Wario is back and is a good as ever.
The game starts off with Wario finding a temple and grapping a Wiimote. Then in Indiana Jones fashion, a giant boulder comes out and Wario must flee the temple. Then you are thrust into the first world, so to speak, of the game.
Like past Wario Ware games, Smooth Moves is made up of hundreds of micro games. These micogames last about 5 seconds. And increase in speed as you go through the game. Once you get to a certain amount of micro games you will play a boss micro game. Each micro game has a certain form. Before the micro game it will tell you about the form so you know what to do. These forms tell you how to hold the Wiimote. For example, the Mohawk form makes you hold the Wiimote above your head. And during the game if you come upon a new form it will give you an introduction to it. These introductions can be plain hilarious! Once you beat the boss stage you will unlock a new world to play. Each world has its own mini story, which is told through very funny and wacky cut scenes before and after you start playing the micro games. And each world is based upon a certain character in the game. For example, you have 9-Volt who is an old school gamer. And as such, all his games are based upon past games. Smooth Moves is by far the funniest game out for Wii. The cut scenes are very comical and the micro games will easily make you laugh. And just wait until you get to multiplayer. Just watching other people play will make you laugh your socks off.
Wario Ware Smooth Moves host a very comic-cartoony like graphics. If you have ever played a past Wario Ware game you would know that it fits franchise well and Smooth Moves is no exception. But there are some places that could use some improvement to them. This is mostly in the 3-D micro games. Besides those the graphics are great.
The sounds in Wario Ware are somewhat mixed. The music gets the job done but it isn’t something you will remember. The sound effects are good for the most part. And they make good use of the Wiimote speaker. Smooth Moves is all about multiplayer and of course they have a robust multiplayer portion. In multiplayer, you can choose from four different types of games. The first is single loss elimination, the next is a game were one player plays the micro game and the others pump up a balloon and if the balloon pops on your turn you lose. Then there is a game where you are hanging over a river and you must cut the ropes at random. The last person hanging is the winner, and you have no one to blame if you cut your own rope and die. :P And there are other things you can play as well that are just as fun. But the bad thing is the fact you can’t play multiplayer until you beat the main game.
With 200 micro games, unlockables, and a robust multiplayer you would think this game would last you a while, but it doesn’t. The single player won’t last more then a couple hours if that. And there isn’t enough unlockables to make you want to play more. I wish Smooth Moves had the hundreds of unlockables like Wario Ware Tilted did because they could use the Wiimote to go use, but they only have six or so unlockables. Overall Wario Ware is the best party game to come out for Wii. And that doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon, unless Mario Party goes online! :O