WarioWare: Pull yourself together! – mixture of boredom

When I say “Nintendo party games”, the first thing that comes to mind is the Mario Party series, which has been entertaining fans with its fun mini-games since 1998, i.e. since the Nintendo 64. However, we must not forget the greedy and garlic-loving Wari and his WarioWare series. Its first installment was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo GameCube and was a collection of various microgames that offered near-instantaneous and fast-paced entertainment. Since then, we’ve seen many more games, the latest of which arrived a few days ago, the Nintendo Switch exclusive WarioWare: Get It Together!. And that’s what we’re going to look at together now.

• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Publication date: 09/10/2021
• Producer: Nintendo EPD / Intelligent Systems
• Genre: Party game
• Czech location: Not
• Multiplayer: No (only ratings)
• Data to download: 1.3 GB
• Game time: 2-hour story / other modes theoretically unlimited
• Availability: 7+
• Sales version: box and digital
• Price: CZK 1,199 (Xzone)

Bugs are everywhere

And let’s start with the plot, because at first you still have to go through it, because playing it, you will gradually open up more features and modes. It revolves around Wario and his colleagues at WarioWare Inc. completed their own video game. However, on the first attempt to launch the game does not turn on, so Wario gets frustrated and throws himself with the console, which then sucks our heroes into the game. And here we find that the title is teeming with game bugs that break local levels, so our main goal is to successfully eliminate these bugs and make the game itself workable.

Wario and his colleagues must eliminate the mistakes in their game.

This journey works like a big fun tutorial where you get to know the individual characters, try out the basics of the game, touch the controls and try out most of the microgames on offer, while each of the individual sessions runs like a different boss. wrestling. In addition, during your efforts, you will come across relatively cute and funny dialogues, sometimes seasoned with nice animations. This whole expedition will take you about two hours, and it’s really nice that you can experience it in local cooperation with another player, so you don’t have to go through it yourself. However, personally I would have welcomed a slightly longer experience.

Various modes for your enjoyment

In any case, once you’ve finished the story, you can finally get to the main point that the title suggests. Of course, you can be the first to play all unlocked sub-games in your local “Play-o-pedie” and train them enough that way. You will find more than 200 such games in the game, and their processing is really very diverse. One day you’ll plug your nostril to pluck armpit hair again, protect flowers from attack, or count fleeing characters. In addition, you can look forward to various video game crossovers, so here you will find levels with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Luigi’s Mansion or Fire Emblem theme. All these pranks then happen on the screen in just a few seconds, which provides a really frenetic pace, which, however, may not be suitable for younger children who also do not speak English (although instructions are usually given in short words), despite the real very simple control.

There are many microgames and they offer a lot of variety.

However, you can also access other special modes that are hidden in the game via the “Variety Pack” link. Here you will find a total of 10 modes in which you will always have different tasks. In Gotta Bounce you’ll try to keep the ball off the ground as long as possible, in Daily Grind you’ll have a primitive side-scrolling adventure, in High Five you’ll have alternative volleyball, and in Friendless Battle you’ll try to survive the ever-growing waves of enemies. In addition, these four modes are the only ones on this list that can be played in single player. In addition, we have Frenemy Frenzy where you and your friends will play the Smash Bros. model, and the other five modes offer a combination of these micro-games, always spiced up with some main goal. Unfortunately, most of these modes get boring quickly when you’ll most likely end up playing mostly three or four of them.

Soloists hands off

As you might have guessed from the previous paragraph, if you are one of those people who has no one to play the game with, you probably won’t have much fun. The creators could have eliminated this mess by adding traditional online multiplayer, but, unfortunately, it is not here. Instead, we have a mode called Vario Cup where you will face different challenges every week, and after you overcome them, you will be placed in the local leaderboard, for which you can get various rewards. While it’s quite fun, it certainly doesn’t replace traditional multiplayer games. In any case, if, on the contrary, there is someone with you, you will get unbridled competitive fun, full of screaming and emotions.

If you don’t have anyone to play with, you won’t have much fun.

And as I mentioned the rewards, you will earn money for playing or completing special missions, which you can spend in the local store for various items, which can then level up individual characters, which increases your base score in the Wario Cup mode and unlocks customization these characters, where you can choose your own color palette. It’s certainly a nice bonus, but the biggest motivation to play is still getting past the score.

Different characters, different styles

However, what I liked about the game is the idea that each of the 20 characters here offer their own special abilities, thanks to which you can always take a slightly alternative approach to solving individual games. It’s just a shame the developers didn’t work a little harder on their balance, as some characters’ abilities are simply worse versions of others, so there’s not much reason why you should play them. In addition, this fact can be very annoying in modes in which the choice of heroes is random, which can lead to a relatively large minus.

Each of the characters has their own abilities.

However, if one happens to find themselves in a state of outrage, they are likely to be reliably reassured by the unrelated visuals hiding many different styles, such as real photographs, drawings, paintings, paper cuts, and graphics from other Nintendo games. . All this is united by Dadaist goulash, which, like the musical accompaniment, has its undoubted charm.

social entertainment

So if you’re looking for a really fast and fun party or family table game that will get your adrenaline pumping, then WarioWare: Get It Together! you definitely can’t go wrong. You’ll find standalone microgames here, and their versatility ensures they’ll last you a while. The different abilities of each character will definitely please, but the creators still would do well to work hard to balance them. Also, if you don’t have anyone to play with, the missing more traditional multiplayer and short story campaign will freeze.