Do you need two Joy-Con to play, or does one work?

Story Mode runs on a single Joy-Con for one or two players trading off. Party Mode wants one Joy-Con per person for up to four players, so the full four-player mode needs extra controllers beyond the console's included pair.

Is the humor too crude for a 7-year-old?

The jokes stay cartoon-level: butts, farts, and things falling on Wario's head. ESRB flags it E10+ for crude humor, and nothing in it is sexual or graphic. A 7-year-old with a normal appetite for bathroom humor handles it fine; a kid who is sensitive to gross-out content might find a few microgames more eww than funny.

Do the Joy-Con leave your hands during play?

Yes, by design. A handful of microgames are built around swinging or tossing the Joy-Con on its wrist strap, so Nintendo's own setup screen reminds everyone to cinch the strap tight before every session.

Does it run out of content fast, or is there anything to unlock?

Story Mode alone runs through all 200-plus microgames with escalating speed, and clearing it unlocks bonus minigame modes and harder difficulty tiers. Party Mode adds a board-game structure on top, so replay value depends more on how many people show up than on unlockables.

WarioWare: Move It! – WISE Score & Parent Review | Screenwise

WarioWare: Move It!

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Author: Screenwise

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79%

WISE Score

78%

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Two Joy-Con, four seconds each, 200-plus microgames that turn shaking, punching, and curtsying into a family workout.

WarioWare: Move It!

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E10+, 2023

79%

WISE Score

78%

IGDB

Two Joy-Con, four seconds each, 200-plus microgames that turn shaking, punching, and curtsying into a family workout.

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Screenwise Verdict

WarioWare: Move It! turns two Joy-Con controllers into the only equipment a living-room party needs. Wiggle, punch, curtsy, or dodge through 200-plus microgames that last about four seconds each, and the game reads your stance before every one starts, so there's no time to zone out and mash buttons.

One thing before you buy it: this is a group game at heart. Played alone, the joke of contorting into a silly pose for a four-second game wears thin fast, and reviewers landed in the same spot, praising the multiplayer while flagging solo play as the weak link. Clear some floor space and get two to four players in the room, and the game does the rest.

Age Fit

ESRB rates it E10+ for crude humor and mild cartoon violence, and Common Sense Media lands on 8 as a realistic floor. The controls are simple, shake, punch, or hold still, no reading required, so a 6- or 7-year-old can follow along as the fourth player in a family round even before they're fast enough to win solo. The real gate here is humor tolerance and floor space, not the age on the box.

WISE Breakdown

Wholesome

The comedy stays in Wario's usual crude-but-harmless lane: farts, chicken eggs, dodging poop, nothing mean-spirited or scary. Played as a group, most of the fun is laughing at each other's poses, which is the kind of silliness family game night runs on.

Imaginative

The Form system asks a body to become the controller. Holding a Joy-Con like a beak, a boxing glove, or a ski pole across 200-plus different setups is a genuinely inventive way to keep a familiar four-second joke format fresh.

Safe

No online mode, no chat with strangers, no in-game purchases. The only real safety note is physical: a handful of microgames want you to toss or drop the Joy-Con, so Nintendo's setup screen reminds everyone to cinch the wrist strap first.

Enriching

It won't teach a kid math, but it is a genuine hand-eye and reflex workout dressed up as comedy, and it gets a family standing up and moving together instead of sitting still.

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Why It Might Be Great

Four seconds, zero downtime. Microgames are so short the game barely pauses to explain the rules. You read the pose, react, and it's already the next one, which keeps even short attention spans locked in.
The Joy-Con becomes the joke. Balance one on your head, squeeze it like a chicken's egg, or grip it like a steering wheel. The physical comedy of contorting into each pose is most of the fun, and it lands harder with an audience.
Four players, one screen, no extra gear. Party Mode splits the microgames into board-game-style turns for up to four people, each with a single Joy-Con, so a family of four can play together straight out of the box.
No online, no in-game store. Every microgame lives on the cartridge. There's no chat with strangers and no booster pack waiting behind a paywall.

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What to Watch For

The humor runs toward toilet jokes. Several microgames are built around squeezing eggs out of a chicken or dodging incoming poop. It's cartoonish, not graphic, but if your household has a strict no-potty-humor rule, know it's baked into the base game, not an easter egg.
Some microgames want you to let go of the Joy-Con. A handful of games have players toss, swing, or drop the controller on purpose. Nintendo's own setup screen says it plainly: cinch the wrist strap tight before every session.
Solo play is the weak link. If your kid mostly plays alone, the four-second gags lose their charge fast. This is a game to buy for game night, not for solo screen time.

Conversation Starters

"Which microgame made you laugh hardest, and can you do the pose again without the game telling you what it is?"
"If you had to invent your own four-second microgame, what pose would trigger it?"
"Was it more fun playing alone or with the whole family jammed in front of the TV?"
"Out of 200-plus microgames, which one felt unfair, and which one felt like a fair test of reflexes?"

Deep Dive

The stance is the joke, not the challenge

WarioWare: Move It! is built around one new mechanic: before every microgame, you and your Joy-Con lock into a "Form," a named stance the game calls out a half-second before four seconds of gameplay begin. Punch stance for the boxing games, chicken stance for the egg-squeezing games, ski stance for the racing ones. The pose gets a laugh before the microgame even resolves.

A player throws a real punch in punch stance while boxing gloves connect with a bag on screen Every one of the 200-plus microgames opens with a Form like this one, read from your actual stance.

Solo shrinks it, a crowd grows it

Story Mode runs one or two players through all 200-plus microgames with escalating speed, funny enough alone for an afternoon. Party Mode is where the design opens up: up to four players, each holding one Joy-Con, take turns on a board-game track that lands on group microgames like the sheep-wrangling one below.

Two players in sheep costumes squaring off in a tackling microgame, with on-screen text reading "Tackle them solo, or have up to 4 players join you" Most microgames scale from a solo round to a four-player pile-up without changing the rules.

Nintendo Life gave it 8/10, praising the multiplayer and noting the solo run "isn't as much raucous fun when played alone." That matches what the game rewards: buy it for game night, not for a kid's solo Switch time.

Worth $49.99?

At full retail, WarioWare: Move It! costs the same as any first-party Switch title, and Amazon shoppers rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 240-plus reviews. If your family already owns Nintendo Switch Sports or Ring Fit Adventure and likes getting off the couch, this earns a spot next to them. It runs $49.99 at Nintendo's store and usually the same at Amazon.

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