Post by Gilvan Blight on Apr 25, 2007 7:25:25 GMT -5
Seem to be on a Wario Kick! Amusingly found this for $10 when trying to rent Wario Ware Smooth Moves.
Summary: A whole new dimension and way to play a Wario GBA game. This is your standard story based, microgame insanity we have all come to expect from a Wario Game, except there is a Twist, literally. The cartridge for this game has a gyroscope in it and you control most of the game by twisting your GBA. Besides twisting left and right the only other control that is used is the A button. All of the microgames and even the menus will have you spinning and twirling your GBA around in a frantic rush to beat hundreds of mini games. The story mode is set up like every other Wario Game I have played, where you pick a character and go through a set of themed games, each one faster then the last. If you beat enough you get to a boss stage, if you complete that you unlock another character. Once all the characters are unlocked there are a ton of collectibles and unlock ables to get by getting to certain levels, playing certain characters so many times, beating every different mini game, etc. The unlock ables include music, instruments, mini games, toys (like the love meter), character profiles and more.
The Good: I got this after my Wii, so it wasn't completely impressive, but had I seen the motion detection on this before the Wii I would have been blown away. It's still amazing, but after playing Wario Ware Smooth Moves, twisting left and right really isn't that impressive. The graphics and sound are top notch for a GBA game, and the music can be quite the ear worm. The games are a blast and a laugh as usual, with some being rather difficult for games where all you do is twist your gameboy. The sheer amount of unlock ables adds a lot of replay value to this. This is a perfect gameboy game as you can get through multiple micro games in a short amount of time, say while waiting for your Wife in the Bank. You can pause at any time. Turning off the system means you will have to start at stage 1 vs a particular character, but seeing as even the hardest character only has 20 levels in story mode, you won't be repeating much.
The Bad: No multi-player! Not even one where you can pass off. No way to set up two 'accounts either' You can wipe all the data, but not have two different sets. This make the high score system kind of pointless, as it doesn't keep track of who got what score, as it assumes the same player keeps on playing.
The Ugly: a bit hard to play with an old gameboy with a battery pack installed. Due to the twisting motion, this wasn't the best game for my now Archaic GBA with it's added light and huge honkin battery pack or AC cable. Not really the fault of the game, and I didn't have this issue on my Fathers SP, but still annoying. Also on an OLD GBA it can be hard to see as you are twisting the system often loosing that 'perfect' lighting position.
Overall: a rather cool game, a great distraction, lots of fun. Not too much too it though, you could get sick of it fairly quickly. I couldn't justify the full $50 price tag, but if you can find it for the price I did, $10, it's definitely worth it. I would have been happy spending about $20 but not much more then that. One nice thing, when you are done with it, it's easy to wipe the data and pass it on to a friend.
Summary: A whole new dimension and way to play a Wario GBA game. This is your standard story based, microgame insanity we have all come to expect from a Wario Game, except there is a Twist, literally. The cartridge for this game has a gyroscope in it and you control most of the game by twisting your GBA. Besides twisting left and right the only other control that is used is the A button. All of the microgames and even the menus will have you spinning and twirling your GBA around in a frantic rush to beat hundreds of mini games. The story mode is set up like every other Wario Game I have played, where you pick a character and go through a set of themed games, each one faster then the last. If you beat enough you get to a boss stage, if you complete that you unlock another character. Once all the characters are unlocked there are a ton of collectibles and unlock ables to get by getting to certain levels, playing certain characters so many times, beating every different mini game, etc. The unlock ables include music, instruments, mini games, toys (like the love meter), character profiles and more.
The Good: I got this after my Wii, so it wasn't completely impressive, but had I seen the motion detection on this before the Wii I would have been blown away. It's still amazing, but after playing Wario Ware Smooth Moves, twisting left and right really isn't that impressive. The graphics and sound are top notch for a GBA game, and the music can be quite the ear worm. The games are a blast and a laugh as usual, with some being rather difficult for games where all you do is twist your gameboy. The sheer amount of unlock ables adds a lot of replay value to this. This is a perfect gameboy game as you can get through multiple micro games in a short amount of time, say while waiting for your Wife in the Bank. You can pause at any time. Turning off the system means you will have to start at stage 1 vs a particular character, but seeing as even the hardest character only has 20 levels in story mode, you won't be repeating much.
The Bad: No multi-player! Not even one where you can pass off. No way to set up two 'accounts either' You can wipe all the data, but not have two different sets. This make the high score system kind of pointless, as it doesn't keep track of who got what score, as it assumes the same player keeps on playing.
The Ugly: a bit hard to play with an old gameboy with a battery pack installed. Due to the twisting motion, this wasn't the best game for my now Archaic GBA with it's added light and huge honkin battery pack or AC cable. Not really the fault of the game, and I didn't have this issue on my Fathers SP, but still annoying. Also on an OLD GBA it can be hard to see as you are twisting the system often loosing that 'perfect' lighting position.
Overall: a rather cool game, a great distraction, lots of fun. Not too much too it though, you could get sick of it fairly quickly. I couldn't justify the full $50 price tag, but if you can find it for the price I did, $10, it's definitely worth it. I would have been happy spending about $20 but not much more then that. One nice thing, when you are done with it, it's easy to wipe the data and pass it on to a friend.