{"id":17910,"date":"2018-06-15T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17910"},"modified":"2018-06-08T07:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T07:19:31","slug":"nintendo-labo-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/nintendo-labo-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Labo Wrap Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So over the past few weeks I\u2019ve written several articles about Nintendo Labo.\u00a0 But since these articles were so spread out, I figured I\u2019d bunch links to them all here for easy access for people who want to read them all.\u00a0 So dig in and check out all about Nintendo\u2019s creative cardboard folding video games on the Switch!<\/p>\n

Intro to Nintendo Labo!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My first article was just an intro to what Nintendo Labo is all about, plus a bit of unboxing pictures of the Variety Kit and Robot Kit.\u00a0 You build five small things in the Variety Kit and one thing in the Robot Kit.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll get to each thing here in a bit.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Labo RC Car<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The first and most simple thing you build in the Nintendo Labo Variety Kit is the RC Car.\u00a0 It moves by making the JoyCons vibrate and you control it with the Switch screen.\u00a0 But while it is the most simple thing in the package, it has a lot of features.\u00a0 You can view a first-person view on the screen with the IR camera, make it follow reflective tape tracks on autopilot, and even battle another RC Car if you have enough controllers.\u00a0 I was actually pretty impressed with it.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Labo Fishing Rod<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I was impressed with how the fishing rod was made, but a little disappointed with the fishing game you can play with it.\u00a0 They could\u2019ve easily added more features to the game to give it more replay value and staying power, like score attacks and timed fishing challenges, or at the very least new areas to fish in.\u00a0 And one problem with all the games here is they don\u2019t give you sufficient enough instructions to learn how to play once you\u2019ve build the creations.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Labo: House<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Out of all the things you build in the Labo Variety Kit, the House is probably the weirdest.\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a demonstration on how the IR camera works, as you stick that controller in the chimney of the house, which is a dark space inside, and then stick things in the holes that have reflective tape for the IR camera to see and respond to.\u00a0 I think Nintendo had a missed opportunity to have the house be something Animal Crossing related, but maybe that\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Labo Motorcycle Handlebars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

And speaking of missed opportunities, the handlebars you build let you play a motion-controlled motorcycle racing game and stunt stadium.\u00a0 The racing is pretty generic, but still fun, and you can make your own tracks although it\u2019s very hard to do.\u00a0 Again, lack of good instructions.\u00a0 But the missed opportunity comes with why Nintendo didn\u2019t make this some kind of Excitebike game?\u00a0 It also made me think of something else, too.\u00a0 One of the very first, if not the first game to use a handlebar controller in an arcade was Paperboy.\u00a0 If they put that game on Nintendo Labo, it would be the first time a home version of Paperboy had authentic arcade controls!\u00a0 I know that would never happen, but it\u2019s fun to think about.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Labo Piano<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The last thing you build with the Variety Kit is the most complicated, but also the most impressive.\u00a0 It\u2019s a working piano!\u00a0 It works pretty much the same way the house does, as you stick the IR camera in a dark space in the piano and it reads reflective stickers to know what keys you pressed and such.\u00a0 You can do all sorts of neat music making stuff with the piano, too.\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to read the article to see!\u00a0 But even though it\u2019s the most impressive, it\u2019s also the most delicate.\u00a0 The piano keys are hard to get straight, and the stickers on the knobs tend to peel off easily.\u00a0 It\u2019s too bad, too, because the piano seems like something I\u2019d enjoy messing around with more if it weren\u2019t for that.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all you can build with the Variety Kit.\u00a0 Not only does the game have fully animated videos in the Build Mode, you can play with what you built in the Play Mode and see how everything works in Discover Mode.\u00a0 So it\u2019s definitely educational.\u00a0 You can even create your own \u201cToyCons\u201d in Garage Mode, but I probably won\u2019t have time to mess with that.\u00a0 Just check out some videos online of what people have made, it\u2019s pretty impressive.\u00a0 So yeah, great game for kids, but really best for older kids who are mature enough to take care of their toys, as cardboard can break pretty easily.<\/p>\n

So you may be asking yourself, \u201cWhat about the Robot Kit?\u201d\u00a0 Well I think I\u2019m going to treat that as a separate game review and do it later.\u00a0 As of this writing, I\u2019m only on step 2 out of 8 on building it, and with E3 stuff to do and all, it may be a while before I can finish it.\u00a0 Plus it seems a bit more \u2018game-y\u2019 so I\u2019ll just treat it as more of a game review than a feature.\u00a0 So you should see that posted in about another month or so.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to thank my brother Jeff for helping me build these, and my other brothers for offering to help.\u00a0 Let me know if you have any questions in the comments section, and tell me your favorite Labo creations!\u00a0\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So over the past few weeks I\u2019ve written several articles about Nintendo Labo.\u00a0 But since these articles were so spread out, I figured I\u2019d bunch links to them all here for easy access for people who want to read them all.\u00a0 So dig in and check out all about Nintendo\u2019s creative cardboard folding video games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17910","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\/17910","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=17910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17910\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}