{"id":8537,"date":"2012-11-08T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2012-11-05T01:37:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T01:37:01","slug":"imagine-babyz-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/imagine-babyz-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine: Babyz (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take care of babies all over the world in your quest to become an expert infant caregiver in Imagine: Babyz for Nintendo 3DS. After you choose your character\u2019s look, play the role of a young lady who just graduated nursing school, with the goal of opening her own day care center someday. In the meantime, you\u2019ll earn your reputation working at a world-class nanny agency. You\u2019ll travel the globe taking care of all kinds of babies and making their parents happy.<\/p>\n

To start, pick a destination to travel to. The parents at that location will have set objectives for you to do with their baby. Completing these objectives earns you stars. The more stars you have, the more places you can go to take care of other infants. Objectives include specific tasks like feeding baby, giving them a bath, or teaching them certain skills.<\/p>\n

These objectives take the form of mini-games using the 3DS touch screen and stylus. Feeding baby solid foods requires you to use the stylus to pick up the spoon, dip it in the bowl of food, blow into the 3DS microphone to cool it, and then put the spoon in baby\u2019s mouth. You\u2019ll do similar motions to feed baby a bottle, give baby a bath, change diapers, and more. Although in the bath game it was hard for me to remember what was soap and what was shampoo at first. In Cuddle Mode, you can hold baby and make him or her happy by touching with the stylus.<\/p>\n

You can also play games with baby to help increase motor skills and teach words. Use the stylus to hold a blankie or the baby\u2019s hand to teach them to crawl or walk. Some kids may have a hard time with these mini-games because they require a pretty steady hand. To teach baby words, help them flip a picture book and repeat the word in the microphone. The voice recognition works great, but one of the picture books has a cat in it, but the word they prompt on screen to say is \u201cpussy.\u201d Technically that would be right, but I think it\u2019s still a poor choice of wording, especially when \u201ckitty\u201d would\u2019ve sufficed.<\/p>\n

Another one of these games I couldn\u2019t figure out at all. And it\u2019s a shame because it makes clever use of the 3DS\u2019 capabilities. To play \u2018peek-a-boo\u2019 with baby, you cover up the 3DS camera, then uncover it and say \u2018boo\u2019 to baby to make it happy. I couldn\u2019t get this game to work for the life of me, and I can\u2019t figure out why. Luckily, you don\u2019t have to finish ALL the games to complete a chapter in the story, but it was still frustrating.<\/p>\n

You can also take baby to the park and meet other babies with StreetPass and accept challenges with SpotPass. Take milestone pictures and put them in your diary blog on the in-game cell phone. With the money you earn from completing objectives, you can take baby shopping for clothes as well. Graphics are a bit cartoony, but do a good job showing the babies’ expressions.\u00a0 Don\u2019t dismiss these baby care video games, I\u2019ve reviewed a lot of them and trust me, they\u2019re very popular!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Any little girl who loves to play with baby dolls should enjoy this game, but they might get frustrated at some of the unclear objectives and mini-games. The babies aren\u2019t anatomically correct, but you will see lots of poopy bottoms when changing diapers. Good reading skill is a must because everything is text based. I guess the game could be considered educational as you travel the globe taking care of babies from different cultures. Although that doesn\u2019t explain why you only teach them English words. But I guess that\u2019s overthinking things. Most importantly, this may be a great present to give a child who is about to become a big brother or sister. Because while the game isn\u2019t intended to be a teaching tool for taking care of babies, it can give kids an idea of what to expect when the new baby comes, and how the family will take care of them. Imagine: Babyz is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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