Remember when the Nintendo Labo VR Kit was released and a small handful of Switch games – inclusive Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Smash Bros. last, and Super Mario Odyssey – have you received unlikely updates to Labo VR mode? We may not have spent hours exploring Hyrule with Nintendo’s VR glasses held in front of us, but we certainly enjoyed the novelty of playing other games with that cardboard peripheral.
We recently looked at how the Nintendo Life team remains active in early 2021, but even when we are not pumping iron or making burpees in the living room, we would welcome any excuse to get up from the couch while we play our “normal” games – anything to keep the blood flowing! With certain regions around the world, either entering another deadlock or on the verge of new restrictions to combat the third wave of the pandemic, we are looking for any remaining news we can find these days. Fortunately, we know a company that specializes in that area and we thought of another Nintendo peripheral that many of us have access to: namely, the Ring-Con that came with it. Ring Fit Adventure.
While some (but not all) of Team NL have used it daily in the last year or so, we wouldn’t mind trying other Switch games, just like we did with Labo glasses. To that end, we brainstormed a few ideas for Ring-Con compatible modes, which Nintendo could add to the Switch library with a naughty update or two.
Are these suggestions completely serious? Why yes, everyone is a stone’s throw winner, for sure and Nintendo would be stupid – Crazy! – not to rush each and every one to have fun during the next wave of distancing and social closure. *
So let’s take a look at what Ring-Con modes we dreamed of for other Switch games …
* Jokes! With the exception of a few fun ideas, they’re all pretty silly … OR ARE THEY?
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Although it is possible to play VR mode in Breath of the Wild indefinitely, spending hours with Labo glasses tied to the face is not the way we want to play it. However, it was a fun novelty to experience and we think a small Ring-Con implementation would work much better.
The most obvious way would be to use the controller as a spring – Link’s Crossbow Training 2, anyone? We think of a mini-game accessed through an NPC on the map, where you shoot the ring to load an arrow and release to shoot at a target – Octorok, Keese, balloons, anything.
As an alternative (and as suggested by Goncalo Lopes, a strong NL collaborator), how about NPC races or long-distance marathon races on tracks and lattice trails all over the kingdom? Taking Ring-Con and jogging to get around – just like you do to run around the world in Ring Fit Adventure – you could compete against humans or deliver messages in the kingdom in a series of side missions to win a new one. swag or Ring to be used as a weapon. Ring Fit outfit, maybe?
Hey, if Link has a Nintendo Switch T-shirt in inventory, there’s no reason not to win other cross-promotion equipment! Throw in a beautiful sunset and who could resist going for a jog on the rock?
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Editor: Nintendo / developer: Nintendo
Wait … you’ll never guess. Ring-Con … is a steering wheel. Unprecedented! Genius! Revolutionary!
Of course, this has already been tried and even works to some degree. Unfortunately, it is difficult to drift or drag objects while the Joy-Con is firmly locked at the top of your Ring-Con in a strong confluence of the controller. If Nintendo would arrange an official Ring-Con mode Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, at least it would need a motion-based motion or squeeze to activate the elements.
However, of all our ideas, this is probably the easiest to implement and most plausible.
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Splatoon 2 he already has a lot of weapons, and we’re sure Sheldon could get his hands on a Ring-Con-like shield that absorbed the paint while it was up and threw it back at the enemy’s senses when tightened. Navigating the world with any kind of ferocity would be difficult, so it should probably appear in its own way in a smaller arena, where everyone had a Ring-Con. Then the fun would follow.
Alternatively, what about a kind of PvE mode in which the Ring-Con player (massive OP) is stationary and the others have to work together to take them down? Pah, things about this game are easy. Next →!
Editor: Nintendo / developer: Next level games
Luigi replaces Poltergust G-00 with a Ring-Con with a funny name – The vacuum screamer, something like that – which sucks absolutely everything in a big radius when you pull it and throws ghosts around the room when you gather.
Again, simple navigation could be an issue outside the on-rail world of Ring Fit, so this might work better as an optional mode of cooperation; the Ring-Con player sucks all the money while perched on the hips of the main player who arrests the ghosts and moves normally.
Editor: Nintendo / developer: Camelot
Please be quiet. Tennis rackets are so 19th Century – Wouldn’t it be more fun if you used a big ring disc to throw floating balls at each other using gusts of air?
It would probably work better as an optional “Volleyball” mode or something, maybe with a player controlling the character’s body on the field, while the Ring-Con player focused on taking pictures. Anyway, it’s something for which we would definitely start and play, oooh, at least four or five minutes!
