Mawaru Made in Wario

By Spencer . September 30, 2005 . 12:16am

aka Wario Ware Twisted! outside of Japan.

 

Purchase at Play-Asia

 

Purchase at Lik-Sang

 

Mawaru Made in Wario is Nintendo’s follow up to the creative, albeit strange title Wario Ware Megabucks. This time around the game has a built in twist sensor, similar to the one found in Kirby’s Tilt and Tumble. Instead of using the D-pad you’ll have to shake your Game Boy Advance left or right and sometimes even spin your whole body around. Since the game has this brand new hardware feature you can bet that most of the games are built around tilting and spinning.

 

This game is actually comprised of 200 "microgames" in one package. Each microgame is about a couple of seconds long and you’re given no instructions on how to play them. Basically, you’ll figure them out by trial and error. Most of them can be figured out using a little bit of video game intuition. For instance one game has a stick figure holding up a mirror and a demon flying around. It doesn’t take long to figure out that you need to tilt your GBA to angle the beam of light to hit the flying menace. Another game has a sleeping kid with a bubble over his head. In this game you need to press A at the right time to pop the bubble. Each microgame is bare bones and really basic, but when you play them in a rapid fire game after game fashion the title comes together.

 

Wario Ware Megabucks was known for having "unique" games like the one where you have to place a finger in a nose and one where you have Wario jump over a giant hotdog. Mawaru Made in Wario has games just as wacky. One game has a person waiting to enter a bathroom stall and you have to push A at the right time to make them move in the bathroom. One of the boss fights takes the nose picking microgame one step further. In this game you’ll be controlling a giant robot who shoots finger missiles, which you’ll need to get into a huge floating nose that shoots boogers at you. Strange yes, but funny at the same time.

 

Even though there are 200 games to try out most of them have the same gameplay. You’ll either be spinning the GBA around accurately, pressing the A button at the right time or twirling the GBA as fast as you can. The concept of spinning gets old fast, when you’re doing the same thing over and over. The first Wario Ware game had classic NES scenes built in, with a number of different challenges. This game just doesn’t have that many "different" games. It’s kind of like doing the same thing over and over with a different setting.

 

WarioWare Megabucks didn’t have the world’s greatest graphics. In fact many people criticized the game’s bare bone graphics, line art, stick figure characters. So Mawaru Made in Wario and WarioWare Megabucks aren’t eye popping for the GBA, but the game has a style all its own. The simple graphics match the simple gameplay. The bizarre animation style keeps up with the humor of the game. No one is saying that the graphics are great, but they’re not great for a reason.

 

As a whole package, Mawaru Made in Wario is a pretty fun game to play. It’s got something unique, the tilt sensor. However, it would have been nice to have the option to use the control pad instead of being forced to shake your GBA around. The other issue with Mawaru Made in Wario is that you can get through the game really quickly. The two hundred or so microgames can be master in a weekend and you can collect everything in the game within a week.

 

Import Friendly? Literacy Level: 2

The game and all of the menus are in Japanese. However, the menus are simple to navigate through and are in katakana. Most importantly, you won’t need to know any Japanese to play through the microgames unlike the first Made in Wario title.

 

US Bound?

It seems likely that Nintendo of America will release this game in the US. The only wild card is if the tilt sensor can work with the upcoming Nintendo DS or not.

 

+ Pros: All new microgames with a cool twist feature.

 

- Cons: The twist feature takes away from the diversity of games seen in the previous Wario Ware.

 

Overall: Mawaru Made in Wario has a new twist in its unique microgame concept. While still fun, Mawaru Made in Wario just doesn’t hold up to the original title.

 

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