{"id":12213,"date":"2014-08-11T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2014-08-03T22:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:27:05","slug":"lego-ninjago-nindroids-3ds-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/lego-ninjago-nindroids-3ds-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO Ninjago Nindroids (3DS, Vita)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NINJA_BOX\"<\/a>Based on the popular toy line and cartoon TV series, LEGO Ninjago Nindroids lets you play as your favorite ninja heroes as they fight and battle robots who threaten to take over New Ninjago City.\u00a0 This portable LEGO adventure plays just like all the other LEGO titles out there, and is available for Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita (3DS version review here).<\/p>\n

Your LEGO ninja heroes can run, jump, and attack using the B and Y buttons.\u00a0 Use the A button to interact with objects and build LEGO structures.\u00a0 Tap the Y button or touch screen to switch out characters (some have different attacks and abilities that you\u2019ll need).\u00a0 The R button lets you dodge enemy attacks.\u00a0 As you defeat enemies, a meter will fill up.\u00a0 When it is full, you can press the L button to unleash a powerful Spinjitzu attack, where you spin around like a tornado and mow down enemies like the Tasmanian Devil.<\/p>\n

There are many levels, but they are short and perfect for portable gaming.\u00a0 In most stages you\u2019ll run around, collecting LEGO studs and other items while defeating enemies and overcoming obstacles and puzzles.\u00a0 But some levels mix up the action with some shooting and vehicle areas.\u00a0 Each stage has various challenges for you to tackle, like beating the stage in a certain time, finish without getting hit or dying, and much more.\u00a0 Earn gold bricks by completing these challenges.\u00a0 Hidden in each stage are mini-kids and red bricks, the latter is helpful in unlocking secret codes.\u00a0 After a few introductory levels, you\u2019ll enter a hub world to beat the rest of the game.\u00a0 Use the studs you collect to purchase characters in the hub world, where you can also take on challenges in a dojo or select the levels to play on.<\/p>\n

Similar to other LEGO games, if you lose all your hearts, you\u2019ll just fall apart and lose a bit of the studs you\u2019ve collected, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 So it\u2019s great for kids.\u00a0 Sometimes the goals in the stages aren\u2019t quite as clear, but that\u2019s about the only problem I had with the game, really.\u00a0 It may not be the best LEGO game out there, but fans of the Ninjago toy line and cartoon will still enjoy it anyway.<\/p>\n

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

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

LEGO Ninjago Nindroids is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Cartoon Violence.\u00a0 Most of the enemies you fight are robots anyway, and everyone\u2019s made of LEGO blocks so they just fall apart when defeated.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the cartoon show, they\u2019ll be OK with this game, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but the limitless continues keep this game from becoming too frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on the popular toy line and cartoon TV series, LEGO Ninjago Nindroids lets you play as your favorite ninja heroes as they fight and battle robots who threaten to take over New Ninjago City.\u00a0 This portable LEGO adventure plays just like all the other LEGO titles out there, and is available for Nintendo 3DS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213","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=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12216,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}