Game #1299: WarioWare - Get it Together!

 I can barely get my life together.

 Welcome to WarioWare: Get it Together!, one weird take on an already weird game. WarioWare on the GBA is probably one of my favorite games on the console, which is surprising considering it's the only game in the series I owned... until now.

 WarioWare is a collection of mini-games, called microgames in-universe, in which you are given a single sentence "Trim the hairs!" or "Avoid!", for example, and must figure out what to do and how in just a few seconds. And it's game after game after game until you run out of lives, while games slowly get harder and faster. It's a perfect handheld game, and the you can pick from various different sets, divided by theme or what gives you. That's WarioWare... but this one has a twist. 

 Now you play as different characters. Pretty much every character in the series is now playable, and each one has different characteristics. Wario has a jetpack, so he can move anywhere and perform a tackle. Mona doesn't stop moving, instead you can either select if she moves left or right, but holding down the A button roots her in place and now you control her boomerang. 5-Volt can't move at all, but he can shoot in any direction, and when he is at play, rings appear on screen, and shooting at this rings will teleport him to them. There's Kat and Ana, both can't stop jumping, and Kat shoots left, while Ana can only shoot right. There's a ton of different character with different characteristics, which means that how you tackle a game can be wildly different depending on which character you get. And some challenges may be a complete cakewalk with some character, while very tough with others.

 Before each set of games, or 'stages', you have to pick between 3-4 characters, beating the game allows you to put everyone into the rotation at the same time in case you enjoy CHAOS, and the game will randomly pick one of them for each game. It's an interesting take on the games, although I think it was better before... this new take isn't bad at all. Plus, it allows for multi-player! You can play any stage in 2-P, and some games are actually tweaked to factor both players together.

 As per WarioWare tradition, it's got a very peculiar sense of humor, which I think works really well with the gameplay itself. If anything, I feel that the new character-focused microgames end up a feeling a bit samey. Curiously enough, when you the game gets too fast... the Switch starts struggling and starts dropping FPS, which is kind of a bummer considering the game doesn't look like a resource hog and how the increased speed is part of the challenge.

 You can also unlock a few minigames, which are fine, but they've got nothing on the Pyoro games, Dr. Wario or the other extras you could get in the original WarioWare. On the other hand, you can customize the colors of every character, which is a simple but enjoyable feature! I mean, I pretty much painted everyone in yellow, but whatever.

 I really enjoyed this new WarioWare game, however, I kinda wish it was a bit more like previous entries. However, I won't fault Nintendo for trying something different, and the end result was pretty good nontheless.

8.0