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#81





Years of release: 2013 (Wii U)
Beaten?: Not really!

Okay I'm going to level with you guys - I don't think I've actually PLAYED every game in Game & Wario. It's a collection of minigames, some single player and some multiplayer, and I've mostly only played the multiplayer ones. It doesn't matter.

Fruit is the reason it is here. Fruit is a masterpiece.

The premise behind Fruit is that one player has the controller and is secretly controlling one of the characters on the screen, while every other character is controlled by the AI and wanders aimlessly. The player with the controller has to hide amongst the AI characters and pretend to be one, but they must collect pieces of fruit that are lying in plain sight on the screen. Everyone else playing has to watch, and look carefully for the moment the piece of fruit is taken, trying to figure out which character it could be that took all the fruit before time runs out.

It's a brilliantly fun little party game - it's simple, but there's a lot of fun tricks you can use on the three different maps to get away with it and make it harder for the other people to guess who you are. It's a simple little psychological game and I could play it for hours. I'm really sad that this one is stuck on the Wii U and we probably won't see a port of Game & Wario any time soon because it's reliant on the Wii U gamepad (although Fruit isn't).

There's other stuff in Game & Wario to like, though, so it's not here ONLY for Fruit. Gamer is probably the most well-known feature of this game and it's a brilliant concept - having to play a WarioWare game, concentrating on that while also having to watch out for your mom, who's stalking around your room trying to catch you playing games past your bedtime. The other multiplayer offerings here are nice too - I actually really like that dumb game where you have to draw lines and shapes of the right lengths and sizes, it's dry but there's something appealing about it. The fronk-launching game is fun even though it's completely unfair and chaotic, and the little pictionary clone here is a really nice time too. I don't really remember most of the other single player games in this one but that's enough to make this game a worthy little addition to a party game library. I just love Fruit so much.