So Far, The Most Inventive-Looking Nintendo 3DS Game Of 2018

So Far, The Most Inventive-Looking Nintendo 3DS Game Of 2018

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This is Baku Tsuri Bar Hunter. It’s for the Nintendo 3DS, and it looks wonderfully peculiar.

In English, the title means “Burst of Laughter Fishing Bar Hunter.” If the fishing-reel peripheral that encases the Nintendo 3DS wasn’t self-explanatory enough, this is a fishing game.

So Far, The Most Inventive-Looking Nintendo 3DS Game Of 2018

But here’s the catch: You are fishing for barcodes — not, you know, bars to drink at. This is an AR kiddy game, based on a manga debuting this spring, and the trailer below shows how it works: You scan in barcodes, which are then turned into in-game sea creatures. Then, using 3DS motion controls, you fish.

No idea if the actual game is going to be as good as this proof of concept ad, but when I showed it to my two youngest kids here in Japan, they were extremely interested. I am, too.


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