Exploring The Wide Dead World

HIGH Hearing how baby Skeletons are born.
LOW The rhythm-based minigames.
WTF “Since you’re wearing a deerstalker cap, would you mind solving this murder?”
It's hard to think of a game more suited to exploiting the fun of a gyroscope sensor—the built-in motion sensor that detects rotations of the GameBoy Advance—than WarioWare, so kinetic and physical were its mini-games even when they merely involved single button presses.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Cartoon Violence, Crude Humor
Beyond this mocking, intentionally cheap and campy experience is a concise (though admittedly incomplete) cross-section of some of both the classic and the forgotten moments in Nintendo's videogame history, and a throwback to those beloved twitch-games of yore.
According to ESRB, this game contains: Comic Mischief
In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$, Wario gets a chance to have a game all to himself. The conceit is that Wario has decided to make money in the videogame industry. Being lazy, he co-opts his friends into creating games for him. It's never made certain whether the player is supposed to be a tester or a consumer of the end result, but the end result is one of the most unique experiences in videogames.
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