Wario Ware, Inc: Mega Party Game$ (GameCube) Review

Believe it or not, but Wario Ware, Inc: Mega Party Games$! does indeed have a storyline. However, do not raise your hopes too high as it is kookier than actually engrossing (as if you ever believed it would hold your attention at all!). Wario is, as many of you already know, a damn lazy, money-crazy, obese fool. But he has just hit upon a spectacular idea. After throwing together short three-second micro games for his Ware, Inc GBA d

Looking at the game on paper you might think that it is not Wario scamming his fictitious friends, but Nintendo doing the very same to us, the vulnerable, innocent gamer. But no, you see the graphics are meant to be so unusual. You get a nice mixture to be honest, between the basic Game Boy / Game 'N Watch stylings right through to perfect representations of the SNES and NES, all thrown at you at break-neck speed that, whilst not pushing the GameCube, does at least remove the annoying part of re-living past titles

Games, not mini-games, but micro-games. But what does this mean? Well, it means that you are treated to short bursts of superb, and not so wonderful, gameplay from various stages in the past. You could be guiding Link into a cave, dodging vehicles on the F-Zero race track, jumping barrels to reach Donkey Kong or simply helping Wario jump on a Goomba's head in a Mario Bros pastiche. The idea is that your reflexes, attention and general mental constitution are all tested to their extremes, whilst at the same time proving to be one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences for several years

Work your way up the chain in the one-player mode, trying your best to last through the melee of three-to-five second tests of skill or focus on fun with your friends