So after having a few days to play the 3DS, and explore it, I decided to write this up. Don't know why, but hey, whats the point of blogs when you have a pen and paper at home, right?
Anyways, I bought my 3DS on monday at Wal-Mart. They already had the price marked down to $190. Went and bought a black one, and Zelda. And honestly, the console is frickin amazing. It might be because it's the first handheld that I bought with MY own money from work, or the fact that I just actually have fun with it.
I play Zelda for about an hour or 2 every day, but in short sessions, and then I play FaceRaiders. And I have to say, FaceRaiders is an amazing app and fun as hell. I don't think I've ever had so much fun with a stock app before until now.
Zelda 3D I was skeptical about because I am one of the people who consider Ocarina of Time on the N64 the best game ever. And while the framerate sucked (I didn't know it was bad until a few months ago when someone posted and told me how bad it was), I didn't even notice it. It was just simply a stellar game. And I was skeptical about hearing all of the stuff about the 3D version. Updated graphics, and motion control were my biggest gripes. Started the game, got the slingshot, the motion control actually works! Thank god.
Honestly, if people look passed the price, and look up the upcoming games, the 3DS is easily worth the price, especially if it's coming down. The thing is just so much fun, and that slide pad destroys the nub that the PSP offers.
Don't get me wrong, I love the DS/L/i/XL, and I hold dear to my heart the first moment I recieved a gameboy color for my birthday along with Pokemon Yellow, but the controls and somewhat gameplay of the games, seemed clunky, blocky, and slow paced. Even the racing games suffered from it. But with the 3DS, everything feels so smooth. I'm playing Zelda on my 3DS, and I've played Ridge Racer on my friend's 3DS, and the whole experience just seems smooth.
Now, does 3D actually work? It depends on what you think it should do.
Nintendo and everybody else, advertises the 3D on the 3DS as having 3D without glasses, and have everything jump out at you. But that's not the case with me. I've found that, with the 3D on, my vision gets sucked into the screen more, so I feel like I'm in that world more. And while I don't have things popping out at me, being in the game's world, I get a connection with the game better.
I wish people would give the 3DS a chance. It's a great device. The only thing that prevented it from selling like hotcakes, was really the price. But now that it's below 200, I feel as if it's worth it now, more than ever. I say that, because before launch, I thought at $250, it was not worth it at all. I feel a handheld should never be more than $200, as a lot of the stuff that they put in the machine, I don't use. I mean, I'm hardly going to check out the MiiPlaza at all, and I only turn the 3D on for certain parts of Zelda like the cutscenes, or if I'm fishing.
At this price (below $200), I would say the console is worth the price in every sense. FaceRaiders is fun as hell, and the upcoming games list is amazing. And I would say to people to get one now before the big number of games come out and it'll be tough to get one. I'm glad I changed my mind and decided to buy one for $190 (and I still get in the Ambassador Program too, though I'm having a bit of a hiccup with that for some reason, so if someone wants to help me with that, it'd be appreciated).
The only downside I'm finding, is that there's a lack of an alarm clock on it. I don't have one, and I don't have a phone, and I always have a DS with me, and the DSL and XL I own I've used for alarm clocks to wake up in the morning to get to work. I don't know if the 3DS actually has one as I haven't found it, or if I have to buy it in the eShop or what, but that's a bummer for me. I was probably one of the few people in the world who actually used the alarm clock (though I hate the 24 hour time Nintendo has, it's stupid).
I'd also love to be able to put pics that I already own on the computer, onto the SD card and look at them on the 3DS. I googled it, but it still didn't work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong tbh :/
Anyways, as you can probably see (though you probably won't have read), I love the 3DS. It's a great machine and I strongly recommend it to everybody.
Anyways, I bought my 3DS on monday at Wal-Mart. They already had the price marked down to $190. Went and bought a black one, and Zelda. And honestly, the console is frickin amazing. It might be because it's the first handheld that I bought with MY own money from work, or the fact that I just actually have fun with it.
I play Zelda for about an hour or 2 every day, but in short sessions, and then I play FaceRaiders. And I have to say, FaceRaiders is an amazing app and fun as hell. I don't think I've ever had so much fun with a stock app before until now.
Zelda 3D I was skeptical about because I am one of the people who consider Ocarina of Time on the N64 the best game ever. And while the framerate sucked (I didn't know it was bad until a few months ago when someone posted and told me how bad it was), I didn't even notice it. It was just simply a stellar game. And I was skeptical about hearing all of the stuff about the 3D version. Updated graphics, and motion control were my biggest gripes. Started the game, got the slingshot, the motion control actually works! Thank god.
Honestly, if people look passed the price, and look up the upcoming games, the 3DS is easily worth the price, especially if it's coming down. The thing is just so much fun, and that slide pad destroys the nub that the PSP offers.
Don't get me wrong, I love the DS/L/i/XL, and I hold dear to my heart the first moment I recieved a gameboy color for my birthday along with Pokemon Yellow, but the controls and somewhat gameplay of the games, seemed clunky, blocky, and slow paced. Even the racing games suffered from it. But with the 3DS, everything feels so smooth. I'm playing Zelda on my 3DS, and I've played Ridge Racer on my friend's 3DS, and the whole experience just seems smooth.
Now, does 3D actually work? It depends on what you think it should do.
Nintendo and everybody else, advertises the 3D on the 3DS as having 3D without glasses, and have everything jump out at you. But that's not the case with me. I've found that, with the 3D on, my vision gets sucked into the screen more, so I feel like I'm in that world more. And while I don't have things popping out at me, being in the game's world, I get a connection with the game better.
I wish people would give the 3DS a chance. It's a great device. The only thing that prevented it from selling like hotcakes, was really the price. But now that it's below 200, I feel as if it's worth it now, more than ever. I say that, because before launch, I thought at $250, it was not worth it at all. I feel a handheld should never be more than $200, as a lot of the stuff that they put in the machine, I don't use. I mean, I'm hardly going to check out the MiiPlaza at all, and I only turn the 3D on for certain parts of Zelda like the cutscenes, or if I'm fishing.
At this price (below $200), I would say the console is worth the price in every sense. FaceRaiders is fun as hell, and the upcoming games list is amazing. And I would say to people to get one now before the big number of games come out and it'll be tough to get one. I'm glad I changed my mind and decided to buy one for $190 (and I still get in the Ambassador Program too, though I'm having a bit of a hiccup with that for some reason, so if someone wants to help me with that, it'd be appreciated).
The only downside I'm finding, is that there's a lack of an alarm clock on it. I don't have one, and I don't have a phone, and I always have a DS with me, and the DSL and XL I own I've used for alarm clocks to wake up in the morning to get to work. I don't know if the 3DS actually has one as I haven't found it, or if I have to buy it in the eShop or what, but that's a bummer for me. I was probably one of the few people in the world who actually used the alarm clock (though I hate the 24 hour time Nintendo has, it's stupid).
I'd also love to be able to put pics that I already own on the computer, onto the SD card and look at them on the 3DS. I googled it, but it still didn't work. I don't know what I'm doing wrong tbh :/
Anyways, as you can probably see (though you probably won't have read), I love the 3DS. It's a great machine and I strongly recommend it to everybody.
