Long Lost Love

This article is about the microgame. For one of the characters who appear in the microgame in Gold, see Long-Lost Love.

Long Lost Love
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! WarioWare Gold
Appears in	WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$! WarioWare Gold
League	Mash League
Type	IQ (Orbulon, Mega Microgame$!) Fantasy (Dribble & Spitz, Gold)
Command(s)	Navigate! (Mega Microgame$!) Reunite! (Gold)
Info	"Find your way through the maze! Use the molecule transferring units as pathways when needed!" (Mega Microgame$!) "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?" (Gold)
Controls	/// – Move
Time limit	16 beats 28 beats (WarioWatch, Gold)
Points to clear	15
Music track	The Maze That Pays

Long Lost Love is a microgame that appears in WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! as one of Orbulon's microgames found in the IQ folder (where it was originally known as Maze Daze), and later in WarioWare Gold as one of Dribble & Spitz's microgames found in the Fantasy set from the Mash League.

Gameplay

The player controls a ballerina in a black maze. The walls of the maze are white. The objective of the game is to get the ballerina over to her partner. The maze is a grid; the lines dividing the squares of the grid are invisible. The ballerina moves in the direction the is pressed if she is in the center of a grid square. Holding a direction is allowed.

Mazes in the 2nd level difficulty and 3rd level difficulty have one or more pairs of molecule transferring units. Molecule transferring units are shapes with a rainbow pattern that repeatedly scrolls from the inside to the outside. When a molecule transferring unit is entered, the ballerina appears at the other molecule transferring unit of the same shape. Some mazes have sections fully divided from the area the player can move to directly by walls. These mazes require that the player use molecule transferring units to advance. Some mazes use molecule transferring units as decoys, in that the maze can be completed without teleporting. In some cases, the molecule transferring units lead to dead ends.

• 1st level difficulty: There are no molecule transferring units in the maze.
• 2nd level difficulty: There are two circular molecule transferring units in the maze,
• 3rd level difficulty: There are four molecule transferring units, two of which are circles and two of which are triangles, in the maze.

In WarioWare Gold, the microgame has been rethemed. The maze is brown but the walls remain white. The molecule transferring units are all depicted as spiral shapes that turn counter clockwise. They have differing colors, the characteristic that determines which determines which ones lead to each other. The colors are blue, replacing circles, and purple, replacing triangles. The characters are a princess and a prince (named Long-Lost Love and Distant Darling, respectively, in the Wario Kard mode), recurring characters in the game who also appear in Rocky Reunion, Tearful Reunion, Love Tester and Hookin' Up. If they meet each other, they fly away in a rocket and a constellation representing both characters fills the screen. There are three different constellations, one for each level of the microgame.

Additional names

Internal names

Game	File	Name	Meaning
WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$!		L. MAZE	L. means long, as Orbulon's microgames all last twice as long

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	めいろ (Mega Microgame$!)[?] Meiro	Maze
	めいろでさいかい (Gold)[?] Meiro de Saikai	Reunion in the Maze
Chinese (simplified)	迷宫脱险[?] Mígōng tuōxiǎn	Maze Escape
French	Amour égaré[?]	Lost love
German	Liebeslabyrinth (Mega Microgame$!)[?]	Love Labyrinth
	Lang vermisste Liebe (Gold)[?]	Long Lost Love
Italian	Labirinto[?]	Maze
Spanish (NOA)	Mi amor perdido[?]	My lost love

Trivia

MAZE in Mario Artist: Polygon Studio.

• The minigame MAZE from Mario Artist: Polygon Studio serves as a direct precursor and inspiration to what would eventually become the Maze Daze microgame.