The world has never been as excited about WarioWare as they should be. The series has been consistently awesome and fun since its GBA days, but always as a kind of buried treasure, that game people start doing yoga only for the flexibility to kick themselves in the ass more effectively for not playing earlier. WarioWare Smooth Moves was a second-wave Wii title. It is better than 99% of the titles that came out after it, and sold like dirt. As such, Nintendo’s never given the series the sort of push it really deserves, but that was always understandable when it was on systems with bigger, more popular titles to push.
The WiiU doesn’t have that excuse. The WiiU’s best looking titles aren’t even first party, and they’re months away. The WiiU NEEDS a good game.
So, there’s this WarioWare WiiU game happening called Game and Wario. Along with the same-old five-second-stage gameplay, there’s also 16 different mini games. Unlike, say, Nintendoland, these games? They look GREAT. The kind of quirky fun you expect from Big N all the time, with an overabundance of personality, creative use of that hideous beast of a controller, and from characters you don’t see in every damn game, which makes them more special.
So, naturally, a month from launch, for the only first party title with a solid release date, Nintendo’s sole promotion for the game is a bad parody website called Crowdfarter.
Luckily, two seconds on YouTube came up with a UK trailer for the game which shows off the title in far more detail. I would play the hell out of this. You would probably play the hell out of this. For the people who don’t even know the WiiU exists though? It might as well not be happening. The official site DESCRIBES the games, but no video, which is kinda crucial with this controller. This is why the WiiU can’t have nice things, Nintendo. I feel like every time I want to say or do something nice about the WiiU, it’s like that scene at the end of Magnolia with Stanley asking his asshole dad to treat him better, and Dad’s only response is to grunt at him.
The press release I got for this thing (written goofily as if it were Wario) ends with the line “Note to editors: SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT MY GAME OR YOU WILL BE SORRY! WAHAHAHAHA!” So, here it is: It looks like a fucking blast. You might consider relaying that information to others.
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