/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10365664
the wario land games

>>9636524
>LA is a superior game to LttP in every way.
Arguably true. I love LTTP a lot, but I think my favorite is the Oracle games, because they're like LA but far more vast and comparatively more challenging. Played them for the first time a year or two back when recovering from surgery, and fuck me, they were so much better than I ever expected.

>Wario Land is just a hard game to play these days. I don't mean like it's difficult or bad or anything, but it's like playing a game for babies. There's no challenge and even the secrets are super obvious.
Heh, well, it's not particularly hard, no, (though I'm pretty bad at most platformers) but I find the game irresistibly charming for its overall design and character. I love Wario as the anti-Mario, greedy, crude, violent, two-faced, he's really just in with whatever he does for making money so he can live in great comfort, he's not noble at all and he's not ashamed of that.

The first Wario Land gets it so well, fucking with Mario didn't really pan out, but hey, what if he besieged that pirate den island to then rob those fuckers for every penny and pretty trinket they've got? They're crooks, he can't get in trouble with Mario for that, right? This makes it yet better that Wario Land 2 starts with said pirates breaking into his castle when he's sleeping to rob him of the money he robbed from them (also flooding his basement), and thus begins his quest of getting back his stolen-stolen shit.
Wario being this absolute lout preoccupied with money makes him a lot more fun and interesting to me than Mario, and they figure that out even with the gameplay itself, Wario being less about jumping on top of enemies, and instead bumping them over to pick up and throw them, or giving them a running/jet assisted tackle sending them flying out the level. Optionally groundpounding them flat with his big ass, which slams down with such force that the earth quakes for a split second.