Wario Land: The Shake Dimension

[Ark]

hooray for 2d...hooray!! hip hip..............????

[Leonidas]

hoorayyy

[Chibi Kitsune]

only Capcom, SNK, and Nintendo still make good 2D games these days

[AkaneJones]

What about Vanillaware?

[Leonidas]

atlus?

[AkaneJones]

Ah, well to be speciffic Vanillaware made Odin Spear & Princess Crown, Banpresso (part of Namco Bandai) made Summon Night & Super Robot Wars. Atlus is most responcable for Etrian Odyssey more than anything else and that's technically 3D with, with sprites. Leaving Atlus as mainly the publisher in the US.
Although the list could also include Nippon Ichi and the devision of Konami responsible for Castlevania games

[AkaneJones]

Ah well, Some general info to impart you since I've been playing it in between Mario Kart & Megaman 9. First off if your at all a fan of the Wario Land games this won't disappointed.

Now it does seem a bit short, and you could cruse right through the main levels pretty quick and beat the game. However its never been the point of a Wario Land game, don't get 100% and you get a crap ending. I'll assume they included the multiple endings, because it'd be mad not too.

In any case from what I can divulge, partial from what I've done, part from the treasure screen, is there are 5 Level each with 4 Main Stages, 2 Hidden Stages, & 1 Boss. There is also one training stage and seem to be 2 other stages & of course the final boss. This info is mainly noted as Stages each have 3 treasures and there are 33 columns on the Treasure Screen, it also list the Level they're from as long as you have the Level map.

What's that all mean practically though is there are 33 stages, 99 treasures, 6 Bosses, and a odd number of challenges. Let's face fact's here some of those treasures are well hidden and challenges are a bit insane. So completion time may very wildly.

Oh and Stages work like Wario Land 4, what with the slow can take forever if I want starts and then mad dash to get back to start. I should note you can't reach all areas of a stage in one mode so...

[boffo]

I recall playing Wario Land way back on the Gameboy I believe. And of course there was the Virtual Boy version which I still own. They were fun games. Not totally on topic but it had a VB tie-in so I couldn't pass on that opportunity.

[valius]

I caved and got the game even at its high price, and I'll let you know how it goes 0.5 hrs. and I love it already... it does remind me a lot of Mischief Makers from the N64.