/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1281939
Maybe when they started adding him to the Mario Kart games and later "party" games they thought him being a giant would have been a bit strange, so they shrunk him down to a size more proportionate to the other plumbers. That and they maybe thought he worked better as a protagonist when he was a bit smaller.

>>1281105
I've been playing back the old Wario games again recently and the first Wario Land holds up surprisingly well. I kind of miss the hat gimmick since it was replaced with the different Wario "forms" in later games and the physics feel so different compared to regular Mario games and the later Wario ones. They're more Mega Man-like I suppose, since Wario doesn't have a lot of momentum and he stops on a dime.

I'm playing Wario Land 2 now and it's also a very nicely designed game, but coming straight out of the first Wario Land the physics take a bit of getting used to since he now has more momentum and feels heavier than before. Also the memory matching game for getting treasure is pretty annoying and I definitely prefer the key-finding process from the first game.

But yeah more Wario ads, these things are great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch7vDeW8fiI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn4ywx-Irk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMxAH8hrZc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtJw4uopisQ