Wario's GREATEST Achievement | Wario Land 4 - The Lonely Goomba

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Wario just don't quit. And neither do I! So it's time to re-revisit Wario Land 4 and see what all the fuss is about.
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[@Part_Time_Fox]

Wario Land 4 is great, but you know what's better? URBAN YETI!

[@np7667]

Wow

[@leeiif]

Urban Yeti is the highest quality of perfection. A masterpiece above all others.

[@sonicexe66613]

nope, pizza tower

[@scanchannel3259]

​@@sonicexe66613Truer words have never been said.

[@scanchannel3259]

A 3 days old comment? This video just released (wait I think it's different time zones).

[@moxxiepeppino]

OH YEAH! ITS ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS OF HISTORY!!!

[@paulmann8570]

Obamba?

[@Livy2K]

Yes I think

[@Matsu_Suzuki16]

People say Wario Land 4 is one of the greatest achievements. But Wario Land in general is one of the greatest achievements if you ask me

[@Repus-t9x]

He did say it's "one" of my greatest achievements

[@warioland523]

There needs to be a sequel to Shake It for the Switch. We need more platform games.

[@Matsu_Suzuki16]

@@warioland523 yes

[@jameslawrenson1208]

More games would be great!

[@DefinitivNichtSascha]

now I've been playing alot of Pizza Tower recently, which takes its main inspiration from this game. And rightfully so, Wario Land 4 is great. I do think its greatest strength is not overstaying its welcome. It's tight pacing is so great that it never once stops being fun. I will agree that a handful of levels more, even just making the Golden Passage a full world instead of one level, would've helped a lot. Regardless, it's a great game. Before I had played it, I thought it would be an ok experience, but this game is truly Wario's greatest achievement, in my eyes. Though, after playing Pizza Tower, I do quite wish that the escape from the Golden Pyramid after the final fight against the golden Diva would've been playable as well. A game like this just lends itself perfectly to culminate in a Metroid-style escape sequence.

[@animeluigiboy]

Remember everyone, this game is what made Pizza Tower and AntonBlast a thing.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Yeah the whole run back to the start of the level gimmick is definitely what inspired Pizza Tower.

[@MarioFan587YT]

​@@chadgorosaurus4898Pizza Tower's description immediately claims to be inspired by Wario Land. The escapes have similar mechanics, and everything...

[@ColinJoesseppiVEVO]

I remember suggesting it in the Ask Goomba short

[@Ashelybee]

Would love to see him reviewing pizza tower

[@markurbanowicz6619]

Lonely Goomba is excited for Anton blast. 😊

[@supernovel7514]

One thing about Lonely Goomba videos that I love which no one brings up a lot is when he puts his face over stock images. It really adds a lot of charm.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Never would have thought about that...

[@skrungle215]

You gotta admit, it’s pretty funny.

[@jameslawrenson1208]

It really visualizes his points of view.

[@powerbolt2846]

this games ost is insane, how the hell they fit that on the gba is beyond me

[@MusicMan32K]

Probably super compressed samples. The same team also did the equally impressive Rhythm Heaven and WarioWare soundtracks

[@Slenderquil]

Someone made a whole video about the ost. Lots of music and sound effects are chopped up and put back together to save space. Like the "Hu-hu-hu-hurry up" is just one "hurry up" pitch bended and played a few times. And the karaoke song is actually just a few syllables stitched together to make the illusion of a full song

[@sboinkthelegday3892]

Considering that really bad audio quality is hard-coded into the rendering so it can't be improved by any kind of better speaker, I assume GBA does some magic with sample bitrates. It's not that it's bad, it's like carving art out of the end of a matchstick.

[@keithmorrison8373]

​@@MusicMan32K yeah some are defenitly compressed samples lile the bell noise at the begining of hurry up appears to be a super compresed sample of the opening of pink floyd time and i beleive the tension synths during the intro sections are compressred samples of pink floyd on the run albeit edited

[@Nic5Cyprus]

Man it's a good day whenever Goomba uploads

[@paulgilbert5278]

True dat

[@RedTygon]

It is incredible to think that a franchise with so much potential is just left to rot sadly.

[@nickcyblack9088]

Having full lyrics in Palm Tree Paradise, taking into account that GBA sound is based on MIDI, is really impressive

[@Emery_Pallas]

There’s also a backwards version of the song, and iirc the GBA has only 2 sample channels and the original gameboy’s stuff (ie. 2 square wave channels, one wavetable synthesiser and a noise generator). So making both the full lyrics and the backwards ones sound passable is a feat

[@PKSuperStar256]

The only other GBA game that has a song with lyrics in it is Klonoa Heroes (Sign of a Hero), except it divides the lyrics in phrases and it has a fully streamed CD quality version of it in the official soundtrack (part of which was used in the game's commercial).

[@PKSuperStar256]

​@@Emery_Pallas, it has multiple sample channels that work more similarly to MIDI, but they're mixed into two DAC channels by the CPU (often for stereo sound; so if only one channel is used, it'll be in mono). The original four Game Boy sound channels (2 pulse waves, one waveform/rarely samples, and one noise) re included as well, but like the sample sound they're generated through the CPU. All of the GBA's sound isn't handled by a dedicated sound chip, but by the CPU. This is why the sound is often low quality.

[@thebuddah1253]

Warioland deserves more games.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Indeed... maybe then, Wario would get better represented in Smash...

[@SuperWiiBros08]

Gotta give props to Goomba, he tried his best on that karaoke

[@Blazeknight_6012]

You are everywhere

[@BigMax.TheBurningFire]

I can no longer think of the Wario Land series without remembering the dream I had where I installed "Wario Land 5: No More Butts +" onto all the computers at college (among other things.)

[@zynux8252]

If you want more Wario Land 4 and don't mind emulating, play the romhack *"Wario Land 4: Parallel World".* Pretty much Wario Land 4-2, and it's _not_ kaizo-level difficulty at all. It's great and on par with the original game.

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

One of my favorite Wario games. I still find it odd that Shokora's true form was her adult form and not the cheeky one because of the artwork.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

The Yuko Ogura looking thing?

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

No the ending depending on how many treasures you get.

[@soapyillusions7]

This probably saw the most playtime on my GBA. Fantastic game.

[@AngryJack-eh9yj]

*Ugly people don't deserves basic rights.* •The Lonely Goombanick G.Goombowski-2023.

[@ScubaLuigi]

The bosses on S-Hard basically require performing the speedrun strategies to beat them in time. It really forces you to get good at skipping their waiting phases.

[@karinyupinyan]

This game is like a perfect balance of Wario Land 1 as well as 2 and 3. it has the traditional platformer gameplay of 1 and the transformations of 2 and 3. That's why I love this game and it's I think the best in the series (haven't played shake it yet and 2 is my favorite not objectively best tho).

[@Nic_2751]

YES WE’RE BACK TO WARIO LAND 4

[@Garrulous64]

Yo, I've never seen that Wario truck before. This game is his greatest achievement for sure

[@digitalgamer457]

Did you know that the funny ballsack scientist is from a Gameboy game exclusive to Japan, "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls".

[@noirlavender6409]

this modest indie game paying homage to the master piece that's Urban Yeti warmed my heart up ngl

[@Inkguy]

Truly this is wario's greatest achievement

[@mightyfilm]

I have a feeling the music on those CD's is actually the music that plays constantly on a loop in Wario's head.

[@keithmorrison8373]

Or its relics of this starange temple

[@johnnymind4151]

While I prefer the Wario Land II and especially 3 gameplay, 4 is overall fantastic in its own way! 2:50 Somehow I've never noticed those, pretty cool detail! As for why there are two, I guess Spoiled Rotten plays Double Dash in LAN Mode. 7:04 I see what you did here, nice word play! 13:34 I promise I'll eventually watch your Urban Yeti video, but this one had a higher priority. By the way, it's worth mentioning that these Yetis technically inflict the Frozen Wario status from previous Wario Land games although if I recall correctly it's not used for any puzzles here unlike in 3, it's just . 15:42 Pretty sure I had one of those mats or at least have seen one of them as a kid, too. 16:59 True, but even more like something out of a horror movie is the background at 16:05 26:18 Speaking of, there's a rom hack of this game which I definitely recommend if you want more Wario Land 4 goodness, Parallel World!

[@krazzelfrutsch9636]

Dude, I am working on a Wario Land Review Series for two years now and your review for Wario Land 3 even changed my overall opinion of it. You really have a quaint and unique way of presenting a game. I really enjoy your classifiying comments here and there. Glad you adressed the hard mode as well. You really enrich my youtube-experience!

[@GoofyAhhGooberlicious]

This is the episode that introduced me to your videos. It’s great to see you remaster it, since this is a piece of my childhood. Thanks again goomba!

[@Explosion_Mage]

not gonna lie ever since i first started watching you about 8-9 years ago now, this is a game i've been waiting to see you play... also really glad you've not been disappointing with these longer uploads lately! they really make a LonelyGoomba upload night feel akin to a movie night and always brightens up my days

[@aneinthedark5008]

Another masterpiece. Truly firing on all cylinders here goomba. The humor and animation are on point. One of the few youtubers I still like to watch, keep up the good work legend! 👊👍❤️

[@themariobroschannel8763]

13:18: I think Donkey Kong country tropical freeze had a factory covered in snow level

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Without this game there would be no Pizza Tower.

[@doulim6797]

And Anton Blast

[@RezeedTheDataspirit]

Hearing LG sing in Japanese is something I didn't know I want or need until he graced with such rich vocals.

[@wahoo8683]

Where It all began and the main Inspiration to both Pizza Tower and Anton Blast!!!! I'm a lonely scientist With a brain tumor Guess I'll play this Gameboy For the rest of my short life!

[@cameravice1825]

The legendary saga has been completed Now all that’s left is wario blast

[@feIon]

and warioware twisted

[@Gorilla-r4g]

@@feIonand wario land virtual boy

[@TwisterTH]

Speaking of ROM hacks, it’s also nice to see that people creating new content with this game, whether it’s new levels, new mechanics, or, get this, a hack that changes Wario’s move set to feel like a Pizza Tower. It’s a full circle! And I love it.

[@FangTheHellcat]

Would kill to see speed runs with the movement hack

[@doncornuto3529]

Man it’s criminal this guy doesn’t get more views. Another top tier video. What a watch - might have to play it for myself now

[@shinyagumon7015]

I like the toy stages actually, idk I think that they are pretty charming. Also your karaoke wasn't so bad.

[@MusicMan32K]

This was one of the first games I bought for my GBA and it was well worth every penny

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Wario Land 4 was my first Wario Land game. I never played neither Wario Land 1, 2 or 3 (legitimately), nor even know about VB Wario Land, when i was a kid. I got this for Christmas back in 2001 along with Super Mario Advance. It has been my favorite GBA games to play, even if i wasn't that good at it. It's a weird game, but that's what gives it the chram!

[@danielparra6672]

13:17 Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze has a Frozen Factory level near the end of the game

[@mavi3348]

The 2nd best ending is the best ending

[@TheSandwhichman108]

Can I just say that time limit theme is absolutely terrifying. It’s gives the vibe that reality itself is crumbling around you and your beyond screwed if you don’t get to that portal in time.

[@AngryJack-eh9yj]

Look,guys Look ! *This is one of the Greatest Loonely Goomba Archivements !⭐* The Wario La~La~Land 4 Review !😎

[@connorpinzon]

Nice work man as always

[@Glory2Snowstar]

WAAAARIO! I adore this game's immaculate bizarre vibes, it's such wonderful inspiration both for spriting AND audio! Game's so dang good that it inadvertently became its own genre of platformer- with Pizza Tower and Anton Blast existing as proof!

[@Rubberman202]

One of these days, Nintendo will realize the literal gold mine they have on their hands, only to for it to be too late... because it had been pilfered by Wario.

[@HonorJanas]

Sometimes, there are Things That Never Change. Like the Virtual Boy being an Ultimate Classic System.

[@Evixyn]

This video makes me laugh, especially your comedy. Shhiiiizzzz, the urban yeti nod, and wacky jokes when something weird in the title such as that music track room. The urban yeti video link towards the end and the wooden kindom remix is just icing on top of everything 0/

[@MaratVideos]

Love wario land 4. Best wario game ever! Even better then wario ware twisted. :3

[@megaman37456]

Eh. To me Wario Land 3 will always be the peak of the Wario Land games.

[@Dr.Gold-Dry-Bowser]

Its Shokora's song about the evil queen's reign coming to an end. 1:11 Also that game & watch is actually Shokora's other form incase you guys were wondering.

[@DragonNexus]

Goomba at his best. I live these full reviews, especially when you go conpletionist on them and show us everything. Also...watch the Urban Yeti vid, guys. Get out of your comfort zones and watch a review of something you've never heard of! I hope Shake Dimension is coming soon. That game is bloody fantastic and I'm so annoyed I skipped out on it because the GC Wario game looked so meh to me. Edit: Managed to find a second hand copy of Shake Dimension for £8 and it's brilliant.

[@ShockHat734]

But um, look guys look

[@smugsneasel]

Hey, I like the subversion of the pinball stage...Though it's a personal thing. There's just something about classic pinball tables that invoke feelings of childish nostalgia. Like the few times I ever got to go to a play-place or arcade-like place as a young child, I'd always see machines like these around. And a lot of times, I'd be the only one in that section and I'd enjoy the serenity. The best memory is when I was put in a play-place at a beach resort and I'd be in the play area relaxing and looking around while others were playing star wars games (which I wasn't good at) in the main area. The sound of the ocean waves, the beautiful day and the bright colours of the play-place and the toys/machines around me. I don't know, something just felt right about it. And the pinball zone from Wario Land 4 brings that memory back.

[@thebuddah1253]

This is THE gba game as far as I'm concerned.

[@afand6149]

I recently got back into ur videos and I’m having a blast! I hope u eventually review the other warriors games like shake it and wario world

[@NoahL_axolotls]

"I'm pretty sure I had that tree as a kid" yes you did that's a classic style Lego tree

[@superepictoadbros6898]

Fun fact: That game and watch looking fellow is actually Princess Shokora (the princess in the ending of this game for those unaware) I know this because I watched a 45 minute video on the lore of this game

[@snakeman8033]

In this video we learn one thing really important to our lifes...Goombas are the greatest Karaoke singers of the all lonely time !😎

[@jianmario6500]

Sadly... people are just too young to get it

[@olixor]

It was awesome of you to revisit this game and make a another review! (remastered review?) Ignoring the CD music, almost all of the level music are bangers. Some of my favorites are: Hall of Hieroglyphs (so funky!) Palm Tree Paradise Monsoon Jungle (goes great with rain, also those guitar 'chirps'!) The Toxic Landfill (at one point in my life, I hadn't played the game anymore for years and then out of nowhere I get this rockin' song in my head) Toy Block Tower (so groovy!) Crescent Moon Village (goes pretty hard in its' second part) Hotel Horror the "Hurry Up" song during the end of a level and of course the intro itself.

[@Emery_Pallas]

The CD music is also great just on a comedic level, you expect to unlock the songs in the levels and instead you get mostly a bunch of experimental ambient noise tracks made with 2 sample channels and a gameboy, with little to nothing to do with the actual game.

[@HeroineNisa]

Can we request Goomba singing the beach song for Wario 4 fully please? Your singing was severely underrated. A great video for the great last portable Wario game before we go back to mediocrity and a somewhat fun albeit short Wii game.

[@thebestml201]

28:07 "That was sxxx. Get out of here." Some Person (Takeshi's Challenge)

[@antoniobautista411]

Hombre, acabo de descubrir tu canal, está de huevos. Love your content, saludos from México. 🌵💚🤍❤️

[@shadowki5687]

Wario is better than Mario. Because he's willing to swim through Shiss to get the bag, the money bag that is😅

[@megamushroom]

Love the video and it would be nice if the goomba sing the whole song :') 😍 🌈 ❤ 🌈 ❤

[@CrowtheBOOLET]

The greatest game of all time!!! Truly the greatest achievement!!

[@ViIvaNunner]

i kinda actually want to hear a full goomba cover of the karoke mode song

[@ClassicQuarterGamePlays]

Super reivew😂 enjoy Wario land keep awesome goomba👍👾👾👾👍

[@bland9876]

I think warrior Land won and the virtual boy game play similarly and then two and three play similarly and then four has some elements from the previous games but it brings back the health which I find nice along with adding some other stuff and it's enough to make it play differently and then the one on the Wii plays just like four. I'd love to see Super Wario Alstars get released some day.

[@theonlybilge]

I recommend that everyone watch Automatic Pause's Wario Land series retrospective, very good channel and videos.

[@dtbradly]

Will you ever play mario party ds? Also great video 10/10

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

Quite likely. And thank ye

[@Manglespike77]

Donkey Kong country tropical freezes had a factory level where it was in ice called frozen frenzy that the game had a frozen factory

[@Bacchus325]

It's so depressing that Nintendo continuously ignores this franchise in favor of stupid little micro game compilations

[@redstreak9430]

13:17 the only other one I can think of is Kirby 64 (and that one stage in Sonic Riders but idk if that counts since it’s a racing game)

[@feIon]

great video man, really enjoyed it :) i know you've been going hard on the wario content lately so i just wanted to say that i'd love to see a warioware twisted video at some point!

[@oldmighty15]

6:19 Scary Fish Jumpscare! (Nice use of the FNAF Golden Freddy Jumpscare sound)

[@anthosantha]

Congratulations on the sponsor!

[@aaronwatson1432]

Lol, you said that you like mushroom dip soup. You are a cannibal since you are a mushroom.

[@demontamerbf18]

This is my favorite Wario Land game and I've played it so many times I could remember some of the bosses' names after a long time since my last playthrough, but I never checked hard mode, I thought it would be play the game again with less health or the enemies would need two hits to beat them or something, thanks Goomba, now I know there's more Wario Land 4 to play.

[@DDArtsArts]

This is the best Wario game ever. There will never be a better one

[@Hamantha]

1:02 you say that but every time I play a game I think “huh! I wonder what The Lonely Gonna thinks of this game”

[@NegaLimbo]

Boy, do I miss Wario Land. Goomba, will you be doing "Wario Land: Shake it!" next? It's the last game before Nintendo left the series to rot forever.

[@Danominator]

I'm going to add "shish" to my vocabulary for no other reason than it sounding funny.

[@Ggmemegod8960]

You should play pizza tower(it's an indee game)

[@AwdryFan1997]

12:49 You won't believe how happy I was when you brought back this joke from the old review lol

[@TheRythimMan]

As a child I played and beat this game numerous times. You can't just add a hard mode to get good replay value for me. The game has to be consistently fun, and that was one of this game's strengths. Just like Lonely Goomba said, never a dull moment.

[@futurewario9591]

Do a video on WarioLand Shake It next. Me Wario the BEST.

[@TheSideEyeGuy]

I’m really glad you commented on my videos cos it’s now lead me to your channel and I’m loving it. It’s actually something I can enjoy and watch with my kids. Most they stuff they watch gives me an aneurysm.

[@factual-fantasy2762]

This video was the 69th video in my "watch later" playlist XD

[@BlueNinjakoopa553]

13:20 Kirby 64 technically did this. The factory stage appeared on Shiver Star, the game's ice world.

[@evanmono6557]

15:45 I know the ones (everyone agree with him it will keep him sane)

[@theonlybilge]

"My moustache declares that you get my Wario Steam!"

[@numapompiilius]

When did Keith Lemon get a gaming channel?

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

I genuinely don't think I sound anything like Keith Lemon ngl

[@seibetsu]

Kirby 64 has a factory as a snow level, right?

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

Wario x Urban Yeti crossover when Nintendo?

[@sircoloniser5454]

Half an hour of lonely goombah Today is a good day As I’m early and in before anyone can watch the whole video let me make a joke: Wario games’ flaws

[@sonicphoenix7]

my favourite gba game n i own it physically

[@donkarasu-9644]

I admit, I downloaded Wario Land 4 from the Wii U eShop because of Living with Wario's iconic scene being a meme at the time (and I'm glad you brought that clip up here XD). I was pretty excited to see you review it when I saw that teaser.

[@misterjersey5460]

The only wario land game I physically own.