The WarioWare party game series is arguably one of Nintendo’s most underrated - and genuinely bizarre - franchises. No other games on the company’s various systems will challenge you to shove a finger up a giant nose, enter the body of a chicken to squeeze out an egg, or scratch Wario’s back for fun. In the series’ latest Nintendo Switch installment, WarioWare: Move It!, this weird and wonderful vibe remains, but one major issue lets down the game - and, more importantly, its players - greatly.
WarioWare: Move It! is an almost entirely motion-controlled game. The action boils down to players taking on a series of ‘microgames’ (simple minigames with a very short time limit) back to back, going faster and faster until they lose all their lives. Move It! is in many ways an evolution of the Nintendo Wii’s 2006 WarioWare game, Smooth Moves, in that players must perform certain poses with their controllers - called Forms - for each microgame. These include the Sky-Stretch Form (which has you stretch your arms above your head) and Tug o’ War (which has you hold your Joy-Con in a horizontal line like a rope).
