I feel as if I’ve just wasted an hour of my life and I’ll never get it back. Lucky my brother was there with me trying to steal the popcorn I was eating, otherwise I wouldn’t have had one once of amusement out of this game. Besides the game being far from enjoyable, there’s not a shred of fitness to be extracted from it. Sorry Wario, I don’t like you!
Fitness: 
Wario is the absolute dunce of the Wii Workout Week for fitness, each of the mini games you play in Wario are so short lived, there’s really no time to break a sweat, not to mention none of the games has you doing anything but intricate and fine movements. If anything this game encourages you to lay out on the couch & wave the remote at the screen. I mean, I played it while eating a bag of hot popcorn. I didn’t even bother putting my hands around the remote in the fashion they suggested (I was eating popcorn, see?), it just wasn’t necessary, and if anything made it harder to complete the mini “games”.
I guess you could schedule a bodyweight workout to last for an hour in the living room, and while you’re recovering from each set of exercise you could play Wario… But why would you when there’s Rayman Raving Rabbids?
Fun:
Wario Ware is very similar to day four’s Rayman Raving Rabbids, so why didn’t I give it a higher score? Well, reason numero uno is that this game feels disjointed, fiddly, and completely unsatisfying. My brother would usually poke his head in on me playing Rayman and have a chuckle at a mini game, commenting that the game looks funny and interesting. Understandably, all Wario got was abuse.
Each mini game seems utterly pointless, follows no set graphical feel, and has no relation to any of the so called “stories” included in the game. Besides the fact the mini games are pointless, they’re also extremely brief, I mean, astonishingly brief- you can’t even tell what you need to do sometimes before the game is over. And the games will be things like, put a spot light on a man, balance a stick, swat a fly. Not, spotlight 20 men as they dash from cover to cover, attempting to avoid you, or, balance a stick while an amusing little Rabbid gets in your way, or, swat a huge swarm of flies over a minute to try and beat a top score. I mean, I honestly can’t find anything vaguely amusing about this game…
Its like Rayman only cataclysmically worse… though I’m not sure the word cataclysm is strong enough…
Or else…? What? You’ll have to do the mini game again…? Ok, I’m motivated!
Motivation:
I’m not sure I need to say much more, if anyone reading this likes Wario, and can explain to me what I’m missing, please feel free to flame me in my comments box! For each reader that can offer a decent explanation, I’ll do one-hundred push ups. I promise.
I’d include a link here and ask that if you like Wario, to buy it at Amazon, but really, you should probably invest in magic beans first.
I can definitely understand your frustration with this game, coming at it looking for a good workout.
The whole point of all of the Wario Ware games is to be very disjointed and unexpected, to surprise the player quickly again and again (which is why the mini games are so short). They want the player to be somewhat overwhelmed by the sheer variety and randomness of the actions required. They’re trying to produce this reaction: “OK, I have to spotlight a man. Wait, now I have to balance a broom! Now I have to swat the fly! Wow – this is CRAZY!”
It’s sort of like comedians. Some comedians tell long, elaborately detailed stories to get a laugh – that’s like the deep games that you enjoy. Other comedians tell lots of quick little one-liners and snappy little jokes to get a chuckle – that’s what Wario Ware is aiming for.
I guess it wasn’t really your cup of tea, though. Sorry you didn’t enjoy it!
Hi Luzalmondo, thanks for your input, that was the first Wario Ware title I’ve played, it certainly is random & crazy!
I guess thats 100 pushups, coming up!