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Young Cricket is one of the most important characters from the WarioWare franchise.
Appereances
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Young Cricket makes his debut appearance in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. The story starts with him and his master being hungry. They soon go out to find a place to buy some dumplings. Young Cricket starts running on top of peoples heads to get to the front of the line.
WarioWare: D.I.Y.
Young Cricket makes his debut appearance in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. The story starts with him and his master being hungry. They soon go out to find a place to buy some dumplings. Young Cricket starts running on top of peoples heads to get to the front of the line.
Game & Wario
Young Cricket appears in the 5th game 'Kung Fu'. It shows Master Mantis training Young Cricket, sparring while jumping across multiple stacks of land. Master Mantis falls to his knees after sparring with Young Cricket but stands up and performs a secret technique. Young Cricket prepares for what the Master may do but to his surprise, Master Mantis creates a dumpling and gobbles down on it. Master Mantis then jumps away to other land stacks. It's not long 'till Young Cricket follows after realizing how hungry he was. When you start playing, Master Mantis introduces you to your obstacle course, while saying that the key to 'Kung Fu' is energy. To play, you control Young Cricket with the Gamepad's side facing the TV screen. Your goal is to jump all the way to the end of the course, But you have to keep track of your energy level you can replenish your energy level by jumping on the dumplings on the pillars. if you let your energy level drain jagged lines will appear around Young Cricket meaning he is out of energy or very hungry then is game over.
WarioWare Gold
Young Cricket and Master Mantis go to an amusement park, where he believes he has the task of protecting his master from the Precious Prancers (a carousel). In the end of the game he uses the Precious Prancing Pounce to catch Wario when he runs away with the money he earned from their games.
Personality
Young Cricket loves dumplings and is the apprentice of Master Mantis.
He appears to be a focused, serious character in WarioWare: Smooth Moves and Game and Wario. He also is shown to be a little impulsive, as seen in his opening cutscene in Smooth Moves.
In WarioWare Gold his serious personality still remains, but more for comedic effect. Young Cricket also appears to have a tendency to over exaggerate. He is also a lot more cheerful in this incarnation, as he is seen smiling more often than his other game appearances.
Why He's An Awesome Kung-Fu Fighter
- First to start off, his design looks impressive as he looks like a big inspiration to other kung-fu fighters from other media.
- His personality looks impressive as if it gave Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise a big richery.
- His jumps in Game & Wario look very impressive to see as if they look like inspirations to Po from the Kung-Fu Panda Trilogy.
- The clothes he wears are the same ones from other kung-fu masters. Which it looks creative.
- Despite him being agressive, he looks friendly at times.
- Incredible Behaviour: In WarioWare Gold, at the end of his stage, he's very friendly with Lulu.
- His failure animations, despite them looking bad, they can also be very funny.
Bad Qualities
- His presonality can also look poorly written as if he's a big copy of Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise.
- Sometimes, he can be very rude with Wario at the ending of WarioWare Gold.