| Marach said: it seems from the trailer that there's some sort of programming game. if you look well, the part with the little guy with a joycon on his back, that's not a labo kit. it's probably something homemade. that open the creativity possibility. plus, just the drawing on it part can be creative and fun. |
I just rewatched the trailer - you're right, that segment really does show a simplistic programming "game"! Now that's pretty cool, I must say!
Not sure about that guy with the joycon on his back though. Could still be labo kit to me, but anyway, even if it was homemade - a cardboard man capable of falling over when a joycon vibrates doesn't really impress me much 
. And drawing or placing stickers on cardboard... I don't know, that seems like the kind of creativity to me that kids are well capable of without a Labo kit.
But anyway, the fact that they included a simplistic programming game has very positively surprised me. Labo apparently has at least slightly more depth than I realized at first.
| Marach said:
that said. it's still a toy and a game. it will not be use for hundred and hundred of hours. i mean, giving the price, if my kids get around 20 to 30 hours of fun with it, for me it's a good buy. take in that building the toycons, puting stickers and drawing on it and palying the actual game that come with it. within that time span, i guess i will be able to either not breaking the toy-cons, or be able to repair it with glue and tape. |
I agree. The criticism of cardboard not being durable is overrated; in this case, it simply doesn't have to. This is not an airplane that has to work properly for decades, it's a kids toy that just needs to survive the couple of hours that the child is interested in. And for that short time, it will probably do the job.
