The original Wario Ware game was pretty fun, but one problem with it was that it was for one player only. So, take the original game, which is already a bunch of little games wrapped up in a big game, and wrap it in yet another game, add four player support, and you have the makings for a pretty interesting party game.
The game features several short games where each of up to four people compete by playing the microgames. Let’s say, for example, that you’re playing the Disco game. Up to four people choose characters, and are each assigned a stage in a disco complete with cheering onlookers. Every so often a spotlight shines on one of them (or sometimes all of them) and the selected person has to play a game. They win and they continue, but things go a little faster. They lose and some of their crowd goes away. Lose all of their crowd and they are out.
This game is really well suited to parties. It’s the kind of game that you can pick up and play without really knowing what’s going on. It even auto-adjusts the game and makes itself harder for the better players and easier for the less experienced folks. And then you have the ‘Listen to the Doctor’ game where the doctor gives you some action to perform while you’re doing the game, like singing a song or with the controller on the floor in front of you. The other players are supposed to applaud based on how well you followed the doctor’s instructions, whether you finished the microgame or not is pretty much irrelevant, and certainly evens the playing field quite a bit.
I got a lot of use out of this disc and still break it out on occasion when the opportunity presents itself, and even though it’s pretty much a rehash of the Game Boy game it’s got the multiplayer which totally saves it and makes it a lot of fun… if you have people around. Otherwise you’re better off with the portable offering.