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The game being as flabbergasted at the fact 18-Volt is a nine year old as much as I was probably one of the most hilarious part of a game that quite literally made me smile and laugh every single moment I was playing it.

When making a game which its main premise is that it re-uses content from past entries, developers are faced when simple yet ever-present question: ''How in the all living hell do we make this worth it?''. Nostalgia and getting to re-experience past games or parts of them in brand new systems can be cool incentives, but I'd be hard-pressed to say they are strong ones; the content by itself it's nothing new, so why would we, as players, be interested on not only re-experiencing content that we have already played, but also pay for it?... Well, turns out WarioWare Gold found an answer, a trick...


The trick of haVING JIMMY T. ON THE GAME WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LET'S-A FUCKING GOO, GETTIN' FIT AND FUNKY BABY!

The decision of playing the rest of the series beforehand was one of the best I could have ever made, because what would still be a fantastic game into an even more impressive one; even if a majority of WarioWare Gold is stuff we have already seen, it manages to make it feel new thanks to a collection of elements that span the entirety of the series plus a new barrage of brand-new content. Gold is the best celebration the series could have ever hoped for: 316 micro-games are nothing scoff at, overpassing even Twisted and its almost 230 fast paced minigames, but as I said before, most of these are micro-games already seen in previous entries, including twisted, so what makes this number shouldn't be so special... but then you see the selection, and then realize this is pure FIRE. Because there was so much to choose from, they picked the best and ONLY the best minigames on the entire series; in the past, with maybe the exception of Twisted there were a few amount of stinkers that were clearly lacking in quality compared to others, and even tho they only lasted a few seconds, in a game so fast paced as WarioWare that still leaves a huge impression. Not anymore: every single one if the crème de la crème, even the new ones, and so everyone may not be here, but that doesn't matter 'cause the best sure are. It even has a Rhythm Heaven minigame thrown in there, you can't make this up! That isn't even going into the Challenges, where we find the expected but always welcomed micro-game towers, plus some new stuff like the fantastic Wario Interrupts, but most of all, the return of Wario Watch and Sneaky Gamer, the former my favorite mode in ANY of the previous games and the latter being the best part of Game & Wario, and after playing, I completely understand why. Now that I think about it, the only games that might not get any kind of representation are Snapped and D.I.Y, which makes sense, one is a departure from the series focused on creating the games, and the other one is... well, is WarioWare Snapped. The rest tho? All gameplay styles come back, even the microphone, and the one game you expect to not see, Smooth Moves actually has a ton of representation, with a couple of minigames being adapted to be controlled in the twisted section; if you think about a thing of the series which there is a way it could be implemented here, then it is implemented here, and that effort for consistency is commendable.

Now, I know I said at the beginning that Gold was more than a simple collection… to then proceed to list things that are returning, but as I also said, is how it manages that returning stuff plus the never seen content what makes it so special, and regarding that new content… Am I the only one that loves how this game handles humor? Like, I adored how past games handled story and humor: as the gameplay itself, it’s pure chaos, incredibly light of dialogue and centered around the bat-shit insanity that plagues everyone. Gold takes a different approach, not only having a pretty more involved story, but actual dialogue, like, REALLY good dialogue; the jokes and on point, and even when some cut-scenes are longer than in previous games, it truly doesn’t feel like it like it did in Touched; it’s still fast-paced and entertaining, only now with sublime voiceovers (in fact the Spanish translation and dubbing is also pretty phenomenal) and mini-stories that are as crazy as ever, only now they connect to the Wario and Lulu cinematics, which, I know that Wario is loved by everyone, including me, but here, his mannerism, his voice-over, his interactions with Lulu and the cast, the way he simply IS, this is by far the best iteration of the character in not only the WarioWare series, but in the entirety of the Mario series as a whole, I love this greedy bastard to death and love him to see him be as dastardly as much to see him fail, they just nailed him here. And that sentiment goes for everyone else, character shine like never before and whereas in the past I only really care about Jimmy T. and maybe Orbulon, I now adore this group of weirdos in a way I didn’t really see coming, like, this game made me like Fronk and fucking Joe, how do you even accomplish that?! This, with the more non linear game you can tackle the different leagues and how Diamond City is shown, makes it one of the most different WarioWare games by far, but every change introduced makes sense and it’s welcomed, and other new additions, like the missions and the store, on top of ALL the other stuff, like small side content like the extra minigames (which includes a Pyoro one and I for one I’m the happiest person on earth right now) and the ability to dub the cutscenes… yeah, this might just be the biggest package in the entirety of the series while also being the most fun by a landslide.

I knew I was gonna have fun, but MAN did this game make me happy; it made me feel rewarded for investing my time into this already amazing series, a love letter that even if released 1 year after the switch launched and doesn’t have a 3D option, I kind of really like that it’s on the 3DS? It still feels right a home, and hey, having two screens makes it possible to play Sneaky Gamer, so on that alone makes it worth it.

To me, Gold is the single best experience in the franchise, Twisted is to this day the best out the full-blown original games, but Gold fills me with such joy, is so fun, so consistently fucking amazing in almost every way, that I cannot for the life of me say it’s not my preferred game. I’m so glad I got to play this series in its entirety, and I’m so happy this is the send-off, or at least until Move It! releases, but until then, we found Wario peak…


…and you know, I could finish this review off with yet another Wario-related joke, but you know what? Nah, I’m good. For once, let the final note be how unironically great Wario is, and how this silly greedy garlic enjoyer, his crew and his dumb ass minigames can be so fantastic… holy hell, what a great franchise…



i love how fun and bouncy the art style and gameplay are in this game! the music is fun, controls well, and i had a great time overall. for the entire time i was thinking: omg this reminds me of rhythm heaven only to find out it has some of the same devs .. lol.

Greatest hits compilations can be a hard sell since a fan of the series might say "big deal, I've played all these games before" but the beauty of Gold lies in the hardware it was released on. Getting a WarioWare on the 3DS, a system that can emulate both the gyro controls of Twisted and the touch screen of Touched, was a stroke of genius - even if it occurred late in the system's lifespan - and the way it accumulates into an absolutely frantic finale where you're switching between 3 different play styles on the fly was a real "This is why I love video games as a art medium" moment. If you're going to use console gimmicks for your video game, might as well go this hard with them, and if you can, please play this beautiful game on an actual 3DS system. This is where Gold shines. like gold

In a way, WarioWare Gold is an amazing send-off, both for the handheld WarioWare games and the 3DS itself. An absolutely exquisite curtain drop for the system before it succumbs to its fatal injuries via poorly selling remakes, and I'm saying this about a game where Wario gains godlike powers by wearing a communal toilet on his head and tries to murder a small child in front of a stadium full of people while doing so (in makes sense in context, I promise, and also it's unclear if the communal toilet itself has godlike powers or if Wario gave himself godlike powers via the placebo effect).

Oh, and to sweeten the deal, once you collect all the souvenirs, the game slaps you on the back and says "well done, now you get this mildly addicting collectible card game where you play rock-paper-scissors against those random freaks from the minigames". This game rules.

Primeira vez nesse jogo foi mágico, foi meu primeiro WarioWare e é realmente brabo porque esse jogo é basicamente um remake dos melhores minigames da franquia, mas no fim do dia... é só isso.

Agora jogando os outros em ordem de lançamento, esse jogo não foi nada de mais pra mim, não vou esquecer de como foi minha primeira experiência, mas ainda assim, prefiro mil vezes os jogos normais.

O que mais curti jogar foram os jogos que usam o giroscópio do 3DS, do WarioWare Twisted, que não pude jogar porque direto do 3DS o jogo acabou não funcionando, então ver como ele funciona de verdade foi muito legal, queria zerar ele um dia, não sei como mas queria.

So much damn fun.
I do prefer Smooth Moves a bit more, but this is definitely a close 2nd.


Não joguei todos os jogos da série, mas isso aqui parece ser o Ultimato dela, todos os personagens estão perfeitos e o jogo é cheio de conteúdo, um dos melhores jogos do 3DS

Música favorita: Jingle do 18-Volt
Personagem favorito: Spitz

Probably the best warioware, there's so many collectables. Came out on 3ds instead of the switch though

This was AWESOME! definitely the best one so far! And full voice acting this time!

Legit mini games better than switch version

Esse jogo é uma prova de que a Nintendo não precisa do melhor gráfico de todos para fazer bons jogos. Esse jogo é divertido pra caralho, o único problema é que a maioria dos minigames são facéis até demais. Mesmo com esse probleminha, valeu a pena o tempo gasto.

Na minha opinião o segundo melhor warioware somente atrás do warioware touched.
Eu gostei que nesse jogos os personagens falam e as suas histórinhas são muito nonsense, mas muito divertidas.
Os microjogos estão muito legais e com muita diversidade de gameplay e tema.
Os microjogos da 5 e do 18 volt são muito dahoras pois há referências aos jogos da Nintendo.
De resto um bom e curto jogo para se divertir e passar o tempo.

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it's a fuck ton of WarioWare, what else do you want?

One of the most disappointing WarioWare to me.

An absolutely fantastic love letter to the series featuring all the different control styles you can ask for. So much variety and personality in this one and honestly if you haven't played a warioware game and want a good place to start, I would totally recommend this one!

I just do not know why they didn't put this one on the switch, literally got all the best microgames, amazing cutscenes, endless amounts of content. If you needed a good representation of what WarioWare is all about, this is the game.

The first entry I've played and finished the story mode of. The other WarioWare games I tried were the one on Wii and the first Switch one. I can't say I'm a fan as it's just mini-games but it's very polished and from what I played of the challenge mode, it was fun.

I was trying to place where I recognized lulu's voice from for my entire playthrough and went on the imdb page and it was fuckign boss baby: back in business lmao. I also learnt that the dude that voiced jimmy in this also voiced nearly every character in killer bean lol.

Game's cute and fine. Wish nintendo could make games that crush my balls good and hard instead of being bab game. I do NOT need that many coins mr nintendo!!!!!!!!

I love joe warioware so much he is my friend :)

Minha Review de WarioWare Gold:

WarioWare gold lançado para o 3ds no ano de 2018, WarioWare gold é um dos jogos desta série de jogos do Wario chamada de WarioWare.

Esse é o jogo que eu mais me divertir jogando dessa franquia até o momento!

O jogo tem 3 tipos de modos de minigames para jogar os minigames é eles são:

O jeito clássico de se jogar usando os botões b, a, dpad, que vem lá do WarioWare inc microgames feito para o gba.

O outro jeito de se jogar minigames é usando o giroscópio do 3ds que vem lá do WarioWare twisted lançado para gba.

O último tipo de minigame é usando a tela de toque do 3ds que foi usado pela primeira vez lá no warioWare touched para o Nintendo ds.

Agora falando dos minigames, eles são muito criativos, cada um com seu estilo diferente e diferentes mecânicas.

Agora graficamente falando o jogo tá bem mais bonito, ele foi lançado para o 3ds que tinha um hardware bem mais forte comparado DS e GBA.

As músicas são muito boas, até agora é a minha favorita da franquia.



Considerações finais:

Que jogo maravilhoso, esse jogo é simplesmente muito genial, valeu muito apena jogar!

Nota que eu dou para este jogo é uma nota 10!

I'll keep playing this from time to time but, wow, this is my favourite game in the series still even on replay. After I was introduced to the series with Touched on DS, WarioWare Gold is still everything I think of when I think of WarioWare. Very fun to pick up and play. And the full voice acting, even for Wario, is a nice treat!

I definitely think this is the best WarioWare of all the ones I've played so far. It has the best of everything the series has to offer in my opinion, it brings back a lot of the best minigames, has the cool returning Tilt controls, the touch screen mini games aren't super hard and the minigames feel like they were more handpicked overall to represent the best parts of the series as a whole. The final level in the story mode was also the coolest "final boss" in a WarioWare game so far honestly, rather than just being a random one off bout with Wario like it usually is, it was really fun.

The full voice acting on display here also added so much more to an already charming series and cast of characters, and I really liked it! That said, it was clear that at this stage in time, Charles really was losing his touch with the Wario voice due to age (not his fault at all though, just a natural byproduct of his age), but he did his best and I salute him for that. That being said... as much as I'd like to say I'd want more full voice acting for future WarioWare games, I just can't get behind Kevin Afghani's take on Wario (which also isn't his fault either, he was just miscast in the wrong role by NIntendo). All I can hear when I hear his Wario is a bootleg Wario, not the real one. Gold was probably the last chance we'd get to hear Wario well voice acted in the modern day sadly.

As I played this on my New 3DS XL, I also got the privilege of using my Amiibo with the game, and so many of Wario's drawings of the amiibo made me die of laughter, so the game gets bonus points for that alone.

Overall, Gold feels like a love letter and celebration of the series as a whole, and honestly feels like THE definitive WarioWare game. If anyone wanted to just play a single game from the series to find out what it's all about, this game right is here the one to go to, no question. Very fun game.

Beating the main game only takes about 2-3 hours (if even that), but the true meat of this comes from the extra content and replayability.

The challenge modes fucking rock. Gamer is back from Game & Wario, and is still really fun. The “elevator” challenges are back, and having every minigame mixed together with different control methods adds a ton of challenge. Cruise controls and wario interrupts are both probably my favorites out of these. Cruise controls allows you to speed up or slow down the gameplay by tilting the 3ds, and allows the gameplay to really go as smooth as you want it to. Wario interrupts is basically like if the blooper item could be used on ur 3ds interrupting normal gameplay, but with various other tweaks, which adds a really nice amount of difficulty. I personally also really love kat and Ana’s mode “Splitscreen” which cuts down the time inbetween minigames and just goes back to back with minigames alternating from top to bottom. It really makes it a constant rush of gameplay and is really refreshing.

Also of course I have to acknowledge classic Pyoro being back which is such a nice timesink. The arcade minigames are such a nice cherry on top and the little gimmick games like the alarm clocks and he weird toilet paper credits game really make this game feel cohesively “Wario” and is something they really didn’t need to do but they did it anyway.

Replayed this tonight, only took about 2 hours which felt shorter than I remember. Great WarioWare gameplay, love the inclusion of Twisted stuff. 4 stars because I feel like modern WW games are so polished that they lost the lo-fi, weird grit of the early games.

This version of WW is packed with content and mechanically sound, just missing a teeny bit of spice. Game & Wario, weirdly, may have been the last “old WarioWare” game. I look back on that one fondly.

The BEST Warioware out there. a combination of the franchises best, split in 3 main gameplay styles. (4, if you count the mic microgames)


Any piece of media that lets Charles Martinet go nuts is good by default. I do wish this wasn't stuck on the 3DS, this would have been a perfect Switch game. I'm torn on the artstyle, on one hand I get that artists change over time, but I miss everyone looking a little weird and/or ugly. I'm used to it by now though.

How can this game get a better treatment than it's Rhythm counterpart? This one includes nearly all Microgames from Inc, Twisted, and Touched with some of the games from Smooth Moves, and DIY even making it into this one. This game I find it to be the ultimate collection of the WarioWare games and paired up with the awesome wacky storytelling the series is known for including the greatest voice-acting that any other NIntendo game ever had makes WarioWare gold, a game that is worthy to collect.

I'm a guy that rather plays the games before this one though, but this one I respect it a lot.