Tuesday, 17 April 2007
“It's-a Wii! Wario!".- Warioware Smooth Moves Review
The main feature of all WarioWare games is that they are collections of short, simple microgames in quick succession, and just like it’s predecessors half the fun is actually working out what action is needed to complete each game.
For the sake of the story the Wii-mote is called a form baton, and you progress by holding the baton in a variety of forms depending on the game, for example: "The Umbrella" holding the Wii Remote vertically like one would hold an umbrella handle; or "The Elephant" where you hold the bottom end of the Wii Remote against the nose like an elephant's trunk!.
Each stage of the game is represented by a specific member of the WarioWare cast, and begins with an introductory story sequence featuring the character, a sequence of frantic microgames and concludes with a boss stage (a longer, more complex microgame), followed by the concluding part of the story.
The multi-player mode is unlocked when you complete the single player stages, unfortunately though one remote is shared by up to 12 players, so the multi-player games are often quick due to the difficulty in passing the controller around the group rather than by the difficulty of the games. It would have been nice to see multiple controller support.
Along the way you also unlock some single player arcade style games, the best of which is a fairground style ‘duck shoot’ game.
And that, basically, is the game. Bizarre stories and strange animations, and lots of short frantic games, that get more frantic as you progress. It shouldn’t work, but it does, and even when you complete a stage by completing a set number of micro-games, there is still a desire to go back and play the stage again and again until you complete all the micro-games.
NOTE - The title screen is like a mini-game in itself: You can mess with Wario's moustache and also make different images appear by holding the Wii Remote straight up-and-down and moving it like a windshield wiper. (Well it passed a couple of minutes of my time!)
Highly Recommended!!
Cost:
Pros: Great graphics, and really good and imaginative use of the controller.
Cons: Multi-player games would have been better with more than one controller
Official site: http://wii.nintendo.com/software_warioware.jsp
For the sake of the story the Wii-mote is called a form baton, and you progress by holding the baton in a variety of forms depending on the game, for example: "The Umbrella" holding the Wii Remote vertically like one would hold an umbrella handle; or "The Elephant" where you hold the bottom end of the Wii Remote against the nose like an elephant's trunk!.
Each stage of the game is represented by a specific member of the WarioWare cast, and begins with an introductory story sequence featuring the character, a sequence of frantic microgames and concludes with a boss stage (a longer, more complex microgame), followed by the concluding part of the story.
The multi-player mode is unlocked when you complete the single player stages, unfortunately though one remote is shared by up to 12 players, so the multi-player games are often quick due to the difficulty in passing the controller around the group rather than by the difficulty of the games. It would have been nice to see multiple controller support.
Along the way you also unlock some single player arcade style games, the best of which is a fairground style ‘duck shoot’ game.
And that, basically, is the game. Bizarre stories and strange animations, and lots of short frantic games, that get more frantic as you progress. It shouldn’t work, but it does, and even when you complete a stage by completing a set number of micro-games, there is still a desire to go back and play the stage again and again until you complete all the micro-games.
NOTE - The title screen is like a mini-game in itself: You can mess with Wario's moustache and also make different images appear by holding the Wii Remote straight up-and-down and moving it like a windshield wiper. (Well it passed a couple of minutes of my time!)
Highly Recommended!!
Cost:
Pros: Great graphics, and really good and imaginative use of the controller.
Cons: Multi-player games would have been better with more than one controller
Official site: http://wii.nintendo.com/software_warioware.jsp
Labels: Games, Reviews, Warioware Smooth Moves
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