Friday, May 18, 2012
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Gold Choice Award Winner
Overall 10
Play Value 10
Cost Value 9
Design 10
Quality 10
Parent Appeal 10
Safety 10

Nintendo 3DS

Nintendo
In Stores
Age:8+
MSRP:$169.99 ca
$169.99 us

Lily
Female, 8

This was a really cool game.  I give it a 10.

It was very cool because you don't need to have a game cartridge in it to have fun. You can use the camera and the drawing tool or play the few games that are already loaded like the face raiders and the dirt bike game.  I liked looking at the Pokedex too.

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Sébastien
Male, 9

A 10 is too low a number, I want to give it higher.  I like that I can play in 3D or not, it is my choice.  I can play my old Nintendo DSi games on it, they rare not 3D though, but the colors are really nice.  The little games that are inside are fun to play.  I like the bike and the one with the AR card, I was shooting at a dragon that was coming out of our kitchen table!  This is like the coolest game.  I think I would like a 3DS instead of an Ipod for Christmas, it is that good!  Well it's nice to dream cause Mom says I have to save my money for it cause I am not getting either at Christmas.  Drat!! 

The stylus is smaller that the other DS game, I find it easier to hold.  The Box is a little bigger but it is still light and I didn't get tired of playing.  Oh and the pictures are really nice, they actually look 3D.

This is likethe best game I have ever played! I love the little games, like Exit bike, It is really cool, you ride this bike and make it jump in the air, with the 3D on I feel like I am flying with it. 

I have been playing with the 3D on for a few days now.  at the beginning I could not play 3D for long, my eyes would hurt.  I turned the little knob from 3D to off and left it halfway and it was just a little 3D and them when I was used to it, then I made it full 3D now I can play ofr a long time!  OK, well as long as my mom lets me play.  My other nintendo was not half as cool as this one. 

I was able to connect to our WII game and got some Mii's to play with, that was funny to see them disappear form the TV and appear on my 3DS.

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Kaï
Male, 7

It's really fun, there is a lot to do.  Things happen like magic.  I like the games that came with it.  The pen is a little one, not as long as our other pen ( for the DSi ) I like the big button, I can move faster with it.

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Mia
Female, 8

 

It's really really cool, but sometimes it's hard for me to see so I  turn the 3D off, it's easier to see.  Sometimes I have 2 dogs at the same place when I see 3D.  I really like the big circle button on the left, it's easier to move around with that.  I like that we can take pictures in 3D, they are cool too.  It'S really awesome to play with the machine, our other games play well on it too and some of the moves are easier to make on this machine compaired to our old one...maybe we where too rough with our old machines.  I have brothers don' you know!

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Julianne Bertulli
Parent

This was a really great toy.  It is definately worth a 10.

The 3DS comes with a few  games and features preloaded into.  My daughter (8)  loved the dirt bike game, the pokedex and the camera.  She spent hours just running around taking pictures and then using the graffiti tool to draw all over them.

Being able to play the 3D game on the counter was very cool and added a whole new element to playing

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Marie-Lise Hache
Parent

Wow! what an improvement from the regular DSi game.  I must say I did not really see the purpose of this until we started playing with it.  It is absolutely cool.  I held a virtual  dog in my hand.  I played with an AR card and boxes would appear out of thin air and my table would start to warp and move , the center appeared to dip  and a dragon came out of it.  I love technology and I must say I have never seen anything as cool as that.  The 3D was a little hard to get used to but after a little bit of time I was OK with it, as long as I didn't move my head too fast.  I appreciated the feature that let you turn it off, it gave me time to get used to it. The older DS games work on this console and the colors are amazing, crisp and bright.

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Conor MacQuarrie
Adult Tester
The 3ds is a very cool new item to the line of Nintendo products. It has many positive aspects, but there are a couple of things that could be better. The glasses-free 3d is really cool, and adds a new layer of immersion into games. The focus of the 3d effect is not to be flashy, but to have more of a portrait feel, instead of the pop-out 3d that you see in theaters. There is an initial wow factor, but this sensation does wear off over time, and you won't really notice the 3d after a bit. My major complaint about having this sort of 3d in a portable system is that, as soon as you slightly change your viewing angle, the 3d gets distorted, and you see overlapping pictures until you readjust. The battery also drains very fast while the 3d is on.
The thumb stick on the left hand side is a nice add on, but it's too bad that they didn't add one thumb stick on each side, for the possibility of future games in the third person.
The 3d pictures that the 3ds takes are very cool, but lack very much in picture quality. You can make out the various layers of depth in the pictures, but the items in the pictures are usually fairly blurry.
The AR (Augmented Reality) games are a nice addition. I have so far only played Zelda and Steel Diver, neither of which have any AR games. This will hopefully be a cool addition to games, but not too much, where it will hinder games while playing on the go, not being able to move around a target.
The motion control is a great when you are aiming at targets. That said, the motion control only works at the sacrifice of the 3d. If the 3d is on while aiming around, your viewing angle will inevitably change which will distort the effect and will throw off your aim.
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