For those that have never played a WarioWare game, let me try to explain the concept. The game is packed with over 200 mini-games that are thrown at you one after another after another with only a few precious seconds available for you to successfully pass them. If you screw up, you’ll lose a life and if you keep on doing badly it’ll be game over. If you pass the requisite number of mini-games you’ll make it to the boss stage, basically another mini-game that lasts longer. Every time you beat one group of games, a new character will be introduced with more unique mini-games to beat. Other goodies will be unlocked as well, like cinema scenes and separate, more complete games that are fun to play on their own.

Of course, what makes WarioWare: Smooth Moves so much fun to play is the awesome integration of the Wii Remote. Before each mini-game flies onto the screen, the game will show an illustration of how the remote should be held for that particular game. Holding the remote normally and pointing directly at the screen is simply called “The Remote Control”. “The Umbrella” has the player hold the remote vertical, so it’s pointing toward the ceiling, sort of like one would hold an umbrella. Some of the remote poses are truly insane, like “The Elephant” where the remote is held up to your nose, or “The Mohawk” where you hold the remote with both hands on top of your head. These outrageous methods of holding the remote are both fun to perform and also hilarious to watch others try and play. The different poses add another level of interactivity to the game, so you really fell like you’re doing squats, or stirring a pot, or driving a car.

As in the past games, WarioWare: Smooth Moves features a quirky graphic style that favors more simplistic backgrounds and colorful locales. You won’t see any cool 3D graphics in this game, but the game really doesn’t require it. The different storylines of the characters are all funny and entertaining and even odd, but that’s part of the game’s charm. The music is actually pretty fitting and enjoyable, especially the 8-bit riffs of older games when playing 9-Volt’s stages.

Smooth Moves is a game that’s fun to play alone, but truly shines when played with friends and family. It’s almost as fun to watch other perform the actions as it is to play your self. There are several multiplayer options, none of which are as spectacular as the main one player excursion. If you simply want to have a good time playing a bizarre game on the Wii, you can’t go wrong with WarioWare: Smooth Moves.