WarioWare: Get It Together is the first new game starring Wario in a while. Wario gets the shaft next to his counterpart, Mario. Nintendo seemed to have forgotten Wario was a bigger star. He still makes his way into spinoff games like Mario Golf: Super Rush, but that isn’t enough for fans out there. The last Wario Land game was Wario Land: Shake It for the Wii in 2008.

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The last WarioWare title was WarioWare Gold in 2018 for the 3DS. That was just a collection though with not much new. It’s been a while since the last fully new game, Game & Wario, which was a 2013 Wii U game. But at long last, this series has returned. While WarioWare: Get It Together isn’t blowing the world up with amazing reviews, the Switch game has found a fan base even with its faults.

10 Best: Creating A Party

Character select screen from WarioWare: Get It Together

This game has Wario teaming up with various characters from the WarioWare franchise. Every character has a different ability. Wario, for example, can fly anywhere on a stage along with ram things.

Cricket, Wario’s trusty pupil, can move anywhere on the ground freely and jump. Each stage allows players to create a party of three or four to take into battle which is a nice touch on top of the creative character abilities.

9 Worst: Filler Characters

9-Volt from WarioWare: Get It Together

Not all playable characters were seemingly created equally. There are a few characters that are copycats but a lesser version of that original character. For example, Mike is a robot that can fly around anywhere, like Wario, and shoot in an upwards motion.

9-Volt moves with a skateboard that never stops moving which makes him harder to control. 9-Volt also shoots upward but the idea of using him over Mike is odd.

8 Best: Animations

Wario from WarioWare: Get It Together

There are animated cutscenes shown throughout the WarioWare: Get It Together’s campaign. These cutscenes aren’t fully animated like full-on anime sequences, but they look nice. They also provide some humorous background to the game which is already filled with goofy jokes.

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The only problem with them is that there wasn’t enough of them and that they aren’t as high quality as they could be. They were still a joy despite that.

7 Worst: Can’t Skip The Story

A cutscene featuring characters from WarioWare: Get It Together

There is another issue related to the story which some may see as problematic. These anime-like sequences can’t be skipped. The dialogue between missions also can’t be skipped. This isn’t a huge problem as the text doesn’t take up that much time to get through.

Some gamers may not care about the story in any regard though and may just wish to play the various mini-games. It would be great if Nintendo could patch in a skip button to help those types of players out.

6 Best: Nintendo Classics

Playing a mini-game in WarioWare: Get It Together

The story is presented and separated into different lands found within a world map. Each land is ruled by one of Wario’s friends and they have themes to them correlating with the mini-game collections. 9-Volt‘s realm, for example, is themed around Nintendo.

Every one of these mini-games runs the gamut from old titles on the NES like Super Mario Bros. to the modern Switch age with Fire Emblem: Three Houses. They are all great if not somewhat fleeting.

5 Worst: Multiplayer

A cutscene featuring characters from WarioWare: Get It Together

A big evolution for this series this time around was the inclusion of multiplayer. Players can tackle the campaign with co-op gameplay. After that, they can unlock a multiplayer mode that supports four players.

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This sounds good on paper but the problem is WarioWare: Get It Together is not balanced well for co-op. The mini-games become both harder and easier at the same time depending on the type of mini-game presented. The core multiplayer is also a letdown as it lacks variety.

4 Best: It’s An Isekai

A cutscene featuring characters from WarioWare: Get It Together

The premise of WarioWare: Get It Together is that Wario has just finished making his new hit title. As he celebrates with his friends, the game goes haywire and sucks them all into the digital realm. This idea turns the game into an Isekai for Wario and pals.

This is an anime term for someone being transported into a new world. Fans may have never thought the day would come when Isekai and Wario would be in the same sentence but it’s a fun concept.

3 Worst: Not Enough Content

The world map from WarioWare: Get It Together

The biggest issue with WarioWare: Get It Together is that there is not enough content here. The campaign will take a couple of hours to beat. In order to see every mini-game in each land, it may take a little more than that.

There is always the idea of competing for high scores or popping this out for a co-op game night with friends. The lasting appeal still won’t turn this game into something gamers will want to come back to more than a handful of times.

2 Best: Absurdly Weird

Playing a mini-game in WarioWare: Get It Together

One of the best parts about Wario, as a character, is that he is unpredictable. He is a weird, crude dude and that’s why a certain fan base of Mario’s adores him. These WarioWare games are where Wario really lets go from escaping gaps in teeth to fighting an evil alien race of noses. The absurdity in this game is top-notch even if there isn’t a lot to it.

1 Worst: Teasing Rhythm Heaven

A cutscene featuring characters from WarioWare: Get It Together

It was been forever since a WarioWare game came out, as already mentioned. It has been even longer since a title in the Rhythm Heaven series has released. The last one was Rhythm Heaven Megamix which was for the 3DS in 2016.

WarioWare: Get It Together plays a cruel joke on players as Dr. Crygor’s land features a rhythm-looking game similar to Rhythm Heaven in the intro cutscene. Unfortunately, his mini-games aren’t rhythm-based. If Wario can get this spinoff series back then there is still hope for more Rhythm Heaven to also return someday.

WarioWare: Get It Together! was released on September 10, 2021, and is available on Nintendo Switch only.

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