Long-Lost Love and Distant Darling
- This article is about the characters from WarioWare Gold. For one of the microgames where the characters appears, see Long Lost Love.
| Long-Lost Love and Distant Darling | |
|---|---|
  Long-Lost Love (left) and Distant Darling (right) as seen in Wario Kard | |
| First appearance | WarioWare Gold (2018) |
| Latest appearance | WarioWare: Move It! ((2023) |
Long-Lost Love and Distant Darling are minor characters in WarioWare Gold and WarioWare: Move It! who always appear alongside each other. Long-Lost Love primarily dresses in pink-red clothes and Distant Darling dresses in blue clothes. In Gold, they shows up in five microgames. They also appear as opponents in the minigame Wario Kard, which establishes their names. There, Long-Lost Love always plays scissors against the player's second move and prevents attacks from becoming Special Attacks, while Distant Darling does the same but with rock. They also appears in one microgame in Move It!.
The development team of WarioWare Gold aimed to update the microgames with new scenarios and created connections that did not exist in the microgames' earlier appearances, with Goro Abe citing how the remade versions of Hookin' Up, Love Tester, Rocky Reunion, Tearful Reunion, and Long Lost Love depict "a drama between a man and woman that spans several microgames."[1]
Appearances[edit]
- Hookin' Up (Gold only)
- Love Tester (Third difficulty level in Gold only)
- Long Lost Love (Gold only)
- Tearful Reunion (Gold only)
- Rocky Reunion (Gold only)
- Wario Kard
- A Swing at Love
Descriptions of microgames with these characters[edit]
- Hookin' Up: "Could this be the "first sight" type of love, or is it only the red thread of fate that connect these two love birdies?" - Orbulon
- Love Tester: "Check the couple's compatibility with the Love Tester! All they gotta do is grab the round metal thingy with their left hand! Huh. Love seems super easy. The Love Tester, a toy that measured the compatibility of two people, was released in 1969." - 9-Volt
- Long Lost Love: "Unite these two lovebirds so they can fly up into space together. You don't want to stand in the way of true love, do ya?" - Dribble & Spitz
- Tearful Reunion: "Reunite these two...lovebirds. Avoid the dangerous eye beams if you really want them to be together." - Ashley
- Rocky Reunion: "Well, ain't this tragic? Time and space have kept these two apart. Don't let that rock get in the way just when they're about to reunite!" - Dribble & Spitz
- A Swing at Love: "Release the Form Stone to help reunite the couple!" - Kat & Ana
Gallery[edit]
Hookin' Up
Love Tester
The microgame Long Lost Love
Tearful Reunion
Rocky Reunion
The alternate scenario that can occur at the third difficulty in Rocky Reunion, where they are much older
A Swing at Love, first difficulty level
A Swing at Love, third difficulty level
Names in other languages[edit]
- Long Lost Love
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| French (European) | Âme sœur (F)[2] | Soulmate (F) | |
| German | Betatester 2[2] | - | |
| Italian | Anima gemella n°2[2] | Soulmate (lit. "twin soul") number 2 | |
| Spanish (European) | Amor perdido[2] | Lost love |
References[edit]
- ^ "The same couple appears in Hookin’ Up, Love Tester, Rocky Reunion, Tearful Reunion, and Long Lost Love,” Abe said, noting a tweak that affects all those games, which originally appeared across four WarioWare releases. “We tried creating a drama between a man and woman that spans several microgames." – Stephen Totilo (October 18, 2018). The Unusual Effort That Went Into Creating WarioWare Gold. Kotaku. Retrieved August 24, 2024. (Archived February 10, 2019, 12:12:55 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ a b c d Wario Kard profile name
