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developed by
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and
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. The game was published by
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for its
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in Japan in December 2006, and in Europe, North America, and Australia in January 2007. It is the fifth game in the ''WarioWare'' series of games, and the only game in the series to be physically released for the Wii (excluding '' WarioWare D.I.Y. Showcase'', another ''WarioWare'' game available on
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). Like its predecessors, ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' is built around a collection of microgames that last about five seconds each, and which require that the player hold the
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in specific positions. The game offers the microgames to the player in rapid succession, by first instructing the player to hold the Wii Remote 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. Additionally, this was the first spinoff ''
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'' game to be released for the console. ''Smooth Moves'' was given generally favorable reviews, receiving aggregated scores of 83% from
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and 81.82% from
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. Praise focused on the game's entertainment value, especially at parties, while criticism targeted its length. ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' received a ToyAward in the Trend and Lifestyle category from the 2007
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. It was also given the award for Best Action Game at
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's Wii Best of E3 2006 Awards; the website later named it their Game of the Month for January 2007. ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' was the United States' 4th best-selling game in its debut month of January 2007. In Japan, it sold 63,954 copies in its debut week of November 27 – December 3, 2006, making it the 4th best-selling
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for the Wii after ''
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'', ''
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'', and '' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess''.


Gameplay

Similar to the previous games in the ''WarioWare'' series, ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' is a puzzle game focusing on microgames, which are short games that last for about five seconds. Each microgame requires that the player position the
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in a specific way, such as holding it vertically, or placing the bottom end of the device against the nose. The player is required to use the Nunchuk attachment for the Wii Remote in certain microgames. Before each microgame begins, the required position for the Wii Remote is shown to the player, to allow them time to position the device. 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 completes a certain number of microgames, they advance to the boss stage, which is a microgame that is longer and more complex than the others. After the player completes all of the single-player stages, the game unlocks a hotseat multiplayer mode, in which only one Wii Remote is used and shared by up to 12 players. While a player plays a microgame in this mode, other players watch, and after the microgame is completed, the player passes the Wii Remote to the next person.


Plot

A long time ago, a stone Wii Remote called the Form Baton was found by humans and a race of creatures called the Splunks. With it, they could to many things with its forms and the Splunks became their loyal companions with it, As years passed, the Splunks preserve the Form Baton in the Temple of Form. In present-day Diamond City, a Splunk steals all of Wario's food. He chases it all the way to the Temple of Form where he finds the Form Baton. After escaping a boulder, Wario gloats about his newly discovered "treasure" (Mysterious Form Baton Found!). The rest of the game consists of segments of stories centered around the characters. Mona cheers as a cheerleading captain for the Diamond City football team at Diamond City Stadium, with one of the football players developing a crush on her (Cheerleading to Victory).
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try to defeat an ogre attacking Diamond Dojo, who was only trying to find his missing child (Evil Attacks Diamond Dojo!). At Park Street, a kung-fu student named Young Cricket tries to get pork buns from Mona to feed himself & his teacher, Master Mantis (Enter Young Cricket). Jimmy T. dances with a group of cats at Club Sugar and a cat hands back an umbrella that he lent it earlier (Feline Fever). Ashley and Red listen to a talking spell book called Mr. Chatty Spell Book about growing a monster plant after failing to create one (The Loquacious Spell Book). Dribble and Spitz deliver a person to Tomorrow Hill, who is revealed to be an alien (Tomorrow Hill). Dr. Crygor's granddaughter,
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, participates against him in the Invent-Off at Diamond Academy and wins by making a tiny Wario-motorbike (The Invent-Off). 9-Volt gets upset with
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for breaking his new
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and he tries to get another, but the two reconcile soon after (The Multiplayer Test). At Club Spice, a doppelganger of Jimmy T. named Jimmy P. dances with a group of dogs in a story similar to Jimmy T.'s and the two meet each other at the end of the segment (Canine Crazed). In the final level, Forever Form Baton, Wario receives the motorbike that Penny made at the Invent-Off. Wario accidentally gets sucked into the bike engine while riding it, which endless turns and him into an endless superswarm of Tiny Warios that are shot out by the engine, which then invade and take over Diamond City. After he comes back together, the Splunks demand that he returns the Form Baton to the temple. Wario refuses and it leads into an open chase around Diamond City, resulting in the chase leading back to the Temple of Form, where Wario accidentally drops it back in its rightful place (it can be presumed that he left it alone afterwards). The motorbike also stops right in front of the temple. Completing the game unlocks an additional story featuring Orbulon called The Secret of the Balance Stone. In it, his ship gets hit by the Balance Stone, the stone form of the Nunchuck and ends up at the Temple of Form. Orbulon attempts to turn the temple into a ship by using the Form Baton and the Balance Stone together, but ends up with the same results as Wario after the Splunks, still inside the temple, forcibly beat him up into giving them back before they toss him and his ship back to space. After beating that stage, a special level involving Dr. Crygor called The Kelorometer is unlocked, where he and
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try out a workout machine called the Kelorometer with the player as a test subject.


Development

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first revealed ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' for the
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at the 2006 E3 convention. The game was co-developed by
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and the Software Planning Development department of Nintendo. Development on the game began in late 2005 with a team of 20 people, directed by Goro Abe and produced by
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. Abe first came up with the idea for the game when the
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was revealed to him. Since the developers believed that holding the controller in only one way limited the game's entertainment value, they decided to introduce new positions and motions to the game for the Remote to be held. The software used to register the Remote's movements was written from scratch because of the unique movements required for the game. Similar to previous games in the ''WarioWare'' series, the game's subtitle, "Smooth Moves", was used to represent the basic movement that players perform in the game. The developers wanted players to move as if they were dancing when playing the game, so they decided that ''Smooth Moves'' was the best phrase to use to describe the game's actions. Because of its party genre, the developers made the game's multiplayer mode its "best point". There are about 200
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s included in ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'', an amount similar to previous ''WarioWare'' titles. Abe determined which minigames were included after each team member wrote down an idea on a piece of paper and sent it to him. The minigames were inspired by "very original, everyday life issues". To offer a different visual style for each minigame, developers were asked to make their own design for the minigame that they were working on. During development, one of the game's basic concepts was to "make a different taste for every single game". The only rule that Abe imposed on the minigame designs was for the developers to make it instantly obvious as to what is happening in the minigames. The
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's speaker is used in the game to "add a greater sense of feel". For example, in one microgame, the player must bounce a tennis ball on a racquet. When the ball touches the racquet, the Wii Remote's speaker emits a bouncing sound and a rumble to "add a very strong reality to the game". The game mostly forgoes the Wii nunchuk attachment and functions strictly with the Wii Remote. Its visual presentation is similar to '' WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!'' for the
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, and it does not run in
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mode.


Reception

''Smooth Moves'' was released by
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for the
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in Japan on December 2, 2006, in Europe on January 12, 2007, in North America on January 15, 2007, and in Australia on January 25, 2007. The game was given generally favorable reviews, receiving aggregated scores of 83 out of 100 from
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and 82% from
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. Praise focused on the game's entertainment value, especially at parties, while criticism targeted its length. ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' received a ToyAward in the Trend and Lifestyle category from the 2007
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. It was also given the award for Best Action Game at
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's Wii Best of E3 2006 Awards; the website later named the game their Game of the Month for January 2007. ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' was the United States' 4th best-selling game in its debut month of January 2007. It dropped to 8th the following month, selling 109,000 units. In Japan, ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' sold 63,954 copies in its debut week of November 27 – December 3, 2006, making it the 4th best-selling
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for the Wii after ''
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'', ''
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'', and '' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess''. It dropped to 20th for the week of December 18–24, 2006. The game received a "Platinum" sales award from the
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(ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. It was re-released on May 20, 2011, in Europe as part of the
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program. It sold 1.82 million copies overall. Several reviews praised the game as one of the Wii's best. The ''
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'' said that
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should "now take his place alongside
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and Link as a true Nintendo great". Appreciating the game's "terrific use of the Wii's unique control features",
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remarked that the game also had "amazing" graphics, concluding that it belongs in the game libraries of Wii owners. This sentiment was shared by
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, which said that ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' was "without a doubt" the best collection of
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s for the Wii.
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found that the game had "a lot of value", especially for people who host parties or have groups of friends or family who already enjoy games such as ''
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'' or ''
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''. Naming ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' the Game of the Week from January 28 – February 4, 2007, ''
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'' gave particular praise to the game's graphics, stating, "There are nicely colourful cartoon intros to each level, and the microgames utilise a plethora of visual styles. You'll notice snippets of favourites from yesteryear, whether it be pulling the Master Sword out of the stone in the
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's '' The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time'' or jumping to collect coins as
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-era ''
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''." Australia's ''
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'' found the game "as entertaining to watch as it is to play", rating it four stars out of five. The ''
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'' newspaper predicted that ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'', which is "totally unlike anything else out there", could convert non-gamers into fans of video games. ''
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'' predicted that the game "will be the one you come back to when you've got a full house", and appreciated its "crazy genius" gameplay. Nintendo World Report was pleased with the game's variety, but found the small number of unlockable items and lack of
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s disappointing. Although video game review website IGN noted that the game was not the best in the ''Wario'' series of video games, they still considered it an "essential piece of the Wii collection". The website was also entertained by the single-player mode as well as the multiplayer, especially when "shov ngthe controller off on unsuspecting houseguests or non-gamers months and years down the road". They considered the game's use of the Wii Remote to be "slick and intuitive", the graphics to be "nearly inexplicable", and the sound to be "totally off the wall". GameZone called the game "original and addictive", but noted that it would not appeal to everyone. ''
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'' praised the game's use of the Wii's motion-sensitive controllers as one of its best features, which helps push it "over-the-top" as "one of the most inventive games designed for the Wii's interactive controls". Canada's ''
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'' also appreciated its "novel use" of the Wiimote. A lack of "eye-popping unpredictability
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its predecessors" and difficult controller positions disappointed
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, but the website still called ''WarioWare: Smooth Moves'' a "welcome addition to any Wii library". Described as a "certifiably insane party game that is a must buy for any Wii owner", ''
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'' felt that the game further proves that the Wii is the "must-have" console when playing with friends.
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shared this sentiment, noting that although the game's single-player mode is only several hours long, its multiplayer mode is the "definite Wii party experience" for up to 12 people. ''
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'' felt excited, surprised, and a "little stupid" when waving the Wii remote with the game, concluding that the game will make "friends laugh pretty much non-stop for an hour or two, and that may very well be worth the price of admission". Despite writing positively about how the game utilizes the Wii remote,
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was disappointed with its weak long-term appeal because "it never really dares to test players".


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