Wario Land 3: The Hidden Figure

My family was going on a trip that I wasn't interested in, I've been to Kentucky so many times and there wasn't much to do there except for visiting relatives. I had the house to myself for the week and I was thrilled about it. During my family's vacation, I decided it was a great time to clean my room since there wasn't anybody around.

While I was busy cleaning my room, I found a precious treasure that I lost long ago. It was my copy of Wario Land 3 for the Gameboy Color. I finished cleaning my room and picked  the game up and inserted it into the Gamecube Player. Upon starting, I erased my old save file and began a new game. Wario ended up crashing his plane and then discovering the music box that then proceeded to transport Wario inside it.

The Hidden Figure showed up. At the time I was playing, I noticed Wario was shaking his head as if he was in shame or discouraged due to his predicament. I also started to become suspicious by the Hidden Figure's Text.

"Welcome Wario, It's good to see that you're here to help."

"I think you know the drill, find all of the music boxes and I'll help you escape this world."

"Go and crush those who stand in your way, that's an order!"

"Now go!"

The way the Hidden Figure spoke made it clear that he had evil intentions. I don't remember his dialouge being this way. It could be that I've been away from this game for far too long, but then again, why would his dialouge give away that he was obviously the villain? I shrugged it off thinking it was just me and that I didn't notice any of this as a kid.

The game was amazing as I was hoping for it to be. One thing I liked was how difficult the enemies and bosses were. They seemed to be as difficult as I remembered, but that didn't stop me from mowing past them when I finally regained my expertise in the game. I was able to get most of the treasure only being frustrated at some of the obstacles. It only took a couple of days to find all the music boxes and I was finally ready to face the last boss.

I entered The Temple again and spoke to The Hidden Figure, this is where shit hit the fan. The Hidden Figure laughed in dialouge and began his transformation into Rudy, the main antagionist of the game. Rudy spoke and this is when I knew that things were off.

"So you came back, You knew this was going to happen, yet you continued to slaughter the people I cursed."

"This time, there won't be any second chances. Your repeated mistake will not go unpunished."

Rudy attacked me and I tried my best to defeat him, but sadly I ended up getting caught in his hands. Rudy was the only boss in the game who could give the player a game over, but here he just spoke to me again.

"What was all of this for? For Amusement? For the treasure? Humans are indeed foolish."



Rudy squeezed Wario as tightly as he could wih his fist. I watched as he slammed Wario into the ground multiple times before turning the game off. I didn't want to see a childhood icon go down like that. I wasn't sure what to think of this, but I'm glad that a younger kid was spared from this horror if they had seen this.

Speaking of which, I still own the cartridge, but it's nothing special considering I've never been able to get that event to trigger again. I still enjoy Wario Land 3 to this day, but every once in a while, I have nightmares of Rudy torturing the people inside the music box.