pacmastermeow
Wario Fan Supreme
Everybody knows Princess Shokora is cool as fuck - that is, if they know who she is at all. But who knows if she'll return? After all, this is just a one-off character from a GBA Wario Land game. However, I posit that she's a perfect match for the WarioWare series.
"Wario Land characters wouldn't cross over into WarioWare!", you might argue. However, in WarioWare: Move It! for the Switch, a character known as Cractus appears. Not only is he originally from a Wario Land game, he hails from the very same game as Shokora. "But she's canonically dead!", you might complain. Well, so was Cractus, after he was blown to smithereens by Wario.
Furthermore, she is the direct precursor to Wario in the micro-games department. In Wario Land 4 (which, as a reminder, came out just before, and shares many assets with, Mega Microgame$), there is a Game Corner that Wario can visit to obtain frog tokens that he can spend on armaments in Shokora's Item Shop. Since the unused Game Corner sign has the same font and coloration as her Item Shop sign, there's clearly some connection there. The three games Wario can play for tokens are:
Since WarioWare Gold, the series's plot has expanded from "you're a beta tester at WarioWare Inc, beat these games" to grander objectives, such as collecting golden artifacts to defeat a higher power. Combine that with the frog tokens from Wario Land 4, and a premise quickly starts to form: Somehow Shokora returned, she needs Wario's help to defeat some higher power, and it's your job to work your way up the recerntly refurbished Game Corner to generate enough tokens for them to fight the menace off.
"Wario Land characters wouldn't cross over into WarioWare!", you might argue. However, in WarioWare: Move It! for the Switch, a character known as Cractus appears. Not only is he originally from a Wario Land game, he hails from the very same game as Shokora. "But she's canonically dead!", you might complain. Well, so was Cractus, after he was blown to smithereens by Wario.
Furthermore, she is the direct precursor to Wario in the micro-games department. In Wario Land 4 (which, as a reminder, came out just before, and shares many assets with, Mega Microgame$), there is a Game Corner that Wario can visit to obtain frog tokens that he can spend on armaments in Shokora's Item Shop. Since the unused Game Corner sign has the same font and coloration as her Item Shop sign, there's clearly some connection there. The three games Wario can play for tokens are:
- Wario's Home-Run Derby (nearly identical to Batter Up)
- The Wario Hop (similar to Crazy Cars)
- Wario's Roulette (nearly identical to Wario Facial)
Since WarioWare Gold, the series's plot has expanded from "you're a beta tester at WarioWare Inc, beat these games" to grander objectives, such as collecting golden artifacts to defeat a higher power. Combine that with the frog tokens from Wario Land 4, and a premise quickly starts to form: Somehow Shokora returned, she needs Wario's help to defeat some higher power, and it's your job to work your way up the recerntly refurbished Game Corner to generate enough tokens for them to fight the menace off.