I like this franchise so I'm gonna do real quick reviews up in here
WarioWare, Inc. is an all-time classic, they really got it right the first time. It's a Game Boy Advance game, give it a shot if you never have before. You can seriously play through the entire game in about 2-3 hours, but that's about the average length of every WarioWare game
WarioWare, Inc: Mega Party Games is a port of the GBA version to the Gamecube with some four-player multiplayer features. There's not much else there if you wanna play it solo.
WarioWare Twisted! is a GBA game with a tilt sensor. You rotate the console to play. Excellent game.
It's one of THOSE games that sell for way too much on eBay, but if you own a New 3DS or a PSVita,
mGBA supports the tilt sensor, so just drop the rom in and enjoy it that way. It's probably even better to play it that way since the GBA SP is uncomfortably narrow for a game that you play like you're using a steering wheel. There are also romhacks out there that map the tilting to the D-pad, if you'd rather do that.
WarioWare Touched! is a DS game, and everything is controlled with the touch screen. It's quite a bit slower, easier, and not as good as the previous ones. It's okay I guess, I dunno
WarioWare: Smooth Moves is a Wii game, you play it with just the Wii remote and it tells you strike certain poses before the microgame starts, and then you figure out what to do from there. It's not bad, about as good as you could adapt a WarioWare game to use motion controls, I dunno.
WarioWare Snapped! is a DSi exclusive that uses the built-in camera. The camera is a colossal piece of shit, so you need perfect lighting conditions and a blank background, since it tries to chroma key you into the games. Barely works, not very remarkable, very sparse on content and it was like $5, I think. Whatever. It's also totally unlisted from everything now so you gotta pirate it now
WarioWare DIY got vastly overlooked, it's more or less the closest thing we ever got to a sequel to Mario Paint. Make your own microgames that use the touch screen and very simple coding logic. There's also a comic book maker and a little music composer thing, and a number of pre-made microgames designed to inspire you. Install that shit on ya DS flashcard my niggaz, it's terrific, one of the best pieces of software on the DS overall
Game & Wario is a minigame (not microgame) compilation for the Wii U. I didn't really enjoy it but some people did I guess, enough to where it's retarded expensive on the second hand market for some reason. The best minigame,
Gamer, got incorporated into WarioWare Gold anyway so just play it there
WarioWare Gold is a 3DS game that is sort of a best-of compilation between the original, Touched, and Twisted. It's (awkwardly) entirely voice acted and has some new microgames. It's a very good compilation and worth playing.
And now we've got WarioWare: Quit Fucking Up! on the Switch, and I'm gonna buy it and have another great three hours that I'll enjoy thinking about every once in a while for the rest of my life. This is my favorite once-every-several-years franchise.
It's a little hard to rank them because some are vastly different, and WarioWare's all about variety, so just take this list with a grain of salt, because WarioWare's just one of those franchises where everyone's rankings will be different. As for me, though:
- WarioWare DIY
- WarioWare, Inc. / Mega Party Games
- WarioWare Gold
- WarioWare Twisted!
- WarioWare Smooth Moves
- WarioWare Touched!
- Game & Wario
- WarioWare Snapped!
so I guess I'll edit this whenever I play through the new one
