WarioWare has style coming out its ears, even if it only lasts for 30 seconds at a time. They all share one thing in common: they’re really weird, and really funny. Many are hand drawn cartoons that look right out of a child’s coloring book. The micro-games’ style and look are the stuff of pure gaming joy. WarioWare finds cool and fun ways to push the forms to their limit, making for an experience that never feels stale or boring. You won’t always be an elephant picking fruit while using the elephant pose. What is impressive about WarioWare: Smooth Moves is the various ways in which the different forms are utilized. Those who have reservations about looking foolish while playing a video game should turn back now. If these poses sound ridiculous, they are. “The Elephant” asks the player to hold the remote to his/her nose, facing outward like an elephant’s trunk. “The Mohawk” has the player holding the remote on top of his/her head like the namesake punk hairstyle. You complete each micro-game by using “forms,” or ways to hold the remote. The Wii remote is pushed to its creative limit in WarioWare: Smooth Moves. Still, you don’t play this game for its sprawling storyline you play it for the wacky micro-games. You have a certain number of lives to complete the 10-20 mini-games and a boss fight at the end. In each one the player is tasked with using the “form baton” (Wii remote) in a new way to complete a series of micro-games. The game’s “plot” boils down to a number of small vignettes, mini-stories with an ever-changing cast of characters. WarioWare: Smooth Moves is the best WarioWare game to date, showcasing funny, inventive and completely insane micro-games that will leave players of all ages in stitches. How to complete each game is where the real fun lies. The challenge isn’t so much in the task - those included in Smooth Moves are generally simple to complete - it is in figuring out exactly what you have to do before time runs out. You will be prompted with a word or phrase (“clean”, “dodge!” or “find him” for example) and you have a very short time limit to complete the given task. If you have never played a WarioWare game, let me give you an idea of what a micro-game will be like. The Wii’s motion-sensitive controls are tailor-made for the WarioWare name. Touched! exploited the DS’s touch screen and air sensor, while Twisted! came with an internal gyro-scope for tilt sensing. Wario’s games feature a myriad of super fast mini-games, or micro-games, which test player’s reflexes as well as attention spans. WarioWare: Touched! and WarioWare: Twisted! for Nintendo’s DS and Game Boy Advance respectively, were cult hits. Wario, Mario’s evil doppelganger, is quickly approaching his kinder alter-ego in terms of great games. These are just a fraction of the frenetic micro-games featured in WarioWare: Smooth Moves for the Nintendo Wii. Moments later, you are holding the remote like a waiter holds a platter and trying to balance a broomstick onscreen. The next, you are holding the Wii remote on your head and doing squats. One instant you are picking a gigantic pixilated nose.
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