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curl-6 on 18 January 2018
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irstupid said:
curl-6 said:

Heck, I'm 29 and that Labo robot game might be the only Switch game I purchase in the first half of this year.

I don't even care if the games are complete garbage and I never play them, I am kind of just interested in making the kits and seeing how all the bells and whistles work on it. You know all the inner workings of the string, rubber bands, metalic tape, ect.

If I had kids, I would buy this stuff instantly and use it as a great bonding/building/learning lesson with them. Just think of you as a kid or other kids. They love pretending theya re doing what their dad is doing. They have pretend lawn mowers as their dad mows. They want to use a hammer and hit nails when building things, ect. Kids would love doing this with their parents.

Also think of the common joke with younger kids. They are more interested in the cardboard box the toy came in than the actual toy. Kids constantly make forts out of cardboard, use cardboard tubes as swords, ect. 

If their toy breaks, they might actually enjoy the act of rebuilding it more than the actual game it is used for. 

Like I said myself. I'm more interested in building it and seeing how it works over the actual games. 

Yeah the process of building and decorating is arguably as big a draw as the software itself. It's really ingenius, combining the appeal of video gaming with the hands-on aspect of DIY/Lego/Arts-and-crafts.

I can see this becoming one of those things like Tamagotchis that are looked back on with intense nostaglia and love by the generation of kids growing up now. They'll be posts in 2030 about "the good old days when your parents got you Labo and a Nintendo Switch for your 10th birthday".