Nintendo Labo is an incredibly difficult thing to sum up. Many video game experiences can be fairly linear or have a “best strategy” or something that essentially codifies the way you interact with the game world. Nintendo Labo has that, certainly, but it also acknowledges that it’s worth is intrinsically linked to whatever the user wants to do, or whatever they are able to do.

It starts with the building, where you follow an in-depth tutorial which takes you through which pieces to pop out of which sheets of cardboard, how to crease them, how to fold them, literally every step is gone through in painstaking detail for you to follow along with. Simple enough for a child to be able to do it, basically.