Nintendo's Strangest Gamecube Game - Wario World

[@logan_wolf]

9:53 No, when I was a kid, after beating the game, my favorite thing to do was go back and fight all the bosses ad nauseam. The boss fights in this were so good ,and so satisfying.

[@Emery_Pallas]

it was made by Treasure, bizarre yet thoroughly impressive boss fights are basically most of their games.

[@stankykong8506]

Correction. Treasure made this, which is why it feels suspiciously SEGA.

[@Preteristboy]

That would explain why it kinda feels eery and strange, but in a way that makes you question if that was actually their intent at times.

[@Motolmang]

love how Treasure of all companies made a Wario game about collecting treasure

[@ButteredToast32]

Fun fact: if you stay at the pause screen for 50 minutes, Wario will say sorry, I guess for being so annoying with his obnoxious taunting.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

This game was so much fun, but was so weird, DK Jungle Beat was also a weird experimental game from nintendo, with a boss who is literally a giant gorilla who you punch to death, use a pair of drums, if that isn't weird, i don't know what is! xD I'm glad you referenced DJ Jungle Beat, that game is so underrated.

[@100organicfreshmemes5]

That's the boss you bring up? Not the chicken head on a huge thorny plant?

[@grimtygranule5125]

I think the fact Wario will fight gods and monsters beyond comprehension for... his own greed, that's just badass.

[@yellowmattereyecusta]

To this day I shout 'EGGSALAD' in tone of Wario when things are going well.

[@vgleo43]

I hear this in my sleep. You aren't the only one.

[@DjDeadpig]

Remembered this game existed because of the Wario laughing video.

[@phyllojoe5346]

For me it was the annoying pause menu

[@Boingaloinkz]

"nahhh nahh nah n​ahhh nahh" --- Wario [Wario World] @@phyllojoe5346

[@SergeantCrwhips]

EEEEE LOOK GUYS LOOK!

[@The_noise2018]

Waahahaha!Waahahaha!Waahahaha

[@spoopygamer6656]

I remember playing Wario World when I was younger. It was indeed weird. Shame we didnt get a continuation of that game.

[@TrueDarkAce]

We can all agree on one thing though... Greenhorn Forest is a freakin' bop

[@megaman37456]

FACTS!

[@dylantheriault3481]

I had literal nightmares about the winter windster when I was 7, totally forgot this thing existed. Thanks for reminding me of my trauma

[@JomasterTheSecond]

"Nintendo made this?" Nah, Treasure made this.

[@GreatFox42]

my exact words as i clicked the thumbnail

[@deluxebucket]

@@GreatFox42Same here lolol, Treasure is one of the best developers of all time IMO. shameful to credit Nintendo for this masterpiece they couldn't come up with in their dreams

[@star-rock6466]

​@@deluxebucket calling it a masterpiece is kinda wild

[@arttulyhykainen3193]

Cursed items in games are so common and often even beneficial nowadays, so seeing a single cursed treasure causing this much chaos is downright refreshing.

[@joehearts1850]

I low key always loved the bull boss guy, and how he poses Everytime you hit him.

[@PumpedAaron]

same!!

[@gensteps923]

This game is amazing and one of my favorite 3D Platformer Adventures ever. Whats funny is because of Mario Sunshine, Luigi Mansion, And Wario World were all standalone games for those characters on the gamecube, I actually thought as a kid that we would really see a Standalone waluigi Gamecube game come out next.

[@realgambadogaming]

Lmao SAME! I remember eagerly waiting for the announcement that never came, Waluigi World where are you? On the real tho I'd play the shit outta a Waluigi game, even today!

[@gensteps923]

@@realgambadogaming same it's high time waluigi got his own game. Waluigi world would go pretty hard ngl. I also wouldn't mind a game featuring both Wario and Waluigi. It's weird how almost all Wario games don't feature Waluigi in them at all, and certainly never as a playable character. Wario & Waluigi's World would go harder

[@orangeslash1667]

@@gensteps923 The only reason Waluigi was made was to give Wario a partner in the sports games. That Waluigi's only purpose.

[@gensteps923]

@@orangeslash1667 yeah but he had transcended his original purpose and become a beloved character in his own right. I can't think of Wario without also thinking of Waluigi, and it's just sad that Nintendo doesn't do anything with him. That's why I said it would be a good idea to put him in a game alongside Wario, just like Luigi is often paired along Mario in some of his games.

[@orangeslash1667]

@@gensteps923 Nintendo cares very little about personality and fanbases, they judge characters based on gameplay function. Luigi was created because Nintendo needed a Mario that can jump high in with less traction. The reason Peach is getting her own game is because I can't imagine Mario in all those costumes. What would be Waluigi's gameplay function that Wario and Luigi can't have???

[@futurewario9591]

MY MUSTACHE HAS DEEMED THAT YOU GET MY WARIO STEAM!

[@alpacalorde]

the sled enemies on shivering mountains aren't supposed to be birds, they're yeti's

[@Mother2IsTheBestGame]

I was thinking, "Wario World isn't THAT weird. That title should go to something like Cubivore", but after watching, I guess Wario World was a pretty weird one...

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

How many people even heard about this game? I think I saw a trophy of it in Smash Bros Melee and at the time it was said to appear in a future release.

[@Mother2IsTheBestGame]

@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Not many when it first released. I just happened to get a used copy at GameStop when I saw it because I thought it looked cool. Me and my brother were always well amused by the fact that the block animals mate and reproduce.

[@The_noise2018]

Beautiful Profile Waahahaha!

[@Vyloka]

7:33 the point about everything having a face. I wanna say this is a visual joke for how most mario games up till then had faces on basically everything. The hills, some coins, some blocks, even stars and shine sprites and powerups all had faces. The inverse for a wario game having creepy more realistic and detailed faces everywhere seems hilarious in that way.

[@bayzul7405]

The Jason mask is spot on unnerving. But works so good. High recommend playing the JP version (cough emulator) a 2nd run to experience how much a blood pump Black Jewel becomes. Absolutely mind blowing to the 12 year old me first playing

[@vicariousmonarch]

It's funny to think that the bull boss isn't the first time we had fought him, he was in the first wario land

[@punkloser1465]

I think you did a great retrospective! Also 44:37 is "Starring Wario" on ddr mario mix. It goes hard

[@VardrunCRidleyKnight]

Well it came from this game, which they remixed into Mario DDR. Which is great, because it should’ve stayed Wario’s theme from then on

[@punkloser1465]

@@VardrunCRidleyKnight True

[@MarioMastar]

Funny you mentioned Brawl doll causing nervousness in kids because I genuinely remember being phobic of the level because of Brawl doll. something about the music and the creepy opening and how dark the stage gets when you remove all the torches just really triggered something. To the point I even asked my friends IRL if it scared them too, which they both replied "Ah I didn't think it was scary as much as creepy". I got over it a bit later when I just toughed it out and realized it's not "So scary" but I think that's one of the last times I was so creeped out by something in a game that I refused to play the stage for awhile.... and then I saw 9-volt's stage in Wario Ware Move it.... 32 years old and just seeing that in a video had me sleeping with a night light on. I swear it's when you LEAST expect something creepy that it's SO much worse than games like Asylum or Resident Evil where the creepiness is the point. but bright cheery Mario games having that stuff... WOO!

[@MarioMastar]

I definitely liked your video though. Nice way to revisit a game that's nostalgic to me. It's one of those types that you have a few hours to play and just kind of do it and go "Yeah that was satisfying. Not great, but the itch is scratched" and then kind of do something else. More so I'm glad it exists more than not because like Luigi's Mansion and even Mario Sunshine, Nintendo's most memorable games are when they did break the formula and you can really tell they wanted to try something wildly different. I like your sense of humor too. Never being so condescending it sounds offensive (like insulting a character design in a way that sounds more like insulting the people who might like it), but being just sarcastic enough to remind me of Seer or Particular Mushroom where even if you like the game and details you have to agree they are a little odd, they're both really fun to listen to so to remind me of Seer is a HUGE compliment! Yeah very good on ya! Excellent revisit of this video!

[@WhatTheFnu]

Red Brief J single-handedly answers the question, "Where's the beef?"

[@i.l.l.l.l.]

Tbh "the game is too short," while very true and a totally reasonable complaint, is also kind of a compliment. The crituc is basically saying "I wish I could have played this more." Looking back, it's ridiculously short and somewhat repetitive, but as a kid playing it I don't remember thinking that at the time (too busy being unnerved by the bosses)

[@macblackledge6121]

This game is very special to me. While the reviewers said is was fairly short at least it's short and sweet, it doesn't over stay it's welcome. I wish you had mentioned the Game Boy Advance connectivity via the Link Cable so you could play the WarioWare, Inc Mega Micro games, though I doubt anyone still has access to one of those these days.

[@pommybomber]

A cool fact I learned is that if you suck at the shell game, you can actually just pay attention to where Wario is looking in the Mean MC fight. Wario always looks at the bosses so his ugly mug will always be looking at the correct cup.

[@soulubilityofficial6635]

Thanks for doin this vid man! To paraphrase another KZbinr there’s something oddly absurd and comforting about taking on a terrifying Eldritch abomination like the winter windster and being able to beat it to death with your bare hands lol

[@Cute___E]

I really liked this video, would love to see more long-form gaming content like this, outside of just the icebergs, I mean.

[@yingyangdevious]

Also, from someone who has never played this game, it looks really good. Visually, I mean. The graphics genuinely still look crisp and polished.

[@LuffyMcDuck]

I loved the Gamecube era for many things, one of them being the fact that almost everyone got their own 3D game. Out of the big 2D platformer mascots by Nintendo, Yoshi is still missing his own 3D game.

[@austinmorrison6953]

Fun fact about those birds and magicians in mirror mansion. They transform if you piledrive them. The magicians break out of their straight jackets and start tossing the locks at you. Meanwhile the birds become ninja woodpeckers chasing you on the ground trying to stab you.

[@cerealthe72nd]

ive played/watched a LOT of weird, fever-dreamy games, and this is way up there

[@krocolate1300]

I am so happy you covered this. Some how I just realised I never was subcribed, but been watching your vids for a good while. I never see anyone else talk about this game but all of a sudden I been seeing way more people bringing this game up than any other time. Thought I would be the only one. Great video, treasure braught some gem designs here.

[@RuneScapeShadoma]

I fondly remember and love Wario World, it was my first GameCube game

[@eb-the-gamer6287]

Yes, nintendo hired treasure to make this. Its kinda well known to wario fans as his only 3d outing. Im glad its still being talked about though, mean more people have/will discover it.

[@ouhhoh]

personally I love when videos are longer. & it'd be awesome to see some more retrospectives like this from you

[@phyllojoe5346]

Glad to see someone talking about this childhood fever dream

[@iniquumiudicium811]

the Winter Windster doesn't shoot a laser to inflate Wario... it deconstructs itself and goes inside him to do that, like a wind elemental hopping into a balloon. Yuck!

[@nullvoid7188]

I enjoyed this game, pile driving bosses was always fun.

[@Garayin]

This game makes me take psychic damage when I try to remember stuff about it. None of my memories of it make sense at all but its good to know, its because it doesn't make sense at all.

[@Count_Meowza]

I loved all the unique and weird bosses in this game. Would love a sequel.

[@aaronskuse2207]

I’ve 100% this game, and while I don’t mind the overall short length, the worst thing about WarioWorld is the complete lack of post ending content. Once you finish the game, you literally have zero reason to replay, other than just to have fun with the gameplay mechanics. Some sort of New Game + function to unlock new content would have done wonders to extend the games lifecycle.

[@elementaliguana5880]

I remember playing the game many years ago, it was fun game despite it being short. Would absolutely love a sequel to be develop by Next Level Games.

[@ViewtifulBeau]

Still have it. Never forgot it. My dad hated the nah nah nah naaaah nah pause screen lmao.

[@BriceTerry]

Then again Wario games and Treasure games already have some freaky bosses. And you gotta hand to Wario... He isn't a scaredy cat and he can take on the bosses in this game. He has some guts.

[@daili4917]

References using cash influencing the ending, then refers to Luigi's Mansion 2...despite Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 having that as an ending in 1993! Get all the treasures and Wario could get the moon!

[@robbertlw9610]

Never had the chance to play Wario World, so it was really nice to watch a video where you feel like you’re playing and beating it together

[@ShyGuyXXL]

By the way, I don't think a game should ever be criticised for being "too short". If anything, it can be too expensive for what you get. But just being short in and of itself is not a criticism. If you beat the game and think to yourself, "Man, I wanna play more of that!" then it just means the game was good and didn't overstay its welcome. Portal is also a very short game, but no one would argue that this detracts from the game's quality. It's exactly as long as it needs to be. And the price reflects that. But yeah, I don't know what Wario World's original price was, but I think if it was sold for, let's say 30 bucks or 40 at most, then people shouldn't complain about the length.

[@PervoTheClown]

This game was one of my favorite games on gamecube when it came out. Wish I could go back in play it 😭

[@kitestar]

“Nintendo” is a funny way to say “treasure”

[@HopePapernacky]

8:03 I love how Wario survives a massive fall by falling **faster.** Technically makes the fall shorter, I suppose

[@Robrt476]

Bro that speech you had about the Jason masks in the cars, I thought I was the only one. People in my city started doing that a few months ago and I always have the split second flight or fight response until I realize what I'm looking at.

[@dougawesomecities]

I've never played this game, so it was like a Gambado walkthrough for me. Love the format, great vid

[@GhostGhost-]

When I was a kid I found an article or post about this game saying you could unlock swords after fighting Mario and Luigi in a maze. I was like no way this is legit. To this day I’m not sure if it was. I tried when I had it as a kid but figured it was fake. I’m sure I can still find it.

[@Robeebert]

Wario World is totally Mischief Makers' spiritual successor. It's even made by Treasure.

[@espicelmecanicodecombustio1632]

Came in just to say that it felt special because it was made by Treasure only to find that like 5 people already had made the distinction. Good to see legendary studios get recognition

[@Earthium]

Wario World hits that perfect weirdness factor. Treasure themselves sometimes crosses that line, like, mischief makers, I don't know. Stretch Panic, hmm, little to weird. Gamecube was the only console to have a Mario, Wario, and Luigi title on it.

[@Sol-Lar-Bink]

I still remember seeing ads for it in gaming magazines and being so excited when my parents ordered it for me and my bro to play. I frikken love this game, its so weird and different. All the bosses scared me as a kid, it really was like a mini horror game. Awesome video! I like that you touched on the japanese final boss too. When I learned about that I was so shocked.

[@Mysteryman61350]

Just ran through the game 100% the other day, and I wish we got another wario game like this, maybe even an upscale remake.

[@heromedley]

i dunno what it is but the muscular pig boss kinda reminds me of the main villain of ring fit adventure

[@StarHaven64]

I actually remember being so surprised in Pecan Sands when the world two boss showed up! Blew my mind as a kid playing this game.

[@GHero3108]

This video is so incredibly good. I started watching it recently while trying to go to sleep and I actively sought it out again to really watch it and pay attention to everything. Keep up the good work!

[@callum9509]

I wonder if this game is the game equivalent of "Face your fears."

[@ShyGuyXXL]

I always thought they should've doubled down on the whole "enemies are actually made of Wario's treasures" bit by giving the Black Jewel attacks where it uses Wario's treasures against him. Like forming a pile of coins into extended limbs, using huge gems to deal blunt force damage, using ornate swords as weapons, shooting coins as projectiles (which you could actually still collect after they hit something). It could summon a treasure chest to shield itself, which you need to bash open, maybe using an enemy that it spawns. It could swim through a sea of coins like Scrooge McDuck and pop up in different places, playing whack a mole with you. It could swing around on a pearl necklace, or maybe use it as a whip. It could roll glamorous Fabergé eggs at you. Maybe they are decorated with spiky gems, while others aren't, so you have to find ones that you can grab and throw back. Also, it's a shame that in the actual fight, it never really uses its tentacles. It would've been fun if, at the end, it got fed up and just started using 2 of its tentacles as legs, the other 2 as arms, and simply walked up to you to smack the shit out of you personally, the same way you've done throughout the whole game. There's certainly a lot that could be done with this, but I guess they were already short on time. I'd love to see this concept revisited in a Wario World Sequel.

[@darkcrydotmrihavetoomanyst1440]

That or a in warioware remake they could add new bosses themed off treasure

[@ShyGuyXXL]

@klaymodopostoffice9885 Thanks! I assume you saw my old post on the Wario Forums about a Wario World sequel? 😅

[@ShyGuyXXL]

@klaymodopostoffice9885 Hah, nice! Funnily enough, I'm not even that happy with the redesign anymore, I might actually give him another redesign at some point. 😂

[@lcdsoundsystem33]

Great vid can't get enough of your content

[@fionadakitsuneko]

27:22 omg I remember being super young and getting stuck on that cuz I didnt know what to do. I was playing on someone else's console starting from the middle of the game so I didn't have experience from the first half of the game I'm glad i never got past the level though because i was super arachnophobic back then and would've had a panic attack seeing the boss

[@WesDoesGames]

absolutely do more retrospectives!

[@exodus9001]

Ahh the good ol days. This was a rental from Blockbuster for me, and for whatever reason I didn't have a memory card for me gamecube so getting further into the game is what pushed me to ask my parents for one. The angel thing definitely spooked me when I was a kid. Really wish we could have gotten another, the spinning and piledrivers were so fun to me. If only Nintendo would nut up and make Wario & Waluigi: The Big Heist or whatev.

[@Shibacki]

Man I love Wario World. This game was what got me into game collecting, and is the only game besides Majora's Mask 3D that I've beated 100% (which is a challenge I wish upon no man--don't do it if you value your sanity). It's also one of the few games I thought was so unique and weird that I also made a video on it--though not in the same style as yours. Awesome video overall btw

[@kiwikiwi8966]

This game will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm surprised I wasn't more creeped out in retrospect.

[@TheGreatFool_]

Nintendo made this game and it was a masterpiece. I loved this game when I was a little kid

[@TheHoFFnev]

This video deserves more views

[@WonderSparkPuppets1]

Strangest? Maybe it is wacky, but strangest goes to Cubivore or Odama

[@honkerdoodles2764]

Watched my girlfriend 100% this game sitting very close to the TV while hungover. 10/10 fever dream experience 🎉

[@moustachio05]

Lmao

[@VinnyCM64]

I LOVE this game. This was my main Wario game growing up and it is so weird.

[@rickastley8662]

See, I sat here for a couple minutes wondering why the uploader decided to put 2 of everything in the video Then I realized I’m drunk as hell

[@militantpacifist4087]

I really with Nintendo could put this game on the Switch or on their next console. It was weird, in a good way, but it was also fun even though it was a short game.

[@Newline_Void]

Loved the video as a whole... But Treasure made this game, not Nintendo lol. Granted, Nintendo probably had final creative say, but it does urk me a little you negelected to mention that at all. This very fact would help explain a lot of the strangness in the game, Treasure frequntly has done some odd stuff. Go look up McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure or Mischef Makers if you want more of what I'm talking about. Still though, fun video, keep it up

[@FrahdChikun]

Don't forget Dynamite Heddy, Gunstar Heroes, and Battletanks!

[@jodyposey9558]

​@@FrahdChikunAnd also Radiant Silvergun, Rakugaki Showtime, Sin and Punishment and Ikaruga!

[@doom3926]

I don’t like this game as much as I used to but I do still appreciate it for being the closest Nintendo ever got to making a traditional beat ‘em up. You got your one button combo, you have your grabs, you got the waves of enemies and bosses you have to defeat before the game lets you progress the level, you have your enemy reskins, ect.

[@phoenixthedragon6798]

Wario world and the wario Land series were some of my all-time favorite Nintendo games growing up. Legit bought a purple-clear night light add-on for my purple-clear GBC just so I could have more wario time

[@ogre589]

I played this game so much back when I was a kid and it was one of the first games I completed 100%...I had no idea the snow boss' stare attack did that. I just figured out what you needed to do from the start...or I didn't like it and the stare made me want to look away.

[@wariodude128]

I had so much fun playing this game. Didn't notice how long I had been playing until my dad came into my room and said it was morning already. Anyway, since you mentioned Wario Land 3 at the start, I suggest you talk about that game next and how it's technically a Metroid game. There's a number of parallels that can be made comparing it to Metroid Fusion as well. Now I'm just imagining the box art for Wario Land 3 but with Samus's power armor helmet over Wario's face as you call it the The Missing Metroid. Made a video reading an essay about why it's the most unique metroidvania, if you want to check it out. Consider Fusion more of a sequel than Wario Land Advance ever was.

[@endertheboy]

Fun-fact about the Winter Windster : In the manga Ore Dayo! Wario Dayo!! (which follows the events of Wario World) this boss is referred to as a girl in the french translation because she has a much cuter, effeminate face than the one she has in the game.

[@HYDEinallcaps]

7:33 That moon looks like it wants to steal all your garlic.

[@anitabath8315]

Growing up, Wario World was a blast, and me and my brothers loved it. I think it’s a wonderful experience, albeit rather short.

[@dangdelucia]

Great stuff Gambaddieeeee, more retrospectives please!!

[@logan_wolf]

With Clownaround, you didn't mention you can dodge the big ball explosion thingie by standing in the alchoves on the sides of each platform. Just in case you miss your ride across the tightrope.

[@WokeDEMOCRATShaveASPD]

This games aesthetic always stuck with me. That goofy/uncanny look. Even those basic 1st level yellow ones look like a kind of stupid that doesn’t know anything else but death.

[@MacUser2-il2cx]

Treasure made it and they make some crazy Japanese games. :D

[@despeinado340]

This is still one of my favorite GC games. It’s so weird, and the short length is a positive in my book. I see you didn’t mention it’s developed by Treasure, which explains a lot of the game’s absurdity. Those guys had a whole thing for grabbing, shaking and throwing enemies in almost all their games

[@z_vantablack0149]

Jeebus Christ! That Winter thing reminds me of the cgi fetus thing from the final episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[@BigBeakson]

Yesss awesome keep up the great content man I love the humour in your videos 👍

[@gamingwithahandicapreviews]

This game was my childhood along with all the Mario games on GameCube Sonic games and the Tak games on GameCube especially Tak 2 the Staff of Dreams! Wario World is so underrated just like the Tak games!

[@futurewario9591]

10:19 LOT LIZARD 🦎

[@omegaXjammur]

Imagine waiting a whole year to publish a game in your home country cause you thought it was too weird.

[@CRH3RO]

I forgot I played this game until watching this, memories unlocked holy wow

[@Rubberman202]

When you realize that Wario World was made by Treasure, a lot of its strangeness... well, it doesn't make sense, but at least it's more unsurprising than if it were Nintendo and Nintendo only who made this game. Seriously, though, Treasure games are weird as Hell.

[@404InfoSky]

Nah Gambado, this boss is terrifying. 29:50 As someone with Arachnophobia, and a fear of the way most bugs look in general this is completely messed up. At least the DK boss had an actual face. The Wario one was completely realistic, but he had boots lol.

[@LandonEmma]

WARIO WORLD RECOGNITION HECK YEAH

[@KuWota2k]

Great video! Really enjoyed it. Your style of narration would definitely fit these types of retrospectives so keep it up.