{"id":12119,"date":"2014-07-18T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2014-07-11T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:03:04","slug":"photos-with-mario-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/photos-with-mario-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos With Mario (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PHOTOMARIO1\"<\/a>The last thing we\u2019ll look at in our \u201cFree-to-Play\u201d Week is an application for 3DS that you can download on the eShop for free.\u00a0 It\u2019ll let you take photos of Mario characters using cards, similar to how the AR Games functions on your 3DS.\u00a0 But while the Photos With Mario app is free, the way you get the cards isn\u2019t.\u00a0 You have to buy special Nintendo Points cards that have the Mario cards included, and you can only buy them at Target stores.<\/p>\n

Here is what the special Nintendo Points cards look like, so that you don\u2019t get them mixed up with the other Nintendo Points cards they sell.<\/p>\n

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The cards are worth 10 dollars of Nintendo points each, and the redemption code is on the back. When you unfold the card, you can see instructions on how to download the app and use the cards, and you get one of three perforated character cards: Mario, Peach, or a Goomba.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what the cards look like on the inside:<\/p>\n

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Again, the program works like the AR Games does.\u00a0 Just place a card in front of the 3DS camera and a 3-D character will pop out.\u00a0 You can use the control stick to adjust the lighting on the character, and the right shoulder button lets you \u2018grab\u2019 the character and move it around so you don\u2019t have to always have the card in view to take photos.\u00a0 Using forced perspective and your imagination, you could take 3DS pictures of you hanging out with Mario, proposing marriage to Peach, or other weird things.<\/p>\n

Similar to how the collectible cards worked in Kid Icarus: Uprising (the only part of that game I liked), if you put two different Photos With Mario cards down, they\u2019ll react to each other.\u00a0 Peach and Mario will wave to each other, the Goomba will charge at Mario before getting stomped, and Peach gasps in apathetic horror at the Goomba (come on, Peach, you can stomp that thing, too).<\/p>\n

If you have the AR card with the question block on it (included with the 3DS and the points cards), you can make a warp pipe come out that\u2019ll also do different things depending on who stands around it.\u00a0 When it\u2019s by itself, sometimes a Bullet Bill will come out of the pipe for some reason.\u00a0 When the Goomba is near the pipe, a Piranha Plant will come out.\u00a0 And when Mario or Peach stands around the pipe, Toad will come out.\u00a0 Yay, Toad!\u00a0 I was about to complain that they didn\u2019t have an AR card of my favorite Mario character (yeah it\u2019s Toad), but I guess he\u2019s kind of in there anyway.\u00a0 I can understand why they would make cards of Mario and Peach, but a Goomba?\u00a0 You\u2019d think they\u2019d make a card of a more popular Mario character, like Luigi or Bowser.\u00a0 Actually I heard they had more cards in Japan, so maybe they\u2019ll bring them over here later, too.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s Photos With Mario.\u00a0 It may seem kind of silly and pointless, but I needed some Nintendo point cards anyway so I could get Shovel Knight on Wii U (very good game, by the way).\u00a0 So I figured I\u2019d go to Target and get the special cards so I could have a little something extra.\u00a0 Plus, the 3DS AR cards are fun to collect.\u00a0 Look for the Photos With Mario cards at Target stores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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