Wario Ware Gold – Review – WarioWare Gold Review

WarioWare Gold, the latest version of the quirky Nintendo series that takes the phrase "a fast game is a good game" to its extreme literal, is a bigger hit plate with substantial appeal for newcomers . It's just a shame that his badortment of reworked "microgames" and his disappointingly mixed unlock bag combine for a global package that seems too familiar to existing fans.

As with the previous entries of the series, the main gameplay of WarioWare Gold is a frantic succession of gameplay microgames that test your reaction time. This ruthless and fast shtick finds its place in mundane tasks and distils clbadic Nintendo games to a few fun tricks, with 3 to 5 seconds of microgames that are separated into three main types: mash, which is based on buttons; twist, which uses the built-in 3DS gyro sensor; and touch, which requires tapping and dragging the stylus. (There are also some microphone-based games, but they all end up blowing as hard as they can.)

In some modes, WarioWare Gold goes back and forth between different control methods from one microgam to the other. then, what could have been an awkward act of juggling given the frenetic pace of the game. Fortunately, separate audio and video signals clearly indicate what style of input is about to happen , and I found WarioWare Gold at its best level of dynamism when it mixed things up.

Most of the 300 micrograms included come from previous games, but WarioWare Gold presents them at least in a way that feels fresh. For the first time in the series, and somehow of a rarity for first-round Nintendo games in general, WarioWare Gold offers a full voice for its colorful cast of characters. This adds a welcome touch of personality to its two-hour story mode, working successfully in tandem with the wonderfully vibrant artistic style. I especially enjoyed the multiple trips of the extraterrestrial Orbulon to fast food through the window, and the 18-volt Parappa rapper-esque rap battle, but the entire cast did a great job with every cheerful exchange. and picking the nose of a kindergarten clbad during the cold season.

However, if you have followed the series even sporadically, WarioWare Gold does not offer you many surprises. It's a blur of freshly-leaved toast bakes, well-timed skateboard jumps, and more sniff-sniffing and nose-picking than a kindergarten clbad in the cold season. As a fan of WarioWare since the GBA 2003, I felt tired soon enough after finishing story mode, while I was clearing my way through all these game thumbnails to gain enough of coins to pump into the capsule machine in play.

This grinding of gold was rarely rewarded properly because what came out of the capsule machine was disappointing most often. There is a handful of expanded minigames to discover, with matching trinkets as cinematic clips that can be redoubled with your own voice using the 3DS microphone, or an artistic mode in which Wario paints hilarious recreations of your amiibo collection . But most of the 200+ unlockable items are number-based, such as character cards and music tracks, with far too many codes for an in-game phone that triggers plodding, text messages. Why the excellent story mode voice game did not extend to that, I'm not exactly sure.

I have, however, found some life in challenge modes that add interesting wrinkles to the typical WarioWare structure. better than others. WarioWatch adds a countdown that is completed with precious seconds as you clear each challenge, prompting you to increase your reaction times in order to stay ahead of the clock. Meanwhile, Thrillride dramatically increases tension by giving you one life and making each game feel more like sudden death. On the other hand, I found the Wario Interrupts mode about as fun as trying to play a game with a hungry younger brother who cuts my arm, and SplitScreen simply alternates between Consecutive play between the two screens of the system, which