WarioWare: Move It!
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Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Director(s) | Goro Abe[1] Waki Shigeta |
Producer(s) | Kensuke Tanabe Shinya Saito Atsushi Ikuno |
Designer(s) | Nami Komuro |
Programmer(s) | Yusuke Kitayama |
Artist(s) | Ko Takeuchi Hiroki Kawamae |
Writer(s) | Nami Komuro |
Composer(s) | Jo Kondo Haruno Ito Shomo Murata |
Series | WarioWare |
Platforms | Nintendo Switch |
Release date(s) | November 3, 2023 |
Genre(s) | Party |
WarioWare: Move It![lower-alpha 1] is a party video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the eleventh installment in the WarioWare series, the second WarioWare game to be released on the Nintendo Switch, after Get it Together (2021), and the first direct sequel in the WarioWare series, being a follow-up to the 2006 Wii game, WarioWare: Smooth Moves. It was released on November 3, 2023.
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Gameplay
Like previous entries in the WarioWare series, the game tasks players with tackling waves of fast-paced minigames known as "microgames". Similar to the 2006 Wii game, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, which used the system's Wii Remote controller for motion-controlled microgames, the game focuses on using the motion controls of the Nintendo Switch's Joy-Con controllers. Each microgame centers around one of several "forms" depicting how the player should initially hold the Joy-Con, after which players move the controllers accordingly to complete each microgame. In addition to motion controls, some microgames also utilize the infrared camera on the right Joy-Con.[2] Move It! includes over 200 microgames.[3] [4] The game features local co-op play, where two players must sync their motions with one another to complete microgames, and additional modes for up to four players.[5]
Plot
A TV commercial advertises a chance to visit a vacation resort called "Caresaway Island" by purchasing a garlic burger. A hungry Wario passes by the burger joint and orders fifty garlic burgers and ends up winning a trip to Caresaway Island with twenty friends, much to his dismay. Upon hearing about this, Wario's friends ask to come along, and he reluctantly agrees to this.
Upon arriving at the island, the residents give the gang Form Stones, which resemble Joy-Con, which can be used with their hands to help them out in situations. The gang then go on their own adventures in the island; Wario attempts to run away from residents of a temple, Mona goes underwater to search for mermaids, Dr. Crygor, Penny, and Mike time travel to the Stone Age and pose for a cave man's drawing, Ashley tries to get Red back to normal size after he eats some blueberries that make him tiny, Orbulon gets amnesia and believes he is a God, Kat and Ana try to take back the Caresaway Island map from a group of mutant plants, Young Cricket battles an army of penguins, Jimmy T. ends up surfing on a shark, Dribble and Spitz participate in a hovercraft race, and 9-Volt tries to save 5-Volt, 18-Volt, and 13-Amp from a spooky store.
Wario later returns to the temple he had visited earlier and tries to steal the gold items in it but ends up being overtaken by lava and transformed into a giant volcano. Using the Form Stones, Wario's friends defeat him, and he turns back to normal. However, he ends up landing back in the temple and is worshipped by the people in the temple who had attacked him earlier.
Development and release
WarioWare: Move It! was announced during a Nintendo Direct presentation on June 21, 2023. The game is scheduled to be released for the Nintendo Switch on November 3, 2023.[6] On August 21, 2023, Nintendo announced Charles Martinet's retirement from voicing Wario and other characters, and confirmed his absence from Move It!.[7] On November 1, 2023, it was confirmed that Kevin Afghani, who voiced Mario and Luigi in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, would take over the role of Wario.[8][9]
Reception
WarioWare: Move It! received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic, with an average score of 75.[10]
Notes
References
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