Wario Land 3

Wario Land 3 is a video game released for the Game Boy Color in 2000. In this game, Wario has to find a god who is trapped in a music box.

Plot
One day, Wario's plane stalls and crashes while he flies over the woods. He emerged unscathed, and then stumbled upon a mysterious cave. Entering it, he discovers a magical music box that suddenly sucks him into itself. Inside, he meets a creature which claims to be the God of the world that Wario has discovered. In exchange for freeing it, the creature promises to send Wario back to his own world and keep any treasure that he finds along the way.

Gameplay
The game plays almost exactly the same as the previous entry in the Wario Land series, Wario Land II. Wario is invincible, and can undergo different changes based on how his enemies attack him. However, unlike other games, Wario doesn't start with all of his abilities intact. Instead he must locate them as he moves through the game before he can use them.

Each stage contains four treasures, each located in four separate treasure chests. To open a chest, Wario must locate the key and then bring it to the chest. The order in which the chests can be unlocked isn't necessarily fixed, although the game often tries to nudge the player towards a certain order. Often times, a treasure chest cannot be reached, and Wario must find a way to make it accessible. Finding other treasures often opens up new paths for him, making things that were previously unreachable possible to gain. Sometimes this ties in with Wario's search with new abilities, as they often bring more treasure within his grasp. The stages are all located on an overhead map, which is divided into four different areas: the East, West, North, and South portions of the music box. Each time Wario enters the map between stages, the time changes from night to day, and back again. Stages change depending on the time of day, meaning that different enemies may be replaced, and different parts of them may open up. Wario cannot control time initially, though with the discovery of a certain treasure, that eventually changes.