Wario has returned! His Gold has turned into MONSTERS! TIME TO BRAWL!
GAMEPLAY ~
+Positives+
The game is so easy to just pick up and run with you will be asking yourself why Wario hasn't had more of a run on lets say, the N64? He is the brawler of the 3 Mario-esk characters, and he shows his stuff this time around by battling through this strange side-scroller set in a 3D world. Piledriving, Swinging, and Tossing are some of the moves you will be using to solve the mass amount a puzzles in this game. Wario went all out in this castle design, maybe too far! Cause now, to restore order you need to wander into 4 different worlds and collect everything that was lost, and kick the rear of anyone in your way!
-Negatives-
This game is very easy thought, and you will find yourself maybe backtracking once to claim all the treasures in certain sections (*cough*winterstage*cough*) but even the puzzles are frightfully easy... well except stage 4-2 puzzles, they had me weeping like a baby!, An lets not talk about bosses... the game is only about 5 hours long to an experienced player, but for younglings, it may take 8! But than again, it's still a far better conceptualized idea than Mario Sunshine was, so it still gets a 10 for beating out Mario!
STORY ~
During Wario’s previous adventures he runs into a Black Gem said to be cursed. Wario don't care and takes the Jewel anyway unbeknownst to him that it will cause all sorts of chaos in the near future. The Gem, stored away in Wario's basement of treasures actives during the Red Moon cycle and turns all of his treasure into monsters! Wario now has to put his foot down and recapture what is rightfully his!
GRAPHICS ~
GameCube, and Nintendo in general, always put alot of work into their homegrown titles. This game is no exception. Wario looks meaner and fatter and just as Purple as ever! The 4 worlds Wario transverses are very colorful and vibrant with a multitude of puzzles daring his ever attempt. The "sealed door" areas are ones to behold! Exceptionally huge and not so hard.
-Negatives-
The monsters are kinda cheesy, and VERY repetitive... and as I stated in my last Wario review (WL4) I expect Wario's world to be much more darker and twisted, not some goofy carnival where I fight clowndogs... it's kinda embarrassing to say the least. But again, this title seems more aimed at younglings, thought every Nintendo product seems to lean that way... so it still gets a 10.
SOUND ~
The music isn’t too bad, not the best, but Wario has gotta get himself some more tunes that fit his style! The best song on here is the start menu tune (na-na-na-naaaa-naaaa! so catchy! If only the other tracks had the pizzazz of the Start Menu tune.
REPLAYABILITY ~
It's actually pretty low. You can normally get all the treasures on the first run thought, except for a certain "snowy" stage which gave me HELL! Everything else is relatively easy, and not really worth playing thought a second time, that is, unless your Memory Card got corrupted and you felt obligated to see the ending... which wasn't really worth losing 10 hours of my life to this tile... but the advenure was fun!
OVERALL ~
One of the best GameCube games out there, thought the game length should have been expanded and there should have been a difficulty setting so older fans wouldn't get bored so fast. Now with all that put aside, if you got 5 to 8 hours to kill, go get this tile!
WARIO DEMANDS IT!!!!