Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is charming as hell! I wanted to play a Wario Land game then figured why not start here (Super Mario Land was the first Mario I owned, never followed up with the rest of the handheld series).
Really dig the lean into more atmospheric environments and some moody lighting
and appreciate a Mario game that gives me pause and makes me wonder, ok, who’s body is buried beneath that tombstone?
Delightful Fleischerisms, bite-sized briskly paced gimmick gauntlets, all in under two hours, just what I needed to transition out of a post-Elden Ring malaise (last week I melted my way through to the Grand Lift of Dectus in NG+ in like 3 hours which was a nice victory lap but it’s time to move on).
Wario Land 3 seems like the most interesting one from what I’ve read but I might just burn through all of 'em since they’re so short, bless you Game Boy games.