/vr/ - Retro Games

What is a retro game that you consider to be perfect?
I am NOT asking what your favorite retro game is, but rather for one that you consider to be as flawless as possible from a raw game design standpoint.

>>9770862
>It's a mindless cathartic romp.
For mindless people/kids like you. Wario was always a platformer with some puzzle elements, making his first entry into the 3d realm into a different genre was a mistake and it killed any chance of a proper 3d Wario game.

God tier
>4, 2, Virtual

Great
>1, 3, Shake It

Okay
>Wario World

Garbage
Master of Disguise

Requesting Wario diving through gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.

>>8714714
An attempt at competing with the contemporary 90s mascots that had attitude. It worked.

>>8430082
Wario Land 4 is definitely a contender. There's also Ghost Trick, but it's not retro so I won't count it.

>WL1
Sequel to SML2 with even more exploration and secrets, and instead of bouncing around and shit like Mario, you smash the fuck out of everything. It has big expressive sprites and in general, is very fun.

>VBWL
Kind of like Wario 1, but short and linear instead, geared towards replayability. Your moveset is expanded, the powerups are genuinely great, and the game has some delightful pixelart.

>WL2
Wario gets a massive speed and power boost to even his most powerful form in 1, and is also now immortal, which means some things that would kill or damage Wario now give him an alternate state necessary to find secrets (you get set on fire and autorun and need to burn things down, or you become flat and hover so you can squeeze by tight spots). The game is as open-ended as 1, perhaps even more so, because WL2 is a cyoa structured game with multiple paths based on secret finding, with even a different stry and ending. Very unique game.

>WL3
Kind of like 2, except it's Metroidvania for some reason? You start depowered and slowly grow more powerful as you explore an open-ish world with multiple paths you have to access with either new abilities or treasures. Kinda more linear than 2, but it starts kinda branching towards the middle of the game.

>WL4
Wario can die again, but is also more poweful than ever, with some very satisfying changes to his moveset, and a beautiful looking and sounding trippy, surreal world to explore. You're required to gather treasure and speedrun stages in order to advance, and you even get two harder difficulties, so it's definitely the hardest Wario. Just an amazing game overall, crazy this is so early in the GBA lifespan. Crazy pixelart and music in this bad boy.

MAP10: Norwitch Lane
Author: LunchLunch

There's some very clear ribbiks inspiration here, particularly from Swim With the Whales. Much like SWTW, this map is sprawling, gorgeously detailed, and filled to the brink with punishing and exciting encounters. However, it also inherits the worst part of SWTW, that being "where the fuck do I go now?" syndrome. I spent a good five or so minutes trying to figure out how to get to the red key in the beginning. The solution was a pair of eyes in the wall. This might just be because of my sleep deprivation, but I didn't think this was obvious at all. Outside of that, this is sure to be one of the most memorable maps of the entire set. I'm sure we'll be seeing LunchLunch in the cacowards sometime soon.

STATUS: Excellent

>>7881967
2 > 1 > 4 > 3

>>7754516
Thanks, based anon. Hope the public release comes out very soon.

- PERFECT EDITION -
All of the Wario Land games are Perfection.
>Favorite Game?
>Favorite Music Track?
>Favorite Area?
>Favorite Boss / Characters?
Additional Wario-related Content is Allowed.

>>6052680
continuing:

- Saga Frontier: game have some original ideas like the presentation and having many "small" journeys than focused in a single big one. Best one of the entire saga franchise IMO and it's just a shame that the game was even better originally and they had to cut stuff to release game in time which sadly fucked some stuff like Fuse's sidequest and that character since he was going to be a main as well. More than that shame that SF2 sucked compared with this one.

Suikoden 2/5: a tie since both are very good and the best of series. In particular 5 can be considered better since it's a good game without any help from original creator and somehow they still made a good game after the disaster that 4 was. And based on some of the endings the staff had ideas to where to take the series and it's painful that everything was throw in the trash since you know...Konami. Oh yeah FUCK KONAMI!

- Tales of Eternia: there are many good Tales game and only some suck ass (like Legendia, Xillia and Zestiria). This is one of the best ones and I still hope we will get a remake of it ala Destiny one day, specially since they cut all of the skits in original game.

>>6035341
Well I don't remember why exactly, either they ran out of money or had to pretty much cut entire second half due to deadline but there was a good reason why the second half is so shit compared with first. That game really need to have a remake for like yesterday. Fact that it didn't happened yet shows Square Enix still don't have enough brains in the current staff if they think only FF7 need a remake.

>>6047992
CC isn't a bad game; the problem is that it's a fucking terrible sequel to CT and that make sense since the game was NOT made to be a sequel. Square forced the team to turn the game into a sequel in the middle of development and staff suck as fuck hated that. It's no wonder that more than half of the original cast don't even show up in it.

>>6000892
Shit, because you can get a 256 GB microSD for pretty cheap these days.

>>6000896
Yeah it's pretty incredible. You can get a 256 GB for all of 50 bucks these days. That's thousands of games, on one memory card, to play on one handheld (also this is what the Nintendo Switch could have been if Nintendo had any sense).

Just bought the GameBoy Player add-on for my GameCube.
Since the GameCube controller's D-Pad is sub-optimal, aside from a (prohibitively expensive) Hori GB Player gamepad what's the best controller for 2D games?

I'd love to use a Wii U Pro controller with it, but 8bitdo doesn't make any GameCube adapters (yet): should I just get a raphnet SNES>GC adapter?

>>5499381
Impossible, Wario is actually charming.

>GBA Everdrive with every GBA rom, plugged into GB Player (with GBI, running the low-latency mode) connected to a PVM via GC component cables
It doesn't get much better than this, lads.

I mean, maybe if you have one of those $1000+ Wide Boy 64s that take GBA carts and an RGB-modded N64, but even then apparently the audio quality sucks ass.

i really miss this series, it had some of the most clever puzzles i've seen in platforming

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>>4510319
>the little chaingunner

>Favorite mini game
Hexagon Heat.
>Favorite character
Wario
>Favorite Land
How about I rank the boards from best to worst instead?
Horror Land > Western Land > Bowser Land > Space Land > Pirate Land > Mystery Land