WL4 vs Pizza Tower vs Antonblast

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For those of you who've played all three, in what order would you rank them, and why?
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My ranking goes

1. Wario Land 4

2. Pizza Tower

3. Antonblast

Wario Land 4 is still the king for me. Pizza Tower comes close, but you just can't beat the OG.

Antonblast didn't quite click with me as much as I was hoping it would. The Kickstarter looked super promising, but I was really hoping for more. It does some things better than PT, just not enough. That said, I still liked it, but in my opinion, it's the weakest one out of the three.


What's your ranking?
 
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Personally I would say
1. Antonblast
2. Wario Land 4
3. Pizza Tower
though the ranking is very close. Antonblast in my opinion has the best soundtrack of the three and doesn't carry the slight disappointment of WL4 moving away from the style of WL2/WL3.
I have Pizza Tower at the bottom because I find it doesn't really do anything as well as the other two except for speedrunning, but it's still great.
 
I ranked them in the same order, WL4, PT, Anton, and I'm starting to wonder if I'm biased towards whoever pioneers the concept the earliest, which isn't really fair to Antonblast because it's a super cool game and they even took inspiration from VB Wario Land

All 3 of them have fantastic visuals and soundtracks and gameplay, so for me it's just a matter of preference on how these elements are combined. My favorite artstyle is Anton, soundtrack is PT, and gameplay is WL4, I like how I just mixed them all together lol
 
Are y'all gonna consider me a Wario traitor if I put Wario Land 4 at the bottom? It's a really good game but there's just something about it that feels a bit off about how it controls and I have no idea how to explain it. Either my ranking goes:
  1. Pizza Tower
  2. AntonBlast
  3. Wario Land 4
Now to be fair, I played the PT and WL4 way more than AntonBlast and AntonBlast isn't that much higher than Wario Land 4.

For me Wario Land 4 has the best exploration elements, while Pizza Tower is the best game to replay. AntonBlast is like some sort of balance between the two. It's the closest thing to a classic platformer.
 
I feel like what Antonblast gets right, are the characters, the art style and the bosses. The crudeness is there, though it's not quite as dirty as Wario Land 4, it still gets the job done.

But what it was really missing, are the themes. A lot of them felt kinda the same because they were mostly nailed down to factory or underground. We needed a jungle level, a beach level, a freezer level, and maybe a toy level to really make the game feel complete.

:mysticlake: :palmtreeparadise: :40belowbrr::doodlewoods:

Mysterious Glasshouse was kinda "jungle like" but it wasn't enough.


It would've been cool if Antonblast had different endings like PT and most of the Wario Land games had too. I was kinda bummed to find out it only had one ending. It made finding the collectables pretty pointless.

Anton as a character is definitely more in line with Wario than Peppino, but Peppino's game had way more of Wario Land's soul.

Though two cool things I can say I was pretty psyched Antonblast had that Pizza Tower didn't, was, Annie and Anton can actually swim in the water, which wasn't a thing you could do in PT, and thanks to the newest update, you can unlock different difficulties. And S-Hard is no joke.
So they get points for that. :anniecelebrate:
 
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