WarioWare Gold

The game's plot follows the greedy Wario who has organized a gaming tournament for a large cash prize, with the ultimate goal of claiming the money for himself. Meanwhile, various other WarioWare characters deal with other problems which play out in the form of short stories. Similar to previous entries, in WarioWare Gold, the player is tasked with completing consecutive "microgames" at increasing paces. Gold features both microgames from past entries in the series and some new ones for a total of over 300 microgames, the most featured in the series to date. When one is complete, a point is given, and the game moves on to the next. After which, the minigames can be replayed and will begin to speed up the time allotted. As a collection game, most microgames that appear have once existed in a previous title in the WarioWare series. They involve pressing buttons, tilting the system, touching the touch screen, and blowing on the system's microphone. Gold features full voice acting in the story mode, a first for the series, with an additional unlockable feature allowing players to redub their own voice over the game's cutscenes. In the challenge mode, the microgames are reintroduced alongside various distractions and complications to the original format. There's also a local multiplayer mode where players compete in an endurance competition of who can complete the most minigames in succession. Having run out of money following a treasure hunt in the village of Luxeville, the greedy Wario decides to organize a Nintendo 3DS gaming tournament in Diamond City, convincing his friends to design some new Mash League, Twist League, Touch League, & Ultra League games based on the Sports, That's Life, Fantasy, & Nintendo Classics themes, for the event, promising them payment. While the player competes in the tournament, a girl from Luxeville named Lulu who has tracked Wario down calls him out and begins training to challenge him, seeking to retrieve the town's prized treasure that Wario had stolen from her village. The rest of the game consists of self-contained vignettes for all of Wario's friends; these range from Jimmy T trying to impress two girls at Sapphire Street, Mona going to Joe's Clothes trying to find a dress to wear for her party, Dribble and Spitz fighting off UFOs with their space-faring taxi, 5-Volt doing a workout to become fit, Ashley and Red fighting a demon known as Hungraa, Dr. Munches, a gourmet master, as their ninja trainer while trying to get ninja learners permits at Diamond City Castle, Fronk helping 9-Volt realize that math's fun, Young Cricket and Master Mantis training at an amusement park, Orbulon trying to acquire pigs in order to complete his order at a fast food restaurant called Gigantaburger, the hosts of the Sports and That's Life themes, along with Mike and Fronk, partying at Club Joe, and the hosts of the Fantasy and Nintendo Classics themes, also with Mike and Fronk, having a potluck at Peridot Campgrounds. In the game's final level, Wario refuses to give the player the prize money, as he already declared himself as the winner of the tournament.