YMMV / Psycho Waluigi

• Awesome Music:
  • The soundtrack is comprised of remixes of songs from both Wario series, themes associated with Waluigi and even other Nintendo games, along with new songs made specifically for the game. Almost entirely done in MP3 format to boot!
  • The one song in the game that is rendered as a MIDI still manages to sound amazing. "The Final Conquest" the last stage, is a remix of a song from Mario Kart, redone to sound like a Banjo-Kazooie or Donkey Kong 64 type boss theme. Despite being a MIDI, it sounds amazingly authentic for what it's meant to invoke.
  • The boss music for that level is also pretty memorable, as it is a remix of "Destruction Dance" (Waluigi's boss theme) from Super Mario DDR.
  • The remix of Song of Storms from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time heard in side-scrolling shooting sections of a level.
• Crack Pairing: Hazel/Waluigi. Yes, it exists.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: General Hazel.
• Fridge Brilliance: The choice of giving Waluigi psychic powers seems a bit strange, at first. However, Wario's first appearance had him hypnotizing a large portion of the local population, and the two have been heavily associated, and implied to possibly be related, ever since Waluigi's debut.
• Funny Moments:
  • Waluigi unsealing Psycho Iris and finding out that he was cursed into the form of an eggplant. His attempt to intimidate Waluigi doesn't really help his credibility, either.
  • The fact that one of the 'kingdoms' that Waluigi conquers is just a hardware store with 'Kingdom' in the title.
  • Olde Stronghold Kingdom may be That One Level, but beating it rewards you with Waluigi riding a tank shooting golden statues of himself.
• Goddamned Bats:
  • Frolruses, before the game was updated to make them less annoying.
  • Bob-ombs, which always explode on death with a surprisingly large blast radius.
• Good Bad Bugs: Normally, when you psychically grab a treasure or a powerup, your only option is to throw them away, destroying them in the process. Except that a programming oversight allows you to collect them anyway by putting the item in front of you and then turning around, which makes the grabbed item "pass" through Waluigi and, if it was a collectible, collect it.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A Mario game about traveling around the world in an air vehicle, where all the levels are named "_____ Kingdom", with a sidekick character who can possess enemies and use their powers, years before Super Mario Odyssey. Luckily, Mario and Cappy doesn’t conquer worlds.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The timer comes across as arbitrary and unneeded to some players.
• That One Boss: The World 2 boss. It comes after a scrolling tank section that's likely to deplete your health, starts off by creating a ground shockwave with no warning, charges you without a tell (but it's a set interval), has to be dismantled with explosive pieces, and you have to do this three times. With repeated ground pound attacks and debris falling from the sky, and coupled with Continuing is Painful and most players will probably just take the bronze crown just be rid of the level.

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