It ultimately seems like one of those great "quick and easy to finish, take a lifetime to master" gems that's most rewarding the more you play, it even has a DMC combo letter grade system and a taunt button that changes at higher ranks. You'll inevitably stumble onto a few moves it doesn't explicitly tell you about like the uppercut, and discover the game is never too harshly demanding of your skills, you just might be trying too hard in fact, like what appears to be a series of challenging running jumps across multiple platforms turns out to just happen effortlessly due to how you automatically wall run up the sides of platforms. Getting your hands on the controls immeidately might make you confused and lost, there are a few unintuitive quirks to it, but take your time on the tutorial until you understand the core ideas of the mach run and such. There's off-the-wall goofy samples of all sorta throughout the music and sound design, countless blink-and-you'll-miss-it contextual animation frames, just a constant pizza feast for the eyes and years you can't possibly absorb all at once, it's like the Cuphead for kids who grew up on 90s Nick toons. Peppino isn't literally a Wario clone, he's his own product born from the mind that was shaped by a love of Wario, a creature fueled by anxiety as much as Wario is by greed and ego. It is tastefully inspired in all the right ways, blatantly taking the parts that matter, but pumped full of unbridled creative flourishes of artists with their own full vision. Do NOT let this one fly under the radar, it is everything awesome about Wario Land cranked up to unhinged levels.
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