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Game Reviewed	Super Wario & The Hunt Of The Frozen Treasure [Finnished], by WwwWario
Review Author	JimmySH
Created	Apr 29 2012, 11:28 AM

General Commentary and Game Overview

This Wario fangame has drawn inspiration from Kjellm87's fangames, and like them ends up with a personal custom graphical style, and good level design with some powerup-puzzling.

Pros	+ Hugely unique graphical style. + Good level design with powerup-puzzling. + Playful sound effects.
Cons	- Glitchy gameplay physics. - Can be hard to see what hurts.

Impressions

Gameplay 7 / 10	The gameplay in the stages revolve around discovering colored keys, opening colored keyblocks, and discovering powerups to pass extra powerful blocks. Powerups like fire-breathing bat Wario, Metal Wario and snowball Wario. Then there are elements like waterdrops, heavy weights or candles that remove powerups from Wario. ...Since you need to discover these elements and backtrack to keyblocks seen earlier, the game becomes more of a good puzzle challenge than the average fangame. Usually you need to remember 2 or 3 paths through the stage to puzzle the powerups right, but some stages like Rocky Mountain Dimension is really tricky, and requires a gameplay feat to beat. The big-boss battles are a big plus! The battles are based around figuring out one weak point of the boss, often quite logical but not straight-forward, so you need to trial some things to see what works. - The tentacled gem boss turns into trial and error though! Wario says his garlic breath should do it, but that's actually not how to do it! Player and level physics appear glitchy sometimes, e.g. some slopes that Wario cannot walk upwards, and have to jump like it was a stairway. Player collision only works with one enemy at a time, so stomping on two enemies at same time will often wound Wario. There are a couple of playthrough blockers; MT Temper Dimension has a glitch at the end causing Wario to fall under the stage (you need to jump (rather than walk) through the end door, which was the last thing I thought of =) So remember to save after each stage!
Graphics 8 / 10	Unusually playful and personal graphical style! Maybe without the ambition to be perfect but with an awesome personal style. Take for example the custom Goombas that are unique for each stage; red-eyed tempered ones, green forest ones etc. Stage design is based on uniquely shaped bitmap shapes, that look more interesting than the square-shaped tiles that many games have. - However it can be hard to see what hurts and not, especially in Undead Manor Dimension where there are candles, fire auras, spider webs, and ice flares (only the ice hurts) My favorite is Pass By Forest Dimension with its gorgeous custom graphic trees. On top of that the dimension has a day-and-night cycle! Animations may look less smooth than fangames with only ripped sprites, but are in fact diverse (this is the first game I see Wario dying and falling into the screen causing a crack)
Sound 10 / 10	Even the sound effects have a playful style; think of the motor drive sound when Wario is tackling. Awesome if you ask me! There is nice classic vgmusic in every stage, ranging from cheerful to mysterious.
Replay 5 / 10	Playthrough-time if you know where to go is about an hour, but will most likely be a couple hours if you lose some of Wario's lives. Stages play almost the same on each playthrough, but there is a highscore table.

Final Words

An unusual and uniquely styled fangame with custom graphics all over! The downside is some glitches in gameplay physics. The level design feels inspired and interesting throughout all of the game.

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WwwWario	May 2 2012, 2:28 PM
Thanks, buddy! : ) Very nice preview :D

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