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D-Pad Studiohas been working onOwlboyfor a long time. When a gamelooks this good, expectations run high, and the pressure to deliver can be overwhelming. Like a lot of developers, it seems that they escape from the stress by working on smaller projects. In the time sinceOwlboywas first announced, D-Pad Studio has finished work on the radiant action titleSavant – Ascent,a couple ofgames made to bebirthday gifts, andmultiple piecesofexcellent fan art.
This piece ofWario Landart may take the cake, in part due to its quality, and in part for its timeliness. WithSuper Smash Bros. for the Wii Ustill fresh in collective Nintendo consciousness, Wario fans have new cause to feel the burn from the larger lack ofWario Landin their lives.Wario Land: Shake It, the most recent game in the series, came out a couple of years beforeMega Man 10. Some have feared that like Mega Man, Wario’s creators don’t have a ton of faith in him as a 2D platforming character anymore, and that his days as a 2D jumping man are over.
D-Pad’sSimon Andersonseems pretty confident inWario Land. He created this mock-up for a new game for the portly proprietor, proposing that this new Wario be granted a bell that lets him “transform into a rat that eats money and can deform.” Not sure what “deform” means in this context, but we do know thatSimon picked a rat as Wario’s animal formbecause he “just thought what would Wario be. He’s fat, he stinks and he’s greedy. Seemed to fit.”
