Oh, Waluigi! He really isNintendo’s ugly duckling. This lanky miscreant has been popping up in Mario and Co.’s games sinceMario Tennison the N64 when he was introduced as a doubles partner for Wario.
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While the yellow-bellied Wa-brother has seen several of his own spin-off games, the man with the most devious pencil mustache in the video games has never gotten his own title. That’s why we took it upon ourselves to create some pitch decks for Nintendo. We’re sure Miyamoto-san will give us a ring as soon as he gets done reading.
14Waluigi’s Wacky Racing
you’re able to kind of already simulate this game already inMario Kart 8. All you need to do iscreate a custom game online, set it to 200cc, make blue shells the only item, and everyone has to play as the Mushroom’s Kingdom’s favorite hopeless romantic. Oh, and we forgot to mention: every Cup will be 48 races on Baby Circuit.
Although, if Nintendo wanted to make this into a full game, they could take inspiration from the animated Wacky Races animated show. The game would be a story-based race across the Mushroom Kingdom, à laNeed For Speed: The Run, starring Waluigi and put upon Goomba instead of Dick Dastardly and Muttley.
13Game And Waluigi
Wario has had a long storied career as the head of a game development studio, who’s to say that his best friend couldn’t do it too? Obvious nepotism aside, Waluigi gives off a lot of the vibes of Ubisoft or Blizzard creative directors, so he’d be a perfect fit for the video game industry.
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While Wario has focused on the indie market with his “micro-games”, Waluigi seems especially equipped to go in the other direction and create the world’s first Triple-WA game. Triple-Wa, as everyone knows, stands for Wasteful Waypoints during Wartime, meaning that this would be a huge post-apocalyptic open-world, where the forces of Princess Peach and Bowser are locked in an eternal war. Despite the ongoing war, the game will only see Waluigi aimlessly hiking from waypoint to waypoint, similar to Sam Porter Bridges inDeath Stranding.
12Lil Waluigi Game
Nintendo really needs to stop being cowards and answer the important questions! For instance, what was Waluigi like as a baby?
We’ve seen Mario’s young adventures withYoshi, and theDr. Mariomobile game even introduced us to Dr. Baby Wario, so what sort of mischief was Waluigi getting into as a child? Scamming other children? Learning to be the world’s greatest tennis player? Clogging toilets like an evil baby plumber?
11Tales Of Waharia
I hate to break it to you, but the Mario RPGs we all love so much are never coming back.The original SNES gamerarely gets celebrated by Nintendo or Square Enix, the Mario and Luigi series hasn’t been heard from since the 3DS died, and evenPaper Mariois less and less of an RPG with each new game.
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What we need is a modern take, likeFinal Fantasy 7 Remake’s more active and character-action-inspired combat. Who’s better to that than Bandai Namco, the team behind theTale Of series, and the worst guy you know in suspenders? Give Waluigi a magic sword, amnesia, and a party full of misfits, and you have yourself an all-time great JRPG right there.
10Untitled Ryu Ga Gotoku Waluigi Project
TheLike A Dragon seriesis full of harmless, helpless idiots that we keep rooting for anyway. What character in video games epitomizes that energy more than Waluigi?
After years of being a ne’er do well, this game would see Waluigi spend 20 years in prison. The resulting game sees this man out of time trying to find his place ina corrupt and harsh level 1-1. However, during his journey, between large-scale brawls and weird side quests, his ice-cold heart might just start to melt…
If Nintendo is going to team up with indie developers like the ones behindCrypt of the Necrodancerfor smaller games likeCadence of Hyrule, why shouldn’t Waluigi get in on the action? We already knowhe’s a light-footed dancer with killer rhythm, which would make him the perfect next character to star in this now anthology Necrodancer series.
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Besides, we doubt Mario is a big fan of chiptune remixes, now that he gets orchestras to score most of his games. Get the likes of Danny B., Chipzel, and Lena Raine onboard to remix songs from across the Mario series, and we would play the hell out of this game!
8Payday 3
Just put a Waluigi mask inPayday3, Starbreeze. Please, we’re begging you!
7Waluigipunk
Comedy video games very rarely work. Games are so interactive that it’s easy to miss a punchline because you were looking in the wrong place, and with runtimes usually being much longer than a 90-minute movie, it’s hard to keep up the pacing. That said,one of the few comedy games that still hold up is Jazzpunk.
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Get Waluigi in that weird Cold War-era world and bring back the talented team from Necrophone, and let the chaos commence. Just allow an evil plumber to go around a small absurdist city, trying to help people, and only making things worse.
6Death Of A Sicko
The first Nintendo game released exclusively for the PS5. Sony Bend’s next game is a dark and gritty action-adventure title where one Wa must fight hordes of mindless Koopas, as he bikes across Dry Dry Desert.
This game obviously needs Waluigi tobecome a sad dad of some sort if it’s going to be a real PlayStation exclusive. That is why we are going to pair him with Baby Luigi, as he fights to hold on to the last of his humanity.
5Waluigi’s Waha-nderlands
We’ve never had a proper Mario FPS. Whatever that game would turn out to be would obviously be a frantic nightmare, so why not embrace that chaos and give the game to Gearbox?
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Few developers understand how to write dirtbags like the people that brought you the lastDuke Nukemgame. What’s more, Waluigi’s tryhard attitude lines up perfectly with the tone of the Borderlands games.
