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Nintendo have released their latest trailer for Wario land: The shake dimension, Shake it! or Shake depending on where you live and it’s pretty good. You may wonder why I didn’t embed this video, but it’ll become apparent why when you watch it. And trust me…you need to watch it!

Check it out: Wario shakes it up on YouTube

How cool was that!! As cool as the trailer was, it didn’t entice me to buy the game - although I own all of Wario’s hand held adventures. There’s just nothing about this game that makes me want to part with 40 quid of my money. If it dropped to around £20 by Christmas I’d strongly consider picking it up. Not that I speak on behalf of every Wii owning gamers out there, but I imagine many share my sentiments: “Cool looking game, but not sure if I’d buy it at full price right now”.

I am loving the art direction and style of the game though. The animation is really slick. Jokes about the Wii not being powerful aside - it’s cool that a developer is still embracing good old 2D graphics on consoles. 3D isn’t necessary for everything. If Sega kept Sonic in the 2nd dimension for consoles, then perhaps we’d finally get a good Sonic game. Me-thinks they should take note.

Wario’s latest adventure will be available for Wii worldwide by the end of this week.

The first time I heard about Wario, I thought it was some kind of Nintendo-esque joke. I thought “. . .clever how they only made the M upside down”. I even thought it was going to be just like any other villain of some game, like King Bob-omb from Mario 64, memorable, but just that.

Wario started on the GameBoy, following the success of Mario Land and Mario Land 2, Mario Land 3 turned out to be Wario Land. Somehow his games were either a success or Nintendo did everything possible to keep the character alive. Later he ventured into other games like Wario’s Woods, and became a stable member in the Mario Party franchise, also to mention a formidable adversary in Mario Kart and specially in the Mario Strikers series.

Blaziquen257 shows us the intro and the first level of the second game for this very unique Nintendo character, Wario Land 2, on the GameBoy.

Even if the game is fun and takes us into the depths of Wario’s character (and house), after watching this we can agree on 2 things:

Wario’s needs to hire an architect to make stronger walls to his house.

Having spare change scattered all around your house may only prove useful when you’re attacked by pirates.

Having already played the wii and the WiiSports games, my mind is desiring for more and more wiimote / nunchuck gameplay as each day passes, and this time. . . I think I know exactly what I need:

This shows how much I miss Space channel 5 and Bust-A-Groove. . . Oh, those were the days.

Oh, Wario Smooth Moves, please give us the pleasure of trying you out. . .err. . .I don’t think that sounded right. . .

[Kotaku]