Peppino is best described as an amalgamation of Wario’s family: Mario’s determination, Luigi’s anxiety and Waluigi’s raw sex appeal. At the core of “Pizza Tower” humor is its cast of goofballs, and Peppino himself is the standout. From eccentric visual gags to a silly taunt button that parries enemy attacks, it’s a comedy goldmine. Recently, story-driven games like “Forspoken” and “High on Life” have been criticized for painfully unfunny dialogue, so it’s refreshing to see a game that makes me laugh as much as “Pizza Tower” does. Peppino taunts alongside several collectible items.
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The game knows this, and it takes full advantage of its stupidity. But you’re not playing this for deep storytelling. On paper, that probably sounds like a simple plot I would’ve written in elementary school when every kid thought “this food has a silly name” was peak comedy.
Our Wario stand-in, Peppino Spaghetti, enters the Pizza Tower to save his restaurant from imminent destruction by a giant floating pizza named Pizzaface. Substitute treasure for pizza toppings, bake for five years and voila! That’s “Pizza Tower.”
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Now, add the high-speed platforming, replayability and ranking system of Sonic games, and top it off with the fluid animation of ‘90s cartoons like “Courage the Cowardly Dog,” plus the attitude and tone of French comics. Left to right: Protagonist Peppino Spaghetti, along with two of the game’s bosses, Pepperman and The Noise.
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Think Indiana Jones, but as a professional wrestling heel.
Levels end with tense escape sequences in which you play the level in reverse. You’ll dash, bash and grapple enemies, and even use counterproductive, self-harming “power-ups” like flattening Wario. If you haven’t played that Game Boy Advance classic, it features Wario hunting for treasure by using his inability to die. “Pizza Tower” wears its inspiration – specifically, “Wario Land 4” – on its sleeve. I saw “Pizza Tower” fill that void and then some, it caught my attention. Since then, fans sustained themselves on games like “Shovel Knight: King of Cards” that take influence from the series’ inventive gameplay and comedy. Those who know Wario from Mario spinoffs or the WarioWare series might not recognize the cult classic Wario Land series, which hasn’t seen installments since “Wario Land: Shake It!” in 2008. Around 2018, someone on my feed retweeted development footage of Tour De Pizza’s debut game, “Pizza Tower.” And I’m obsessed with it. Follow the right gaming YouTubers and journalists who retweet cool indie developers, and you’ll constantly discover incredible game concepts you’ve always wished for – and some you didn’t know you wanted. Something I’ll always miss after deleting Twitter is how easily it lets you discover games. Peppino breakdances with musicians in The Pig City. In the immortal words of Tobey Maguire: Pizza Time.
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