Sky The Destroyer
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I played on of these at Best Buy. Here's my comments on it. 3D is very annoying and hurts your eyes at first. Also, to see the 3D, you need to be rather close to the screen and focus deeply. Pilotwings Resort is a game that I will get at launch, for sure. It is very fun to play with and the controls are very smooth, except the circle pad will take some time to get used to it. Otherwise, the controls are perfect.
Sadly, they locked the home button on the 3DS during the game playing. But, because I am super awesome, I pressed the power button and it made the system ask if it wanted to go to sleep mode. Then I had an idea. I pressed the home button, and it worked!
So, I decided to do a little exploring around the menu. I looked at the camera, and guess what? It's actually very good quality. It's just about 10x better than the DSi Camera. Now that I look back at the DSi Camera, the 3DS camera is probably about 100x better. Also, the album layout is different. It's not just one big assembly line, it's like six pictures on a 3 x 2 row on one screen, and you can scroll through different 3 x 2 "groups" of pictures.
After that, I looked at the AR mode. I didn't get far, since they obviously didn't have the AR card there, but it said you got to get about one foot away from it and point your 3DS at it. That's all it said before it wanted me to point it at an AR card.
I loved that if you hit the home button, it pauses the game and makes it "paused" software. IIRC, you can push X and it will close it without needing to close out of the software from the software itself. It beats needing to go back to the menu of the software and closing it out manually.
My eyes kind of hurt a little bit after that, but I shook it off in a quarter of an hour. I was amazed at the 3DS. It was far better than I thought it would be. I will get this the second it comes out, guaranteed.
Sadly, they locked the home button on the 3DS during the game playing. But, because I am super awesome, I pressed the power button and it made the system ask if it wanted to go to sleep mode. Then I had an idea. I pressed the home button, and it worked!
So, I decided to do a little exploring around the menu. I looked at the camera, and guess what? It's actually very good quality. It's just about 10x better than the DSi Camera. Now that I look back at the DSi Camera, the 3DS camera is probably about 100x better. Also, the album layout is different. It's not just one big assembly line, it's like six pictures on a 3 x 2 row on one screen, and you can scroll through different 3 x 2 "groups" of pictures.
After that, I looked at the AR mode. I didn't get far, since they obviously didn't have the AR card there, but it said you got to get about one foot away from it and point your 3DS at it. That's all it said before it wanted me to point it at an AR card.
I loved that if you hit the home button, it pauses the game and makes it "paused" software. IIRC, you can push X and it will close it without needing to close out of the software from the software itself. It beats needing to go back to the menu of the software and closing it out manually.
My eyes kind of hurt a little bit after that, but I shook it off in a quarter of an hour. I was amazed at the 3DS. It was far better than I thought it would be. I will get this the second it comes out, guaranteed.
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