WarioWare: Get It Together!

WarioWare: Get It Together!
Cover art featuring Wario and other characters
Developer(s)	Nintendo EPD Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Goro Abe Yu Yamanaka
Producer(s)	Kensuke Tanabe Toshio Sengoku Atsushi Ikuno Naoki Nakano
Designer(s)	Teruyuki Hirosawa
Programmer(s)	Yu Yamanaka
Artist(s)	Ko Takeuchi Waki Shigeta
Composer(s)	Takeru Kanazaki
Series	Wario
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch
Release	September 10, 2021
Genre(s)	Action
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

WarioWare: Get It Together!^[a] is a minigame party video game co-developed by Nintendo EPD and Intelligent Systems for the Nintendo Switch. It is the tenth installment in the WarioWare series, following WarioWare Gold (2018) for the Nintendo 3DS, and was announced at E3 2021 during the Nintendo Direct presentation. A demo of the game released on the Nintendo eShop on August 19, 2021. The game released worldwide on September 10, 2021.^[1]

Gameplay[]

Get It Together! continues the WarioWare series tradition of tasking players with completing sets of "microgames", which each require the player to clear an objective in just a few seconds. In this game, Wario and his friends have been sucked inside his latest gaming device, meaning they must participate in the microgames themselves.^[2] As such, the game has up to two players control a group of characters, randomly alternating between them in between Microgames. Characters are controlled using the directional stick and a single button, with each character behaving differently in how they move and what actions they can do. For example, Wario flies around on a jetpack and can perform a shoulder charge, Mona alternates between automatically riding her scooter and controlling a boomerang in the air, and 18-Volt fires CDs from a stationary position and can only move around by hooking onto rings. These unique abilities mean each character has different ways of clearing the same microgame. For example, a microgame that requires spinning a windmill around can be cleared by either pushing the windmill physically or hitting it with projectiles. There are also party-style minigames for up to four players and presents players can give to the characters to receive rewards.^[3]

Plot[]

The game begins with Wario and his friends at his company WarioWare Inc. when Wario finishes the game they've been developing. When he tries to start it however, the console doesn't turn on, much to Wario and his friends' confusion. Annoyed, Wario throws the console in the air and he, along with his friends, get sucked inside the game. When he wakes up, he discovers that his game is riddled with "Game Bugs", which cause corruption and glitches within the game's levels. Wario and his friends have to destroy these bugs by beating their respective levels.

Eventually, the group defeat the game's final bug and "The Supreme Developer", a god like figure with Wario's nose and mustache, appears to them and tells them that he brought Wario and his friends into the game to clear it of the game bugs. He then tells the group that they're free to go. When they return, Wario's friends ponder over what caused the game to become so bug-ridden. Wario then reveals to them that the bugs are a result of Wario's bad programming skills, much to their anger. At that moment however, Wario notices that 3 of WarioWare's members are still stuck in the game, and the group goes back into the game to find them.

Upon re-entering the game world, the Supreme Developer tells the group that their friends have been captured, although it was done by a mysterious figure and not the Game Bugs. They then progress through a series of skyscrapers that their friends are trapped within, all 3 of which have treasure inside of them, much to Wario's glee. When all 3 pieces of treasure have eventually been collected, the group finds a note that dares them to combine the treasure. With the help of Penny, a character currently in the real world testing a water blaster that she uses as a jet pack, they combine the treasures which turn into a watering can that they use to grow a giant beanstalk, although it disappears once it's used (which upsets Wario). They climb the beanstalk and defeat the final boss, who turns out to be Pyoro, the main character of a fictional game series within the game's universe, who entered Wario's game from his own game because he wanted to have fun. Wario, annoyed, greedy and wanting treasure, bugs Pyoro for more, and is distraught to find that he has none, which he complains about.

Reception[]

WarioWare: Get It Together! received "generally favorable reviews" according to Metacritic.^[13]

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