{"id":14393,"date":"2016-01-04T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14393"},"modified":"2015-12-07T23:04:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:04:12","slug":"nintendo-badge-arcade-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/04\/nintendo-badge-arcade-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Badge Arcade (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BADGE_BOX\"<\/a>Nintendo has a new free-to-play game on the 3DS, and it\u2019s an arcade full of crane games!\u00a0 You can grab badges of various Nintendo characters, and even use them outside the game to decorate your Home Menu.\u00a0 Since it\u2019s free, I decided to download it and write a little review!<\/p>\n

Anyway, even though downloading it is free, you do have to pay to play the crane games.\u00a0 It costs a buck for five tries.\u00a0 However, there are ways to get free plays, which we\u2019ll go over later.\u00a0 The crane games are simple.\u00a0 Just press and hold the A button to make the crane move, and release it to make the claw go down and grab whatever is below.\u00a0 If you pick up a badge and it drops down the chute, you win it!\u00a0 The game is physics-based, so if even if you don\u2019t grab a badge, if you knock the other badges around enough, they could fall and tumble into the chute anyway, and that also counts as a win!\u00a0 You can choose from different crane machines every day, and they may have different badges next time you check.\u00a0 There are even different crane games that involve a hammer or dropping a bomb to hit or blow up the badges to try to get them into the chute, but most of them are just the regular cranes.\u00a0 If you remember the bonus stage from Kirby\u2019s Adventure where you get extra lives by picking up Kirby plushes in a crane game, that\u2019s what Nintendo Badge Arcade is like.<\/p>\n

There are TONS of badges you can collect, and they are all based on Nintendo games and characters.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen Mario, Zelda, Pok\u00e9mon, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Splatoon, Tomadachi Life, Kirby, Boxboy, Swapnote, and many more!\u00a0 If you win a badge, you can place it on your 3DS Home Menu by dragging it to one of the empty spots where icons or folders go.\u00a0 You can decorate your Home Menu this way.\u00a0 The badges kind of remind me of those collectable pins you can buy and trade at Disney World theme parks.\u00a0 In a way, I kind of wish the Nintendo Badge Arcade was real, but it\u2019s a good thing it\u2019s not because otherwise I\u2019d go broke if those pins really were real!\u00a0 If you get all the pins in a set, you can even see them arranged on a background in your collection, so that\u2019s another way it reminds me of those Disney pins.<\/p>\n

Aside from the crane game section, there are other areas you can visit in the arcade.\u00a0 There is the practice crane game, which gives you five free plays a day.\u00a0 You won\u2019t win any pins, but sometimes you can win free plays from it.\u00a0 Also, the little pink bunny who works at the arcade and acts as your host, sometimes he\u2019ll just give you a free play randomly, too!\u00a0 In fact, I play this game every day and I think there was only one day I didn\u2019t get at least one free play.\u00a0 Other areas in the arcade include a place where you can view your collection, an elevator that takes you to where you can buy special theme background for the Home Menu, a Miiverse bulletin board, and a help desk.<\/p>\n

Aside from the obvious nickel-and-diming aspect of the game, the only other problems I had were that it takes a long time to load, as it always pulls up your Nintendo account and has to be connected to the Internet to play.\u00a0 And if you get any free plays, you have to use them right then, you can\u2019t save them up for later.\u00a0 Finally, I wish they\u2019d give you a few more days to collect some of the badges, but oh well.\u00a0 As a Nintendo fan, I\u2019ve still had lots of fun trying to get as many badges as I can.\u00a0 I\u2019ve gotten 70 plus badges as of this writing, and I haven\u2019t even paid any real money, I\u2019ve gotten all that through free plays.\u00a0 As long as you\u2019re OK with knowing you won\u2019t be able to collect ALL the badges in the game, you might have fun playing this, too, and not have to pay a single red cent!<\/p>\n

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Reading skill is helpful for the text, but most importantly, parental supervision is highly recommended because they make it so easy to pay real money to play the crane games.\u00a0 It only costs a dollar for five plays, but they can add up quickly.\u00a0 Nothing violent or objectionable here, and the game is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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