Nintendo Labo: Toycon 02 Robot Kit

You won't find endless fun here, but you can play around for many hours before feeling like you've mastered the game.

Your time may be better invested elsewhere. [Issue #34 – July/August 2018, p. 70]

As a building project, Labo displays a sense of ingenuity that few things do, and as an introduction to design and engineering it’s clear, fun, and solid. It’s a shame then that the game itself is a little too simplistic, though allowing kids to stomp around a city smashing things may not wear out too quickly in practice.

While it may be more substantial than the majority of the existing Labo experiences, ultimately this is more an educational craft project than a game. As such, much of the enjoyment of Labo hinges on the participants enjoyment of making the Toy-Con itself. As for myself, I had a lot of fun building the Robot Kit, but I question whether it felt like $79.99 worth of fun. With only one project the Robot Kit might be best saved for Labo enthusiasts.

The Nintendo Labo Robot Kit is disappointing. While I absolutely adored the in-depth build and the creativity behind the Toy-Con Garage, the actual gameplay included in this $100 package simply isn’t worth the price of admission.

The Nintendo LABO Robot Kit is one substantial project that’ll take you half a day to build. It’s a satisfying project to complete. After you’re finished, you have a few different mini-games to play, but none of them will make you want to come back over and over.

The carton hardware is robust, the attached game is far from it. If it wouldn’t be for the training challenges and the workshop, this could have been a disaster.

this game has a unique concept to make a robot out of cardboard I believe Nintendo labo will change toys forever

Unlike the variety kit, this is an actual game with some potential quality in it and it is kind of fun, albeit repetitive. First things first, when I tried this game I only screamed two words: BLAST CORPS! Yup this game is essentially blast corps VR - if Blast Corps existed today. The robot can demolish buildings with fists - just like Thunderfist - and they it can also fly and slam down to destroy even faster - just like J-bomb or the cyclone suit - it can do various moves land on top of that it can turn into a tank and you can drive with it - like the ramdozer or the ballista - and so on. Of the two kits, this is definitely the most developed one and it has quality behind it: its got challenges, a multiplayer mode, robot customization and, overall, it's fun. Problem are mostly two: it's kind of uncomfortable to have the thing on your back and once again, being made of cardboard means it can break rather easily. I still firmly believe this should've been made of plastic instead: it would've been twice as expensive but at least i wouldn't fear of breaking it. The second thing is the price: the variety kit was 70 euros for 5 crappy minigames, which alone is a big waste when anything is better, but the robot kit costs a whopping 80 euros! I mean WOW nintendo you're not hiding your greed now are you? First overpriced ports of decade-old games and now this? Cardboards literally cost nothing to make - I can find them from the shop nearby FOR FREE - so you're really spending 80 euros for the game itself. Sorry but as much as I had fun playing it - I played it at a friend's - I cannot fully recommend this: it's just too expensive and even though it's a far better game than the other kit, I can spend 80 euros in far superior games that cost less than half that. And if you got money to spend on potential VR games...just buy a VR headset and have fun with ACTUAL VR games. At least you're not wearing cardboard boxes...

it's the worst labo kit in my opinion. but it's still super fun to build. if it interest you get it you will love building it

As if the variety kit wasn't bad enough, now nintendo expects you to pay 80 bucks for a **** cardboard costume that can only be used to play 1 (one) minigame.

Una burla de carton y un software mediocre mínimo pudieron ponerle a Mario para hacerlo atractivo