March 24, 2003

wario would? waluigi could?

Looking forward to the US release of 'Made In Wario', aka 'Wario Ware Inc.', for the Gameboy Advance, since it caters perfectly for my blipvert-length attention span - a series of 5-second-long minigames play in quick succession. Oh, and the already-posted FAQ has some interesting 'evil twin' trivia about Waluigi, the recently-invented 'evil Luigi' nemesis-type character. They claim that, whilst Wario is 'evil Mario' because an upside-down M is a W, Waluigi should really be called Waruigi, 'cos an upside-down L looks like an 'r', and the Japanese have a lot of problems differentiating between their Ls and Rs at the best of times. Hmm.. actually, I wasn't convinced, but then I looked closely at Waluigi's cap logo and also found a Nintendorks posting (scroll down) saying: 'Warui (Pronounced Wah-Roo-Eee) means Dark or Evil. Mario, flip the M to get Wario, which is a lot like Warui. For Luigi, it's WaLuigi. In Japanese ALL Ls and Rs are pronounced virtually the same.' Aha, so they ARE right. Of course, Waluigi isn't _IN_ the new Wario game. But that doesn't stop the FAQ-makers and now me getting all het up about it :)

Posted by h0l211 at March 24, 2003 12:52 PM