I always put WarioWare in the “it probably is a good game, I think I would enjoy it, maybe one day I will play it” box. I may be wrong but I think my only experience with the whole series was limited to an evening in which I spent twenty minutes (maybe less) on the rope jumping minigame from the GameCube version. That was it. But now I played the original game on GBA (emulated on PS Vita) and I can confirm the three elements of the box:

1. it really is good, full of crazy ideas, with an impeccable tempo, and it’s so much more refined, ploished, clean than the “rough vibe” it emanates. Only Nintendo makes them like this;
2. I did have so much fun, I liked the challenge, I enjoyed getting to the end even though I didn’t unlock everything;
3. it still is something I’m not particularly attracted to and I think I will not try other episodes of the series.

Vous vous êtes déjà demandé ce que faisaient les gens de chez nintendo pour évacuer et se détendre ?

Ils sortent une série de jeux. Et c'est les Warioware. On suit un personnage qui est déjà une parodie de Mario, on lui donne un lore totalement insolite et on le met en héro (ou non) d'une série de mini jeux qui doivent être jouable avec 3 boutons et compréhensibles en moins de 3 secondes. Le tout sans charte graphique imposée et avec un humour wtf typiquement japonais ?

C'est littéralement une des meilleures franchises de nintendo. Bien loin des sages Mario Party on prend un vrai plaisir solo à faire n'importe quoi. Ce wario ware est le tout premier de la franchise et n'accompagne pas encore de grosses avancées technologiques des consoles nintendo que sont le motion gaming, la reconnaissance faciale ou l'écran tactile mais il n'en est pas moins super généreux.

On ne pouvait rêver d'un meilleur démarrage pour cette série !

Wario throws you in his car, hands you a small mirror with a fresh line and locks the doors. He hits the gas, speeding through town introducing you to every weirdo he knows and they each have a collection of deranged minigames to play. Stopping for one second to think about any of it means failure, your only option is to lean in, do another rail and wait for the next prompt. Welcome to WarioWare.

To this day it's one of the best games Nintendo's ever made - pure, unadulterated joy. Its brilliance is a product of every component firing at full speed. The single-mechanic microgames are definitely fun in their own right, but as a rapid-fire collection they only make sense in this universe and I never want to leave.

This is actually the second Warioware game I've played thus far. The first one was smooth moves on the Wii, and what a riot that was. I just used my MyNintendo points to get the DS game Warioware Touched! on my 3DS for free, but I want to finish these games from the first one up. Getting the achievements on retroachievements.org was tedious, and I mean tedious. In order to get them all you have to unlock the final Pyoro minigames which requires mastering every single minigame in the game. The games themselves are very entertaining, but I like the random mashup of the regular levels much more than repeating the same minigame over and over again, but either way Wario puts on a good show in this charming title.

Difficulty: 3/10

Rating: B-

My Playthrough (Part 1):