WarioWare: Twisted!

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WarioWare: Twisted!
Single-player

WarioWare: Twisted!

Game Boy family
system.

Wario and his friend Dr. Crygor invent Game Boy Advance games and units that only react when tilted around. The game follows the WarioWare formula with a variety of games that last for only a few seconds. The cartridge utilizes a gyro sensor and players must spin and twist in order to play the games.

Twisted! was critically acclaimed and has won numerous awards. Reviewers found the gyro sensor to be innovative and adding to the gameplay aspect.

It is one of only two Game Boy Advance games to include force feedback, the other being Drill Dozer.

Gameplay

See also: Gameplay of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!

Twisted follows a similar format to its predecessor, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames!, in which players must play through a series of "microgames"; short minigames that require the player to understand and clear its objective within a few seconds. Twisted! features unique gameplay thanks to its built-in gyro sensor, which detects the rotation of the handheld system. As such, many of the microgames require the player to physically rotate the system in order to clear. For example, players may have to empty a bin's contents, steer a plane, or guide something through a maze. Microgames become more complex as the game progresses, with later microgames requiring more time to complete, sometimes requiring the player to fully rotate their system.

This game changes the scoring from the other WarioWare titles. Previously, the score was the number of games that were played, but Twisted only counts the number of games that the player won. Failing a microgame does not delay the boss stage. The game features items called "souvenirs", which are unlocked after boss stages in story mode. Records, musical instruments, figurines, games, and many quirky items are possible to unlock.

Gyro sensor

The Twisted cartridge has a built-in gyro sensor and rumble feature (for feedback during rotation). Most of the microgames are played by rotating the entire handheld device. The gyro sensor uses a piezoelectric gyroscope developed by NEC[1] to detect angular movement.

Because the game automatically calibrates the gyro sensor when the game is turned on (and after every "micro-game"), it works with both top-loading slots (like the Game Boy Advance) and bottom-loading slots (like all other models after the original GBA: Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Micro and Nintendo DS Lite). The manual states that Twisted! is not compatible with the Game Boy Player;[2] although the game loads as normal, players would have to carry and tilt the connected GameCube console and use its controller for button presses, thus it is simply not practical.

Plot

One day, while

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arrive and play with these new units, enjoying themselves. Wario, taking note of their reaction, decides to take advantage of these motion-sensing abilities as a selling point, and gets his friends to design GBA games based on this concept, and they make the game WarioWare: Twisted!.

The rest of the game features stories of all the characters in the game, each one going to Club Sugar once their stage is complete. Wario chases a mouse that almost breaks his WarioWatch (Smorgasbord Sampler). Mona tries to deliver pizza from her business, Mona Pizza, while avoiding a rival restaurant, Pizza Dinosaur (Mini Spin).

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at his school, and 18-Volt is initiated into the crew (Spintendo Classics).

In the final level, Spandex Challenge, WarioWare: Twisted! becomes a big success in the end, and the Gravitator is used with to keep up production of the GBA units by using various objects everywhere to turn them into more units. One day, after an accident in the Gravitator involving Wario sitting on the conveyor belt to play his game, Wario is trapped and merged with the Gravitator, its powers, his unit, and the production line, causing the Gravitator to malfunction and corrupt itself and Wario, turning the machine evil and giving it more powers, and transforming Wario into a powerful and unbeatable supervillain version of Wario named Wario-Man, who then plots to save the world of its money. He steals the corrupted Gravitator from Crygor, merges himself with it, and takes control over the Gravitator, causing it to grow a jetpack and gain even more powers. He takes it to outer space, where he turns himself and the Gravitator into an also unstoppable giant robot suit. Wario's friends use Dribble and Spitz's Taxi and Orbulon's new ship, the Oinker 2, to catch up to Wario-Man, but the ship's defense system is activated upon sight of Wario-Man's suit, deeming him foreign, and it makes the ship's cannons easily blast the robot, destroying the Gravitator and its effects, and reverting Wario back to himself, not knowing he was inside. After crashing with the remains into the ocean and is saved by Crygor, Wario jokingly decides to fire everyone for destroying the Gravitator and his robot.

Development

Nintendo programmer Kazuyoshi Osawa took the lead of developing the game engine with several members of the original

WarioWare staff.[3][4] Intelligent Systems
provided half of the workforce including several programmers.

European release

Despite initially being announced for a European release, WarioWare: Twisted! has never been released in Europe.[5]

After its Australian and North American releases, WarioWare: Twisted! was originally scheduled to be released in Europe on June 24, 2005.[6] It was later delayed to September 2005,[7] then to February 24, 2006,[8] then to December 8, 2006.[9] Nintendo of Europe later changed its release date to "TBD" on the company's website.[citation needed] In the January 2008 issue of the Official Nintendo Magazine, in the "Ask Nintendo" section, a representative for Nintendo of Europe stated that the delay was because Twisted! was still undergoing the compulsory LGA testing and approval for Europe.[citation needed] Near the end of 2008, however, with still no release in the region, Nintendo removed the page for the game from its European website, following the discontinuation of the Game Boy Advance.[citation needed]

Contrary to a popular rumor that the lack of a European release is due to the Game Boy Advance's gyroscope using mercury,[10] it uses a piezoelectric gyroscope that does not contain mercury.[11] European copies of the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl list the title in the GBA section of the included database of Nintendo games as "Not released".[citation needed]

Reception

WarioWare: Twisted! has an aggregate 88/100 rating on

Nintendo Life gave the game a rating of nine out of ten stars.[15]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Mawaru Meido in Wario (Japanese: まわる メイドインワリオ, lit. Turning: Made in Wario)

References

  1. ^ Ceramic Gyro Archived November 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, NEC-Tokin
  2. ^ WarioWare: Twisted! manual. Nintendo. p. 4. THIS GAME PAK WILL ONLY WORK WITH THE GAME BOY ADVANCE OR NINTENDO DS VIDEO GAME SYSTEMS. NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE GAME BOY PLAYER ACCESSORY.
  3. ^ "Iwata Asks – Rhythm Heaven". Nintendo. Archived from the original on August 13, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  4. ^ "Kazuyoshi Osawa". MobyGames. Retrieved July 30, 2009.
  5. ^ Donlan, Christian (July 29, 2018). "The best WarioWare was the one we never got in Europe". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  6. ^ "PRESS RELEASE: Wario Becomes Even More Twisted Than Ever Before!". gamesindustry.biz. May 4, 2005. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  7. ^ Reed, Kristan (June 1, 2005). "WarioWare Twists to Sept". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  8. ^ "Early 2006 release dates announced". Nintendo-Europe.com. Nintendo Europe. November 3, 2005.[dead link]
  9. ^ RawmeatCowboy (October 9, 2006). "Wario Ware Twisted finally makes it to Europe". Go Nintendo. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  10. ^ Brown, Mark (September 30, 2010). "Top 10 GBA games we want to play on the 3DS". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  11. ^ "Piezoelectric Devices >ceramic gyro". NEC TOKIN. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  12. G4tv. Archived from the original
    on June 22, 2005. Retrieved June 17, 2005.
  13. ^ a b "Warioware Twisted on Metacritic". Metacritic.
  14. ^ "Warioware Twisted Review". May 12, 2005.
  15. ^ a b Parr, Jake (June 26, 2015). "WarioWare Twisted! Review". Nintendo Life. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  16. ^ Jeff, Gertsmann (September 11, 2021). "WarioWare: Twisted! Review". PCGamesN. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  17. ^ Metts, Jonathan (September 11, 2021). "WarioWare: Twisted! Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  18. ^ Harris, Craig. "Top 25 Game Boy Advance Games of All Time". IGN. March 25, 2007. Accessed April 11, 2007.

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