Boros is back, and he's ready to review! Starting with a game that helped him through a rough time.
The WarioWare games are typically very fun for me to play, and I played these games (as I did with a bunch of games) out of order, starting with WarioWare Touched! I only got to play this WarioWare when I got my 3DS which let me download it for free. I was actually slightly disappointed by this game after I first beat it, but after I went back and started playing it again due to the fact that there was barely anything else to do, I really began to appreciate this game.
The story is that Wario is sitting at home watching TV, and picking his nose, when he sees a news story about how video games are a hot selling commodity. He gets the idea to call all of his... randomly aquired friends to help him make a video game. He also runs out to the store and buys a computer so he can make a video game. Also, in the process, turns his house into WarioWare Inc. That's kind of the whole plot. You see, WarioWare has multiple characters and each one has an individual storyline, simular to the older Twisted Metal games. WarioWare D.I.Y. was different because there was only 5 characters to choose from, while the older WarioWare games had anywhere from 10 to 15. However, that one let you build your own games, and none of the others did that.
However, don't expect anything serious at all when you play these games in terms of story. All of the stories are just goofy silliness, like throwing bananas at cops, or getting sucked into a boombox. The characters are all kind of interesting though, the most famous being Jimmy T., who is a disco fever maniac, and Mona, who is some high school girl working at a pizza parlor. She's supposed to be a really weird sex symbol, I think. Just for the people who like a submissive cutesy teen. There's a sex symbol in a Wario game... So, as you try to scrub that image from your brain, another interesting question pops up. Just how exactly did Wario become affiliated with these people, anyway? And the answer is... I don't really know. This is never really explained, but as far as I can tell, Wario was supposed to pay these people off. However, some of these characters may strike a little close to home, like 9-Volt. He's a video game nerd and comes with all of the qualities that you'd expect from that stereotype. But in all fairness, the story is close to pointless. It's just there to frame all of the quarkiness in the actual gameplay.
The gameplay can only be described as Mario Party done right. It's all of those kinds of minigames without that assinine boardgame to go with it. However, there are two differences. Mario Party was focused more on multi player s#!t, WarioWare is a single player game. It has two player stuff, but it's mostly for show and not even worth mentioning. The second difference is that the minigames in WarioWare are incredably weird. I understand that that's part of the appeal of WarioWare, but some get far fetched. For example, a minigame where you have to pick Wario's nose is only breaking the surface of these weird games. Sniffing snot running down an anime chicks face is another one. There's also nose cannon's shooting aliens, and other wacky stuff. These games can get really obscure.
The game might be weird, but the bottom line is that it's addictive and fun to play. Who cares if it's strange, if it's also fun. My only true complaint is a strange one in that most people don't have to worry about it. This is a hard type of game to review. There's not much to say about a game in which is just a collection of minigames, and there isn't much to make fun of when the game isn't taking itself seriously at all. How can you make fun of something that's already making fun of itself? It seems very redundant, so it's hard to keep a review interesting because of those two things. However, bottom line, it's fun, and I can recommend it to anyone who just wants to have chaotic fun.