I saw shades of over a dozen other games or series I recognized. This game was made by devs with an immense amount of knowledge of the genre in its totality. What immediately became clear to me is that while Pizza Tower is certainly a “Wario-like”, it isn’t just that. The titular tower must be toppled, and you’re just the Italians to do it. The goal was never objectivity – there’s no such thing as an objective opinion – I just wanted to see the game for what it actually was without the specter of hype looming over it. I knew I had to play this, and more importantly I knew I had to go in as blind as possible to reasonably evaluate it. So I avoided the demos, the Kickstarter, the growing fandom, everything leading up to Pizza Tower’s release. Whenever you’re told on loop that something’s going to be The Greatest Noun To Ever Verb it’s not unreasonable to be skeptical, especially if you happen to have 100s of hours in the exact franchise it’s claiming to be reincarnating. That Peppino Spaghetti is the harbinger of good platforming, here to bring us to the promised land of body slams and HURRY UP level end sequences. A lot of digital ink has been spilt about how Pizza Tower is the true second coming of our lord and savior Wario. This isn’t just an excuse to talk about that time I played every Wario game again, this is the rare case where bona fides actually matter a bit.
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