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After reading that someone on digg thought Wario Ware Smooth Moves would make a great party game, and that other games such as wii play had sold out on preorder already, I preordered a copy from Amazon. It arrived two days ago and it’s quite a lot of fun. Some of the games are frustrating, such as the waiter hold games, because they demand that the wiimote remain level as you move it left and right, but it doesn’t register on my projector and wireless sensor bar unless I either angle it up (forcing me to lose in most games) or hold the wiimote flat way above my head and move my whole body left or right.
Nonetheless, it’s a fun game and I was excited to try out multiplayer.

So my friend comes over last night, we turn on both wiimotes, the wii ‘siis’ them (sorry), and we start the game. And then one of the remotes turns off. We go to the game select screen and it only allows you to play ‘single’. We hit pause and go to remote setup, detect remotes, but the second one just blinks continuously and doesn’t turn on. To make things more confusing, occasionally the empty battery icon blinks on the screen, making us think the batteries were dead. (But I just replaced them!) We replace batteries in the second remote, then the first, but it didn’t help. We hit reset connection on the wiimotes and on the wii, but the second one wouldn’t register. We reset the wii twice but it kept happening. We switched player 1 and player 2 on the wiimotes but then the other one wouldn’t work. I even unplugged my bluetooth mouse and keyboard from my adjacent computer thinking it was interfering. I seriously was upset that my wiimote was broken.

Then I realized. Wario Ware is only one player and it’s disabling my other remote. There’s no indication of this, the wii remote screen will look like the battery is dead in the second wiimote. There’s even a screen where you choose “single player” or “newspaper” in warioware, and the newspaper was disabled. (WTF? Why have this screen?) The Wario Ware box has a picture of a wiimote and nunchuck, but doesn’t say anything about being single player.

It turns out, I read online, that there is a multiplayer mode that unlocks later in the game. (Ah, so that’s what that screen is for. Why show it and confuse people in the beginning though?) However, in multiplayer mode, you all share the same wiimote. Wario Ware will disable all your other remotes while the game is in session, and the manual, box, and game won’t tell you it’s doing so.

Having not played earlier wario ware games, this is very different than the impression I got from all the hype surrounding the game, I thought the minigames could be played simultaneously and the game would reward whomever completed the level first. This is not the case. After figuring out that my wii is not broken and the game is more or less single player, I can still say the game is fun, but not what I expected.

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