WarioWare: Move It!
is a 2023 party video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is the twelfth installment in the WarioWare series, the second WarioWare game to be released on the Nintendo Switch, after Get It Together, and the first direct sequel in the WarioWare series, being a follow-up to the 2006 Wii game, WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
Like its predecessors, WarioWare: Move It! is built around a collection of microgames that last a few seconds, and which require that the player hold the Joy-Con controllers in specific positions. The game offers the microgames to the player in rapid succession, by first instructing the player to hold the Joy-Con controllers in a specific manner, and then showing them the microgame. The microgames are divided into several stages, each of which loosely connects the microgames with the help of a story.
The game was announced in a Nintendo Direct on June 21, 2023 and it was released on November 3, 2023. The game received generally positive reviews.
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. The game is broken up into stages, each represented by a WarioWare character and loosely connected by a story, with the microgames divided among the stages. After the player completing a section of microgames, the player will complete a boss microgame, which is longer and more complex than the others. Move It! includes over 200 microgames. The game features local co-op play, where two players must sync their motions with one another to complete microgames, and Party Mode features additional modes for up to four players.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 local burger joint and orders fifty garlic burgers, which results in him winning a trip to Caresaway Island with twenty friends, much to his dismay. After hearing this, Wario's friends ask to come along, and he reluctantly agrees. Upon arriving at the island, the residents give the gang stone Joy-Con called Form Stones, which can be used with one's hands to help them in situations.The gang then goes on their adventures on 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 standard size after he eats some blueberries that make him tiny, Orbulon gets amnesia and is mistaken for a god by the temple residents, Kat and Ana try to take back the Caresaway Island map from a group of Cractuses, Young Cricket battles an army of penguins, Jimmy T. ends up surfing on a shark, Dribble and Spitz participate in a watercraft race, and 9-Volt tries to save 5-Volt, 18-Volt, and 13-Amp from a spooky store.
In the final level, Lava at First Sight, 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, corrupted, and merged with the island's giant volcano. In his new form, Wario begins to cause havoc on the island. Using the Form Stones, Wario's friends defeat him, and he turns back to normal. He pops out of the volcano and ending up landing back in the temple and is also mistaken for a god by the people in the temple who had attacked him earlier. Wario then declares the events as the worst vacation ever. However, during the credits, a picture depicts Wario, having escaped the temple, enjoying his vacation.