Absolutely enraptured me when I had it on Nintendo DSi. A great little arcade with perfect pixel aesthetics and some of the best game feel I've ever gotten off of something like this. Is just as much about twitchy movements as it is about long strides and it just is so satisfying to reach out for a Bean and get 1000 points off of it.

I actually wouldn't get that this is kind of a WarioWare thing, despite being a huge fan of the franchise even back when I first played this, until last year when our little friend Pyoro would make an appearance in WarioWare: Get It Together! It would be the first new title in the series that I would buy in years and when Pyoro made an appearance in that game I went "Wait, what the fuck, that's the Bird & Beans guy!" Then, this past year in trying to 100% WarioWare Twisted!, I would unlock a mini-game called "Pyoro R," the 'R' standing for "Rotate," I imagine. I've had 'Twisted' for ages, and I can't imagine how cool it would've been to, somewhere along the line, unlock that game closer to when I started playing this.

Bird & Beans is the fucking bomb, and a modern release on iOS/Android with online leaderboards would steal time from me like crazy. Or, dare I say...

...Pyoro 99, when???

Reviewed on Sep 28, 2023


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