The WarioWare franchise is perfect for showing off the capabilities of Nintendo’s gimmick-based hardware. Twisted, Touched, Smooth Moves, Snapped and Game & Wario find fun, quick and ridiculous ways to use new control devices. Smooth Moves might be the most ambitious of them all, featuring over 18 ways to use the then recently introduced Wii Remote.
The fast and frantic gameplay doesn’t give the user time to learn what control set up is appropriate for each game. So, when a new control style is introduced, the game stops and plays a relaxing and slow-paced tutorial.
They’re short, poetic, humorous and ingenious. A perfect fit for the series’ weird sense of humor. It has such creative ways that it uses the Wii Remote, yet is also flawless in teaching you how to master them immediately. Maybe that is essential for a franchise built on five second games.
