Wario World

Wario World
Developer(s)	Treasure
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Released	EU June 20, 2003 NA June 23, 2003 JP May 27, 2004
Genre	Platform
Mode(s)	Single-player
Ratings	ESRB: Everyone OFLC: G PEGI: 3+
Platform(s)	Nintendo GameCube
Media	1 × GameCube Optical Disc
System requirements	10 blocks of spare memory

Wario World is a platform game developed by Treasure and produced by Nintendo. It was released on June 23, 2003 in North America for the Nintendo GameCube. It marks Wario's first starring appearance on a home games console.

Gameplay

The game's action centers mainly on combating enemies, though it requires some platform navigation similar to Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. It has a fairly simple control scheme, using only the A, B, R, and L buttons, to do things such as run, jump, dash, perform fighting moves or use a vacuum-like ability to suck up nearby coins. The level designs are platform-oriented with combat and puzzle-like elements, and tend to have an overall linear design, albeit with many hidden areas and alternate routes. The levels all contain many trapdoors which lead to special platforming or puzzle-oriented challenges, which are largely optional. The combat allows Wario to use enemies against each other, as he can knock out larger enemies, grab them, and either spin them around, throw them, or piledrive them into the ground and let the resulting explosion take out or stun nearby enemies. Enemies drop coins when defeated, and tend to regenerate if the area is left and returned to later. The coins are used both to purchase items, such as life-restoring garlic, and to come back to life after losing. If Wario dies, he must pay a fee to return to life on the spot. If he doesn't have enough money, the game is over.

Plot

The game takes place after Wario Land 4. After collecting treasure from the Golden Pyramid (and visiting all-you-can-eat steak restaurants), our anti-hero Wario has filled his castle with all the money and precious gems that he's collected from around the world. Unfortunately one jewel in Wario's collection is an evil black jewel that had control of the world a long time ago, before the Spritelings of the forest were able to seal it up inside a temple, possibly the temple from Wario Land 4. A few thousand years later, Wario stole the sleeping black jewel from the temple and added it to his collection. Later, on a night a red moon rises, the sleeping jewel awakens, destroys Wario's castle, turns all of his coins into monsters, hides Wario's most precious treasures, gets revenge against the Spritelings by imprisoning all forty of them, and then teleports everything to another dimension, all in about 15 seconds. In order to recover his treasure and his castle, and escape the mysterious dimension, Wario must defeat the realm's many monsters and bosses, re-collect all of his treasures, free the Spritelings, and defeat the Black Jewel once and for all. Throughout the game, there are special features in which various things can be performed. Here is the list: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ Demos - Using a Game Boy Advance Link-Up Cable, one can play over 10 of the microgames found in the actual game itself. Throughout the game, you can collect numerous tokens (which are later revealed to be fragments of a vase), and when they are put together, it creates pottery with sketches of a Nintendo GameCube, a Game Boy Advance, and a Link-Up Cable. Nintendo Consoles - Three of the treasures found are a Nintendo GameCube, a Game Boy Advance, and a Nintendo 64. Also, in the Horror Manor area, there is a NES tucked under a dead tree. Above it is a sign which, in blurry text, says, "It's 8-cient..." referring to the NES's 8-bit memory. Best Castle - If you have all heart fragments, spritelings, and treasures before you defeat the black jewel, the spritelings will build you a gold castle considered the best in the game.

Development

Reception

External links

• Wario World at Metacritic

References