#wario land 1 is the worst gameboy game

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I FUCKING HATE GAMEBOY WARIO LAND

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Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land (gameboy)

I guess I'm on a bit of a nostalgia trip after Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins was put on the Switch VC. Why not this game...? I still have the gameboy cartridge because game preservation just ain't there yet.

Fun game overall, Wario has some fun powers (jet bunny!) compared to Mario. Wario has good air control so the platforming was usually not an issue. The lava wall autoscroll level is probably the worst level in the game, with the big rolling spike balls the next. I got all the treasures & secrets, too. Not a long game, took just 3 sessions.

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The 7 Most Heinous Name Crimes in the Mario Universe

What’s in a name? That which we call a Fire Flower by any other name would burn with heat.

As the first exploration-style Mario game in over 15 years, many are heralding Super Mario Odyssey as a glorious return to form for the Italian plumber. However, that’s not to say the franchise hasn’t made a few missteps: most notably in the titling department. Submitted for your disapproval, here are the seven worst names in the expanded Goomba-verse.

#7) “Hero Sight” from Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

This first one comes straight from the pages of Game Informer; specifically Jeff Marchiafava’s review of Kingdom Battle. One of Mario’s special powers in this game is the ability to stand guard over a specific area of the battlefield and automatically snipe any enemy that makes a move in his field of vision. It’s called “Hero Sight”, which is staggeringly unimaginative in a game bristling with creativity. As Marchiafava points out “Marioverwatch” is so obviously better in everyway. Can we get this fixed in a patch?

#6) “Dry Bones/Dry Bowser” from Super Mario 3 / New Super Mario Bros

This one gets more upsetting the more you think about it. An undead Koopa is called “Dry Bones”, which certainly sounds cool, but then an undead Bowser is called “Dry Bowser?” Then shouldn’t reanimated Koopas be called “Dry Koopas?” The lack of consistency is the problem, not to mention that this implies the series’ regular antagonist could be referred to as “Wet Bowser.” *shudder*

#5) “Pink Gold Peach” from Mario Kart 8

This one makes the list for just ignoring the English language all together. The word is Rose Gold, not Pink Gold! Plus Rose Gold Peach even sounds better (and more appetizing for that matter).

#4) “New Donk City” from Super Mario Odyssey

Okay. Look. I get it. Donk and York sound similar. Sorta. But this implies there was at one point a land called Donk, and that settlers named this new metropolis New Donk City after the beloved Duke of Donk. Where is the ridiculous place located? It would stand to reason the answer is Donkey Kong Country, but once you start to imagine a city called Donk in a land called Donkey Kong Country, your brain starts to catch on fire.

#3) “Waluigi” from Mario Tennis

This name bugged me even way back when I was a kid. To elaborate, Mario’s evil doppleganger is named Wario, which I always thought was clever in the way that it inverts the first letter, sound sinister, and even contains the word WAR. Slow clap to whoever thought of that, for sure. But then, to give Luigi an evil twin, they call him… Waluigi? As a few pointed out on Reddit, Warui is a Japanese adjective for bad, so I guess Waluigi isn't that much of a stretch, but to American audiences it just doesn't work.

#2) “Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3” for Gameboy Advance

By re-releasing Mario 2 for the Gameboy Advance and simply calling it Super Mario advance, they royally cocked up the number system, which ultimately culminated in this stygian nightmare of a name. Just try saying out-loud without tasting pennies in your mouth. Someone, somewhere, should have stopped this from happening.

#1) “Mario Mario” from “Super Mario Bros (The Movie)”

Speaking of things that should have never happened, the universally regrettable 1993 American film is responsible for the atrocity of Mario’s last name being… Mario. According to a 2012 Game Informer interview, series creator Shigeru Miyamoto said that the film contained a scene which needed the plumbers to be identified by last name (they really couldn’t find a way around this?), so the writers went with Mario… because otherwise why would the pair be referred to as the Mario Brothers? But then to make matters somehow worse, they changed the pronunciation of the last name to Mare-ee-oh, making the pronunciation of the most iconic gaming character in the world… Mario Mare-ee-oh. It physically hurts to say it, write it, or even think it. At least we know things could never get any worse...