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Trapped inside a magical music box, the invincible Wario is on a dangerous quest to help a mysterious figure recover its lost powers! Smash, bash, and crash you way through more than two dozen gigantic levels in search of hidden keys, treasures, and mystical music boxes. Become Fat Wario, Zombie Wario, Vampire Wario and more! But be careful, Wario’s wacky transformations may help or hinder you in your quest. Seek out the 100 Treasures to reveal secrets, open new levels and power-up Wario with even more abilities. Test your wits on level after intricate level and flex your muscles in action-packed boss fights!
This game is only playable in 2D.
This classic game is part of the Virtual Console service, which brings you great games created for consoles such as NES™, Super NES™ and Game Boy™ Advance. See more Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS.
System requirements for Game Boy Color
System requirements for Nintendo 3DS
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Wario Land 3 reviews and comments
Wario Land 3 is more inventive than I remember it being as a kid. It's more puzzle-like and metroidvania than other platformers, only with levels. The artifacts you find will unlock new levels, give you new abilities, or alter the terrain of previous levels. The game tells you which levels have newly unlocked paths, so it helps keep progression nice and smooth. There's a lot of time-wasting inconveniences in this game (like boss fights, slow transformations, bubbles, etc), but playing on Virtual Console allowed me to rewind time for the more egregious level design issues. I also didn't like how many treasures were useless, and how collecting Music Coins only counted if you got all of them in one go.
Makes for a good weekend distraction, but would only play with the rewinding emulator the switch has.