Recent content by warelander

While I still have my opinions of Move It and the Fart marketing obsession, the recent NSO Wario World release has been a step towards the proving me wrong that I wanted, because this is a trend now: Both Wario Land 4 and Wario World got re-released on their own, not as part of a wave and...

Not only is Wario World coming back, it gets all the spotlight to itself and even a silly, fun trailer to go with it. You love to see it, this is the kinda thing that's making me more hopeful better things are up ahead for Wario.

A big reason I warmed up to to the Ashley stuff is that it at least pushes something that's in the games. That is one of the many reasons the fart stuff BAFFLES me. The website and Nintendo Today are at the end of the day, means to promote their products and this weird fart obession really...

Yeah, I myself have softened on it considerably. While I still ideally want a more even-handed push, the Ashley stuff back then was promoting something much more widely appealing and healthy for WarioWare as a brand than the current fart obsession.

More than anything I also have to genuinely ask who the fart stuff is even for. Out of every franchise on Nintendo Today, Wario has the most baffling presence. Others get unique animations, preview content for upcoming releases, activities that are meant to engage with their casts in a fun way...

It's true that the poop stuff and so on existed on the old websites and I'm not a fan of that, but at it's core that is just Wario having a crass sense of humor and openly talk about stuff most would deem uncalled for. My main problem with those is more the complete lack of wit, especially...

It's the Wario's Aroma of the Day, that I mentioned in my post. A recurring feature based on the fart button from the WarioWare website, but expanded with additional ''flavors'' of farts, like ones where Wario rips his pants or shits himself. It's horrendous.

I don't mind the idea of Volcano Wario, more just howw it's done. After already disappearing for most of the game, he returns, just to be turned the victim of the curse, becoming just an avatar for the volcano. He's not a deliberate antagonist like at the end of Inc. or as Wario Deluxe, nor is...

Been a while since I posted here. For a long time I kept on active regarding Wario via my blog, particularly on Twitter where it genuinely managed to gain surprising momentum, but as of now that's on hiatus for an undetermined time. The truth is, I don't really feel optimistic for Wario's...

Even after the video I am still researching and adding to the Counter whenever possible. Turns out Nintendo Power had this postcard, which plays into the poop humor of the japanese websites. Barely talked about because naturally, it doesn't affect how Wario acts in the games and is really just...

A friend of mine was so kind to adapt my counter into video form. Very happy with the results, this is still something I care about a lot.

Doesn't give us any concrete numbers, but it's yet another encouraging sighting.

And here's the rest. Really amazing surprise to see this in full at last and it's so much better than WaiWai!Wario was.

As requested by Glowsquid, here's the first bunch:

Treasure Tracker is actually a good example of how Nintendo operates. They didn't decide to do a Toad treasure hunting game specifically instead of a Wario one. They started with the base concept of a puzzle platformer where the character can't jump and what franchise to add came later. Very...