Wario: Master of Disguise takes the puzzle and platformer genres and mashes them together with mixed results. As you embark on your adventure to recover pieces of an ancient tablet you’ll travel to exotic locations such as a Mayan like temple, a cruise ship, a museum, and seven other areas which you’ll have to discover for yourself. While the first ¾ of your journey will be more puzzles than platforming, the last few levels really ramp things up in the jumping and costume changing department. Each level takes at least an hour to complete leaving you with a pretty lengthy platformer that lasts at least around 12+ hours.


The other two crazy co-stars.
When you start the game you’ll come to realize that Suzak, the game’s developer, really likes story as there are multiple cutscenes before you get to do anything. Although they must have realized they overdid it a bit as you can skip any of these just by pressing enter. Once in control you’ll meet your co-star’s which happen to be a crazy magician and a talking stylus wand type thing. You’ll then be able to walk around with the d-pad and also jump and duck with the d-pad. To change costumes you touch the stylus to Wario and draw a shape. Once in a specific costume you can execute attacks and other abilities by drawing things with the stylus.


Wario made this machine to put him into a TV show... or he's on acid.
Your first costume will be the moon suit which lets you float while you jump and shoot a laser gun. You’ll use the laser gun to shoot enemies and progress through puzzles. Shoot one end of a life boat’s rope that’s holding it to the ceiling to make an accessible platform to reach a ladder. Make a check mark motion on the touch screen to go back to your normal clothes and progress ahead. You’ll notice as you traverse the cruise ship that there are a lot of red boxes and other obstacles that you can’t get past. Well once you complete the game you can come back and go through these levels with all your unlocked costumes and get all the treasure you couldn’t get the first time through.

Treasure chests are a huge part of the overall Wario experience this time around. When you walk up to a red, green, or purple chest you’ll be able to open it after you solve a puzzle. There are 8 total treasure chest puzzle mini-games which you can encounter all with varying difficulty levels. As you get farther in the game you won’t see any new puzzles you’ll just see harder versions of the same thing you’ve been seeing for the past 5 hours. While the harder difficulty mixes things up a bit, it would have been a nice to see a huge amount of mini-games like Wario’s superior Wario Ware series offers.