Wario Land 4 Review (GBA)

One of the finest platformers in the GBA library, and an excuse to replay the Nintendo puzzle platforming legend. A Wario Land 4 review.

I finished recording for this video on the exact day rumors started as Nintendo filed patents for a bunch of games we knows are getting releases, plus WarioWare and Wario Land. Here's hoping those rumors are true.

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[obscureeli]

I feel like nobody ever talks about Wario games. They’re underrated gems.

[iveli_alpaca]

There's a funny quirk with the ground pound; when Wario slams into the ground, a vibrato effect is added to the stage's bgm for as long as the screen shakes. Like when you shake a casette player.

[MandaloreGaming]

Great review! You've really been stepping it up.

[hahafunni]

its one of warios greatest acheivements

[MindMan]

I really like this game ..
What I really like is the "Hurry Up" music because it creates a clock build-up type of sound indicating that time is running out and that you need to hurry up and go back to the start of the game
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[Rubberman]

It's been almost 6 years since this video game out, and I'd like to think a new wave of appreciation has risen for Wairo Land 4. Glad it's finally getting the respect and admiration it deserves.

Edit: 3:40-3:43 eh, wouldn't necessarily say Wario's transformations are like Kirby's; Kirby's transformations expands his movement and attack options, whereas Wario's transformations basically replace his moveset with a different one, and can be just as much of a hindrance as they are beneficial.

Edit: 6:01 - Also, you don't use the money you get during stages to buy items for the boss fight, you use the money from stages to play minigames, from which you win tokens which you use to buy the items. Feels like a round-about way to use the money to help you, if you ask me, especially since I'm kind of "eh" on two of the three minigames.

[dodoridodomeofficialch.]

A lot of comments are about "how good was this game" or "i loved it when i was a kid" and i played it a lot and liked it too much, but...am i the only one who felt a lot of anxiety and fear because of that kind of bosses?
I mean...their expressions and their sounds were so...fucked up for a kid like i was.
Still a great game.

[alessandrorizzi]

LOOK GUYS LOOK, IT'S ONE OF MY GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT WARIO LAND 4 ON THE GAMEBOY ADVANCE

[thebigadam]

My favourite game on my gameboy but it did scare the shit out of me

[laylover]

This is easily one of my favorite games ever. Just... Bursting at the seams with creativity and personality.

[aceplays]

That sound test room always scared me as a kid lol, like what were they thinking with those weird sounds and human, digitized Wario actors

[EarthToKenny]

I got this game as a kid when I first got my GBA. I could play it for hours today

[GuardianDiancie]

I hope Nintendo puts this game on the Nintendo Switch one day. I absolutely loved this game growing up. Honestly can not tell you how many hours, I spent playing this as a teen. Even after beating the game, there was several levels, I just had to go back and play in

[Valdetiosi]

I have heard about Wario Land by name only, but thanks to this review, I can see what kind of game series this is, and one word that is on my head for it is 'surreal'

5/5 review, would definitely buy the game when getting a chance.

[TheUltimateNatural]

You can cheese Cractus very easily by hitting it near the second ladder to the right and then repeatedly reclimbing the ladders and hitting it on its head again and again.

[bostonslime]

This video is amazing! It’s so professional, and it brought back so many memories playing this as a kid, thank you! :D

[thelastgogeta]

I must have played this forever ago but never appreciated it enough (more into beat em ups, typical platformers and RPGs) to finish it or go back to the others. It looks spectacular visually for a 2001 GBA game and I think I'd appreciate the concept much more now.

I was surprised to find a platformer with such an unconventional health system (or rather many "attacks" gave transformations) but I did like how it diversified gameplay then.

Nice review as usual.

[nicolasstark]

This was my first Nintendo game and I loved it

[jasonmighty]

I remember feeling bliss as a child when wario escapes the pyramid and is driving back.

[hrhnicholasable]

I remember that I was always hoping we’d get a Wario Land on 3DS with super stylized sprite work, and maybe even foreground and background mechanics from the VB game