Wario Land: Shake It!

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Wario Land: Shake It!
Developer	Good-feel
Publisher	Nintendo
System	Nintendo Wii
Release Date	JP July 24, 2008 AU September 25, 2008 EU September 26, 2008 US September 29, 2008
Gallery	GH Gallery

Wario Land: Shake It! is a game in the Wario series. It is the first game to use the Wario Land name since Wario Land 4 which was released in 2001.

Story

Inside of an Ancient Globe stored inside a museum there exists another world known as Yuretopia. The peaceful world has been invaded by the evil pirate Shay King and imprisoned Queen Melfull and her subjects, as well as stealing the legendary treasure, a purse that spits out coins when it is shaken. After Captain Syrup learns of this, she decides she wants the treasure for herself. But rather than go after it herself, she tricks Wario into going after the treasure instead and rescue the world of Yuretopia.

Information

Despite being on the Wii console, the game is a 2D platformer with a play style similar to the rest of the Land series. Though Wario has been shown to use a few of his old 'powerup' moves (such as Snowball Wario), most of the action is performed by Wario's ability to shake his enemies down, which is performed by shaking the actual Wii Remote.

The story itself is told through animated cutscenes produced by the company Production_I.G., an anime studio noted for their work on series such as Ghost in a Shell, Namco's Tales series, and Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance.

Shake It! will be the first time the Land series has even been released on a home console, though an earlier game, Wario World, had been released on the Gamecube (as well as multiple games in the WarioWare series on the Gamecube and Wii). It also marks the return of Captain Syrup, the only one of Wario's antagonists to have appeared more than once. She will be making her third appearance after having not appeared since 1998 in her last role, Wario Land II.