The news that WarioWare is returning to Nintendo handhelds sent me rushing to find one of my most treasured possessions. And like many of my most treasured possessions over the years, I had taken such good care of it that I didn't know where it was anymore.
After hours of working my way through boxes in the loft, I eventually found it, in a little toffee tin that also contained Drill Dozer. To explain this strange act of curation, my past self had left a short message to my future self: "The only two GBA games to use force feedback". Looking this up online just now, it turns out that my past self was right. Though I wonder about that terrible Yoshi one, or was that just gyro? Anyway, I wish my past self well, on balance.
Force feedback - ruuuuumble - always seemed to be at the heart of WarioWare: Twisted! It gave the cartridge its unusual shape, with a lump that juts out at the bottom to hold all the necessary components. I once would have argued that it gave the game a certain rarity too, since there were rumours that the gyroscope that works with rumble to afford the game its raison d'etre used mercury, hence the lack of a release in the EU. (This rumour is not true, apparently.) More importantly, when I think of WarioWare: Twisted! I don't think of any specific microgame or any character or even any song - WarioWare: Touched! will forever come to mind in the form of Ashley's theme, in which she "turned her teacher into a spoon". Instead, I think of that rumble, that special WarioWare: Twisted! rumble, which is unlike other standard rumbles, because...because...
from Eurogamer.net https://ift.tt/2K3khjn
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