Fun, short, quick, replayable, but kinda unreliable. I think I like the personality this game has a lot more than Move It!, but the controls are a lot more responsive in Move It!. Usually once a stage the controls do not work even though I am doing the correct form and I lose a life, it's not that bad considering you have 4 lives but still, In Move It! I believe that the controls were at fault for me losing a micro game only twice in the entire game. This is a minor annoyance though I would rank this game slightly below Move It!, but it's still an amazing WarioWare!

Just to preface this, I played this game with a Wii Remote that had Wii Motion Plus built in, and it played near flawlessly thanks to the built in gyro paired with the IR Sensor. I had a lot of fun, way more immersive and intuitive than I felt with the original WarioWare on GBA or Touched, and I really liked seeing how creative the game got with the many different ways you can hold the Wii Remote to do different movements. The narrator and text accompanying each new style of holding it was also hilarious and got some good laughs out of me.

Smooth Moves also gets props for being the only Wii game I've played so far that's let me comfortably sit in my reclining chair while using the motion controls effectively, even when my cat Cookie decided to sit on me while I was playing. Ironically, her sitting on me coincided with me playing Jimmy T.'s game where a ton of cats follow him through the city, haha.

This is also the first WarioWare game where I seriously took note of the soundtrack. Not that I think previous WarioWare games had bad OSTs mind you, but this one's really hooked me in a lot more ways than I thought it would. Shout out to Penny's minigame themes especially, great techno.

I mentioned this in my Touched! review, but as a big Nintendo fan, 9 Volt's segments are usually some of my favorite parts of these games due to them incorporating actual Nintendo games into their minigames, even moreso this time around due to the game allowing for more true 3D and by that same token, referencing 3D games like Metroid, Wind Waker, Pikmin and more! Really cool.

The motion controls worked pretty flawlessly and I ran into very few minigames where I felt the controls weren't working with me. It definitely helped that my childhood was filled with many times of me playing Wii Sports Resort and sword play to get good at using the Wii Remotes Motion Controls. And as I said before, it was made even nicer by the fact I didn't even need to stand up to do them either.

The only time I had to stand up to use the motion controls properly was for the final boss fight which was a dance off, but it was totally worth it in that instance.

Honestly a fun blast that I wouldn't mind revisiting in the future. It's made me realize why a good amount of people are excited for the return of motion controls with WarioWare Move It! coming to Switch in one week from today. However, given the Switch's motion controls are MUCH more lacking compared to the Wii's, I don't have high hopes that the game will play nearly as nicely as Smooth Moves does with a Wii Motion Plus built-in Wii Remote.

Overall, this was another fun short WarioWare romp that I found more fun than the previous two.

Playtime: 2 hours, 25 minutes.

I enjoyed WarioWare: Smooth Moves much more than I was expecting to. It still doesn't pack as much content as Twisted does, but it's still one damn surprise that can only maintain its magic through the era of Nintendo Wii.

This game presents the Wiimote and all of its features in a way more impressive way than Touched did for the Nintendo DS. The use of "poses" is not only hilarious and witty at times, but also adds a much needed variety to the microgames. Probably one of the few games I've seen creatively utilize the controller's IR sensor. The post-game has some cool little additions, as well, including some workouts.

One of the best in the series for sure, and a product of Nintendo's charming peak. Silly and entertaining! Loved it!

Very fun and creative game, even if a little frustrating because of classic Wii Remote controls.
I think it's charming how this game calls the remote and nunchuk the "Form Baton" and "Balance Stone", and how there's a whole shrine dedicated to the Wii Remote. This game also introduces Young Cricket/Master Mantis, as well as Penny! I was also overjoyed to see that Dribble & Spitz, and Orbulon had stages again! I had fun seeing the storylines in glorious home console definition.
This game's main mechanic is using your Wii Remote to create different "forms" with your body to play the microgames. It works well for the most part, but my least favorite part about the time is that sometimes it's absolutely awful and works horribly. The Boxer is absolutely my least favorite form and some microgames feel impossible to beat. Maybe it had something to do with the sensor bar of the Wii Remote, but most other microgames I can do well while others were dreadful when they came up. You can also do a lot of the forms which just using the remote normally, or so I believe based on one of the elephant buildings. It didn't show what forms I needed to use before the microgame started so I just held the remote normally and got far enough.
The music, just like in the other WarioWare games, are good. I've realized that I absolutely dig the little jingles before each microgame in a stage, it really pumps you up!
This game is good, but because of it's Wii-gimmick-ness, can feel a bit shitty at times. Just a classic WarioWare 4/5.

Probably an essential entry in the Wii's library. Unfortunately, it's emblematic of a lot of the Wii's library in some ways, and not just the cream of the first-party crop. Certain microgames just don't give the feedback they need to convey how they actually function. A key example is the Boss microgame for the Tiny Wario set (the "final boss" by most accounts). While it looks like the actions required are conveyed on-screen (a human figure holding a wii remote is shown performing actions you are meant to mirror, and is preceded by three other figures, such that the timing seems unambiguous), it genuinely feels like the game wants you to perform some of the actions a half second EARLIER than the visuals would suggest (doing so allowed me to pass, after many failures)(Edit: after considering this again months later, it might be the case that my current setup suffers from a critical amount of display lag).
Still, don't let that or my score deter you at all. Getting into a groove, playing a set of microgames and doing all the exaggerated motions the way Nintendo's advertising division dreamed you would is actually a lot of fun, even completely alone.

If you asked me to give a list of games that defined my life/I couldn't live without, this would be one of them. This might even be the first I bring up. This game was quite literally THE game from my childhood. It defined my taste in games, my humor, and hell, it told me that games could truly be an escape, especially now with the current mental problems I go through on a daily basis.

I love the WarioWare games in general, but no other entry has given me as big an impact as this one did, and when an actual sequel got announced, I got emotional. This game means so much to me and the fact we were going back to this style again made me incredibly happy, even though I love the more recent titles like Gold and Get it Together! Thank you Smooth Moves. You are one of the most important games in my life and I would not be the same without you.