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Wario Ware's GameCube Insanity Probed

Posted by simoniker on from the it's-a-me dept.

Thanks to 1UP for their impressions of the GameCube Japanese import, Atsumare! Made in Wario, the budget-price multiplayer conversion of Nintendo's popular/crazy mini-game fest, Wario Ware Inc. for Game Boy Advance. The reviewer makes the context clear: "This isn't the sequel to Wario Ware. It isn't even Wario Ware 1.5. It's just a multiplayer version of Wario Ware", but nonetheless raves: "It's a total blast to play, even if you've spent months playing through the GBA game and perfecting your scores on all the microgames." IGN Cube also have hands-on impressions of the game's many multiplayer modes, which even allow "...up to 16 players to compete on an alternating basis", while 1UP mention U.S. availability for Wario Ware GC is likely, but not yet confirmed.

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  1. Party on. by August_zero · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When you are too drunk for Soul Caliber or Mario Golf, you want something that is simpler but still fun; Warioware Multiplayer would be a great item assuming it gets a US release.

    With this, the Zelda 4-swords game, and Tetra's Treasures, Final Fantas:CC, the cube continues to be a multiplayer paradise.

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  2. Re:Why not Mario? by MBCook · · Score: 2, Interesting
    How can you say it's fun? It doesn't sound like you've played it to me. If you had, you would know that all the minigames were made by Wario (and friends he later got to help him) because he is greedy and saw that video games were making huge ammounts of money.

    The "story" just wouldn't work with Mario. Besides, it's not like Wario is really that important of a character. He's only in a handful of minigames.

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  3. My first impressions by p-p-pom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just got the game yesterday and played it a bit with my girlfriend, with whom we finished the GCA version (a few minigames have too much text in Japanese for me, fortunately not too many). Even though it's really just a party version of Made in Wario, it's still a lot of fun to play those minigames again. I haven't played all modes yet, and there's even something that looks like a small boardgame with the instructions (which don't give much instructions actually). I'm sure the game will really take all its "meaning" with four players (or more!) but there is a chance that this may get old quickly. On the other hand it's relatively cheap and if you haven't played the original, you're in for a great experience.