The second WarioWare title on Switch focuses on the motion control aspect of the joy cons, delivering a pseudo-sequel of sorts to the Wiis Smooth Moves.
We have the return of forms where you have to hold the joy con in a specific way as instructed. There's plenty of classic poses like sword fighter where you hold one joy con on top of the other like you're holding a sword or weightlifter where you have your arms lifted up like you're holding weights but we also have our wacky stuff too like ba-kaw where you hold one joy con at your nose and the other at your butt to become like a chicken and it's peak WarioWare silliness. Each form also has a humourous fully voiced tutorial accompanying it as this title hits the return to form of WarioWare humour.
With two joy con and more degrees of motion detectable by them compared to the original Wiimote, Move It takes the opportunity to make more complex motion based microgames. A few reviews from media outlets complained about the motion controls not working properly but played every single microgame in this title numerous times, I think what happened was more of a misunderstanding with what was expected of the player rather than the motion controls not working. If you have held the joy con correctly in the pose shown before a microgame then I found the motion controls to be perfectly accurate, with the only issues I had was me not holding my joy con properly before a microgame started. The main issue I had was not realising just how much this game wanted me to break form during a microgame and I think that's what stumped a few outlets. One microgame in particular asks you to assume the ba-kaw position and then you have to make the mountaineer walk up the mountain. I thought I had to bob up and down to make him walk but instead you have to break the ba-kaw form and mimic walking by moving your arms up and down. There's a handful of microgames like that and I can see why they cause issues but once you understand how to play them then they work well. It does go against WarioWares usually simplistic nature that is easy to pick up but I think going in this direction helps set it apart from Smooth Moves.
There's also a handful of microgames that use the ir camera and those were the ones I had more issues with as I struggled to get it to recognise the symbol I was making a lot of the time. I don't know if it was because my hand was too big the the joy con strap doesn't let me pull it away far enough or if the lighting was too dark at times but unfortunately I did have issues with a couple of the ir camera microgames.
I was genuinely surprised to see how inventive some of the microgames were. For the first time since I picked up a Switch at launch in 2017, I had to actually use the joy con straps because there's some microgames that ask you to drop the joy con and these are really cool. One sees you drop the joy con to drop food in a fryer and you have to pull them back up when they're done. It's the type of experimentation with the hardware that I've loved from WarioWare since discovering the series with Touched on DS.
Elsewhere we have our usual postgame challenge levels and more fleshed out minigames and we have a selection of really good multiplayer modes including the Listen to the Doctor one from the GameCube making its return. There isn't quite enough here to surpass that title on the multiplayer front but I'm happy to see the series continue to build up a multiplayer offering as well as its single player content.
Unfortunately you're not getting Gold levels of collectibles and extras but what's on offer is still a very strong WarioWare experience.
A return to a more traditional style of WarioWare after Get it Together, Move It brings the return of Smooth Moves motion based microgames while also maximising the amount depth the controllers offer in motion based gameplay. In doing so, a degree of simplicity has been sacrificed and a larger barrier of entry introduced, but once you get to grips with what's expected of you then there's another fantastic WarioWare experience to discover here with a very solid multiplayer offering on top of that too.
We have the return of forms where you have to hold the joy con in a specific way as instructed. There's plenty of classic poses like sword fighter where you hold one joy con on top of the other like you're holding a sword or weightlifter where you have your arms lifted up like you're holding weights but we also have our wacky stuff too like ba-kaw where you hold one joy con at your nose and the other at your butt to become like a chicken and it's peak WarioWare silliness. Each form also has a humourous fully voiced tutorial accompanying it as this title hits the return to form of WarioWare humour.
With two joy con and more degrees of motion detectable by them compared to the original Wiimote, Move It takes the opportunity to make more complex motion based microgames. A few reviews from media outlets complained about the motion controls not working properly but played every single microgame in this title numerous times, I think what happened was more of a misunderstanding with what was expected of the player rather than the motion controls not working. If you have held the joy con correctly in the pose shown before a microgame then I found the motion controls to be perfectly accurate, with the only issues I had was me not holding my joy con properly before a microgame started. The main issue I had was not realising just how much this game wanted me to break form during a microgame and I think that's what stumped a few outlets. One microgame in particular asks you to assume the ba-kaw position and then you have to make the mountaineer walk up the mountain. I thought I had to bob up and down to make him walk but instead you have to break the ba-kaw form and mimic walking by moving your arms up and down. There's a handful of microgames like that and I can see why they cause issues but once you understand how to play them then they work well. It does go against WarioWares usually simplistic nature that is easy to pick up but I think going in this direction helps set it apart from Smooth Moves.
There's also a handful of microgames that use the ir camera and those were the ones I had more issues with as I struggled to get it to recognise the symbol I was making a lot of the time. I don't know if it was because my hand was too big the the joy con strap doesn't let me pull it away far enough or if the lighting was too dark at times but unfortunately I did have issues with a couple of the ir camera microgames.
I was genuinely surprised to see how inventive some of the microgames were. For the first time since I picked up a Switch at launch in 2017, I had to actually use the joy con straps because there's some microgames that ask you to drop the joy con and these are really cool. One sees you drop the joy con to drop food in a fryer and you have to pull them back up when they're done. It's the type of experimentation with the hardware that I've loved from WarioWare since discovering the series with Touched on DS.
Elsewhere we have our usual postgame challenge levels and more fleshed out minigames and we have a selection of really good multiplayer modes including the Listen to the Doctor one from the GameCube making its return. There isn't quite enough here to surpass that title on the multiplayer front but I'm happy to see the series continue to build up a multiplayer offering as well as its single player content.
Unfortunately you're not getting Gold levels of collectibles and extras but what's on offer is still a very strong WarioWare experience.
A return to a more traditional style of WarioWare after Get it Together, Move It brings the return of Smooth Moves motion based microgames while also maximising the amount depth the controllers offer in motion based gameplay. In doing so, a degree of simplicity has been sacrificed and a larger barrier of entry introduced, but once you get to grips with what's expected of you then there's another fantastic WarioWare experience to discover here with a very solid multiplayer offering on top of that too.