Wario (franchise)
WarioWare ( sometimes spelled WarioWare, in Japan, made in wario, Japaneseメイドインワリオmeido in wario ) is a video game series whose titles summarize numerous games of skill, each time limit in seconds. The first title Minigame Mania, released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance portable console. Background stories about the eponymous Nintendo character Wario as a video game producer embed the individual games. Typical tasks include, for example, the tickling of a (virtual ) person or the evasion of a rolling object. In the 2009 published part DIY, in addition to the games features are included that enable you to create your own micro games without programming.
Game mechanics
The game mechanics is mainly based on so-called micro- games. The player must solve dozens of tasks in succession, each lasting about five seconds. If it does not solve the task within the time limit, so it will be deducted from a first four attempts. If the player after a certain amount of microgames encounter a boss mini-game (which is a duration of a normal mini-game has ) and win it, an additional experiment it is indulged, where the limit is four experiments. In between the speed and difficulty of the tasks is increased, so that the pressure continues to build and the player is forced to be even faster (which, however, the core of the game is ).
Chronology
Wario Ware, Inc.: Minigame Mania
Wario Ware, Inc.: Minigame Mania is the first game in the WarioWare series. You play through 180, mostly five - seconds -lasting, microgames. When Wario sees a television program, how successful you can be in the video game industry, he decides to enter into this. He buys a laptop the brand name " Wario " ( The character of these computer company should recall the " Vaio " logo of the company Sony ) and promptly the home of Wario is the company building the WarioWare: Inc. Wario is now trying to write a game but has no ideas and falls asleep. Then he gets the idea to be programmed his friends.
Wario Ware, Inc.: Minigame Mania was released on 16 December 2011 at the Mobile Console eShop Nintendo 3DS, where it can be downloaded for free as part of the so-called ambassadors program for first time buyers. First-time buyers are thereby compensated because of the strong price reduction handheld mid-August 2011, by 20 NES and GBA games are provided at no cost to them.
WarioWare: Touched!
The third part of the series, WarioWare: Touched, is like its predecessor from 180 short micro games that you have to solve using of touch screen and microphone. One must, for example, help a penguin on the Arctic Ocean, by arranging ice floes to a bridge. In the game specific actions to be assigned to a character:
- Wario: Tap
- Mona: Scrape
- Jimmy: Scratch
- Kat & Ana: Paint
- Ashley: Drag
- Dr.Crygor: Turning
- Mike: Blow ( a microphone)
- 9- Volt & 18- Volt: Retro Games
In addition to the normal game where you play the random successive minigames of a character, there is also the album mode, where you can play a certain mini-game, and the toy mode where you can use previously unlocked rewards. These rewards can, for example, a virtual metronome, a ping-pong game or a parrot that repeats everything one be.
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
The Wii game Wario Ware: Smooth Moves consists of more than 200 micro- games that are presented largely by characters who are known from the predecessors. Newly added are only Penny and Young Cricket. The individual games must first be unlocked in a mode of action and are then permanently selectable.
It is controlled via the Wii Remote, which is referred to here as ' Shape Bar '. Each task of a total of 19 forms is subordinated to that purports to be executed movement. Thus, the remote control must be held above the head or poised at " the waiter " on the palm for example in the form of " Iroquois ". In the mini-games and various Nintendo heroes emerge, including Link ( The Legend of Zelda), the Nintendogs and a character from Animal Crossing.
WarioWare: Snapped!
The DSiWare game WarioWare: Snapped! is all controlled by the camera of the Nintendo DSi from 20 Mikropspielen. During the game you can see only the black outlines of the camera image so that you can control the game. The device records the pictures on but, providing they end up with different " funny" effects.
The game is only available through the DSi shop and there costs 500 Nintendo Points ( ≈ 5 € ).
WarioWare: D.I.Y.
WarioWare: D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself ) has been released on 19 April 2010 in Europe for the Nintendo DS devices. The game contains 90 simple-minded micro games. The special feature is that you can create microgames themselves now. Besides, you can also draw comics ( 4 pictures) and compose music (80 4/4-Takte ). These can publish via Nintendo Wi -Fi Connection and offer other players to download. With the separately available software WarioWare: DIY Showcase, the DS software are connected to a Nintendo Wii.