Wario Land 4: Parallel World - Part 6 - Factory into the Equation

I guess they're still renovating that other half.
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[@GenericUsername-Cloudpfpguy]

Cool placement of the reference, since WarioWare 1's Paper Plane theme is based on Wario Land 4's Curious Factory theme.

[@teaoftraffic]

I just did some research. The original version does NOT use Curious Factory as its theme. It’s the updated version in *Gold* that uses it. And yes, I checked. The endless version also doesn’t use this theme.

[@ShycoWar]

Yunno, I'm actually surprised that the conundrum of "what's progress and what's a bonus" is still just about as big of an issue as it ever was. You'd think platformers nowadays would take noticeably more measures to help players determine which is which more easily. And yet, the only real example that comes to mind comes from an RPG, of all things-the Octopath Traveler series, where following torches or carpets always guides you along the critical path of a dungeon. Doesn't seem like it'd be all that difficult, either. Even something as simple as always putting a sign or some other distinct feature right next to "progress pathways" would do the trick just fine.

[@SuperNinjaFat]

In procedurally generated games like Spelunky, the path and side rooms are fairly clear

[@ShycoWar]

@@SuperNinjaFat I can't say I'm familiar with Spelunky, so thanks for the input! That being said, I'm also a silly goose who somehow completely forgot about Kirby games, with their "orange star" optional doors and "yellow stars" progress doors. Doesn't get much clearer than that :V

[@SuperCrazyLuigi]

Not really related to WL4, but seeing the art for the CD of this level reminded me that for a good fifteen years or so I never realized that the person running around in the castle in Mario Land 2 was actually Wario and not just some weirdo henchman that was patrolling and never showed up in the actual level for whatever reason.

[@Shantae1188]

13:08 I mentioned it before with the Emerald Passage, but I like how the timer is the color of the passage

[@Aaextraletter]

11:21 The 1% of diamonds, then again, any diamond that is about as big as yourself would be enough to propel you there… or diamonds are so common that they're as valuable as dirt pouches. 16:27 Explains the long timer.

[@ChromaNyan]

one thing i noticed is a few of the hud elements (notably the escape timer) change color depending on what passage you're currently in the previous levels had more green colored huds, the first level had a purple hud, this level has a red hud as for the cd, it somewhat makes sense for it to be called *wario's* castle, as it did briefly belong to him after he stole it from mario

[@Borgdrohne13]

14:23 to get the Diamond, look at 07:53. You can destroy the bottom part of the left wall.

[@myggmastaren3365]

who needs a healthy sleep schedule anyways

[@MozzarellaCheez]

12:41 Insanely cursed music alert

[@Seika-Neo_S84]

I'm so glad Ruby passage won. I thought people would all choose Sapphire. Apparently not

[@xtremexavier4822]

I think the water tiles are always transparent, and they’re just blending into the white background of the factory.

[@TG03]

0:45 The factory is real good at keeping everything a secret. 1:03 Those Robots are probably causing majority of the workplace accidents 5:07 Ooh Interesting idea. I kinda like this. 6:33 Several Workplace accidents also probaly happened here. 7:12 More OSHA Violations probaly.

[@johnnymind4151]

4:21 Wouldn't be surprised if this were actually inspired by another Wario Land game after that level in the Emerald Passage and all the WarioWare sections in this hack. 5:40 Considering there's in-game warping (through magic? Or better technology considering the factory theme?) involved if you touch the obstacles there must be here, too. 6:43 By the way, I've finally discovered why I had never seen this kind of enemy before this hack: they're exclusive to Hard and S-Hard in vanilla. 8:41 Didn't expect this to happen again, but I'm certainly not complaining, especially since this time the other part of the level was actually good as you said! 9:35 To be fair, the reference rooms based on WarioWare are similarly weird in that sense even though not to the same extent. 10:29 While water drainage must've been too difficult even for Wario Land 4 on GBA, conveyor belt direction changing apparently isn't unlike for 2 on GBC (and no, I don't remember it being in vanilla 4 although I could be wrong), nice! 13:40 More than that I find silly that the "more difficult" (in quotations because barely so, but still) variant of the same puzzle is the required one instead of being for the optional collectible. 17:51 Remakes of those would be great, but I'd take even just having all the originals on NSO.

[@Werten25]

Definitely one of the best levels in the hack.

[@justsomerandompixels]

you know id like to believe the cd was changed to be warios castle and not marios castle since wario probably wouldnt approve of it like you said guess he still does have that grudge towards it

[@HuskyPackof3]

Intended order always wins! Until it doesn't...

[@lockout5731]

for a great rom hack wario must be dreaming again being in another world or something otherwise good content

[@ashmander3465]

Just keep the order going

[@GlacierWolf]

It's a bit early for me to say this, but after Ruby Passage, you should totally do Topaz, then Sapphire, in that order. Like, in a counter-clockwise order. Most players do that, from what I've heard. At least, that's how I did it in the original version.

[@dadfixthis2998]

FWAHH! THE THUMBNAIL!!!!

[@spiritualnav2617]

how do you get the code for older games such as punch out wii and stuff?

[@BananaFaceDude56]

I think the opaque water is unused

[@ashmander3465]

Still a great game .

[@tibby4503]

wario.

[@ng855]

Who is bill gates?

[@IvanezRus]

--ligma balls--

[@superpenguinzzz]

former CEO and creator of Microsoft iirc