Appearing as a NintendoDS launch title, WarioWare Touched! offers a very innovative appearance for the portly blunder-boy. This is the sort of game that clearly has to have a Touch Screen in order to be effectively played. That's why the NintendoDS delivered quite successfully in this department. With plenty of microgames to check out, you will spend many hours enjoying this wonderful DS title to its fullest.

If you are familiar with the previous games in the WarioWare library, you will be aware of the way the gameplay works. Basically, there are many characters you will meet, each with their own set of microgames for you to play through. Each one lasts only 3-5 seconds, and asks you to perform some simple tasks. It's the same idea with this game, only this time you use the stylus and sometimes even the microphone feature to win all these games. There are 3 difficulty settings for each microgame, each one giving you more things to do in the same amount of time. On paper, the idea may seem tedious, but the variety is incredibly wide and well structured to consider all aspects of what you can actually do with a Touch Screen, it becomes inevitably addictive after a short while of playing.

The difficulty involved with WarioWare Touched! is generally dictated by the user - with the difficulty/speed of the games increasing as you progress through each stage, until you understand the progress of every microgame featured in the title. All of the games are easy to learn and master quickly, and none of them should give you too much of a problem. The microgames you are introduced to early on are obviously simple, requiring a simple slice or poke of the stylus to complete the objective. As you meet new characters and try their microgames, you will find there are more complex tasks to be done (drawing, spinning quickly, blowing into the microphone) even though each person has only 1 type of task to complete (drawing, blowing, spinning and many more). Generally speaking though, the WarioWare games are known for being enjoyable and addictive to all ages so they haven’t been made particularly difficult.

As for the graphical quality, all of the objects are brightly coloured and well-drawn for a title which can easily be considered quite simple graphically. Both screens handle the graphics well (which isn’t hard considering the NintendoDS’s potential) and the Touch Screen pin-point accuracy is spot on as well. It is also great to see that the NintendoDS responds quickly to every little movement made on the Touch Screen.

For the NintendoDS’s standards, the music/sound is of fairly decent quality. You have to remember that it is a portable system so we won't be hearing superior sound, but the stereo speakers work wonders here. There are no real catchy tunes in this game, except for during each character's cut-scene and even during the games themselves.

The package presented with WarioWare Touched! is an all-out NintendoDS launch party. Much like Super Smash Bros. Melee capitalized on all of the GameCube’s superior qualities, WarioWare Touched! has singled out every-one of the NintendoDS’s unique features. Rivalry between Wario and Mario for the top-spot within the NintendoDS’s launch line-up will be fierce.