WarioWare: Touched! and Twisted!

[Grave]

They don't need to use gimmicks to make a good game.

This is Nintendo we're talking about. I'm not sure when they'll ever realize that.

I appreciate that they're trying new things with Wario Ware, but Touched didn't hold me anywhere near as long as the original did. I'll get Twisted one of these days, I guess.

[MonsterMash]

Has anyone played Twisted? How does that one stack up to the original?

Early impressions: Not as good, but much better than Touched.

[Diff-chan]

The best thing about the original was how, like, youd get a mini-game, and you always knew what you had to do, within a second... sometimes you didnt actually accomplish it, but thats part of the fun. Touched! wasnt like that. The goals were less clear and it wasnt as much fun. I had no desire to keep playing. It is a horrible sequel but I hope Twisted! is better. These gimmicks are unnecessary, though.

[TobalRox]

The only way I play these games is multiplayer (aka, I only played the original on GameCube). They're fun, but hard to want to keep playing.

[Geen]

I picked up Twisted a few days ago. In about two hours I had already gone through all the character's stages. Right now I'm trying to play all the games in each chacter's set.

My impressions of Twisted are that I really like it and the ways it uses the senser is interesting, but I do wish there were some mini games in there that were like the Original Wario Ware games in addition to all these new motion ones.

I played the original Wario Ware for, easily, two years. After the original black and white Tetris, it is probably my most played portable game ever. I don't see that happening with Twisted and, well, I already sold off Touch on eBay after about two months of owning it.

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Nintendo needs to get some downloadible Wario Ware going on for either Revolution or DS as soon as possible, yo.

[sethsez]

These gimmicks are unnecessary, though.

I disagree. If Nintendo is going to make a sequel to Wario Ware, they pretty much have to rely on gimmicks because with the original, they took the concept about as far as it can go. There were plenty of repeat games in Wario Ware as it was because there's only so much you can do with one button and a d-pad in five seconds that can be learned and executed on the first try. The only way to really do new things with the series is to change the controller.

[Diff-chan]

So maybe there shouldnt be any sequels.

[TobalRox]

A big hit with my friends were the classic NES micro-games... I'm sure they could come up with plenty more of those.

[sethsez]

So maybe there shouldnt be any sequels.

I agree, but it makes Nintendo money, and this is one series where gimmicks can actually make the experience more fun anyway. I mean, the entire thing is a gimmick.

[Mzo]

Both of these have been discontinued.

I found Twisted at TRU but no luck with Touched.