WarioWare Games
When I was a child my mum would always shout at me for picking my nose. “Keep picking and your brains will fall out!” she used to say. Well, the joke’s on her, my brains are still intact – just about.
To avoid the drama that would ensue of picking my own, I would use the stylus on my Nintendo DS to pick other people’s in WarioWare.
For those that don’t know, WarioWare games are a collection of mini-games that start of weird and only spiral out of control from there.
You complete these mini-games for Wario and an assortment of his peculiar friends for absolutely no reason what so ever. One situation involves you zooming around space in a flying taxi, playing as a cat and dog known as Dribble & Spitz. All’s fun and games until a barrage of flying saucers attack and the only means to return fire is to complete mini-games.
It makes total sense.
Each mini-game lasts mere seconds and each one is crazier than the last. I’ve never before in my life had to use all the toilet paper off a roll, cut somebody’s fingernails and perform squats in my underwear – all in the space of 10 seconds.
Everything consistently speeds up to the point that your hands are moving faster than the speed of light and you eventually lose. It’s all good fun.
WarioWare Gold is the most recent entry to the series and was released on the Nintendo 3DS. It plays as a love letter to all the previous games, wrapped into one crazy little package.
You may be able to rock your baby to sleep on Death Stranding with your controller, but WarioWare lets you shake hands with a dog. Who’s the real winner here?
