This game is dull and a blatant cashgrab targeted at young children. Gameplay is arcade-style crane games, with a rotating selection of Nintendo themed badges that can be added to the 3ds's home screen. The downside is that you only get about a minute of free gameplay a day, and additional plays are locked behind a steep paywall. To unlock all of the thousands of badges would take literal years, or hundreds of dollars. This game would have been a perfectly mediocre addition to the 3ds library if the microtransactions were made with the signature Play Coin, but the price tag makes this unforgivable in my opinion. If you don't like splitting three hours of gameplay over six months, don't pick up this title.

Nintendo's followup to Rusty's Real Deal Baseball in which they try to act quirky coy about MTX aimed towards kids again lol

Cons: A blot on Nintendo's otherwise fantastic era.

Pros: Homebrew spoofs all the badges and themes anyways hehe +0.5 star
NOTE: You might get banned from the Badge Arcade if you spoof the app's data specifically; but custom badges external from that are fine.

I've only played this for like 30 minutes, but I think I've seen what Nintendo Badge Arcade has to offer. Nintendo Badge Arcade is a claw game where you can get a few free plays every time you come back to the game, but you're mostly going to spend real money if you want to get some of the goodies to decorate your 3DS.

I say the best thing about this game is you can use those badges to decorate your 3DS and you can get free themes when you're rewarded for increasing your badge collection. It's cool that you can do this, but I'm not sure if I'm going to use these on my 3DS, maybe a few icons, but that's it. It doesn't help that this free-to-start game is going to be useless due to the 3DS eShop shutting down in 2023. At least I got to experience it if that counts

would actually completing this entail collecting every badge? I sure as hell don't think so... Anyways this was definitely a strange way to have a pin shop on the 3DS, as instead of buying pins outright or sets of pins they instead made this crane game that rotates badges and costs real money to operate. The fact that you can spend real money and end up not actually getting anything due to how its a mfin claw machine is a bit messed up, so I definitely never actually spent any real money on this. I do remember it being pretty sparse with its free plays though... The presentation and the bunny dude running the counter gave it some charm though so like there are probably worse ways to get scammed

This game was fun since it was just a good crane game that had the physics down pretty well. The badges you could win were also designed pretty well and it was fun to try to collect a whole set.

The main gimmick of the game was that you could decorate your 3DS home screen with the badges you earned, which was pretty cool and I managed to get a lot and made a whole scene with them. However, you only get a small handful of plays for free per day before it locks you behind a paywall, and with me being too young to buy more plays myself as well as not wanting to in the first place, I wasn't able to play it as much as I wanted to.