The First Review For WarioWare: Move It! Is In

This is very promising.

The Switch is having a strong run up to Christmas.

I mean.... it's Famitsu though.
Are there actually people around who still listen to their reviews?

ill be dead and buried before im convinced a warioware game can be bad

seems like it'll be fun. i am a little sad with the loss of wario cup since i wont have people to play multiplayer with, but this is still gonna be a blast

@boxyguy
(except for WarioWare Snapped on DSiWare, right?)

I own every Nintendo console and handheld but never have I played a WarioWare. It's time to break that cycle, it looks like a lot of fun.

@EarthboundBenjy darn i forgot i suppressed that game

I see Warioware, I buy Warioware.

Bought the one for Wii U, never again

@Princess_Lilly You bought the least Warioware WarioWare game ever. Game and Wario isn't anything like the rest of the series, and it's actually pretty awful. It's a tech-demo that has no micro-games at all. Technically it isn't even a WarioWare game. It's a spin-off of a spin-off, kind of like the Persona Dancing games.

I’m excited for this one and will get it but my only concern is this being a joy con only game. Joy cons just don’t hold up. As much as I love my switch and the wonderful lot of games for it, those joy cons are its achilles heel. I really only play with standard controllers.

@Princess_Lilly

Theres no Warioware on Wii u

@TYRANACLES Most of the game is moving around with the joycons, or using the built-in IR sensor. It's effectively a sequel to WarioWare Smooth Moves on the Wii, which utilized motion controls in a great variety of ways.

@Martijn87 then this, or Twist, are the ones to try!

I can feel the awesome quality of the Wii's Wario Ware here. Preordered already, this is going to be a blast. I can't wait!

@anothergamer100 Yes, there is: Game & Wario.

@HalloHerrNoob

I think you're confused as to how reviews work. They do not create an objective truth that is right or wrong. They are bias, subjective accounts.

Famitsu has a clear bias towards games that are focused on simply creating a whimsical and "fun" experience, and tend not to care about complex mechanics, graphics or frame rate. They also strongly favor light-hearted Japanize style plots and story over dark and gritty Western ones. They also LOVE motion control. They are extremely forgiving of bugs or performance issues.

If that sounds like what you like from a video game, you're going to like games they rate highly. If that doesn't sound like what you like from games, you are much less likely to enjoy games they rate highly and might even take a low rating as a indication the game fits your play style. So either way, the review has value to you. The best part about them is they ware their bias on their sleeves and are extremely consistent.

Their bias is likely more in-line with the common gamer then almost any other publication, which is why they are considered one of the most important benchmarks by the industry if you're making a game for the masses. If they rate your game highly, people who only play games a few hours a month are likely going to think it's "fun". It's why they are one of a handful of publications who consistently reviews mobile games ... that's their readership.

Of all the things I love about the Switch, the joy con are pretty low on the list. Having to use them for this game really puts me off so I'll have to pass.

Not after I saw them say Pokemon Scarlet/Violet was a Top 5 game of the year.

Not Top 5 Switch game. Top 5 game IN THE WHOLE INDUSTRY!!!

@TheImperfectInsider

thats a Wario game not WarioWARE

@nocdaes Same with me. I use the Pro Controller basically all the time. The joy cons have always felt a bit cheap for me. That's what is putting me off getting this, but I'm going to make an exception (But just because it's Wario) for once.... 😄
Knowing my luck, my Joy Cons will now get Joy Con drift.... 😂😂

Very excited to see some reviews on the multiplayer since the Wii version was always a huge hit with friends and family, doing the old pass the controller technique.

Only one I had was Twisted on GBA, which was great fun. I had to import as never got an EU release.

@anothergamer100 I agree. It takes place in the WarioWare world and uses the characters, but the gameplay is totally different - it's a spin-off. It's not bad either, but it lacks that certain special quality that most WarioWare games have.

@TheImperfectInsider "Game & Wario", where do you see the word WarioWare in it's name?

@EarthboundBenjy i did buy that for completion reasons just before the shop went down... eeeh.. it[s in the collection now..

@BTB20 Why does it have to say WarioWare to be a WarioWare game? It’s a spin-off in the same series…

@anothergamer100 Yeah, a Wario game that’s a spin-off of WarioWare. So it is still a WarioWare game released on the Wii U, not a very good one, but still.

@HeadPirate thanx for this.. I never really looked into their consistency, but this gives some color.. i guess i'm a bit of their target group as well then... love fun short games, and they may be weird

still have a bit of score understanding issue.. It looks like through averaging nearly all games score 34-36... or maybe that's just the ones nintendo life shows..

@TheImperfectInsider It's not really a WarioWare game because it doesn't have fast paced microgames, something every single game in the series has. It's a spinoff. It's like saying Pokemon Trozei is a Pokemon game. Like if I want to get a friend into the core Pokemon series, I'm not going to recommend Pokemon Conquest, no matter how much I love that game. It's not a good representation of the core series. Same applies for Game and Wario. You're not wrong, but you're not really right either.

Let’s go!! Really excited to play this on Friday, I love this series a lot!

@EarthboundBenjy heresy!

@romanista

Yeah, Nintendo life generally gives this type of review breakdown only for Nintendo first party games, which generally get a very high score because they fit the bias pretty much to a tee.

Just some context, the biggest "problem" with Famitsu and the western mindset is that they generally do not consider length, price, pervious entries in the series, and technical issues AT ALL. So if your game is "fun", you generally get a 32-40. It often doesn't set well with Western fans when a 2 hour mobile game that looks like garbage, a bug filled mess of a game, and a flagship, 30 hour, flawless AAA game will all get the same rating.

Nintendolife will often say things like "The game is great but too short" and give it a rating of 7, averaging the fun and length issues. Famitsu would say the game is great, so it gets a 9. But note that it's really short without having that effect the score. Nintendo life might do the same to a game that with a lot of bugs, while Famitsum will again rate it based on fun but mention there are a lot of bugs. This obviously means that the score "range" of Famitsu is generally lower then other sites. They consider less issues.

Which one is more valuable to you depends on what you value out of games. I personally LOVE how they ignore length and value, given how subjective they are and how most reviewers will say things like "this game is too short" without providing any context as to how long they think a game should take or their play style, resulting in a mostly meaningless number. They are also much more useful when looking at reviews of older games, given most western sites rated the game based on it's technical performance at launch and do not update that if things get fixed.

Every Pokémon game gets a high rating because they don't care if it's different or the same as the last one; they review based on the assumption this is the only video game you have ever played. But that's maybe not that useful to a "fan" of the series who is board with the formula, and they should look to a different site.

@Bret That’s a fair point.

It's Famitsu again, it means nothing. Famitsu always had first dip on the review stuff.

@JohnnyMind @anothergamer100 @VoidofLight

It would seem I had particularly bad luck with that purchase, the WII U version being the worst of the bunch. That being said I do remember playing one of the earlier games which was just a set of minigames and it was surpirisingly entertaining, so I might give this one a try.

I just remembered that the series went of the rails and got very bad, but maybe WW Move it will redeem the series

@Serpenterror I remember when Famitsu, and some other major media outlets, meant something. Now it's just a bunch of portals and mags that give out 10s to mediocre games for money. They are nothing but ad pamphlets

@Princess_Lilly Gold and Get it Together were much better than Game and Wario. (Although GiT is probably my least favorite, mainly because the bulk of the game is centered around a mechanic that makes micro-games feel the same.)

@Bret Actually, I just remembered that there are microgames in the 18-Volt mode of Gamer in Game & Wario. So your statement about it not having fast paced microgames is false.

@TheImperfectInsider You'll really do anything for this argument, huh?

@Bret What argument? I thought we were just having a normal conversation?

@TheImperfectInsider I mean the argument you're making that Game & Wario is a Warioware game. Just because one mode inside one of the games has Warioware elements, that now qualifies the other 95% of the game? Nah. Pokemon Emerald isn't a roguelike just because the Battle Pyramid in the Battle Frontier was there.

@Bret You are looking way too into my comment. I was literally just pointing out that there were microgames in Game & Wario because you said that there weren’t any. That’s it. Where did I say that those microgames qualify for the other 95% of the game? You’re just making up things that I never said.

Sheesh, talk about over thinking…

I just want a return of Wario World for Switch.

@Liam_Doolan There is no e in lightning.