Pizza Tower’s movement systems and level layouts complement each other brilliantly. He was also invincible (in some of the games). He didn’t have Mario’s ups, but he compensated with grapple attacks and a shoulder charge. Wario Land’s levels were less linear - full of switchbacks, gimmicks, hidden rooms, and puzzles. Pizza Tower is a 2D platformer inspired by the Wario Land series, which was a quirky departure from Nintendo’s mainline Mario titles.

Pizza Tower firmly grips its ambitions in confident hands, and drives them headfirst through a stack of bricks. This game reaches for many things: precision platforming, expressive hand-drawn animation, heaps of game-changing power-ups, multiple playable characters, an all-bangers soundtrack, multi-stage boss battles, even a sports level - and its reach never exceeds its grasp.

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