{"id":18541,"date":"2018-12-24T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18541"},"modified":"2018-12-07T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T10:40:54","slug":"nintendo-labo-vehicle-kit-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/24\/nintendo-labo-vehicle-kit-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit: Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this year, Nintendo released one of their most creative ideas in a long time for the Nintendo Switch.\u00a0 In fact, I read somewhere that TIME Magazine named it one of the best inventions of 2018!\u00a0 That was Nintendo Labo, and the sets came with sheets of foldable cardboard and a game that showed you how to build them into toys where you could attach Nintendo Switch controllers to them and play with them.\u00a0 A couple of months ago, they released a new set called the Vehicle Kit, which lets you build a steering wheel and gas pedal to drive a car, as well as controllers for a submarine and airplane flight stick.\u00a0 My brother Jeff and I FINALLY finished building them all, so this holiday week we\u2019ll take a look at them, starting with the car.<\/p>\n

The game is set up the same way as the other kits.\u00a0 There are three parts.\u00a0 In \u201cMake,\u201d they give animated instructions on how to build the cardboard controllers.\u00a0 The next mode is Play, where you can play games with the things you\u2019ve built.\u00a0 Finally is Discover, where you can read about how the inner working of everything you just built actually works, as well as how to decorate and learn about the features of the Switch controllers.\u00a0 Although most of this stuff is the same from the other sets.\u00a0 The sets cost about 70 to 80 bucks, which seems kind of steep until you consider it comes with a full game as well as color printed perforated cardboard sheets.\u00a0 I used to be in the printing business so I know how costly that gets, so the price really isn\u2019t bad for what you get.\u00a0 Plus the Vehicle Kit has more game content than the other sets.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a bigger picture of the box.<\/p>\n

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There are two things you need to build to get the car working.\u00a0 The first is the gas pedal.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a platform for you to put the JoyCon into, so you can push it down with your foot.\u00a0 The JoyCon will sense how it\u2019s being tilted and tell the game how fast to go.\u00a0 You use it for all of the other controllers you build in this set.\u00a0 The neat thing is that after you build the gas pedal, you can play a game with only it, too!\u00a0 You can just use the gas pedal to play a slot car mini-game with lots of tracks.\u00a0 Just make sure to take off your shoes before you use the pedal!\u00a0 Here\u2019s a shot of the gas pedal and steering wheel<\/p>\n

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The steering wheel is the other part to the car.\u00a0 You make a special holder called a \u2018key\u2019 to put the other JoyCon in, and use it to switch to the different vehicles you can drive.\u00a0 All the vehicle controllers have dark housings with reflective tape inside, and the IR camera in the JoyCon reads those stickers to tell the game what to do.\u00a0 For the car, insert the key into the steering wheel hole in the center.\u00a0 Steer just as you would a car.\u00a0 There are levers on each side of the steering wheel. \u00a0These levels also have knobs at the end that you can twist to switch to different tools on the car that you use in Adventure Mode (more on that later).\u00a0 These tools include a gas hose for when you need to refuel, window wipers, a radio, and a saw.\u00a0 There is also a pull cord.\u00a0 When you pull it out, the game says, \u201cThere\u2019s a snake in my boots!\u201d\u00a0 Just kidding!\u00a0 You get a turbo boost when you pull the cord.\u00a0 If this all sounds pretty complicated, it is!\u00a0 In fact, this is the most complicated set my brother Jeff and I have built.\u00a0 My brother Jeff even recommends that if you haven\u2019t done Labo before, that you start with the other sets first and work your way up to this one.\u00a0 As an example, here\u2019s a shot of the inside of the steering wheel.\u00a0 Look at all that stuff in there!<\/p>\n

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Aside from a rally racing mode, the other game you can play with the car is Adventure Mode.\u00a0 This lets you drive around an island, separated by different environments (meadow, beach, canyon, snowy mountain, city, etc.).\u00a0 Each area is about the size of Hyrule Field from Ocarina of Time, and there are ten all together.\u00a0 Each area has eight objectives for you to do.\u00a0 Most are just exploration and fetch quests, but they\u2019re pretty fun.\u00a0 Just make sure you refuel at gas stations so you don\u2019t run out of gas, and the car is the only vehicle that can tow things.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Tomorrow we\u2019ll look at the controller you build to steer the submarine!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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