Hands On: WarioWare Move It! Takes Us Right Back To A Wii Classic

Time for more fun poses! I do miss the "form baton" and the various cutscenes explaining its uses.

I played Smooth Moves more recently than some - bought it used early last year - and it's now tied for my favorite WarioWare game along with WarioWare Gold.

Love the sheer absurdity of WarioWare titles!

Still waiting on a microgame that lets you throw a copy of Chibi-Robo Zip Lash into a toilet.

I still can't get over how Wario's new voice sounds like it was ordered off of AliExpress.
I'm sure the game is very good, but dang that new voice really spoils it for me.

so excited i am for this. i never got a chance to play smooth moves, and just the fact warioware returned on switch AGAIN as a proper joycon showcase makes me happy

plus, since Gold theyve done a great job letting the character's personalities shine and interact with each other. its a fun game with a fun cast

and i agree we need better unlockables and minigames, GiT had fun modes but only if you had people to play with

Nice, can't wait to get it! Loved the Wii game.

I've waited what feels like forever for a Smooth Move successor and I'm so bloody excited. Hell, I would have been happy with a barebones port given how long it's been (though it would have been inferior by virtue of omitting the awesome use of sound effects emitted via by the Wii Remote). It's hard to believe that it's been almost 17 years since its release! If we have to wait that long for the next motion-based WarioWare, then I'll be in my 50s! sigh Life is so bloody short.

I was also so, so crushed that we never got a new WarioWare game that took advantage of the Wii Motion Plus accessory back in the day (be that on the Wii or Wii U), but it seems that this will (finally) make up for it. I'm also a little disappointed that multiplayer is limited to only 4 players. Some of the most fun that I've had with Smooth Moves was playing the various multiplayer modes with friends/family, in particular, the 12-player last man standing game, where losing players are gradually eliminated. The marathon + rope cutting game was also a real nail-biter, giving all players a chance of winning (supporting up to 5 players), with stronger players given a slight advantage. But with the activities requiring two motion controllers per player this time around, perhaps I can look past the support for fewer players. I would go so far as to say that Smooth Moves outranks Wii Sports in a party environment on the strength of its variety and sense of humour.

WarioWare has typically been associated with taking advantage of the gimmicks of the hardware for which the games are designed, hence why I found Gold and Get It Together to be so underwhelming. Gold essentially being a "greatest hits" collection after such a long hiatus (and no stereoscopic 3D), and Get It Together perhaps being better suited for handheld play (and inclusive of Switch Lite users). Nevertheless, I still wrung nearly 200 hours out of the latter.

I didn't mean to sound like a wet blanket, as even an underwhelming WarioWare game is better than none at all. To put things into perspective, a new solely motion-based WarioWare has endured a longer wait than that of the infamously (and repeatedly) delayed Duke Nukem Forever!

A bit gimmicky for me.

@Sisilly_G Yup! Smooth Moves is a great family/party game! Mostly well balanced. A few of the micro games were a little difficult to register the motions and often those would be the ones to eliminate a player. Still, good times!

Nice! Our family had a lot of fun with Smooth Moves back in the day. Loved all of the creative uses of the Wiimote that it featured (one of the most-creative was it being used as a fingernail clipper and clipping a toenail. You pushed the button to snip it and the click sound coming out of the remote). Good times.

@DwaynesGames : Indeed. The handful of games with dud controls were easy to forgive though thanks to the excellence of the package as a whole otherwise.

Loved Smooth Moves, but peaked.....? Nah, that was Twisted for me (would love to see that released on Switch somehow). Still looking forward to this one though, Get It Together left me pretty cold and disappointed.

I am hesitant only because the motion controls with Joy-Cons don't work as well as Wiimotes (at least for me).

@Warioware : Considering that the Switch itself as well as the Joy-Cons support motion controls (plus rumble in the latter), it's a possibility. They could potentially add it to the NSO Expansion, though I'd take a physical compilation of the classics any day of the week.

I still have my original cartridge, though the rumble has since died (which I think ran on its own battery?).

I adore WarioWare--in fact, I think it's secretly one of Nintendo's best franchises. But for some reason, I keep forgetting this game is coming out. I've been too distracted by my anticipation for the Mario RPG remakes and Super Mario Wonder. It also doesn't help that we already have a WarioWare game on Switch, so that itch has already been scratched somewhat.

I say "somewhat" because it's true that Get It Together was just kind of...okay. Not bad, but not great, as having your character move on a 2D plain was too limiting in the amount of variety you could have, and their different movesets made some microgames feel borderline impossible depending on who you were playing as. WarioWare is the only Nintendo franchise where the games are actively worse when they AREN'T taking advantage of some weird gimmicky control scheme.

Smooth Moves is probably the best original WarioWare game (although I think my favorite is Gold because it's just a perfect compilation). So... why am I not more excited about a direct sequel? I'll still be purchasing and playing it on day one, but I wish I were more hyped for it.

I’ll watch to video later when I have time but judging from the article, it looks like a great time. I love WarioWare. However, Get it Together, while still a great game, felt too repetitive to me.

That game had limited controls since you were stuck to a handful of character move-sets. Plus some micro-games just didn’t feel built around a lot of the character’s controls, making it feel like you were fighting against the game rather than playing along with it.

With Move It, they’re going back to the classic structure of every micro-game controlling differently and I’m pumped for it!

Plus, I love the tropical island theme. Anything that reminds me of Hawaii gets bonus points haha.

@Sisilly_G @Warioware There's no reason they couldn't put Twisted on NSO when we already have Kirby Tilt 'N' Tumble. It will come eventually. They should be able to slap Yoshi's Universal Topsy-Turvy Gravitation Tax Fraud, too, while they're at it--no problem.

@Not_Soos Yeah, the hype and marketing around Mario Wonder and Mario RPG makes me forget about WarioWare sometimes. Plus other big games on other platforms, like Forza and Spider-Man, are taking attention as well.

But I agree, Smooth Moves is one of (if not) the best games in the series. And after the good, but underwhelming, Get it Together… this should end up being a nice return to form and one of the best in the series. Here’s hoping haha.

@Not_Soos I am kind of expecting that actually but since I rarely use NSO and cash is on a bit of a premium at the moment I am not sure if I will renew it this year, especially the expansion pass. So, I'm probably hoping for a more permanent solution.

@Sisilly_G compilation of the classics..... be still my heart!

Nothing is worse than a motion control Wii game. No thanks.

@Nintoz nah, a game like that would totally blow.

Looks like a lot of silly fun. Precisely what I would want from a Warioware game. Furthermore, it'll be grand to revisit the motion controls. Great family memories from the Smooth Moves Wii days. Ah....!

I don't care about the game, just came here to say how well than nose and 'stache suit Alex xD

Can't wait for this!
Smooth Moves is one of my favorite wii games. I hope this will live up to it.

The controls for Smooth Moves were honestly terrible at times such as getting the form baton Wii remote to work correctly but hopefully the motion controls are better on Switch since I’m excited to have a more traditional Warioware game back! Also I read other previews too and they all mention controlling the microgames with your a**… wow

I'm looking forward to it but it's probably not going to be a launch thing. Not really been long enough since the last WarioWare for me to be looking for a new one right now plus not being able to play it handheld is a pretty big turnoff.

I wish they made real Wario games again.

No WarioLand but WarioWare is always fun. Hardware gimmicks or not the microgames are great.