotlight and bring back the manly, treasure hunting Wario. I'm getting sick of the lazy boss of a game company that sits around and makes jokes about gross humor Wario. I want to know how anybody else feels. Which series do you like more, are any of you dying for a comeback of Wario Land, and how much do you agree or disagree with what I said?

Topic: Wario Land vs. WarioWare

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SillyG
Sat 9th Mar 2019

WarioWare by far.

Wario Land is great, but Nintendo is producing far too many 2D platformers as it is, and WarioWare is one of Nintendo's more out-of-the-box IPs that toys with concepts that take advantage of whatever hardware the software has been designed for.

As a diehard fan, Gold was tremendously disappointing precisely because it served up most of the same activities that we had been stuck with for the last 10 years. I enjoyed it and unlocked everything, but I can't see myself returning to it any time soon.

I was hoping for a MotionPlus WarioWare game on Wii or Wii U and we never got one.
I was hoping for one that took advantage of the 3DS's stereoscopic 3D. We never got that either.
But they serve up a 2D-only "best of" collection...

Unless Gold was leading up to a Switch game (and judging by predictably poor sales, I sadly doubt that this is the case), I fear that WarioWare shall lay dormant for a while yet.

At this point, I would be content with a port of Smooth Moves, which is perhaps the finest and most fun game in the series, especially with its very original (and hilarious) multiplayer modes.

[Edited Sat 9th Mar 2019 by SillyG]

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