{"id":19100,"date":"2019-06-12T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19100"},"modified":"2019-05-29T02:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T02:24:51","slug":"nintendo-labo-vr-kit-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/nintendo-labo-vr-kit-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Labo VR Kit: Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s a bird, it\u2019s a plane\u2026nah, it\u2019s just a bird.\u00a0 The next thing you can build in the Nintendo Labo VR Kit is a bird.\u00a0 Make a cardboard bird\u2019s wings flap to play bird style mini-games!\u00a0 Hey, at least the thing you build this time lets you play games related to that animal, not like that VR Elephant!<\/p>\n

Here is a bigger shot of the bird you can build.\u00a0 I kept the left JoyCon in so you can see its \u2018beak.\u2019\u00a0 That\u2019s the only controller you need, as it just reads the shaking of the controller to move the bird.\u00a0 You squeeze down on the bird\u2019s legs like clamps, and rubber bands on the inside make the bird flap its wings and move its head.\u00a0 You have to really hold the VR goggles tight otherwise there is a lot of shaking, though.\u00a0 But that\u2019s really the only problem I had with it.\u00a0 There are some cardboard sheets that you can punch out and decorate and customize your bird with.\u00a0 Like different wings and crests and whatnot.\u00a0 You can also use some other VR accessories to help control the bird, like the pinwheel and wind pedal, but we\u2019ll get to those in a bit.<\/p>\n

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The first of the main bird games you can play is Bird Island.\u00a0 Here you can freely fly about an island as a crane. \u00a0Tilt to turn and flap your wings to fly up faster.\u00a0 \u00a0There are nests scattered about the island, and when you approach one and stare at it for a bit, it\u2019ll hatch and a baby bird will appear.\u00a0 It\u2019ll ask for a certain kind of food that you can collect throughout the island.\u00a0 These include apples, turnips, mushrooms, bees, and fish.\u00a0 Find these foods and stare at them to collect them, then bring them back to the right bird.\u00a0 When you feed a bird, it\u2019ll grow up and fly alongside with you.\u00a0 Your goal is to collect all the birds!\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a game I reviewed a while back called Feather<\/strong><\/a>, except this VR game is way more fun and is what Feather should\u2019ve been in the first place.<\/p>\n

You can use two VR accessories to help you out, but they\u2019re not necessary to play.\u00a0 If you attach the pinwheel to the bottom of the bird, you can blow into it and the bird will blow out gusts of air.\u00a0 And if there are birds flying with you, they\u2019ll dart out and collect far away items for you.\u00a0 The next accessory you can use with the bird is the wind pedal, which gives you a boost of speed.\u00a0 The game saves your progress, which is good since they remind you every five minutes to take a break, which is a good idea to do when playing these VR games.<\/p>\n

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The next game you can play is Bird Dash.\u00a0 It takes place on the same island, but you have rings to fly through in a limited amount of times.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need it to play, but the wind pedal used here can give you some record times!\u00a0 Aside from a few mini-games and activities for the bird in the VR Plaza, that\u2019s all you can do with the bird.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty neat, but I think the game would be just as much fun without the VR.\u00a0 But then, that may be because of my vision.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t it be neat if they made a VR version of the arcade classic Joust with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s a bird, it\u2019s a plane\u2026nah, it\u2019s just a bird.\u00a0 The next thing you can build in the Nintendo Labo VR Kit is a bird.\u00a0 Make a cardboard bird\u2019s wings flap to play bird style mini-games!\u00a0 Hey, at least the thing you build this time lets you play games related to that animal, not like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19100","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\/19100","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=19100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19102,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions\/19102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}