{"id":12111,"date":"2014-07-16T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T11:56:35","slug":"rustys-real-deal-baseball-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/16\/rustys-real-deal-baseball-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RUSTY_BOX\"<\/a>The next game in our \u201cFree-to-Play\u201d feature week is a strange one, for many reasons.\u00a0 It\u2019s a baseball game, but quite different than other ones you may have played.\u00a0 And second, it\u2019s from Nintendo, which is unusual because they generally don\u2019t dabble in this kind of game.\u00a0 They have this and a free-to-play version of Steel Diver for download, a submarine game on 3DS.\u00a0 The baseball one piqued my curiosity though, so since it was free to download, I figured, why not?<\/p>\n

The story behind the game is pretty amusing.\u00a0 Rusty Slugger is a dog that used to be a big league baseball champ.\u00a0 But in his aging years he just runs a fledgling sporting goods store.\u00a0 To draw sales in from a younger crowd, he\u2019s started to carry baseball video games made by Nontendo for the 4DS.\u00a0 There are a lot of jokes about Nintendo in this game!\u00a0 The 4DS lets you jump inside the games!\u00a0 Man, if that were real, I\u2019d get a copy of Dead or Alive Volleyball and\u2026JUST JOKING!\u00a0 Anyway, Rusty\u2019s fallen on hard times, his wife has left him and he\u2019s got ten puppies to feed.\u00a0 So he\u2019s desperate to sell these games, even if he has to haggle to get a lower price!<\/p>\n

When you first start the game, Rusty will give you one of his puppies to babysit (I picked Rustrix, but it doesn\u2019t really matter who you pick).\u00a0 The puppy will act as your guide in the game.\u00a0 Rusty will then give you a demo of one of his games.\u00a0 These games are arcade-y, WarioWare-like versions of activities you do in baseball, such as hitting, pitching, and even bat making!\u00a0 Each game is simple, but surprisingly deep, with multiple levels of difficulty, high score leaderboards, and more!\u00a0 There are ten games in all, and Rusty will give you a free demo of one of the games.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 To buy the full version as well as the rest of the games, you have to pay real money.\u00a0 Each game costs four dollars each.\u00a0 But, by listening to Rusty\u2019s stories and woes, saying the right things, and even giving him donuts and other special items, you can haggle down the price.\u00a0 If you\u2019re good, you can get each game for half off, and the whole game will cost about 20 plus dollars (sales tax not included).\u00a0 By getting high scores in the games and getting StreetPass tags, you can earn special items to use in haggling as well as vouchers for discounts on games.<\/p>\n

The problem I had with this game is that they don\u2019t save the lowered price when you haggle it down.\u00a0 So if you haggle and don\u2019t buy the game right then, the price will go up again and you\u2019ll have to do the haggling all over again.\u00a0 And if you give him any special items to haggle, do you lose them?\u00a0 So if you get this game and want to buy things, make sure you are confident you want to buy right then and are connected to the Internet via your 3DS so you can buy the games on the eShop.<\/p>\n

I also hate how they play through your sympathies to get you to want to buy the games.\u00a0 Rusty might as well said, \u201cCary, if you don\u2019t buy these games, Princess Zelda will hate your guts, Toad will be sad, and Kirby will die.\u201d\u00a0 And the bad thing is the games have that level of Nintendo quality that makes you want to play them, too.\u00a0 I\u2019d much rather Nintendo just have all the games that you pay for at once and not have to worry about the haggling part, even if that is part of the gameplay.\u00a0 The game looks like fun, but I probably won\u2019t bite into it because I don\u2019t want Nintendo to think it\u2019s OK to nickel and dime their customers.<\/p>\n

\"RUSTY_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid\u00a0 Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rusty\u2019s Real Deal Baseball is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief and Mild Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next game in our \u201cFree-to-Play\u201d feature week is a strange one, for many reasons.\u00a0 It\u2019s a baseball game, but quite different than other ones you may have played.\u00a0 And second, it\u2019s from Nintendo, which is unusual because they generally don\u2019t dabble in this kind of game.\u00a0 They have this and a free-to-play version of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12114,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12111\/revisions\/12114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}