Recent content by Really Ilini

Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but it may be worth reiterating... The original Wario Land came off the heels of Mario's latest 2D platformer for 14 years, Super Mario Land 2, and in many regards it tries to subvert the expectations of what you'd expect in the red plumber's...

Now that I'm nearing the end of Dream Team, I agree that is has the best soundtrack of the series. Much more emotionally resonant than what came before! There was one track I completely forgot about that was a particular highlight (spoiled since it is very endgame and worth the reveal) Outside...

I love the idea of having all four move in a diamond pattern that matches the buttons!! In my original concept I was thinking the areas where all four could traverse together (let's call it the overworld) there would be enemies that pay out much less XP, to further incentivize separating the...

After an overnight brainstorm, I came up with a concept that initiates and justifies this format: In the prologue of the adventure before the rhythm of having 4 characters, scouters of an ancient temple (maybe outside of the Mushroom Kingdom? I'm not fond of when certain sequels reinvent it)...

(source) It's been a while since Ilini had a proper text regurgitation session! You have been warned. I have recently been on a "Mario & Luigi" series marathon (currently nearing the end of Bowser's Inside Story) building up to Brothership, the one title I haven't played yet. Due to having...

The Pirate Gooms and D.D.s from the early titles are very memorable to me. I also like that weird bird-bat-pig thing from 4, as well as the robotic bird. Looks pretty cool for an enemy that dies when Wario bumps into it! I'm also very amused by some of the more generic enemies in the earlier...

This fascinated me enough to dig a little deeper, with how much it doesn't sound like a track Nintendo would ever approve of for any game, let alone Wario... but all I've found is a separate upload from around the same year (albeit some months later): I assume the "TF2" in the title refers to...

The saga continues... but this is still pretty welcome news.

I think we're well past the spoiler threshold for me to now say: I failed you all. Woops. Though I am still confident Wario will have a major role in the coming threequel. I doubt they would go into spinoff territory for villains before considering him, right?!

I think surprise villains tend to make more sense for Wario's stories, as they usually don't start from a place of needing to thwart them. The Shake King gets around this by not being the main motivator behind Wario stepping in to be the hero, and I wouldn't say Syrup is exactly villainous in...

Perhaps there's more of an effort to be informal and concrete on wikis out of respect for the source. On the surface it makes sense to come up with a name in another language by building off of the original, but not every creator would want it to be done that way, and to do so in those cases...

A full-on explorer fit like the baby princesses have, to harken back to the WL1/VB days would be nice. I also think a monster costume could pair well with Waluigi's Wampire, ideally a zombie to call back to the reaction from WLII/3/4.

I am quite fond of those little gadgets, I like how in-depth some of them got to basically be extra minigames, unrelated to the microgames. A game I played before WarioWare was Mario Party Advance, which featured similar toys under the name "Gaddgets" (I wonder who made them?) that did various...

Thanks!! I don't see any games yet, but just from that avatar I see you're a Blupi fan! I played Planet Blupi a while back and it was very cute.

I'm giving this funky site a spin: Backloggd! It's basically Letterboxd for games if the name didn't give that away: you can add games to your collection, your ratings of them, any review you want to write, the works. I thought it'd be fun to log my thoughts on the games I play there, and I...