Although it's actually exactly 100... I don't care, I don't wanna play this stage again lol, it's finally over! I already know I'm gonna have a lot to say.
So for the stage itself, I think it really nailed the finality of it! The Wario Bug has a pretty cool design and I love how it reflects the rude personality of our favourite money grabber! And going on from how Wario Deluxe interacts with you, the Wario Bug will actually try to attack you every so often! I really love this idea, it's so much more immersive and it feels very interesting how you play different ways for different characters! And, of course, in final stage fashion, this stage with all crew is really hard.
What I found is that there was always a new way for the game to ruin me, because many of these microgames play in very different and strange ways and are generally way more involved than usual. I actually had to practice a bunch of combinations just to figure out how they work. The boss stages are 19 games apart, so you need to have pretty strong consistency.
I wanted to like this stage more and while it does have a bunch of microgames that offer a very interesting challenge, there were 3 that pissed me off one way or another. First is "Muscle Out". Generally it's a pretty okay microgame, innocent enough, but what I found is that some characters seem to trigger an issue where a man can fall on another and it'll have absolutely zero effect. I don't know why it happens but I'm almost completely sure it's an oversight and it makes 9-Volt absolutely absurdly inconsistent on it. It's functionally broken.
There's "Flammable Goods" as well. Absolutely despise this microgame. I have absolutely no idea how to do this consistently with some characters. I tried multiple different approaches but the exact way bits of paper fall can make or break the trail and it feels like you have little to no agency over how it goes. I kinda just pray on this one and I really hate that. And don't get me started on 9-Volt. Legitimately the worst pairing in the whole game. You get one shot at somehow bsing a win and then you won't make it back in time to fix it.
Last one is "Piggy Pluck" which I knew immediately was a very one sided microgame. Being able to carry the level 3 object without some special move is really silly and some of its pairings feel almost as bad as the one I mentioned. I also got Dribble AND Penny in this run, both far in, so, well, that's wonderful.
A couple smaller ones are Pyoro on the "Gifted" microgame. He's considered good and after extensive practice I have no fucking clue why. The accuracy you need is pretty stupid, I'd honestly call him a worst fit, straight up. "Caution: Slippery" and "Answer Me" are also pretty hard but for the most part they are fair, I think.
I know I'm ranting a bit but the amount of time this took compared to the others is kinda ridiculous. I entered the 90s in SEVEN different runs before I finally pulled this off, which is incredibly unfortunate, and some of them were cleaner runs than this one. I might have played a little too much, because I was getting really nervous past 57 like every run but like with some of my harder Touhou runs, the feeling at the end somehow makes it worth it.
I do wanna say though, I do like this stage, but I do think some of these microgames lack polish and hold it back kinda severely. Shame, because it had so much promise but there you go.
Only one stage remains, that being Jimmy T. I've played his stage very little because I don't really like it but even outside of that, I'd say it's potentially the hardest stage for all crew, with only this as competition. Hopefully it won't take me quite as long to pass that one.