Wario's Woods

Wario's Woods is a puzzle game released for the Super NES in 1993, and later released on the NES released in 1994, the last game to be released for the console in North America. It was also one of the many playable NES games in Animal Crossing for the Nintendo GameCube.

The game is notable for being the last US NES release given Nintendo's official license. It is also known for being the only game that has Toad with the main starring role (despite the fact that he has been playable in many games since Super Mario Bros. 2). This is also the first Mario game to not feautre Mario.

Story
The plot of the game is that Toad was taking a walk to a place he thought was Toadstool's Garden, but he was in fact in Wario's Woods and gets stuck in them. Then, Wario's monsters are invading the Mushroom Kingdom. Wanda, and Birdo (all misfit characters at the time) set out to defeat the monsters. The game plays similarly to Tetris. Toad is the main hero, and Birdo and Wanda would help Toad by giving him encouragement and bombs to destroy the monsters (respectively). If Toad took too long to complete a level, the rascal Wario would replace Birdo and replace Wanda with a Pidgit. The Pidget would then throw more monsters instead of bombs at Toad. Wario would body slam the side of his box to make the Thwomp ceiling descend, destroying enemies would make the ceiling rise up again. Many enemies unique to this game appear. Along with them were several mini-bosses who would attempt to block Toad's path from getting to Wario. In the end of the game, Wario appears himself to fight against Toad alone. Eventually, Toad defeats him and then chases him out of the Woods. Thus, once Wario is defeated, all the creatures who were under the nightmare that Wario had cast upon them had awakened allowing the woods to be restored back to peace.

Game Modes
The Nes version has modes: Round game, Time Race, VS, Lesson, and Option. Round Game is the basic game with 100 levels. The levels increased in difficulty as the player progressed, starting with more monsters and more kinds of monsters. It also has an A and B game mode. Time Race has three levels of difficulty and has players racing against the clock. VS is the two player mode. Lesson teaches the game basics. Option is name change, data clear and rankings.

The SNES version had 6 game modes: VS Com, VS 2p, Round Game, Time Race, Lesson, and Option. Most are the same as their NES counterparts, but more robust. VS Com allowed the player to play against an AI player in three Modes of difficulty, and added colorful characters to play against like Katsini. Round game added an overworld map with different locations like Underground Caves and Wario's Castle. Many more mini-bosses were added to the game with the bosses varying from each level in the game (ie aquatic creatures were the bosses of the underwater levels).

Characters

 * Toad
 * Wario
 * Wanda
 * Birdo
 * Thwomp
 * Katsini
 * Lizardon
 * Akuman
 * Aqualea
 * Meidou
 * Carlton
 * De Buu
 * Dedar
 * Dorago
 * Galrog
 * Goura
 * Harley Quin
 * Harry Hare
 * Mangylox
 * Monsieur Boo
 * Parrator
 * Razor
 * Sam Spook
 * Sarissa
 * Shiisa
 * Sven
 * Tad Rock
 * Thak
 * False Wario

Satellaview Versions
Wario's Woods was released on the Satellaview in two different versions. These versions are exclusive to the Satellaview.

The first version was called ワリオの森 爆笑バージョン (Wario's Woods Burst Of Laughter Version). In this one many of the character graphics were replaced with caricatures of Japanese Celebrities.

The second version was called ワリオの森 再び (Wario's Woods Again) This version lacks the edited graphics, making it more similar to the standard release. However, there are also other removals, such as the round-game-style Single Player mode and Story Mode Dialog.