Compared to, say, the tragedy of Wii Music: Orchestra's drawn out hand waving simulator, being asked to perform any number of silly tasks that on their own would become repetitive is so immediate, and so consistently entertaining, that it's a joy to perform. So while WarioWare: Smooth Moves trains you to use the controller in a variety of entirely stupid ways, and might in the end seem entirely pointless, the beauty of the system is that it's not only training you to use the controller, but training you to have fun with it. Indeed, the majority of the games on the Nintendo Wii, it seems, could be played comfortably with the controller in a hand lazily balanced on your knee. I could just wiggle the controller in the air. I could just wave the controller up and down in the air. So, for example, I don't really have to hold the controller over my head and perform squat thrusts. Using a combination of gyroscopes, an accelerometer, and an infrared triangulation, uh, thing, it can do a very good impression of spatially sensing where you're standing - but it doesn't really know what you're doing, only what the controller is doing. Now, it wasn't long after beginning to use the controller of the Nintendo Wii that I realised something about the system and its controller which should, I suppose, have been obvious - namely, that it doesn't have any understanding of where your body is, or what you're actually doing with it, at all. After only one tiny snippet of gaming I'd been made to hold the controller sideways and use it as a bicycle pump hold the controller above my head and perform squat thrusts hell, I was forced to hold the controller at my side, before wobbling my midriff around in a lewd and entirely unsuitable representation of a hula dancer. Even in that short space of time, it's clearly a title that does its best to show the many varied ways in which you can use the controller. WarioWare: Smooth Moves was featured on a very small number of demo pods in an incredibly short demo of about five or so three second microgames, resulting in what was little more than 15 seconds of gaming. Despite this, were Nintendo planning on recreating the glory days of consoles being released with a 'pack-in' title, I'd recommend above all it includes WarioWare: Smooth Moves in the box. As I had chosen the (almost definitely incorrect, when it comes to the matter of time management) plan of playing the Wii games in the order they were presented when walking round the hall in the correct direction, I didn't actually get to this game until after I had played all of the Wii Sports games, and by then I'd become somewhat accustomed to playing using the Wii controller.
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