I had mixed feelings when
Wario Land: Shake It! was
first announced for the Wii. The last DS
Wario adventure title was such garbage that I feared Nintendo would continue to ruin one of my favorite characters of all time.
Thanks to GoNintendo, though, my fears have been put to rest.
The
official Japanese Web site for
Wario Land: Shake It! just opened up and contains a bunch of stuff that I can’t read or understand. Not that it matters, as there are two videos on the site that pretty much explain it all. RawMeatCowboy from GoNintendo graciously put the videos up on YouTube, one of the gameplay and one of the prologue to the story of
Shake It!
Watching the gameplay trailer above just makes me think of the original Game Boy games, which were all awesome. Wario uses his powerful muscles and brute strength to take on his enemies. But when that’s not enough, he’ll be hopping into ships, submarines, and more to get as much treasure as possible. It also looks like there will be some Yoshi's Island mechanics, as Wario will pick up enemies, aim them, and then throw them. Hopefully the “Shake It” portions of the game don’t get too repetitive or annoying.
The anime-style prologue video explaining what Wario has gotten himself into is after the jump.
Some evil fiend (who sort of looks like Booster from Super Mario RPG) has brought darkness to the world and captured what most likely is that world's Princess along with her disciples. One brave disciple looks for a hero to save their kingdom but ends up with Wario instead. The little bird ... thingy ... tries to get Wario to help, but of course, Wario doesn’t give a fuck and picks his nose. That is, until money is brought into the equation.
I am so happy now. Shake It! looks like it will be really good and make up for the last few fail Wario games (not counting the WarioWare games, of course; those have all been awesome). Now that you’ve seen this in action, what do you think of it?
Contest:
2:18 AM on 07.04.2008
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God I love Wario.
This has been happening for lots of youtube vids for me lately. Is it becase i am in australia?
Plus, they have a Saria-like girl in that prologue video (wearing green), so that's nice.
the intro video feels kind of awkward without voice acting, given the quality of it's animation. but then again if the other characters could speak then Wario would probably be expected to talk as well; which would only sound more awkward.
HOLY SHIT
CAPTAIN SYRUP
SHE HAD BETTER BE IN THE GAME MORE THAN JUST THAT CAMEO
My tought excactly, I love platformers but I smell useless repetitive waggle incoming.
And god if this music is playing non-stop in the game I might have to kill a puppy otherwise I'll implode. This is sadly awful.
Jonathan Holmes = 2D graphics whore.
Of course, if this isn't Wiiware, then it just proves that Nintendo loves us.
Either way, we win. Wario ahoy!
Is this One of Treasures games? Do we know who developed?
And yes, it looks so awesome....
Totally digging the anime intro too. Even though I have no idea what they're all saying. xD
I'm also a big sucker for pretty 2D graphics.
Now if only Sega would release a Sonic game in this style. If only...
DO WANT
whats with saria?
oh no, is navi going to urge me to LISTEN!! HEY! LISTEN!
does this mean I get to beat up tingle and steal his money/mail?
Let's see a price first, then we'll talk.