Aka: | Wario Land 1 |
Console: | Nintendo Game Boy |
TV Standard: | NTSC |
Developer(s): | Nintendo Research & Development 1 |
Publisher(s): | Nintendo |
Release Date: | 1994-02-01 |
Players: | 1 |
Co-op: | No |
ESRB: | E10+ - Everyone 10+ |
Type: | Action, Adventure, Platform, Family |
Desiring to replace or restore the castle he lost to his rival in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Wario sets out to steal a golden statue of Princess Toadstool from the Brown Sugar Pirates and Captain Syrup, which he then intends to ransom for the money to buy his own castle. Along the way, he collects or steals any other coins and treasures he finds or knocks out of enemies. The game is spent by navigating a number of levels to reclaim his lost treasures, and has a significant level of re-playability due to the branched path that many of the levels take. In the end, Captain Syrup (revealed to be female, which was hidden in the instruction manual) is defeated while Wario ultimately gets anything from a birdhouse to an actual planet or moon for himself based on the amount of treasure collected as compensation for failing to steal the statue (due to Mario retrieving it by airlifting it)