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My mother bought an Xbox. She wanted to play trivia with my dad, okay? So she bought an Xbox. That happened. I am going to do what I can to help her do just that. Because I am a good daughter! Even if she still wouldn’t call me that.

But that Xbox came with a Kinect. So when I set it all up for her, I also set up the Kinect, and we tried out Kinect Adventures.
That sure is a Kinect demo sort of game thing!

First off, my parents’ living room is really well set up for Kinect, actually, now that the TV is on the wall. It could see us perfect, and we had plenty of room for stupid flailing about, so that’s nice. The voice controls also work really well, which is totally cool! It’s a pretty neat feature. Still, we had a really good setup, and Kinect often had little problems picking us up. Especially stepping forward and backward! Leg stuff. That was hard for it.

Kinect Adventures, though, was really just a demo reel, but it was entertaining. The series of the minigames seemed to impress my parents, and I had fun enough playing them. They were also entertained by the photographs after every game. I was less so, but was glad to find that yes, I really can look at myself now without cringing. It’s nice! Though I still think the picture-taking is kind of dumb.

The best game, by far, was the one where you’re on the little platform and have to dodge the stuff in a little race with player two. Not only was actually attempting to play that game an actual workout, but it was action-packed, fun, and used the Kinect really well in a way that didn’t make the flaws obvious. Even then, though, it still couldn’t read side-stepping very well, and since you needed to do that to win… well…

Fun was had, but the problems were obvious. There is and always will be novelty in jumping around like a madman and seeing that reflected on screen, but… yeah. Without something nice overlayed with purpose, I just… I don’t need one of those! But it’ll be fun to mess around with it with my parents, I guess.

I do still want to play Dance Central, though. Yes I do.