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Wario: Master of Disguise | 
| From: Nintendo
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $6.93
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2876
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: adventure_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: ntr p awae
UPC: 045496738457
EAN: 0045496738457
ASIN: B000LSKXRQ
Release Date: May 30, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Draw Wario's 8 disguises by sketching a symbol on Wario -- different outfits give him powers you can control with the stylus | | • | Take Wario around the globe in 10 missions, fighting enemies in 9 exotic locations | | • | Use Wario's disguises to get past puzzling obstacles | | • | Play 8 different stylus-controlled minigames challenge you to unlock treasure chests |
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Product Description
Wario: Master of Disguise sends the greedy Wario back into a new 2-D platformer - one with a unique touchscreen control system. When Wario sees a television series about a thieving master of disguises, he dives through the TV screen, steals the thief's quick-change wand and takes over the show. Break into exotic locations, from a luxury liner & watery ruins to an Egyptian pyramid, all in the hopes of grabbing as much treasure and loot as Wario can carry.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Great Ideas - Poor Implementation March 31, 2007
Lisa Shea
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have really loved some Wario games in the past. I thought Twisted and Smooth Moves were simply brilliant. I have to say I felt a bit let down by Master of Disguise for several reasons.
First, the basic concept. You are Wario, a bored couch potato. Suddenly you learn about a super-thief and want to be like him. In no time at all you've stolen the thief's secret wand and have begun thieving. The wand lets you instantly don any disguise, as long as you draw the correct symbol with your stylus. Each disguise gives you different abilities - firing a laser, leaping high, etc.
This is problem number one. For some reason, the game just doesn't understand what you're drawing half the time. So you're in the middle of an intricate sequence of movements, and need to switch disguises, and the game simply refuses to understand what you're asking for. If you know what the disguise sequence is to solve the puzzle, the challenge shouldn't be making that circle or check or whatever exactly right so the wand does what you want it to do.
Next, as you go left and right on your little side scrolling screen, sometimes there are places that it seems you should be able to go to - but the game won't let you. Then there are other places that look impossible to get to - but you're allowed to go there. It adds a bit of frustration as you randomly try directions until you find one that works.
I do really like the mini-games in the chest, and how they can challenge you. Some of them are a bit on the gross side - guide the poop pile so it lands in the toilet? I mean, Wario games in the past had a "stick the finger in the nose" puzzle - but handling poop is a whole 'nother level of disgusting.
To go with this, I found some of Wario's incessant (and unskippable) dialogue to be over the line obnoxious. I know Wario is a bad guy and I don't mind at all "playing as him" in some of the other games. But in this one, I really just didn't like being him. I didn't like having to sit through the long cut scenes. I play games to relax and have fun - and the cut scenes were the opposite of fun.
I really appreciate the idea behind this game, and think it's a great setup in general. If a new version came out with the same basic idea but with many tweaks in the stylus recognition and the cut-scene area, I would really love it. This release just doesn't quite make it.
Nothing special March 8, 2007
N. Durham (Philadelphia, PA)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Anytime Wario has starred in his own game, it's either been a collection of fun mini-games or a very good platformer. Wario: Master of Disguise is the latter of the two, mixing some puzzle elements and use of the stylus and touch screen of the DS to boot. Unlike past Wario Land games, Master of Disguise is just as it's name implies, as you use the touch screen and stylus to change costumes, which also have their own unique abilities as well. Each room you progress through is basically it's own puzzle, and you have to use your various costumes to sovle it and advance. While this provides for some interesting gameplay elements, in the long run the gameplay is too repetitive and drawn out. This alone is what kills Master of Disguise, as you find yourself doing the same thing over and over again at various points throughout the game. This, combined with some graphical glitches and the fact that stylus and touch screen controls are glitchy as well, and Master of Disguise ends up being pretty disappointing. It's fun and interesting for a little bit, but in the end, Master of Disguise just comes up way short for a first party Nintendo title.
Don't Overlook This Gem April 1, 2007
P. R Sundeen (omaha, ne)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Wario: Master of Disguise has been getting a lot of bad press and reviews, and though they are mostly justified I believe this game is still worth a look.
The main complaint, that you have to draw these silly little symbols on Wario, is valid. Sometimes it doesn't work. Personally, I would have prefered the action be on the top screen, like New Super Mario, and have the map and large "buttons" on the bottom screen to tap and change easily, like Super Princess Peach.
But this is not reason enough to completly write this game off. It's level designs are very clever, and the sense of aqcomplishment upon reaching a new, out-of-the-way treasure chest is great.
The humor, while no-where near as good as any Inteligent Systems release, is still great and ads a lot to the game. I mean, who doesn't love seeing poo run across the screen. Seriously.
Anyway, give it a shot. It's a nice little game.
 Save your money April 1, 2007
Kelley (Methuen, MA USA)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you play video games to relax don't buy this game. The opening story takes a good 15 minutes to get through, if I wanted to read I'd have picked up a book. It uses the stylus a LOT and half the time it doesn't read what you're trying to input. I was looking for an adventure game to relax on a rare day off and I just finished Mario v DK March of the Minis. After a half hour of messing with these rotten controls and the endless tutorial text I tossed the game and gave up. Total waste of 30 bucks and 30 minutes.
 wario master kof disguise March 14, 2007
S. Schaefer (don't know)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
i really do enjoy this game it's pretty standard "wario" but it's fun.
the "t.v." concept was a little wishly washy but hey it's all about the
funny. sometimes as gamers we get to caught up in Graphics,Story lines and
Past Genera comparisons. Let's just have stupid fun once and a while.
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