When I saw this thread my mind immediately jumped to WarioWare because c’mon! There’s just no way WarioWare hasn’t had at least several toilet themed microgames. To my surprise, the WarioWare toilet microgame is a touch more elusive than I had expected…
The earliest example of a toilet adjacent microgame is found in WarioWare Touched, titled “Clog it”.
The objective of this microgame is to unroll the toilet paper as quickly as possible. While it’s cool that WarioWare includes TP representation (something Final Fantasy 7 Remake famously omitted), there’s a very obvious problem here… We don’t see the toilet! It’s implied that the TP is entering a toilet that is just off camera based on the title “Clog it”, but an implied toilet is not enough to satisfy the people of insert credit! So I dug deeper….
The return of the toilet themed microgame came with WarioWare: Smooth Moves, this one being titled “Toilet Training”
The objective of this microgame is to assume the gender of a stranger and then direct them toward one of two bathrooms that correlates to the gender you assumed that stranger to belong to.
This microgame SUCKS.
Not only does it force the player to take on the role of what I can only assume is a twisted Floridian variant of a bathroom attendant, this sadistic microgame dares drag us even further from the toilet than Clog it did. Now we aren’t even in the room with the toilet, we’re condemned to the grass in front of the room that houses it. Pathetic.
This leads us to the newest entry in the franchise, 2021’s WarioWare: Get it Together. Now, this is our last chance here. If this game doesn’t have a toilet prominently featured in a microgame, then we’re truly out of luck. Well…
It doesn’t have a microgame dedicated to a toilet… It has an entire bossfight dedicated to one.
And your eyes aren’t deceiving you, that’s not one toilet.. That’s two! I still haven’t played WarioWare: Get it Together so I can’t give an opinion on this one, but at the very least I’m glad they course corrected from Smooth Moves on the toilet thing. I will say though, putting two toilets? It kinda feels like they’re just overcompensating at this point…
Even still, I’m glad I was able to share this journey with you folks. Please don’t hesitate to tell me if I missed a toilet themed microgame. Thank you for listening.