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    Sea King review

    By
    Noah Hunter
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    • Developer – Interactive Stone
    • Publisher – Interactive Stone
    • Platforms – Nintendo Switch, PC
    • Release date – June 17th, 2019
    • Reviewed on – Nintendo Switch
    • Review code provided – Yes

    Ahoy mate! Fire your cannons at all enemy ships! Sea King is a game all about controlling a pirate ship at sea. You control the ship and fire away with cannons on all four sides of the ship. There are a large variety of game modes available to try, from Deathmatch to Capture the Flag you will not get bored that easily. This is a fantastic party game, and with that being said let’s dive deep into this review.

     

    Gameplay / Modes

    Sea King has a variety of ways to play, and almost all of them are extremely fun. The game itself offers 4 player co-op, and is fantastic for parties or gatherings with friends and family. There are 8 different colored ships in Sea King. Each of them look different, and each sort of cover a generation of pirates in a way. Below you can find the names of the 8 differently colored pirate ships.

    • Doomy
    • White Owl
    • Sea Horse
    • Ishtar
    • Anubis
    • Xibalba
    • Blue Mary
    • Dragon Flame

    There are a ton of modes to try in Sea King! I have tried every single one of these and they are all fun. Here is a list of each of them below along with a description of it.

    • Deathmatch – First player to destroy 5 ships wins!
    • Last Ship Standing – Be the last one standing to win the round. Win 5 rounds to win the game.
    • Capture the Flag – Hold the flag for 20 seconds to win.
    • Fishing – Have the most fish when time expires.
    • Treasure Hunter – Collect all 5 bottled clues to win the game.
    • Shark Pong – Hit the shark to make him attack other players.
    • Pearls Collector – Take the pearl from the seashell and bring it to the port. Do this 3 times to win the game.
    • Seagull’s Nest – Grab the Seagull and stand still for 10 seconds to allow him to rest.
    • Siren’s Song – Destroy 5 ships while a siren charms your crewman. While she sings, you will be unable to control the ship.
    • Vortex Royale – Last ship standing in the eye of the vortex wins the round. Win 5 round to win the game.
    • Kraken Hugs – A kraken is slowly shrinking the area. Be the last ship standing to win the round. Win 5 rounds.
    • Catch The Flu – Avoid the flu. If you have the flu, give it to someone else. Be the last ship standing.

    Personally, my favorite modes were Fishing, Kraken Hugs, and Vortex Royale. Fishing is extremely fun to play with others, as you have to try to keep the most amount of fish in you boat without getting hit by a cannonball. It requires some strategy to navigate away from cannonballs and enemy ships. In Kraken Hugs, a giant Kraken restricts the sea and you are forced closer and closer to the enemy ships. Votex Royale pulls everyone into a vortex directly in the middle of the sea. All of the modes are fun, I highly recommend trying them all at some point!

    UI / Feedback Feature

    The UI in Sea King is fantastic. In game, next to your completion bar (how close you are to winning the game), there is a player indicator identical to the one on the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller and Joy-Con. The little details like these really make the game look fresh and clean, and it’s nice and easy to see your progress and pirate ship color while playing. The other thing I really find cool in this game is the feedback tab in the main menu. This allows you to communicate with Interactive Stone directly through the game. Pretty neat right? They also have an optional email slot in the Send Feedback tab, where you can receive an email back from Interactive Stone.

    Final Thoughts

    Sea King is a fantastic party game for when you have friends or family over. While it can be played by yourself and be fun, you will get more enjoyment out of playing with others. The only thing I wish they could add is the ability to play online with others. This is the perfect game to do so, and I would love to play with some of my friends online.

    Comfort Set Head Strap for Nintendo Labo VR review

    By
    AUGMC
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    Sweat Proof Gaming is responsible for many gaming accessories, such as grips for the Nintendo Switch Pro controller. When they saw that Nintendo was reentering the virtual reality market without a head strap, they seized the opportunity and made their own. The comfort set comes with a head strap, padding for your forehead, and padding for your nose. Its easy to install. You do have to dissemble a part of your Nintendo Labo VR headset to install, but its not much. The padding is very easily installed. You peel off a sticker on the back of the pads and put them on the headset. It is easily removable. The head strap can be adjusted via velcro. Its suppose to be able to fit on any head due to its flexibility. The Joycons can also be attached to the Nintendo Switch while using the head strap.

    This head strap makes play secession’s last longer, and makes them more enjoyable. The software that comes with the Nintendo Labo VR Kit benefits from the head strap greatly. A lot of the mini games require you to point at objects using a Joycon. Being able to focus on the actual game and not having to focus on holding the cardboard up to your face is great. It makes the experience much more immersive.

    The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild in virtual reality is not the greatest experience. Does this head strap make the experience any better though? The answer is yes. Overall, the experience is still bad due to its performance, but the head strap makes it a tiny bit better. Being able to use a Pro controller is a good touch. it does not feel like a work out playing this game in virtual reality anymore. The head strap lets you enjoy the game without having to hold the cardboard to your face.

    Due to how short the missions are in Super Mario Odyssey VR, the head strap doesn’t do much. The virtual reality experience in Super Mario Odyssey remains great. The padding from the head strap comfort set was really the best improvement to this game in particular.

    In my opinion, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate VR benefits from the head strap the most. This is by far Nintendo’s best virtual reality experience they offer. Using the head strap to look around the stages is way more immersive than holding the headset up to your face and looking around. It feels so much more comfortable to just have the head strap on and look around the stage compared to having to hold the cardboard up to your face.

    Overall the the head strap and the extra padding improves a majority of the virtual reality experiences offered on the Nintendo Switch. The flexibility of the head strap is very good. You can use the Joycons attached with the head strap no problem. It’s flexibility to fit on any head easily is great. The head strap comfort set is fully worth the $13.99.

    8/10

    Nintendo Labo VR Kit Starter Set review

    By
    AUGMC
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    The Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04 VR Kit Starter Set and variety kit released on April 12th 2019. These Nintendo Labo kit is Nintendo’s first return to virtual reality since 1995 with the failed Virtual Boy. The starter set is the Labo kit I purchased. This comes with the Toy-Con VR Goggles, Toy-Con Blaster, and the Toy-Con Windmill. The Toy-Con VR Goggles take about half an hour to an hour to build. The building process if very smooth. The directions are also very informative and easy to understand. The quality of the cardboard and plastic lenses are very sturdy. Accidentally breaking or tearing the cardboard or plastic lenses was not something I worried about. You slide the Nintendo Switch into the VR headset to start playing. My initial reaction was “Nintendo did it again”. The quality of the VR is good enough. It works. VR Plaza offers 48 VR mini games. The first game is “Welcome to the VR Kit!”. This game introduces Nintendo’s own VR bot. It also introduces the controls for these mini games. You can jump around in this game and also shoot blocks and other targets. Most of these mini games truly are mini games. The second game, “Jump and Destroy” is a prime example of that. All you do in this game is jump with Labo bot and try to hit blocks while in the air. The third game is “Bomb Hockey”. This is basically Pong 3D. The fourth game is “Climb to the Finish Line”. This is by far my favorite mini game. In this mini game the goal is to climb through 3 Donkey Kong like obsticals. Once you finish all 3 levels you save a mermaid. The fifth game is “Car Driving”. You drive a car. “Car Battle” is the sixth game. The goal is to smash cars with your car. “UFO Pilot” is a game where you fly around as a UFO. In “UFO Crane Game” the goal is to pick up apples with a UFO Crane. The ninth game is “Wobbly Dancer”. Using the right Joycon you pick a doll and make him dance. In “Animals Galore” you play with animals. As you can tell these games are very very basic. The rest of the games include Zero Gravity, Kitchen Capers, Shootin’ Hoops, Boomerang!, Good Aim!, Bat and Ball, Pinwheel Blow, Pinwheel Targets, Pinwheel Spinner, Pinwheel Inflation, Tilt and Roll, Hamburger Chef, Go Fishin’, Snippety Scissors, Boxing Practice, Goalkeeper, Psychic Powers, 100-Bounce Challenge, Break Through, Build a Tower, See-Saw Balance Plinky Pinball, Record Player, Big Old Book, Making Music, Giant Crane Game, and Tilt Maze. A majority of these games were average VR experiences. I do wish there was more too these mini games.

     

    The Toy-Con Blaster took around 2-3 hours to build. There were 5 different steps to this. This was the only Toy-Con that had its  own big separate game in the Starter Set. Its a first person shooter VR experience called “Blaster”. There are 3 different bosses in this VR game. In total there are 5 levels. Each level has 3 sections. The level names in order are Downtown Defense, Robo Crab Assault, Nest of Nightmares, Cobra City Campaign, Steel Rail Ruins, and Spaceship Slimefest. This game took about 1 hour to complete. It is by far the most complete and fun game in the Starter set. Kablasta is the second game for the Toy-Con Blaster. It is a multiplayer VR take on the classic “Hungry Hungry Hippos” game. There are four mini games for Blaster. “Blaster Blastin’!” is a game where you shoot shapes at a target. “Blaster Snipin’!” is a game where you snipe a target. “Blaster Bowlin’!” is a puzzle mini game. You have to destroy targets to get a ball to a target. This is my favorite blaster mini game. “Blaster Climbin’!” is a mini game where the goal is to kill all the targets while climbing the inside of a building. This is also another very good and complete mini game.

    This headset relies on the Nintendo Switch’s 720p 60hz display. 60fps works surprisingly well for Virtual Reality. The problem relies more on the resolution side. It is occasionally hard to read text in games. I would hope a future iteration of the Nintendo Switch would have a 1080p display to fix this issue. For me, there’s was no signs of motion sickness at all. This varies from person to person. You do feel surprisingly immersed in some of the games. During the “Blaster” game I really felt like I was in that world. There is a screen door effect. It is more noticeably in some games than others. The screen door affect becomes a non issue as you continue your playthrough. One of the gimps of this headset is the lack of a head strap. Labo encourages coming up with your own creations, so I’ve actually constructed my own head strap at home, but the lack of a official one is really disappointing. I hope in the next Nintendo Labo set they include a head strap. If we compare this headset too a more powerful high end headset such as the PlayStation VR, it’s obviously worse in many ways. One major way it one ups the PSVR though is the 360 degree head and controller tracking. This is lacking on PSVR. Virtually everything else about PSVR is better though.

    In conclusion, The Labo VR Kit Starter Set is well worth the retail price of 40 dollars USD. A majority of the games are very lackluster though. The building process is very smooth for the Toy-Cons. I hope in the future Nintendo releases more complete games for games such as “Blaster” or “Climb to The Finish Line”. I very much look forward to trying Mario Odyssey and Zelda: Breath of the Wild in Virtual Reality this week. This headset has a lot of potential, and its Nintendo’s responsibility to act on that potential.

    Nintendo Labo VR Kit Starter Set scores a 6/10 from me. 

    My Friend Pedro review

    By
    Noah Hunter
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    • Developer – Deadtoast Entertainment
    • Publisher – Devolver Digital
    • Release date – June 20th, 2019
    • Platforms – Nintendo Switch, PC
    • Reviewed on – Nintendo Switch
    • Review code provided – Yes

    Lots of blood, thousands of bullets, and a talking banana. What’s not to like? My Friend Pedro is an action packed platformer, with so many elements of strategy and surprise. Your friend Pedro, a banana, accompanies you on your adventure, as you shoot your way through 40 levels across 5 unique worlds. At the end of each world, you encounter a boss. Each boss has a unique way that you must defeat them.

    Gameplay / Level Design

    My Friend Pedro has you playing as an unnamed protagonist with a banana jacket on. You are accompanied by Pedro, the banana who happens to be your friend and guide throughout the game. You wake up in a freezer, where you meet Pedro the banana. He teaches you basic movements and attacks when you first meet him, and he will teach you many more techniques and such later in the game. There are three different difficulty options in My Friend Pedro, all of which are worth playing. When you complete a level in My Friend Pedro, you are given a rating that depends on how well you did. Your rating is given in two forms, a number and more importantly a letter ranking. From the ranking system, you can receive anywhere from an F to an S. My Friend Pedro gives some funny abbreviations for the letter rankings.

    In my first playthrough, I got a “B for Bravo” on the first level. The little touches like these are great additions to the game, even if they aren’t noticed by everyone. The gameplay itself is extremely fluid. It feels and controls great, and nothing is too sensitive. To control your aim, you use the Right Stick. You can choose to aim up, down, left, or right to fire away at the many foes you will encounter. Throughout your journey, you will collect various new weapons that can be used against enemies, such as submachine guns, dual submachine guns, shotguns, and sniper rifles. You can switch through all of your weapons with the right side of the D-Pad. The pistol, you first gun, and the dual pistols, your second gun, have unlimited ammo. All of the other guns have limited ammo, but you can collect more from the bodies of your enemies after termination. My favorite guns to use in My Friend Pedro are the dual submachine guns and the shotgun. For dual guns, you can use the trigger ZL to lock on one of your guns to an object or an enemy. This way you can use what is called Split Aim to shoot at two targets at the same time. Overall, the gameplay is fantastic, and it’s very fluid and enjoyable for all. Another very important and cool aspect of My Friend Pedro is the level design. It is absolutely stunning. So much detail, secrets, and more reside in every single level, and it is up to you, the player, to find them all and use them to your advantage. For example, in some levels you can kick explosives towards enemies and shoot the explosives to take out many enemies at once. This can be used to conserve ammo, which will come in useful when you face many enemies in a single room. Sometimes I found myself switching to dual pistols so I could save ammo for my shotgun or submachine gun. With lots of strategy, My Friend Pedro is thrilling and offers something for all players.

    Creativity

    The ability to be creative in how you take out your enemies is my favorite thing about My Friend Pedro. Creativity is something that I think is important to have in every game, and My Friend Pedro definitely offers some. At one point in one of the levels leading up to Mitch’s Butcher Shop, there is a man on a ledge above you. You can take him out with your gun then and there, or you can decide to shoot the barrel above him to squash him. Doing so will get you more combo points, and the more points you have the better your ranking will be at the end of the level.

    Graphics / Performance

    The graphics in My Friend Pedro are superb in both docked and handheld modes. Everything is super crisp and visible, and nothing has been compromised from docked-handheld. It is very nice to be able to play My Friend Pedro wherever you are on the Nintendo Switch in superb quality no matter handheld or docked mode. The graphics look fantastic while the frame rate stays constant with absolutely zero frame dips. There were no sacrifices going from docked to handheld, and I am all for it.

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    Soundtrack / Controls

    My Friend Pedro has an exciting an thrilling soundtrack that is an absolute joy to listen to as you fire away throughout the levels. I appreciate Deadtoast Entertainment giving the players something enjoyable to listen to. The controls in My Friend Pedro are extremely fluid, and very very easy to get used to and use with ease. Here are the controls for My Friend Pedro:

    Aiming:

    • Aim Left – RS left
    • Aim Up – RS up
    • Aim Down – RS down
    • Aim Right – RS right

    Movement:

    • Move Left – LS left
    • Move Right – LS right
    • Jump – B
    • Crouch – LS down
    • Dodge – L
    • Focus – LS push

    Actions:

    • Interact – A
    • Kick – X
    • Fire – ZR
    • Secondary Fire – ZL
    • Reload – Y

    Weapons

    • Change Weapon – D-Pad up
    • Next Weapon – D-Pad right
    • Previous Weapon – D-Pad left

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    Final Thoughts

    My Friend Pedro, although short, is nothing short of an absolutely amazing experience. I highly recommend that you check this game out. I had a ton of fun beating the game, in fact I did so on two different difficulties for my review. My Friend Pedro is undoubtedly worth the hype, and I think after playing I can call Pedro my friend too.

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