History VideoGame / WarioLandII

The Game Boy Color version of ''Wario Land II'' was available for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole until its shutdown in March 2023.

* BorderOccupyingDecorations: The game sports a custom UsefulNotes/SuperGameBoy border depicting Wario and his riches at the top as well as the location he's currently in filling the rest. If you're playing the Flagman D-D minigame, it uses a UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch console as its background.

''Wario Land II'' (subtitled ''The Stolen Treasure'' in Japanese) is the second game in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series (not counting ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand''), initially released in early 1998 for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy. An UpdatedRerelease on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor was released the following year.

* BleakLevel: ''Steal the Syrup's treasure!!'' takes place in a freaky WombLevel with eyes, noses, ears, and mouths placed all over the walls, which resemble fleshy pink skin. Frozen corpses of enemies are also embedded in the walls throughout the level with shocked looks on their faces. The music for the level is also a very tense and ominous [[https://youtu.be/4oFFs-V_KHo theme]] not heard anywhere else in the game.

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: You must beat Dunk in basketball... more or less.

* CockyRooster: Roosters are uncommon enemies that appear in a few levels. If Wario attacks them head on, they get berserk and attack him. They are rather resilient foes that can only be defeated with a Ground Pound. The Roosters particularly prevalent in the level "Return The Hen To Her Nest" where they will chase Wario if [[BerserkButton they spot him]] carrying [[MoralityPet Hen]].

* ContinuityNod: The games establishes from its opening shot that Wario took over Kitchen Island from ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' and completely renovated it on top of building his castle.

* TheHedgeOfThorns: "Through the thorny maze!!" is a level in Maze Woods where Wario has to ride owls to navigate around a giant maze of thorns. It is of the more cumbersome levels in the game.

* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Wario can be shrunk down into Tiny Wario if hit by a spell from a Goom wizard. He can jump higher in this form but is useless in combat until he gets back to his normal size.

** The giant spear man's much more bigger than the other mooks, even though he's still incredibly easy to defeat, but he's also the RecurringBoss of the game alongside Captain Syrup, and [[spoiler:he's even the very last enemy that you face at the end of the game]].

* OffTheRails: Each level's title usually presents your goal for the stage. Getting the secret exits and alternate endings requires you to ''not'' do what the level title says you should- leaving boss stages without fighting the boss, going deeper into places you were told to escape, etc.

* StockVideoGamePuzzle: The "Water Level" puzzle occurs in "Move Through The Water!". Wario has to hit switches that change the water flow on or off: If the Water is turned on, it raises the water level with causes some bouy blocks to raise that allow access to doors and areas but a rapid current appears and Wario cannot swim through certain sections. If the Water is off, it lowers the water level making doors inaccessible in certain rooms, but the water is easier to swim through. Wario has to carefully manipulate the water via switches to get through the level.

The Game Boy Color version of ''Wario Land II'' is available for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS UsefulNotes/VirtualConsole.

* BigBoosHaunt: Uncanny Mansion.

* StockVideoGamePuzzle: The "Water Level" puzzle occurs in "Move Through The Water!". Wario has to hit switches that change the water flow on or off: If the Water is turned on, it raises the water level with causes some bouy blocks that allow access to doors and areas but a rapid current appears and Wario cannot swim through certain sections. If the Water is off, it lowers the water level in certain rooms and the water is easier to swim through. Wario has to carefully manipulate the water via switches to get through the level.

*** The giant spear man's much more bigger than the other mooks, even though he's still incredibly easy to defeat, but he's also the RecurringBoss of the game alongside Captain Syrup, and [[spoiler:he's even the very last enemy that you face at the end of the game]].

''Wario Land II'' (subtitled ''The Stolen Treasure'' in Japan) is the second game in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series (not counting ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand''), initially released in early 1998 for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy. An UpdatedRerelease on the UsefulNotes/GameBoyColor was released the following year.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The item held by the penguin enemies is a beer mug in the Japanese release and some sort of ball in the Western release.

* IntoxicationMechanic: Among the enemies that Wario encounters are, in the Japanese release, penguins with beer steins that chuck beer at Wario getting him drunk, resulting in him walking backwards and attacking by burping. In International releases, the steins are balls, and the form is known as Crazy Wario, but the function is the same.

* NumberedSequels: It's the second game, and has II in the name (2 in Japan).

* UpdatedRerelease: When the game was originally released, it was on the black-and-white Game Boy. This version only came out in the US and Europe; a Game Boy Color capable version was released in Japan, and this version was released to the rest of the world as well.

* TruckDriversGearChange: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEkI2A9jX8 The credits music]]" starts in in C Major. Two bars into the coda, it shifts to D♭ Major.

* TruckDriversGearChange: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuEkI2A9jX8 The credits music]]" starts in in C Major. Two bars into the coda, it shifts to D♭ major.