WarioWare: Move It! gets back to basics with some really good butt stuff
Drawing with your butt summarizes what the WarioWare series is all about. Nintendo’s 20-year-old microgame franchise has never shied away from crude, gross-out gags and absurdist humor — this is a series famous for its nose-picking and fart-clearing games, after all — and WarioWare: Move It!, the latest microgame collection for Nintendo Switch, is no different.
Most WarioWare games are built around a specific gimmick or will otherwise capitalize on Nintendo’s unique hardware in some way. WarioWare: Move It!’s core premise is built into its name: It’s all about movement. The game calls upon you to learn a series of poses, or as they’re called in-game, Forms. You may be asked to pose like a “Fashionista” — one Joy-Con controller in hand up by your ear, one down by your hip — before you lasso in a sheep, or to pose in a “Ba-Kaw” stance — one hand holding a Joy-Con at your nose, another at your butt — to mimic a bird’s beak and tail feathers.
Anyone who played the Wii game WarioWare: Smooth Moves will feel pretty comfortable with Move It!’s pose-packed, motion-controlled gameplay.
In WarioWare microgame tradition, you have less than 10 seconds to interpret a simple on-screen prompt, then perform an action to complete a task. In the handful of microgames I played during a recent WarioWare: Move It! preview in New York, that included wiggling my butt to make Mario’s Tanooki tail flap in a game inspired by Super Mario Bros. 3. In another, I had to draw on-screen shapes with the Joy-Con held near my keister while performing some reasonably precise booty movements.
Other microgames have you hold Joy-Cons mid-thigh while posed in a squatting position. This is how you (and possibly a partner) catch fish, naturally, by clamping your
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