The games behind the cardboard: We finally know how Nintendo Labo will play

Wednesday night saw the reveal of a brand-new series of videos for Nintendo's big, weird Labo launch coming on April 20. We learned a lot about the build-your-own-cardboard toys of this new Switch "game" when it was first announced in January, but now, we're getting a better idea of the actual games in this thing—and there might actually be some decent ones in here.

The biggest information dump comes in the form of the Labo Robot Kit, which will ship with a game that requires building and wearing a cardboard backpack rig. Wednesday's explainer video went further to break down how gameplay will work. A default mode will dump players into a cartoony city, which they will destroy by punching, stomping, flying, shooting lasers, and transforming into either a tank or a larger robot. The more stuff you smash, and the more combo attacks you trigger, the more points you'll get. Only one level of this mode was shown, and it's unclear whether this will play as a rudimentary arcade game or as a more complicated campaign.

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