I now feel slightly better about Wario Master of Disguise...

[CM30]

Because if you think Wario and Yoshi got messed up by crappy spinoffs and third party devs... well, look what happened to obscure Sonic clone Zool:



Their third game ended up becoming Ninjabread Man for the Wii. You know, one of the worst games of all time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_..._reception#Ninjabread_Man_.28multiplatform.29

So be a bit grateful towards Suzak, Artoon and their ilk. At least we didn't get our favourite heroes ripped off, turned into a shovelware game character and the game then released four more times with the graphics swapped out. That's just pathetic.

 

[SurrealBrain]

On the other hand, at least whatever name Zool had didn't get dragged through the mud, because the franchise owners cared enough to say no to Data Design's attempted revival. Considering the end results, they made a good choice. So in some ways, I actually feel worse about those two...