WarioWare: Touched! (DS) Playthrough
134A playthrough of Nintendo's 2005 game for the Nintendo DS, WarioWare: Touched!
This video shows the entire story mode, the extra minigames that appear on the games tab, and the ending credit roll.
Here are timestamps for each of the stages:
Wario 2:08
Mona 7:14
Jimmy T. 16:40
Jamie T. 22:28
Dr. Crygor 25:56
Kat and Ana 30:29
Ashley 35:43
James T. 42:02
Mike 46:03
9V and 18V 52:27
Wario-Man 57:46
Ending 1:03:09
Monster Megamix 1:04:40
Hardcore Mix 1:11:43
Gnarly Mix 1:17:44
Extra Minigames 1:20:13
Credits 1:27:33
I remember grabbing myself a copy of WarioWare: Touched! the day it came out. The DS had only been out for a couple of months and its library was still pretty meager, and since the original WarioWare was one of my favorite games on the Game Boy Advance and GameCube, I was excited about it.
It's pretty much the same thing as you'll find in any other WarioWare game, and the gimmick in Touched! is that all of its games are designed to make use of the DS's touchscreen and microphone.
Each stage couches a rapid-fire round of minigames in a goofy, character-based vignette. A monkey steals Ana's bananas, Mike is obsessed with karaoke, Wario almost dies after eating rotten garlic - the scenarios are all fun, quirky, bite-sized bits of gaming.
The game lives on its insane sense of humor, and it revels in it. The minigames ask you to do things like pet dogs, pluck ingrown hairs, put out fires with urinating cherub statues, and inflate blowup dolls - all of it the usual charming, family-friendly Nintendo fare.
The Flash-like graphics and sound are full of personality and in 2005, and they made for a simple but effective demonstration of the DS's new features and 2D graphics capabilities. Its look is simple but vibrant and clean, and the package boasts much higher production values than its predecessors did.
I enjoyed it way back, but I always found the gameplay to be fairly flaky compared to the other WarioWares. It's often not immediately clear what you're supposed to or how you're supposed to use the controls to do it, and even when you do know how a game works, the controls can often feel fussy and inconsistent. It's a fun game, but the controls posed enough of an obstacle that I didn't find myself coming back to it again and again to chase high scores. WarioWare games live and die by how well they harness the tech they were built around, and Touched! wasn't quite the slam dunk that it should've been.
That being said, while it wasn't an ideal pickup for $40 when it was new, WarioWare: Touched! does serve up an entertaining show for the couple hours that it lasts.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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