WarioWare: Get It Together!

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The demo of this game is out, and it's pretty good! It definitely feels like they're short on ideas, as the gimmick is quite a bit messier than the old games. You choose from a team of three characters (or everyone, randomly dispersed), who each have a different approach to microgames. They all have basic game verbs shuffled between them, which really changes how some microgames work. It doesn't feel as clean as the previous games' control schemes, adding a heap of chaos to an already chaotic game concept. But! I love these characters, and I want more games where you actually play as them. Though my favorite, Spitz, seems to be second player only. Why would you do that, game?!

The multiplayer emphasis reminds me of Mega Party Games, which got mixed reviews when it came out but is honestly one of my favorites. There look to be a ton of alternate modes and optional grinding mechanics, which I always love in these games. I doubt it will rise to the heights of the original or Twisted, but it still seems pretty solid.

 

[Gaer]

Oh man I love me some warioware. Me and other half had a ball with snipperclips and this looks like it’s a similar vein.

But with more garlic and fart jokes— truly my catnip.

 

[MetManMas]

The various playstyles take some getting used to (particularly 18-Volt's sit 'n shoot style when you have to do something requiring moving with the rings and Kat (& Ana's) continuous jumping for precision throwing tasks) but I like how snappy the game's pace tends to be. It works much better than I expected.

Think my favorite so far is Mona with her auto-scrolling moped (that can be steered) and remote-controlled boomerang. Lot of potential with the tools at her disposal.

 

[Violentvixen]

I'm very glad the demo included the co-op since that's what I was most curious about playing. It's fun! I could definitely see myself getting confused with all the characters on such short timelines but it was still enjoyable. I dunno if it'll be a release day pickup but if we do end up traveling this fall/winter it would be a good one for the train/plane.

 

[Sprite]

We were having a lot of fun up until unlocking 5-Volt, whereupon it became one of the worst game experiences I've ever had.

It's an stressful game, mainly because of the characters. The ones that fly and attack at will are universally better than everyone else. The ones that move automatically are just a nightmare to control. And then 5-Volt, which, I have no idea what they were thinking. she doesn't move, only teleports and falls, which is a fun idea, but makes tons of games incredibly difficult. And then her boss stage involves pressing grapes into jars, and it seems impossible to avoid spilling the juice with her and losing. Like, I literally have no idea how to beat that stage. We tried about twelve times before giving up.

We also had a lot of cheap deaths due to the lack of palette swaps for duplicate characters, so anytime we were both the same character we inevitably lost track of which one we were.

It's WarioWare, so it's good. They're all good! But I think it's my least favorite so far? It feels... sloppy, in a way the other games didn't.

Also I'm genuinely bummed that I can't play as Spitz in single player. Why would they sell me on playing as WarioWare characters and then gate my favorite one behind co-op?

 

[MetManMas]

I'm genuinely bummed that I can't play as Spitz in single player. Why would they sell me on playing as WarioWare characters and then gate my favorite one behind co-op?

I get what they were going for, Ana and Spitz are Player 2 'cuz their gimmick is that they're the mirrors of Kat and Dribble and thus fire in the opposite direction. Being on Player 1's side of the screen would put them at a huge disadvantage.

But like, why not let a solo player play a game in the Player 2 spot if they want to? Or have a mode that further adds to the chaos by changing which side of the screen the player (or either player in 2P) is on?

 

[Sprite]

Sometimes they put both players on the left, which does handicap those 2P characters. Which to me shows that "character that only shoots left" is a bad idea to start with.

I'll probably like it a lot more when everything is unlocked and I can choose when to challenge myself with the bad characters, rather than having that choice made for me.

 

[Sprite]

I beat the boss that was giving us trouble, the trick was playing it single player, which bummed me out a bit.

I’ll probably come around once the extra modes unlock.

 

[Becksworth]

Yeah, 5-Volt and that Grape boss is a difficulty spike compared to the rest of the game.

Overall I like the game, but I’m still mixed on the multiple characters concept. On one hand it’s a new twist that works the Switch concept well, and it adds replayability. Other hand having multiple characters avatars constrains the micro games to a 2D plane. Even the original GBA game had some micro games that used a 3D perspective, so the avatars add in some ways and subtract in others.

 

[Sprite]

Yeah, the characters make things both more complicated and less complicated. On one hand, the multitude of actions between the characters compounds the confusion normally found in WarioWare games. On the other hand, those actions are really just variations on two verbs, “move” and “attack,” and every microgame uses those two verbs. The result is a game that feels kind of flat in its variety while also feeling frenetic to play.

Anyway, we beat it, and the party game modes are really cool. They really should have had those unlocked from the start.

 

[madhair60]

Damn, I am really not feeling this. The central gimmick seems to force the microgames into broader and more homogenous templates, so most of them just kinda seem the same. Seeing as I'm not directly controlling them they are essentially scenery and eminently forgettable.

I'm not hugely far in but so far this is Worst Warioware for me.

 

[Becksworth]

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