{"id":16165,"date":"2017-02-24T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16165"},"modified":"2017-02-05T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T22:51:24","slug":"new-3ds-streetpass-games-mii-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/24\/new-3ds-streetpass-games-mii-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"New 3DS StreetPass Games: Mii Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The final new StreetPass game we\u2019ll look at is Mii Trek.\u00a0 You are a brave explorer looking for treasures, and you\u2019re guided by a talking toucan with a British accent.\u00a0 Almost expected him to say, \u201cFollow your nose, it always knows!\u201d\u00a0 Will kids today get that?\u00a0 Anyway, each StreetPass tagged friend acts as a travel companion, and the game reads how many steps they\u2019ve taken with their 3DS.\u00a0 The more steps you have, the farther you can go on the map.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be able to choose different paths on the map.\u00a0 Some may lead to treasure, like useful items to help you out like a compass to point you in the right direction, or tranquilizer darts for ferocious animals.\u00a0 Sometimes you\u2019ll run into traps or obstacles that\u2019ll run down your steps you can take.\u00a0 Other times you might play a mini-game, like a photo shoot to take a picture of a wild animal.\u00a0 If you do run into a wild animal and have tranquilizer darts, you can play an aiming mini-game to shoot them and run by without losing steps.\u00a0 Once you nab the main treasure, you\u2019ll be able to go onto the next map.<\/p>\n

The game has many problems.\u00a0 While the talking toucan explains some things in the tutorial, he doesn\u2019t explain others, so you may run into a mini-game you\u2019re not sure how to play at first.\u00a0 Also, it can be really easy to select the wrong path and go backwards, so you have to be careful.\u00a0 Plus, if you make it to the end treasure and have steps leftover, you can\u2019t carry them over to the next map.\u00a0 Which can be frustrating if you have a bunch of steps collected.\u00a0 But most of all, this isn\u2019t really an interesting game.\u00a0 I think this and Market Crashers are my least favorite of this batch of StreetPass titles.<\/p>\n

The other problems I have are common in all the new StreetPass games.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll hold my attention as long as some of the other ones did.\u00a0 I unlocked everything in Find Mii and its sequel.\u00a0 I played through the flower game and grew all the breeds (but I did stop when they challenged me to grow all the colors in all the breeds).\u00a0 And I\u2019m still enjoying the fishing game.\u00a0 But I don\u2019t think these new titles have staying power.\u00a0 Also, I think they released these a little too late as well, because now that the Nintendo Switch is on its way and can be a portable game system, too, it makes me wonder how long of a life the 3DS has left?\u00a0 Better enjoy it while I can, I guess.<\/p>\n

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

The StreetPass games are rated E to E-10.\u00a0 In Mii Trek you do shoot tranquilizer darts at animals, and use a gun sight scope to do so.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a regular gun, so I was like, \u201cWhoa, Nintendo!\u201d\u00a0 But they are just tranquilized and it\u2019s just still photos of animals anyway.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text, also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final new StreetPass game we\u2019ll look at is Mii Trek.\u00a0 You are a brave explorer looking for treasures, and you\u2019re guided by a talking toucan with a British accent.\u00a0 Almost expected him to say, \u201cFollow your nose, it always knows!\u201d\u00a0 Will kids today get that?\u00a0 Anyway, each StreetPass tagged friend acts as a travel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16165","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\/16165","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=16165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16167,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16165\/revisions\/16167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}