For how much Nintendo hyped the Switch’s portability and multiplayer capabilities when it first debuted in 2017, its library of party games has been disappointing so far. It took more than a year for Nintendo’s signature multiplayer series Mario Party to come to the Switch, and the console’s launch title, “1-2-Switch,” paled in comparison to its predecessors, “Wii Sports” for the Wii and “Nintendo Land” for the Wii U. New multiplayer games, most of them from third-parties, have trickled in over the years, but the newest entry to the WarioWare series, “WarioWare: Get It Together!” is the first time I’ve felt like Nintendo finally delivered on its initial advertisements.
he story is what it needs to be, a wacky premise to explain why you, as the player, are frantically cycling through collections of seconds-long minigames called “microgames” that are a hallmark of the franchise. Wario’s video game development company, Wario Ware Inc., has just finished developing its latest video game console. After a series of unfortunate events, Wario and his staff get sucked into the system and must play through the levels they created to escape.
By design, the WarioWare series has always embraced chaos, and “Get It Together!” is no exception. It has more than 200 microgames and just as many art styles and gameplay conventions. The screen shouts a prompt and you have seconds to make sense of what’s being asked and complete the task: One moment you’re squeezing out a giant tube of toothpaste; the next you’re lying in wait to trap a sentient sausage that’s been cut up to look like an octopus; and the next you’re hurrying to pluck out a man’s armpit hair. The humor in “Get It Together!” is crude and irreverent, teeming with fart jokes, nose-picking and the like (one game called ‘Manneken Pis’ has you maneuvering a fountain statue to put out a fire with a stream of … well, you get the idea).
In short, it’s everything players have come to expect from a WarioWare game.
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