Wario Ware Touched!

       Wario Ware must be feeling like a lump slab of meat by now. Since its fantastic debut on the GBA in 2003, it has been sliced up into quarters like a mortuary corpse for its multiplayer GameCube debut, before being throttled like a naughty test tube in GBA. With Touched! Nintendo wants you to jab Wario Ware like some pickled brain in a jar. The series has always been so brilliant that you could throw it into a wood chipper and you'd be left with beautiful confetti.

TOUCH LOVE
      You'll know the structure by now: it's your job to complete a series a quick-fire mini games, each one taking about 2 seconds, and requiring some simple but swift reactions. Except this time you're using the stylus to doodle your way frantically around each game. Some classic scence return- the lady with the massive drip of snot, for example. But there's just some plain bewilderingly inventive new stuff: chopping vegetables as they fly past, tickling someone's nostril, using a stream of pee to put out a fire. Just when we thought the franchise had began to chug out of fuel, it kicks in with nitro. It's the Olympics meets Dr. Seuss meets speed dating.

     It's stylus over substance, sure, but it's a game that's been toucheed by some very special brains. In terms of sheer imaginative fun and endless personality, it's a game that's been touched by some very special special brains. In terms of sheer imaginative fun and endless personality, it's as good as any other Wario Ware, and the first true killer app for the DS. Be sure to get your hands on it.