Ashley (minigame)
Ashley is a single-player minigame hosted by Ashley & Red in Game & Wario. The level theme songs are collectively titled Ashley's ☆ Revolution and feature arrangements of parts of Ashley's Theme in WarioWare: Touched!
Story[edit]
At her mansion, Ashley reads a book and eventually comes across a page depicting monsters and a surreal landscape. The illustration catch her interest and she decides to cast a spell to be materialized inside the book page. However, as she performs it, a gust of wind turns the book to a page depicting desserts. Ashley & Red are then transported inside the dessert-themed page. Red is pleased by this development, but a furious Ashley orders him to transform into a broom in order to escape the dessert world.
Gameplay[edit]
The game is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up. Movement is controlled by angling the 
upward and downward. The objective is to progress through the levels while collecting purple magic orbs and presents, and shooting floating pastries with magic blasts. Collecting orbs and presents gives spell power, and collecting 100 spell power without missing any increases the multiplier, making each item worth more spell power. In addition to shooting magic blasts, Ashley can collect blue spell orbs, which when activated, destroy every enemy on-screen and collect all spell power present. A certain amount of spell power is needed in order to get "Best Buddy" ("Best Sidekick" in the PAL localization) status after completing a level, which rewards a token for the Cluck-A-Pop if accomplished for the first time per level. In addition, once Best Buddy status has been achieved, a token will appear in the stage, and doing a loop around it will collect it.
She will also communicate with the player and with Red from time to time on the GamePad, on which a close-up of her is shown throughout the levels.
Ashley can be hit an unlimited number of times, but being hit substracts spell power. If she is hit too many times in a row, poked too many times via the screen or if too many loops are performed in a close timeframe, the scrolling stops and the player will have to pat her on the head via the GamePad's screen in order to continue. Spell power will be removed at a rate of 2 per second. If spell power reaches 0 points, the game ends. Ashley gets progressively angrier during these sequences. If it is the third time she needs to be comforted and the player fails to calm her quickly enough, she will shoot the screen, resulting in the loss of 100 spell power.
At certain points, the player is prompted to select between two paths. There are three stages in total, each of which conclude with a boss battle.
Once the player has cleared the game, stars are added to the levels. Doing a loop near a start will net the player a present containing 10 spell power or a blue orb.
Stages[edit]
- Book of Lollipops
- Best Buddy score: 1000+
- Book of Chocolate
- Best Buddy score: 2500+
- Book of Ice Cream
- Best Buddy score: 4000+
Rewards[edit]
Collecting 100 orbs without missing any increases the multiplier for spell power. For example, collecting 100 orbs multiplies the value of all items by 2, while collecting 200 orbs multiplies the value by 3. This stops once the multiplier has reached 6.
- Orb: 1 spell power
- Large orb: 5 spell power
- Present: 10 spell power
- Large present: 50 spell power
- Unused blue orbs: 200 spell power at end of level
- Damage: -5 spell power
- Ashley's anger: -2 spell power per second
- Ashley's screen zap: -100 spell power
Controls[edit]
- : Steer the broom.
: Loop upward
: Loop downward
: Activate blue orb / Pat Ashley on the head / Select path (when prompted).
: Speed up / Skip dialogue.
Description[edit]
NA translation: "I'm Ashley. Join me and Red on a side-scrolling nightmare of seriously sickening sweetness."
PAL translation: "Hello there! I'm Red. This is a side-scrolling action game starring my best friend, Ashley, who flies around on her magic broom. It's great fun, right, Ashley?"
Whatever...
Hint cards[edit]
The minigame's hint cards:
North American version[edit]
- Ashley 1: "Spell-Power Multipliers! — If you can collect an entire chain of spell power without missing any, the power will be multiplied by up to six times!"
- Ashley 2: "Leaving Ashley Alone — Ashley is quite easily annoyed. For a more pleasant gameplay experience, we recommend not bothering her too much on ."
- Ashley 3: "A Gift from the Stars — After you clear all the stages, there will be stars in them the next time you play one. Do a loop around a star to get a present or blue orb."
- Ashley 4: "Scoring Tokens in ASHLEY — After you've achieved Best Buddy status in a stage, keep an eye out for a token the next time you play. If you do a loop around it, it's yours!"
European version if differing[edit]
- Ashley 1: "Spell Power Multipliers! — If you can collect an entire chain of spell power without missing any, the power will be multiplied by up to six times!"
- Ashley 4: "Scoring Tokens in ASHLEY — After you've achieved Best Sidekick status in a stage, keep an eye out for a token the next time you play. Do a loop around it and it's yours!"
Gallery[edit]
The zoom-in of Ashley on the GamePad during regular gameplay
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | アシュリー Ashurī |
Ashley |
| German | Ashley |
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| Spanish (NOE) | Ashley |
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Trivia[edit]
- In the opening cutscene, Harry Onion from the Rhythm Heaven series is on the rightmost stack of books.
- If the player blows into the microphone on the , a gust of wind will blow into Ashley's dress. She then quickly holds it down and glares at the screen with an annoyed groan.
