Wario Ware Inc.

GBA

Nintendo - 2003

Wario Ware Inc. is probably one of the weirdest games this side of, well, anywheres. I'm not sure who the developers had to sleep with to get this idea passed, but I'm glad they did. I hope they are glad too, and not having scary nightmares still. The plot, yeah there is one, weird huh, is this: Wario finds out that handheld games are making money. And Wario loves money, so he makes his own, with the help of his friends, aka characters created for this game. You then play through each one of their stages, as they each have 25ish minigames, no excuse me, MICROgames to play. You see, each game in Wario Ware is 5 seconds long. Yes only 5 seconds. You get a one word description of what to do, and 5 seconds to do it. Whether find an ant with a magnifying lense or dodge a rolling hot dog, each is only 5 seconds long. Most games can be put into categories, either push A at the right time, tap A fast, or move your character with the control pads. This isn't always true, but mostly is. But to review Wario Ware correctly, I feel, and so does Sundu, that each microgame must be reviewed, and we must write our thoughts as we find out what to do and do it. So each review of each microgame must be 5 seconds or less. But there are 200 microgames, and that would get old rather fast, so instead I will only do a few. Here goes:

Ok, let's start with Wario's games:

STOP ME!

Aah! What? Oh Wario is spinning on a record. Push the button!

CATCH!

Catch what? Oh. Drop the stick. I caught it, I WIN!

SHOOT!

AHH! It's Duckhunt! Bang! Kill the dog!

ENTER!

What? Huh? Link! Oh, enter cave Link, dodge Zora! Whew!

FIRE!

Where? What's burnin... Oh, it's Metroid. Push the button, kill Mother Brai.. Oh it's finished already.

SQUIRt!

I don't. Oh I'm the dropper. Squirt in the eye. Laser Beams?

SNIFF!

Pretty manga girl. Booger. Push button fast!

SLEEP!

Cat? Huh? Confused.

SHAKE!

Dog? Wow animal game!

SCARE 'EM!

Big bear. eat insects! No, people, scare yes good.

PICK!

plants. grab. Pothead. Hehehehe... (Insert silly girl giggles here.)

BUILD UP!

Ahhh! Clay! big and strong now!

CATCH!

Grab sword. break win good

BOUNCE!

Man, watermelon. Belly. Yay

SEARCH!

Butterfly. clovers. I no understand good

JUMP!

uggghhhh....

REPEL!

...(insert drool coming out of mouth)

Needless to say, it is quite hard reviewing games. Especially when you have no idea what is going on. It gets quite scary and confusing, and turned me into a zombie right quickly. But don't give up on this game because it turns you into a zombie. I hear that zombies are quite the fun human-type-things to be. Ask Capcom, they sure love zombies. But if you are afraid that Wario Ware will be fun for a day, then get old real fast, don't worry. It comes packed with ulockable extras like Dr. Wario, which is the same game as Dr. Mario, skateboard, jump forever, paper airplane and bugcatcher. Sure all these games get boring fast too, but they provide extra stuff. Also, Wario ware is two player. Yes. Get this, one player holds the L button and the other the R. You play with only those buttons and there are 4 great games to choose from. By far the kick the skateboarders game is the best, and second comes Hurdles. The first is awful, just to warn you.

What liked: The fact this game was made. All the old nintendo games that you wanted to play, but then when you dusted off your NES and finally got them working you don't anymore. Now you can play them for 5 seconds, just the amount of time needed to realize you really don't want to play those games.

What disliked: The trampoline stage. It's awful. You move the opposite way you should, so I always die on it.

What to expect: Crazyness. Fast reflexes. Wario fun.

What not to expect: Using the B button other than for exiting menus.

What's so different from this and other games of it's genre: It doesn't fit in a genre. Sure there are mini-game games, but this is microgames. Big difference sucker.

Ratings on:

Control: 10 - Spot on controls. But that's not very hard considering the game.

Graphics: 9 - Funny, sometimes they look beautiful, like the GBA should play, and sometimes they are just a white line on black. But that's the point, it is supposed to look like an old game, so why redo it?

Sound: 7 - Has every great NES song on there, but the actual between stages song gets rather annoying. I turned off the sound really fast.

Style: 10+ - Best game ever. Great idea, well done, nothing like it before. Just my style.

1st hour: 10 - Wow! This game has a plot.

5th hour: 9 - Well I was having trouble with Jimmy, but now I beat him and can beat him easily.

1st week: 10 - Unlock EVERYTHING! NOW! Multiplayer time!

5th week: 8 - Sure I play other games too, but this is a handheld game, and is short to start and stop on, so perfect for when I go places and have to wait.

#1 reason why I hate this game: Stupid trampoline game. Burn in hades.

by Hawke