I had the chance to pick up both of these new titles this past evening, and also to get some quality playing time in with them as well. I have to say that I'm having a blast with WarioWare. Sure, some of the minigames are kinda lame, but the Old Skool games, and most of the new ones that use the stylus are really cool. It's the WarioWare that you know and love from GBA, albeit with minigames that mostly use the stylus or the microphone on the DS. I will say that I'm kinda disappointed by the lack of quality extras (though I haven't played it for that long). I mean, in the first one, they gave us Dr. Mario, so why can't they do the same with WarioWare: Touched? I just don't get it sometimes.
I also managed to play a bit of Starfox: Assault, and I have to say that the railshooting (i.e. classic Starfox) levels are absolutely incredible and very, VERY fun. It made me want to go and bust out the SNES again and play the original for a while. So those levels in Starfox are awesome…the ground levels….well….they're not quite as hot as the flying levels, and that's being nice. The controls on the ground are really difficult to get used to, and the camera is wonky a lot of the time as well. Admittedly, I haven't gotten a chance to pwn Richie at the multiplayer yet, but I'm going to give it a shot here later today to test my skills in it. Bottomline on these two: Rent Starfox, unless you're a complete Starfox whore, and buy WarioWare if you liked the first one. Otherwise, play your friend's copy first…but I'll give some more detailed views on these later, of course.
-Jack
