Format: Advance
Genre: Action
Developer: Climax LA
Publisher: Disney
Wario-ware plain and simple. This abomination is what happens when you take one part Wario, add in some pre-teen girl angst, and top it off with a spread of Garfield animations. Seriously, I can't be the only one who noticed that Lizzie McGuire looks exactly like Jon Arbuckle with a yellow wig. They even have the same ears and number of fingers. Either way, the plot of this game is pretty simple; Your enemy girl nemesis tells you you're a loser and that she's going to be the prom queen or something. Lizzie sets out to defeat her and become the prom queen or something, and then... BAM WARIO VISION!!! Yeah that's right, instant action gameplay with the classic twitch-based fast thinking warioware style. For anyone that doesn't know what warioware style is, it's a type of game where you are instantly thrown into the action and have as little as 3-5 seconds to figure out what you're doing and to complete the task. This usually involves either pressing a button at the right time, using the analog to move something in a specific way, or mashing certain buttons before the time runs out. I can at least give credit to this game in this way is that they definitely made the activities thematic to the content. They also included a weird card system to help the player as well that allows them to undo a failure. It's a really awkward system though and more often than not, it won't matter at all. What will matter is your end-of-stage performance in the DDR sections. There's 10 stages in all and at the end of every stage a DDR part. The DDR part gets progressively harder as the stages advance. The minigames also get a bit harder and more varied as the stages advance. What's crazy is that somehow Ms. McGuire has 5 fingers in one of the minigames, but only 4 in all other animations. The simpsons genes are strong in this one. At one point she even fights the mutant fish. All this solely to become prom queen, or something. The big downfall of this game is that once you beat it, there's not much replay value. The more you play it, the better you get at it, and the less there is to play due to the game's extremely repetitive nature. The big miss with this game is that unlike warioware, this one doesn't randomize start locations for various minigames. That means every minigame is exactly the same as the first time you play it. For this reason, the more you play this game, the less game there is to play. The graphics are fair enough to be credible, which is a weird way to describe something's looks. The music is probably the best part of the game. It's beats are fair to good which was surprising. The sound quality was also pretty good. One more unfortunate thing was that they didn't put the credits after the final boss. You have to go through the main menu to get the credits after you beat the main game.
All in All, This Walmart knockoff earned a 6.8 score for it's copycat gameplay and graphics. Almost no plot/story, No tutorial or explanations of game types, Manual Credits, Copycat art style, Copycat gameplay style.
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