{"id":5818,"date":"2014-01-01T00:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/?p=5818"},"modified":"2014-01-01T00:17:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T00:17:50","slug":"the-wario-land-series-and-progression-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2014\/01\/the-wario-land-series-and-progression-models\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wario Land Series and Progression Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_l4nqs5ETMf1qbj9xwo1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5819 aligncenter\" title=\"tumblr_l4nqs5ETMf1qbj9xwo1_1280\" src=\"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_l4nqs5ETMf1qbj9xwo1_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_l4nqs5ETMf1qbj9xwo1_1280.jpg 580w, https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_l4nqs5ETMf1qbj9xwo1_1280-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[The following is a scrapped bit of content from my book Game Design Companion: A Critical Analysis of Wario Land 4. I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t just add this to the Loose Ends article. In any case&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each <em>Wario Land<\/em> game has its own take on freer linear progression.<\/strong> <em>Wario Land<\/em>&#8216;s world map plots a straightforward course through each world, but is punctuated by a substantial number of optional routes. These paths can be accessed through secret exits. <em>Wario Land 2<\/em>&#8216;s branching routes connect back to the main route or lead to their own endings. After completing the game, the levels are presented in a tree, so it&#8217;s easier for the player to retrace their steps and seek out the secret exits they missed. <em>Wario Land 3<\/em> employs a multi-screen world map with a day\/night system where treasures found open up access to new levels or parts of levels. <em>Wario Land 4<\/em> presents four passages which the player can tackle in any order they please. The unique progression systems help give each game their own distinct identity.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The following is a scrapped bit of content from my book Game Design Companion: A Critical Analysis of Wario Land 4. I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t just add this to the Loose Ends article. In any case&#8230;] Each Wario Land game has its own take on freer linear progression. Wario Land&#8216;s world map plots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[575],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-discussion","tag-wario-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}